I Will Be Your Father Figure

What the fuck, Hollywood?

Is it necessary that every single character have daddy issues?

I feel like everything I've been watching lately requiredsome extensive back story in which the main character has some traumatic childhood experience or disconnect with a parent.  It's distracting.  It's annoying.  It's pat.

Watching movies nowadays you'd think every good and evil impulse anyone has emerges from a parental shadow.  Wolverine?  Daddy issues.  Willy Wonka?  Daddy issues.  Indiana Jones?  A whole daddy movie.  And Luke Skywalker?  Don't get me started.  Lucas practically tea-bagged father/son horseshit down out throats.  And what did every single one of those do to us?  It made us love you a little less.

J.J. Abrams, I'm looking at you.  Don't get me wrong, I really liked the new Star Trek, and my devotion to Lost is unquestioned.  But you've made a career of dragging me through convoluted time-jumping Oedipal confrontations. Can't Kirk and Spock just be instinctive and logical without explanation?  Can't they just be Kirk and Spock?

I'm just asking, as a father, to stop putting so much god damn pressure on us!  I love my dad, but I'm motivated by selfishness, greed, and occasionally nachos, not some deep-seeded to please/kill him.  I make my choices, and my dad's got nothing to do with them. 

When you make the movie about me (currently in pre-production, schedule for Memorial Day 2011) can the back-story and just drop me into the action.  Your audience will thank you for it.