When Writing your Movie Script, Consider the Following

I like to consider myself fairly open to different types of movies. I will watch romances, suspense, thrillers, mysteries, comedies and even some horror movies. Here is what I think should be banned from being produced:

1. Movies where children die. No. Just, no.
2. Movies where a good romance ends in the couple breaking up. The message being, of course, that they discovered that they are a bigger person on their own, with some new-found independence to buoy them up. At least that's what they tell themselves since they are all alone with their memories. (This is not to be confused with an annoying romance where I thank my lucky stars it was put out of it's misery.)
3. Romance movies where one of the people dies. Hello, isn't real life depressing enough? Shouldn't fictional characters at least get to live happily ever after? What is so romantic about "having them right here, in your heart, forever..."? Um, that would be nothing. It just sucks. You are alone, and it sucks. Yeah, Titanic, I'm talking to you.
3. Romance movies where the characters end up old. Why would we want to fastforward to the end? Kind of anti-climactic, don't you think?
4. Movies where the main character loses their friend/lover/family member, and they see at the end how that person gave them a gift, and they should go on to live bright shiney lives and run and laugh and play. Because you're only really sad for a week or two before you get to that stage. And then you make a new friend who used to be your enemy or at least someone who annoyed you, but was touched by your loved one before or after they tragically died. And then you both become Better People.
5. Poorly written movies with no real deep and meaningful plot which are produced solely to make you want to buy more of the product. Kids movies seem to be produced in this way often. Adults, these aweful movies wouldn't keep being produced if you didn't buy them. What's the deal?

I won't tell you which movie I watched tonight that inspired this post, in case it is in your dvd queue, but suffice it to say it was fairly recent, based on a children's book, and I liked it all the way up to the part where he goes to the museum. And then it became terribly depressing and the bright shiney ending did not make me think, gee, life is good. It made me think, wow, kid, you recovered quickly.