Attack of the Hollywood Cliches!

...That love whining about how unoriginal Hollywood, they can whine about this. It's short and I enjoyed it. It's definitely tongue in cheek.

If you're a hardcore fan of films you probably already know all these clichés exist. Sure, I learned a bit of history, but I lost interest after about half an hour.

A lot of the talking heads also were irritating as they try to convince the audience that all of the problems in society, from racism to gay rights to women's fight for equality is all the fault of the film industry.

Hosted by Rob Lowe, the Netflix documentary Attack of the Hollywood Clichés takes us through the history of the most common clichés used throughout movie history.

As a lifelong film fan, I'm familiar with several of the clichés covered in the documentary. Sure there's a few that I agreed with, but there were parts that left me wondering, "Why would you cover that?" but I guess it's relevant. No need to get all woke on segments such as racism, gender and sexuality. That stuff is outdated anyway and it doesn't fit in with modern day audiences.

It's nothing groundbreaking that hasn't been covered before, but Attack of the Hollywood Clichés certainly fills the time.

6/10.

This Netflix special has a great sense of purpose, but it's not as focused as it could be if it was. It's a bit like a Spit -Take or Montage mode, and it's full of all the crazy facts that come from a fake scare called the Luton Bus, as well as the story of Willem's screams. It's not as thoughtful as it could be, but since it's only an hour, you can probably still watch it on your free weekends and pass it along to your cinema-loving friends. The problem is that it's not as funny as it should be, and it's not as irreverent as it could be. It's got the same lazy familiarity of the Hollywood movies it's trying to mock.

~ P. X.

There are actually Youtube channels that do better video essays than this hour-long and poorly-patched together Mojo list. The analysis of cliches are rushed and selections of movies are erratic, like a high school essay written from a Google searched of the book summary. Clips and highlights served as a "I told you so" rather than movie analysis.

In important "attacks" related to race, gender, (and the police?), the example scenes are so obviously cherry picked for talking points that fit the current political climate. In this process, they completely ignore how the particular scene fit in the theme of the whole movie and in the dynamics between the characters. Not to mention the vast assumptions they constantly make on how some random film was perceived, as well as the horrible (or great) audience that would celebrate these cliché to try and inject their own politics.