Since so many of you are fond of ripping on the Asylum for ripping off movies, I want you to think about this for a second.

Now, I don't work for them anymore and have really nothing to do with any of their films released after TRANSMORPHERS, so this isn't a message from a company plant, just something for you die hard film buffs to think about.

Don't you think it's a pretty big statement about Hollywood movies today that a small low budget company can make a living making nearly carbon copies of big studio films without ever seeing the movies that they are ripping off?

Imagine if you will that the Asylum tried to rip-off A Clockwork Orange before it came out. Would their movie be anything like the Kubrick masterpiece? I thnk not, because the studio film, the "original" if you will is so groundbreaking and different that it would be impossible to guess what it might really be about or what might happen.

Instead, the Asylum makes their version and all you guys have to complain about is the hard cost things like special effects, lighting, sets, props, etc. Your views of scripts and actors are without a doubt tied to your complaints about the budgets having read all, if not most of the posts, about these movies. I mean, after all is Sophia Bush really millions of dollars more of an actress that Sarah Hall or Shaley Scott? Does Camilla Belle really warrant the six figure difference between her paycheck and that of Rebekah Kochan? And isn't Matt Wolf actually BETTER than that kid in Eragon and Eliza Swenson much more believable than Rachel Weiss' voice over work? And unless you are gripped with Shia-mania, I'd rather watch Griff Furst any day fighting giant robots.

And since everyone loves to mock the Asylum and its ratings on IMDB, why is it that the "original" films only have a couple of more points on the old rating than the knock off? If the Asylum was so deplorable, wouldn't their films all have 0s while these "originals" have close to 10. After all, when you guys point that out, you are really defending the studio movies and the studios that make them.

The Asylum doesn't employ "studio moles" to get scripts in advance. Often times, working as fast as they do, they actually shoot their movies BEFORE so much as a trailer hits the net. Isn't it sad that they, or you the audience for that matter, can sit back and figure out almost EXACTLY what a studio film is going to look and be like? I for one am tired of this. If you look at the reviews of I AM LEGEND and the Asylum's I AM OMEGA you will see that both films have almost the same complaints with their structure and script! Unbelievable.

I wish myself and David Latt were psychics. But we're not. The Asylum is a mirror held up to Hollywood that reveals the lack of originality and ideas ACROSS THE BOARD!

Demand something new. Demand something original. The Asylum, and their films, is the symptom, not the illness itself. If you are real film buffs, you will speak with your dollars. Support those original films out there. Don't tell me that you can make a great film with no money and people have done it before. Forget about me. Spread the word about that great little film that you claim exists. Email all of your friends. Let the internet work for the little filmmaker with the big ideas instead of waisting your time trying to piss me off. Seriously.

Use your anger and your clever posts IN A POSITIVE WAY. Make something cool blow up and then the industry will take notice. CLOVERFIELD and therefore MONSTER would not exist if it wasn't for BLAIR WITCH. Go make or find the next BLAIR WITCH and then the industry will react. Hollywood is reactive not proactive. Only filmmakers with the public behind them can change the way things work. Studio heads, network executives and bean counters are not going to come out with something risky and original for the hell of it.