You occupy Wall Street, I'll be productive over here

The Occupy Wall Street movement, while having noble intentions, is much like the movie The Wild Hunt - it seems pretty good in the beginning, fizzles out, and then just leaves you wondering what happened.

Before I go any further, I must warn you: I am going to spoil the plot of the movie. Chances are, you don't care, and you will never watch the movie anyway, but I figured a fair warning was in order.

The plot of The Wild Hunt is that Erik Magnusson is losing his girlfriend, Lyn, to a guy at a LARP, or Live Action Roleplay. It's kind of like D&D, but acting all the parts out with foam swords over a weekend in the woods. It's a pretty big deal in some circles, as it is in the movie.

Anyhow, without going into much detail, Erik, with the help of his brother Bjorn, are able to convince Lyn to switch sides, "kidnap" her, and destroy the big event planned for the weekend. This, evidently, angers the group playing antagonists of the event, who then proceed to lose their minds, actually rape people, and kill Erik. As in, the main bad guy's lackey slices Erik in the face with elk horns and slams his face into rocks, until he is dead. And then Lyn jumps off a waterfall. And after the event is over, Bjorn takes a hammer to the main antagonists head.

If that left you confused, don't worry - I was too. A really good movie turned super dark in the last 20 minutes of the film, totally ruining an otherwise good movie. And, that last 20 minutes really didn't make much sense. Starting to see where I'm going with this?

Occupy Wall Street (and the local version, Occupy Sacramento) are much like the movie. Starts out with a pretty cool idea, 99% of people are not rich and demand something from the 1% who are super-rich in the nation. That's all fine and dandy, people need money.

But Warren Buffet, that mega-rich guy you've probably heard of, was already advocating more taxes on the rich, and taxing money earned from investments more. The ball is already rolling on that one.

So what is there to protest? Well, that's the part that no one really understands, even the two main websites for the movement, Occupy Together and OccupyWallSt.

This popular picture of David Silverman reacting to Bill O'Reilly telling him he can't explain why the tide goes in and out without God sums up my reaction to the whole thing.

There's no real list of demands, there's no real thrust of the movement to get something done, they are just milling about, demanding food from local businesses - which seems to go against getting the working man some money - and really are only making demands that they not be arrested for camping in Central Park (or Cesar Chavez Park, locally).

So what are the protesters getting done? Nothing, really. It's just a mass of discontent people with funny signs. It's like the Rally to Restore Sanity, only I have yet to hear about celebrities giving speeches in Central Park.

I've heard people around the water cooler say that this could be the start of a revolution, and that the people are going to take America back. Somehow, I doubt this is what the outcome is going to be. It wouldn't make any sense, just like The Wild Hunt's ending. For that matter, what's happening now doesn't make much sense. It's a protest without a real goal or aim.

So while the protesters are busy trying to camp in parks and not actually make demands, I'll be busy at my desk, watching movies on Netflix or finding some way to be a productive, contributing member of society. Just be sure to let me know if the bankers are coming, the bankers are coming!