Our Movies Suck

We Can Replace Them

Only one line of dialogue from the franchise-destroying film, The Last Jedi, deserves to be repeated with any amount of seriousness:

“We're going to win this war not by fighting what we hate, but by saving what we love,” Rose Tico, ridiculous character.

Last week, several indie authors got some flack for yelling at famous people on the internet. You see, the internet-famous people had made videos ragging on Disney and Star Wars for their shoddy quality. The videos garnered millions of views—all of them.

Indie authors filled up the comments of these videos criticizing the large creators for not shouting out smaller indie works.

Some minor sniping ensued, but it gave me an idea. My YouTube channel is mostly a lead magnet rather than a money-maker. I get a lot of clients through the channel, but I’m not a slave to the algorithm.

With that in mind, I thought maybe I could also use my channel to review indie books—the ones that succeed where crappy big-budget movies and tv shows fail—and let p…