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i saw a few of them and yes they really stunk - and the others i wouldn't spend a dime on. and thanks for the visual of larry the cable guy - i am quite sure that will stay with me for awhile.
my daughter and i have the same taste in movies so i usually wait for her to see it first - you know when people are young and have "date night".
another issue is that sometimes the trailer of the movie is great - then a real snooze when you get in there. In Bruges and The Dead Girl are some of my latest favorites but I just order them on cable.
posted by
ladychardonnay
on December 17, 2008 at 5:08 PM
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Hollywood movies in general stink. Todays films are often re-makes from another era which shows the lack of creativity and sleaze. The film "Gladiator" is both the Fall of the Roman Empire and Sparticus. It's a literal hi-jacking and it's acting is inferior to both. Most people don't know that.
Most films today show a woman having to be as tough as a man, the man being as sensitive as a woman and you will often see a mandatory black guy as opposed to any other ethnicity. As if no other ethnicity's existed. Not to mention a happy ending. Politically-correct 101. Predictable and untrue.
And actually it is the general unwillingness to offend that I find a bother. If jokes are raw and harsh I like that as long as they're well done. If people are offended it's probably because they're true.
Check Sarah Silverman and Borat. Honestly they're not my taste but they seem to be many others.
Movies should reflect raw reality, that is human behavior for better or worse. A movie is not supposed to be some politically-correct manifesto for how we're supposed to talk in public.
It's worrying about offending people that restricts free thought and therefore kills creativity and creates the same boring formula over and over.
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mordent
on December 17, 2008 at 4:21 PM
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