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Previously on Work Stories, I don’t know what I wrote about.   It was three weeks ago.   I meant to take a one week break, then forgot to write the Work Story the second week.   So here we are.   Three weeks after the last Work Story and I’ve forgotten what it was about.   I’ll check right now.   It looks as though my previous Work Story involved that time when I was walking through the parking lot at work and someone offered me free pizza.   That definitely sounds like something that I would write.   This week, you’re going to get something completely different again because I’m going to give you something that isn’t about parking lot pizza. What am I going to write about?   That’s always the question that I have to answer before I get down to telling the story that I mean to tell.   I never know which story I want to write about on a given week.   There are lots of pointless Work Stories to tell.   It’s all about dec...

Cinema in this day and age (specifically the Hollywood bred section) is fixated on the idea of modernization.   Through the movies that are made based on toys, comics, books, and games of generations past, the film landscape is turning into a modern interpretation of the past.   Remakes, reboots, and new adaptations of old material have helped to build the movie world that currently exists.   When looking at it from a point of corporate greed, the argument can be made that using familiar material is going to help sell seats in the theater or copies on home video.   From the point of view of artistry, it can be quite an interesting experiment to find a new, interesting way to tell old material.   Each of these outlooks are valid in their own way. The greed of Hollywood executives is something that I believe I have touched upon in previous posts.   The point of producing movies in Hollywood is to make money.   A lot of money is put into many o...

There is something to be said for when an attempt is made to try something new with a film.   The filmmaker does something new, different, or out-of-the-box with the movie they are making.   Aspects of the movie are unique.   These movies have some merit to them.   They deserve appreciation for what they do.   Many of the movies may turn out to be failures due to this vision that the filmmaker is putting on screen.   Others will become classics remembered for generations.   Each movie deserves a certain level of respect for the ideas, even if they were not executed greatly. One of the movies that tries something different is called Going Overboard .   Released in 1989, the movie stars Adam Sandler as a waiter on a cruise ship who wants to be a comedian.   After a while, some terrorists board the ship to try and kill a pageant contestant.   That’s about all that there is to the story.   This was the first film that Sandler...