An instruction video on how to be excited for an operating system? Things like this make me think I’m living in the world of The Simpsons.
But it’s real. It’s a real decision made by people running a company THAT BILL GATES STARTED!
I…wow. You know, Sean Malstrom has a big point(Back then, this referred to Microsoft’s Natal, but it definitely applies here):
The marketing… let me tell you something about Microsoft marketing.
Microsoft is the king of vaporware. Remember Longhorn? Yeah. The reason why Microsoft is the king of vaporware is because Microsoft is primarily a marketing company. Its traditional business model is selling to computer manufacturers, not customers. Microsoft’s response to Vista was, as you can guess, throwing money into marketing.
When Microsoft was being hit after bad news after bad news, when their stock was being hit due to poor decisions, Microsoft stopped the bleeding by unleashing the ‘Microsoft Surface Table’ or whatever it is called. It was a table with a standard computer in it with a camera facing up. The marketing blared that it was “Minority Report come to life.” Many of the press easily bought into it. News stories began to be released saying, “Microsoft on technological edge, making Minority Report type table,” and so on.
We’ll see how the customers react…oh wait, here’s a sample (myself included as “locker”), and here’s the perfect response vid:
I’ll let the videos speak for themselves for a moment. (Warning: Insane and very violent)
This, my readers, is the ultimate “manly man” movie. It’s politically incorrect, it’s sick, it’s bloody…and yet it’s so, so right. Sure, the film may have failed in box-office ratings (So did the first film, I think), but this is a movie that is tailor-made for at-home viewing, because it is the epitome of everything that hardcore action movie fans (And possibly film buffs period) want. I also predict this movie being a poster child of everything that is wrong with movies (Oh, wait, that already happened).
This, along with Inland Empire and Un Chien Andalou, are among the class of films that know how to work with insanity, or in other words: making Chaos not only convincing, but understandable in a sense. The main character’s heart is the rectangular box of this film, and the quick cuts, references, and moments of shock are like that of Laura Dern being lost in a swirl of past films, a sitcom with bunnies, and flashbacks.
Except the main character is in total control and is actually causing the chaos in pursuit of what rightfully belongs to him.
The film is a really, really primitive form of self-fulfilling fantasy. That’s not an insult, it’s a descriptive. The main character does a lot of things, all for a pursuit of a stolen object. Yet, what Jason Statham’s character does is what many a guy wants to do. Guys want to be invincible, to have the love of our lives in our arms, to kick ass and to take names. This movie does the job of fulfilling that fantasy better than most “hardcore”, mature-rated video games (And the Crank series references video games). Like it or not, we might see the character placed on a pedestal of masculine action heroes right next to Ash from Evil Dead, John Mcclaine from Die Hard, and King Leonidas from 300.
Yet there is one thing that places this film lower than the aforementioned films: The fact that while the film does have an objective, a structure, and a narrative, it is little more than the film equivalent of fired Oreos: It’s so wrong, so right, yet it’s not particularly filling for anything past the initial taste, even if one does keep diving back into the batch. Die Hard has roots in family bonding (With added explosions), Evil Dead has roots in the classic “Man stops evil force” story that has been told since ancient times (with added cartoonish mayhem in the sequels), and 300 is a story of bravery in the face of a threatening force (With added machismo, and in such a shameless way that the film gets praise and shit for being an “Iraq war movie”).
What, exactly, is Crank 2’s core philosophy? Sure, it’s very proud of it’s content, but why is it so proud? Sure, it’s funny, but is the humor in support of something or against? If so, what is it? Is it life in general? Is it the diversity of L.A. that is funny, or is it the impending force against it all? What does Jason’s character stand for? Is he really just another kick-ass action hero, or is he a symbol? After all, he is the dominant white male other than his friend (who is a nerdy guy dating a Black girl), so is he perhaps a symbol of inherent racism towards whites that exists in L.A.? Is he a sign of white male power? Is he…
Ok, let me stop. That’s an illustration of the problem with this film: One isn’t sure whether it is really is what it is, or if it is saying something about anything. This demonstrates that the films that are criticized as “plotless junk” are actually the films that say something (300, The Fall, Tideland) while films that are called “artistic” (Ghosts for Breakfast, Rhytmus 21) could either be much ado about nothing, or have a context that is so thin that one can only recognize it on a basic level, in which any examination beyond that edges dangerously towards pretentiousness or an alarmist mind.
Regardless, people who have a strong stomach can enjoy the film for what it is (Or, at least, what it’s probably perceived of as being…). I say this as a person who actually enjoyed the film: The film could either be saying absolutely nothing, or it could be trying to say everything to everybody. It’s dirty, yet it edges very closely to what is considered “art”. Just a warning.
Also, while I was watching this film in my college library, a girl walked up to me, asked me “What is the name of the movie you’re watching?” (In note form), and I wrote “Crank 2″ underneath the question. I asked her why, and she explained that she likes funny movies (She saw me laughing). I warned her that the film is politically incorrect. I should have given her more warnings.
This category of mine will be about me writing down quick things, with links in each one. Each link, however, will be related to a specific theme. So, I may cover many different things within Entertainment, from gaming to even books.
But the theme of today’s Notes will be that of business. Business is really the root of everything in Entertainment, so it is key to learn it. But questions like, “What kind of business strategies do I have to learn?” and “How do I make lots of money very quickly?” rise. Well, like all learning, it takes a bit of thinking, patience, and finally some action.
Here’s a blog post that not only shows off a new show called “Shark Tank”, a show where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to venture capitalists, but also covers 4 good questions to ask oneself when considering ideas, whether for personal use or for talking to one’s boss.
What problem are you solving for consumers?
What is your idea?
What is the business? How will you make money?
What specifically are you asking for?
Hmm…good questions indeed. Oh, yeah, this pic comes courtesy of Sean Malstrom:
Money may be what you get from business, but the true goal of business is making customers. Always consider what they want by studying their behavior, seeing what they do, so that one can be more accurate. Of course, relating to humans helps, too. But there’s more advice from Sean himself:
Peter Drucker said, “The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it is selling him.”
One of the bedrocks of disruption is to frame the problem correctly. When you hear someone utter the word ‘demographics’ – e.g. children, housewives, grandmas, teenagers, they are wasting your time. Segmenting the market into these ‘tribes’ is not useful as a context for product roadmaps or assessing the competition for customers’ wallets.
Customers hire the product for a job. The question is, what job has the product been hired to do? It is critical to understand how customers use the product or service.
Lastly, here’s a video to connect all of this together, using the Blue Ocean Strategy and connecting it not only to various businesses, but also even to personal life.
So, there is my set of notes, all relating to the Entertainment world through a Business strategy that is about looking outside of oneself and the industry to start a movement. Hopefully, you, dear reader, will apply these principles and perhaps start a change, whether in life or in whatever business you are in.
Doomsday predictions and observations are often met with large amounts of skepticism and are sometimes even rejected outright (and for good reason. History has shown us time and time again that one cannot exactly predict the future without proper evidence, even if their visions are “interpreted” to fit the events of today). Yet there is something about the calls of attention to the Gaming Industry’s eventual fall that is…well, right! Here’s a video that explained how the gaming industry would fall due to it’s bad habits:
Now I used the word “explain” in past tense because the video was made about a year ago, and it didn’t recieve many views as oppossed to, say, countless videos made about big hits like Call of Duty and teasers about Bioshock 2. Yet it makes a startling connection between the crash of the American Comic Books industry and the impending doom of the Gaming Industry. More people will be paying attention to this now, and for good reason.
Now, I like violence (simulated, of course) and sex as much as the next guy, but the Gaming Industry is cannibalizing itself, trying to have the “best graphics”, “best sound”, “most blood” and the “most succulent boob physics engine” without even considerig the outside world. The industry even went so far as to create it’s own awards shows, sealing the vacuum with a bandaid of “prestige” and “critical acclaim” not unlike that of The Golden Globes and Oscars.
(Cool (and cute) girl, but ugh, can we get any more pretentious and desperate>)
Meanwhile, Nintendo is often the only one targeting the groups that can truly determine the future of a business: the younger generation and women. Gaming isn’t just for 20 year-old males anymore. Now, there are more people playing. Yet it is Nintendo and other companies like it that are truly realizing this, while Microsoft and Sony are just trying to play catch up.
However, since the video has covered the demise of the American Comic Book Industry along with the demise of the Gaming Industry, I will soon use the knowledge of those markets, combined with my own knowledge, to tell of a demise of the industry that I am getting into: The Film industry.
One often hears good news about the film industry. Movies left and right seem to be prospering in the box-office (With exceptions), from District 9 to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, there seems to be wealth to made for everyone, while indie flicks like 500 Days of Summer and Moon get lots of critical acclaim and word-of-mouth. Times in the film industry seem so great, despite the recession…at least, for now.
Yeah, sure, I attack the critics, and I bash mediocre to terrible products, but that’s because I see most people working in the industry bowing down to them due to their delivery of money and good reputation, without considering the element that keeps business going: the audience that exists outside of the industry. The Gaming Industry is destroying itself by ignoring it, and so did the American Comic Book Industry. While movies like Transformers 2 and 500 Days of Summer prosper, they seem to be leaving out the outside world for one of two short-term elements: The prestige and the current box-office rating.
Firstly, there’s one thing to get out of the way: Film is entertainment. It doesn’t matter how indie or mainstream it is, or whether it’s a documentary or a biography, it’s packaged entertainment. It doesn’t mean that entertainment shouldn’t have a message, be well made or that the makers shouldn’t strive to make their film a financial success, but if the film isn’t made with the goal of Entertainment being foremost and primary, it will fail in the long run. It doesn’t matter if the film is a box-office hit or a Oscar-winning flick, because when all of the dust has cleared, when everything is done, people will look at the film alone, and they will see the truth. Whether they will still be happy or react like a person who had a drunk night at a bar and did something very wrong…well, that depends on the individual worth of the film, and nothing else.
Also, the key thing in entertainment is longetivity, about whether the subject in question is crafted with enough care that it will last in value even when the awards shows end, when the release party is over, when people are sober from the hype of a specific season, and even when the makers have moved on. Sadly, I don’t see much effort from anyone in the film industry to do this, whether in the bottom (Indie) or the top (Mainstream). Very few people are making, and doing, radical things from the bottom up, and they do so because they are driven.
Sasha Grey is moving up from the Adult Film Industry to star in more mainstream cinema. This seems like a controversial thing to do (And it is, which is why whenever her name is mentioned in any message board or comment section, you usually get a mix of admiration and disdain), but people who have seen her in Adult Film will follow her as she moves to the top, and she will get more and more people with each movie, until she finally topples the existing mainstream and changes the game completely. This is a move supported by the Blue Ocean Strategy and Disruption. The same applies to directeors Guillermo Del Toro (The Hobbit) and Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight). By moving up from the arthouse cinema community into the mainstream, they create longtime fans, and thus will create greater impact when they create their more “mainstream” projects.
Grey, Del Toro and Nolan do not, and will not, sacrifice their visions because they know that by working from the bottom up that they will make greater change and greater movements in the long run, and if they play their cards right, those movements will be immortalized. Future generations of filmmakers will have them to thank because it is their courage that revitalized film, whether the traditionalists like it or not.
Now, who else in the Film Industry is making this sort of radical change? Who else is looking outside of the current trends, and instead makes film to not just suceed, but to change film, to be brave? Who else is seeing the Oscars and the current box-office as red herrings to a much larger goal of a full scale movement? Who else is willing to defy the critics and make the films that will give birth to new concepts and subjects that will improve film and even storytelling in general, or at least create films that touch on timeless themes of heroism, life and death?
There are only a few people doing that, and when shit hits the fan, thus affecting film festivals, theatrical runs, indie film companies (Most of which are made by huge corporations to exploit the indie film market) and overall market health, there will be ashes everywhere. No one else will be there except for the few who saw past the Awards shows and the trends. That’s the scary thing about all of this. People in the film industry may be singing praises now, and with the current audiences and the critics who hand out the awards, but they will soon witness the industry die a slow and painful death, having looked no further than the pragmatic philosphy that dominates both the prestige and the mainstream.
Well, sorry I haven’t updated much in a while. I’ve been pretty busy discussing some stuff about the business side of Entertainment on this fourm (Great place, by the way. It’s based on Sean Malstrom’s blog.) So…I’m unsure what to discuss, so here’s another list of the subjects in my brain:
1) We all know that customers are the most important part of business, right? That it is also good to have good, fresh ideas from time to time, full of passion to create new movements within an industry, right? That respect must be given to people who pay for the product, right? Because I see that Bobby Kotick is being a real douchebag, and that Starcraft 2 won’t be all it’s cracked up to be as a result. *Sigh* The Gaming Industry is headed for a crash it won’t soon forget.
It’s not something that I’m ashamed of, just isn’t something that I go around telling everyone. Yes. I have both male and female genitalia, but I consider myself a female. It’s just a little bit of a penis and really doesn’t interfere much with my life. The reason I haven’t talked about it is that it’s not a big deal to me. Like come on. It’s not like we all go around talking about our vags. I think this is a great opportunity to make other multiple gendered people feel more comfortable with their bodies. I’m sexy, I’m hot. I have both a poon and a peener. Big f*cking deal.
A sample of the immature responses:
“No wonder shelookalikea man…this chick is ugly ugly ugly and I was like she looks like a man and now I know why…ohh wee..Hey would guys actually hit that..straight guys…top 5 BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“lol its funny how people will protect someone that probably doesnt give a rats ass about them,but if it makes you happy then be captain save a hoe…we have all rights to poke fun of the situation not her as a person..lol..idk gaga or lady gaga,but she knew better than to let something that personal slip out..not at home but a damn concert…if this was beyonce with no undies then everybody all happy joy joy…and for ciara…ciara all woman and if you havent come to your senses in believing she is then maybe you can do the world a favor and jump from a bridge since clearly your God given brain is going to waste…”
“this would explain why she has a B-B-Butter Face, B-B-Butter Face. she needs to fix her face and her nonworking penis. it jiggled…panties don’t. she’s gross and annoying. can’t just be like the gorillaz and be animated so we don’t have to see her?”
“I FUGGIN KNEW THERE WASNT SOMETHING RIGHT ABOUT HERE WHEN I WATCHED HER DISCO STICK VID, I THOUGHT SHE WAS A DIKE. BUT WTF WOULD SHE BE..”
Jesus christ, people, grow the fuck up! Hey, guess what? There are people that don’t exist in the “Boys are blue, Girls are pink” paradigm. There are other people out there who are either born with different bodies or decide to do something with them. Sure, I may not agree with them all of the time, but I know that their bodies are their own right, and that trying to repress what one wants to do their own bodies would yield results that would make this:
Look like this:
(On a personal note, I find her music mostly meh. I think it’s more watered down House/Trance with a crazy chick doing the voice. Some of her songs are catchy, though, and like I said she’s crazy. I’ll take that over most of the bland stuff playing on KISS FM)
Edit: Oh wait, this is the same website that reports a story like this without a credible source to back it up, so…I don’t know if I even want to cover this…I mean, shit, there’s more important things going on. Iran is in trouble, there are wars going on, the economy is shit, the Health care system of the United States (along with the rights of patients) is at stake, and yet out of all of that, some immature people are out there getting their undies bloody over a person’s biological trait.
I..ok. Ok.
3)…You know, the more I hang around some online art communities, the more I am convinced that there are people who will just exploit any oppurtunity to stir up drama over people who are popular or just bash them completely due to the pageviews/favorites/watches the artists recieve. Their arguments for hating the artists are very personal, amounting to, “YOU’RE A SELLOUT WHO IS ONLY POPULAR FOR DRAWING SEX/ANIME/SOME SUBJECT THAT I HATE FOR BEING POPULAR!!” or something to that effect. I know I touched on that on a sorta abstract level when discussing the Original vs. The Counter-Original argument, but as a developing artist/writer, it’s something that really grinds my gears, and I believe that silence isn’t a good answer in the face of that subject.
I want to go forward and give people a piece of my mind on the subject, but now, there is a problem. I am pretty sure that I will draw fire with this subject, especially when I, the blogger who praises Let the Right One In and Atlas Shrugged while dismissing Twilight and reactionary Film critcs, is the same blogger who will talk about two art communities, deviantART and FurAffinity, because he has made accounts (one mostly for art, the other mostly for writing) on each of those two websites.
…Yep. I just opened a can of bees. Character assasination, here I come.
But since I have spilled a bit of my guts in that third subject, I figure that it would be best for me to reveal the true purpose of this blog, along with my personal mission. I’ll do that in another blog post, perhaps after I tackle at least 2 of the subjects mentioned on this list.
Well, good…Evening? Night? Morning? The hell? God damn, I need to fix my sleep schedule.
The first title the company will try boosting with this strategy is Dance Flick, the poorly reviewed spoof of recent and not so recent dance movies. It seems odd to test a strategy such as this on a movie that only made $10 million on its opening weekend. The Blu-ray will release September 8th, with the standard definition DVD releasing four to eight weeks later.
Ken Williams, VP of Sales at Paramount spoke highly of the move, “We believe that a DVD rental window will increase revenue in that channel and that releasing a Blu-ray exclusively for sell-through will help drive adoption of the format, so it’s a win-win scenario.”
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This is just like how millions across the U.S. are being made to either get cable or get digital converter boxes. But like I said before, stuff like iTunes and other internet distributors are the future. This move by Paramount is just speeding up the inevitable. Stuff like sound quality and picture quality don’t matter anymore to regular customers. Now, it’s just a matter of getting the damn movie. Yet Studios are still going in the old ways of “More sound! Better Picture!”. It will come to bite them in the ass, and in such a quick and painful way that the studio heads won’t be able to walk straight.
I have just read an interesting article that highlights the disdain of the traditional writing mindset as more people begin to write in various online places like Facebook, Myspace, their own blogs and Twitter. I will quote a few parts of it:
The chattering classes have become silent, tapping their views on increasingly smaller devices. And tapping they are: the screeds are everywhere, decrying the decline of smart writing, intelligent thought and proper grammar. Critics bemoan blogging as the province of the amateurism. Journalists rue the loose ethics and shoddy fact-checking of citizen journalists. Many save their most profound scorn for the newest forms of social media. Facebook and Twitter are heaped with derision for being insipid, time-sucking, sad testaments to our literary degradation. This view is often summed up with a disdainful question: “Do we really care about what you ate for lunch?”
Forget that most of the pundits lambasting Facebook and Twitter are familiar with these devices because they use them regularly. Forget that no one is being manacled to computers and forced to read stupid prose (instead of, say, reading Proust in bed). What many professional writers are overlooking in these laments is that the rise of amateur writers means more people are writing and reading. We are commenting on blog posts, forwarding links and composing status updates. We are seeking out communities based on written words.
Go back 20, 30 years and you will find all of us doing more talking than writing. We rued literacy levels and worried over whether all this phone-yakking and television-watching spelled the end of writing.
The game of writing has definitely changed now that there are more people doing so, thanks to social websites like this one. People thought TV and Phones would destroy Writing! Ha! The problem isn’t so much that there was new technology as it is the fact that the content that the writers made wasn’t very interesting to people. After all, stories like Revolutionary Road weren’t exactly best sellers back in the day of their release, while stories like Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, despite selling millions and making the New York Times best seller list, had to rely on word of mouth on a slower rate than today’s internet-based world.
Richard Yates may be getting lots of attention thanks to the film adaptation of Revolutionary Road, but that may be a problem with the book itself: Harry Potter was able to sell millions before film deals were made, yet Revolutionary Road had to be found by Sam Mendes about half a century after the book was released (Not to bash Revolutionary Road, mind you. It’s an effective story, but if it’s that depressing and bleak, no wonder it didn’t sell well despite critical acclaim).
Take the “25 Things About Me” meme that raged around Facebook a few months ago. This time-waster, as many saw it, is precisely the kind of brainstorming exercise I used to assign to my freshman writing students decades ago. I asked undergraduates to do free-writing, as we called it, because most entered my classroom with little writing experience beyond formal, assigned essays. They only wrote when they were instructed to, and the results were often arch and unclear, with ideas kept at arms length. Students saw writing as alien and intimidating–a source of anxiety. Few had experience with writing as a form of self-expression. So when I stood in front of a classroom and told students to write quickly about themselves, without worrying about grammar or punctuation or evaluation—”just to loosen up,” I would say—I was asking them to do something new. Most found the experience refreshing, and their papers improved.
Today those freewriting exercises are redundant. After all, hundreds of thousands of people wrote “25 Things About Me” for fun. My students compose e-mails, texts, status updates and tweets “about seven hours a day,” one sophomore told me. (She also says no one really talks to each other anymore). They enter my classroom more comfortable with writing–better writers, that is–and we can skip those first steps.
This demonstrates two things: One, the speed of information in our age, and two, the changing of the image of writing. Once, people were taught that writing itself is a serious artform, not a means of personal expression, fun and ideas. They were taught technique, but they were not taught that the reason why people became interested in writing is due to what actually shows, what the message is, not so much HOW it does things. This applies to any other media form as well.
A film like “Un Chien Andelou” is praised for technical excellence. However, it’s not received well by audiences (At least, not at first). Now, what movie is immediately praised by audiences?
Interestingly enough, both films aren’t exactly well-versed. The latter is a debut of the Marx Brothers, so it’s not exactly the best, while the former is one of the best known of the avant-garde movement of the 1920’s. Both are mostly known in historical terms and in film/art circles, though. In fact, didn’t the creators of Un Chien Andalou make it just to stir things up and cause controversy, only to be disappointed because it was liked?
Anyway, students back then found writing intimidating thanks to the domineering elite attitude towards writing. Mind you, those same writers often bemoaned the so-called “Death of writing”, yet the moment more people began to write and the more read books like Lord of the Rings, they go crazy! Didn’t they want their “artform” to live? Why do they trash the bestsellers so instead of actually, you know, writing?
The conversational arts may be suffering (despite their enduring rules), but like it or not, we are all writers now. Perhaps this explains the loud clamouring over the questionable authority of online authorship. With traditional media feeling the pain, many professional writers worry that they have become dispensable. So they unfairly degrade the prose of amateurs in order to guard the ramparts.
This really nails it. The elite writers have created a culture that must not be entered by the “lowly writers” who just want to speak out and have fun. So this means that film, video games and music are not the only areas where there are loud cries by the few against the “mainstream”, against the “sellouts”, against the popular and successful. Writing has been plagued with this, too, and yet writers like J.K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman gain a lot being on the top of their game, just writing whatever interests them, no matter what many critics say.
Anyway, it is great to see a writer finally get things, to finally realize that the number of participants in the game has increased, and so that therefore the rules have changed. As a writer, it’s both exciting and daunting knowing that so many other people write, and that I will have to stand out in order to get what I want.
Now, the first Twilight movie had a certain amount of appeal. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s still a crushingly mediocre film, but it had a few things going for it (The Baseball scene, the final fight scene, some ok acting), even when most was unintentional (The end of the Baseball Scene, some retarded special effects, the emptiness from Bella, the look of Edward etc..).
But…with all of this I have to make an effort to be open-minded. I mean, why?
Why?
Why?
And that’s only from the first movie. I mean, at least the first film had some decency in regards to him, but now he turns from a likeable character to…this:
…Wait, which one is Jacob?
I mean, at least the special effects are a bit better, but it’s like the special effects have improved a bit while the worse parts of the first film (the sometimes absurd drama) gets 5 times worse. I mean, watch that trailer again. A drop of blood, guy gets an intense (Constipated) look on his face, runs towards Bella, Edward pushes him and he flys like an Agent Smith in The Matrix. Plus, the one Black vampire’s acting is…unconvincing. The digital altering of that man’s voice is obvious. But the biggest part is when one EXPLODES into a werewolf.
The only saving grace will be Dakota Fanning’s part. Now, she is pretty good, and has even inspired controversy a year ago (She wasn’t only in the movie The Secret Life of Bees, you know)even though I secretly wanted another young actress to show her acting chops (*Cough* Jodelle Ferland *Cough*)
I mean, yeah, Dakota’s good, but Jodelle has had far more experience in horror. She was the creepy girl in the film adaptation of Silent Hill, she was in a few episodes of Supernatural (As a dying girl, though). She was the main character in Tideland for god’s sake!
But that’s a rant for another post. If you’re still anticipating this film, good for you. If you hate it, good for you, too (Though, the latter will personally be extra from yours truly).
God…I need something to cleanse my eyes and make me whole again…and my ears are pounding…and my wrists and hands are aching from rage-filled typing…my whole body is in aches…and I’m supposed to be working right now…
AAAAAAAAHHHH, IT’S FROM HELL!! IT’S FROM HELLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!
Oh wait, there is something to make me feel better. Well, here sa nice Photoshop, courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes:
Ah, I feel so much better now. It’s amazing how a normal rational guy like me can become a screaming lunatic because of a film. But the Internet always saves me…and tears me…then saves me again. In a perfect, painful, cycle.
Fan videos, Fan fiction, Fan trailers, Fan service…it all gets a bad rap, because like anything else in entertainment, 90% of it sucks. Yet there is a glowing 10% out there, the type that is insanely viral, is really well done, and could also be indications of upcoming talent. Who knows, maybe the person who makes Kung Fu Flash movies with stick figures could become the next big action movie director, or maybe the author of Danny Phantom slash fanfiction could somehow write an epic tragic romance that would make Gone with the Wind look like Scary Movie 4.
But in the meanwhile, let’s look at one example of fanwork that is actually good, made by a person named Shippiddge and based on the popular Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii. One doesn’t really have to be familiar with the game to enjoy it, though, thanks to its good comical timing, voice acting and writing.
And here is something that is different:
This is all just a sample of the stuff he does with Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It’s very entertaining stuff, and surprisingly creative. Stuff like this actually gives the word “Fan” a good name.
Money may be what you get from business, but the true goal of business is making customers. Always consider what they want by studying their behavior, seeing what they do, so that one can be more accurate. Of course, relating to humans helps, too. 
…Wait, which one is Jacob?
AAAAAAAAHHHH, IT’S FROM HELL!! IT’S FROM HELLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!
Ah, I feel so much better now. It’s amazing how a normal rational guy like me can become a screaming lunatic because of a film. But the Internet always saves me…and tears me…then saves me again. In a perfect, painful, cycle.