Abduction bombs at the box office, and why that's great news!

I'ma start with some info for you:

John Singleton directed Abduction. A decent, strong director whose resume' includes Boyz 'n the Hood, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and the very good Four Brothers. He's made movies that have made money and gone after the various trophies in Hollywood.

Besides Taylor Lautner, the movie stars Sigourney Weaver, Alfred Molina, Jason Isaacs, and Maria Bello. That's a quality cast!

The movie cost about 35 mil to make.

Now I don't know what all of that tells you, but I know what it tells me. This was a completely pre-packaged, well planned, and carefully orchestrated attempt at creating a super celebrity and building Lautner into a fully capable action star and marquee player within the system. It was a superficial attempt at taking the guy's appeal to prepubescent young girls and manufacture something more from it.

I honestly can't blame them (the all powerful, fully evil studio head's). They almost had to try it.

You take a guy who has a very strong fan base and you build a movie around him. It's been done too many times to count. You don't worry about story, you surround him with great, recognizable actors and you hand the project over to a capable director and then hopefully you have a massive success and you make tons of money.

But this is EXACTLY what we don't want Hollywood to be doing. Abduction failing sends a clear message to Hollywood that a celebrity's status isn't important to the average movie goer. Fame does NOT equal success and that action without creativity and originality is plain, boring, dumb and without passion. It's just like anything that is created: If it's done in a soulless manufactured sort of way almost like a connect-the-dots, assembly line process, it's never as good as the lightning in a bottle artistic steady and creative approach. For example, would you rather eat at McDonald's or have Bobby Flay come over to your house and make you something?

I'll be honest, I don't like Taylor Lautner. I think he's a horrible actor that comes off smug, arrogant, and immature. I think he's gained fame for eating right and working out. And if you think he's cute, I think you're nuts, homeboy's got a fucked up nose. However, I'm sure he's more than capable of making a movie I might one day like or even like him in it. But that's neither here nor there. In this case, we're talking about Abduction. An uninspired, lame attempt to create an action star out of pretty much nothing.

We need more Super 8's and Warrior's in the movie theater's, not soulless vacuum's that appeal to the teeny bopper crowd.

Sorry, but I'm team Edward, Shark-Boy.