Uh, SyFy Channel

Are you serious? Ideas are BS. Everyone has an idea. It doesn't mean squat. And all those 'original ideas', I can guarantee you that tons of other folks have thought of very similar ideas.

Ideas don't make movies.

People actually "taking the time to write the damned script" do.

That's the commodity. The quality of writing, dialogue, pacing and character development. Sure there are tons of bad scripts out there but they are at least worth something.

Ideas alone are worth nothing.

Yeah, that's a gross generalization but seriously, everyone has a 'great idea' for a movie. I've read TONS of treatments by amateur sci fi writers. Guess what? not ONE of them was film-able. Well, unless you have a James Cameron Avatar style budget. And a lot of them were 'interesting NOVELS' but would have been crap movies.

Though I fully agree with you that the SyFy Channel seems hellbent on producing or greenlighting bad movies, your solutions sounds just like someone who is NOT in the industry and has no idea how it works. I could go on and on as to why a programming exec doesn't create a show (they can back it and support it, but the show, movie, etc has to have a champion, a producer or filmmaker who takes it, pitches it and will see the project through to completion). These execs look for projects that are not only pitched to them, but they know they will get finished.

Yep, you touched on yet another one of my pet peeves in the industry. Too many amateurs and johnny come latelies who can't finish a movie. I have more respect for a filmmaker who finished a flawed movie than the hundreds of self proclaimed filmmakers who cannot finish their 'masterpiece'.

Rant off. Your condemnation of them is praiseworthy, but your solution is useless because it reeks of someone who doesn't understand one iota of how films are made, produced, marketed and distributed. Sorry.

Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.