Some Things You Can't Unwatch (i.e. The New Hollywood Trend) (i.e. I Hope I'm Not Too Late to Save You)

Let's travel back in time, why don't we? It's 2009 and two movies have been released starring the amazingly talent Sandra Bullock. One of them is receiving Oscar buzz, while the other is leading people to question whether they ever want to watch a movie again. I am talking of course of The Blind Side and All About Steve (respectively; just to clarify I'm not speaking of both respectively, I'm referring to in the order used in the previous sentence). Unbeknownst to Hollywood, this may have been the beginning of a trend.

How to ruin Red Riding Hood

When I first saw the preview for Red Riding Hood I was so excited. My excitement built to the point where I was punching my fellow movie-goer's arm (I think it was someone I know). And then I found out one terrible, horrible, movie-ruining piece of information: it was directed by the same woman who decided to ruin our lives with Twilight. I therefore decided she was not going to get my money and waited for Redbox. Other than that one fact it had everything going for it: the writer also wrote the Shawshank screenplay (meaning he worked on a great movie) and the Orphan screenplay (meaning he had the chops for scary); Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, as well as BSG and SG-1 alums Michael Hogan and Mchael Shanks (respectively), are among the cast; it's a dark interpretation of a beloved fairytale (that's already pretty dark to begin with). I'm skipping the summary because everyone should know this story or can Google it easily.