Obsessed With Film

I was just going to ignore this but ya know, I can’t sit back and do nothing. Too often in this world we let things go to avoid confrontation, we avoid doing the right thing and leave it to someone else to get off their ass and make a stand.

I’m guilty of it too but man, I can’t let this pass. It has effected me far too deeply.

I’ve had my problems with the hack site Cinema Blend for quite some time now. They use to be a website I would visit regularly but over the past 18 months, well, their actions have been despicable. I have never seen a website be so desperate for hits that it takes EVERY single rumor e-mail they receive as a legit bit of movie news. That’s even if they receive the e-mails they claim. Outrageous casting after outrageous casting they told us about over 2008, none of them ever came true.

I remember at the height of the JUSTICE LEAGUE fan frenzy, they would continue to post on a daily basis another piece of bullshit news. All to generate traffic. That site has absolutely no credibility with me, I have stopped visiting it for a long time now. I hate sites that post anything (the recent Batman rumors) just to capitalise on what is popular to bring more clicks to their page.

But that’s easy solved, I just don’t visit the site and leave their writers to craft their great works of fiction.

But I simply can’t let this slip. I visited DIGG today and what I was presented with was one of the most sickening things I have ever seen on a movie website. It’s titled “The 100 Most Likely People To Die in 2009″, a feature article written by Cinema Blend and features as the title suggests 100 people they believe are near to croaking and who will die this year, along with their expected “cause”, their reasoning and astonishingly, “Chances of seeing an obituary” which is broken down into a percentage that some loser has calculated in his head.

After 2008 when we have lost so many of cinema’s greats which has continued to flood into the early part of this year, I find this shocking and something we shouldn’t stand for. I’m going to post this everywhere I can, get as many of my fellow webmasters to rally with me and try and get an apology from CB and the article taken down ASAP.

Running a movie website is suppose to be fun and crafting articles is a pleasure but I can’t imagine what demented soul took pleasure from writing that article. This is not a game, this is not a casting speculation which is fun to predict. This is real life, real people with real sufferings and real families. It should not be tolerated.

The article, merely written to generate entertainment value and lots of hits (which has obviously worked) out of the suffering of those like Roger Ebert, Patrick Swayze and Andy Rooney is one of the most heinous acts I have ever seen on any website.

Mack Radwen is the author of the post which got the response from the clown head over at CB, Josh Tyler, to proclaim “Greatness” in the comments section. An unfortunate response I would say.

Please voice your disgust in the comments section or better yet, e-mail the author mackrawden @ cinemablend.com (remove the spaces) or better yet the owner josh @ cinemablend.com (remove the spaces). This won’t be the last you hear of this, mark my words.