Opinion

The thoroughly unpleasant fact of reality is that Hollywood is run by a bunch of unimaginative twerps, the kind of people that Ayn Rand used to call Second Handers.  It's the kind of mentality that wants to maximize profits but is unwilling to try something distinctly new or different.  Thus the glut of sequels and the ongoing cinemisation of the successful television series.  Even if the project isn't a sequel or a series adaptation, the Second Handers still attempt to reduce risk by only combining elements that appeared to have worked in the past. Thus The Adventures of Pluto Nash, an movie that combines the elements of Eddie Murphy, Computer Generated Imagery, and the Sci-Fi environment, still turns out to be an unwatchable piece of crap. (When I saw the trailer at the 2002 Convergence, my thought was, oh its Moon Zero Two: The Next Generation.)

Another problem is realism.  While certain liberties can be taken with space operas films set in the real world (including 2001: A Space Odyssey) should be as realistic as possible as permitted by the film's budget.  My own personal BS alarm went off when I saw the trailer for the second Charlie's Angels flick.  It showed a scene where the main rotor on a helicopter gunship began to self deploy.  A mechanism for moving rotor blades from the storage position to the operational position would add weight to the aircraft.  This is a bad thing in military aircraft.  And if the additional weight wasn't an issue a self deploy system would still be useless in the operation context for one very good reason.  Every helicopter operated by an air force or army aviation unit comes with something called a ground crew.  A bunch of people whose job is to open, close, fold, and unfold components and perform maintenance on the aircraft.  When I see a BS element in an advertisement for a movie I as a rule usually tend to avoid seeing it. 

There's the issue of personal aesthetics.  While a brain dead bimbo with obviously fake hair, eyebrows, lips, and breasts may be attractive to the urban pimp and his clientele.  As I've said else where, I find such creatures to be repulsive. something about such such females just says "STAY AWAY" in big ugly letters.  I absolutely refuse to see anything with Angolina Jolie in it, even for free.  That's how put off by cosmetological fakery I am.