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RE: But it's an instant "classic"!...

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In Reply to: RE: But it's an instant "classic"!... posted by musetap on June 15, 2015 at 23:32:47

I guess I'm turning into a grumpy old man.......but I actually ran a video store for 4 years in the early 80's when VCR's got hot. I love good film. In the last 20 years I've learned to despise ANYTHING the mass media machine tries to ram down my throat. That certainly includes Hollywood blockbusters (among other things) which as I see it are almost never worth watching much less even good.

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RE: But it's an instant "classic"!... - RGA 18:01:27 06/16/15 (1)
What are you going to the movies for though? Many people don't want to go to a movie to get a dose of real life problems, or history lessons, or to watch someone's inner turmoil. What they go for is to release their brain for 2 hours in the world of candy land.

I usually find the folks who junk all of Hollywood tend to think they're above everyone else in taste or class - well I have an English Lit degree so I have seen the heightened self importance of readers abound. Everyone else is stupid because they like Rock/Pop/Jazz etc music - if they had any taste they would only like Classical music and only like 4 pianists in the history of piano playing and Piano is a superior instrument to all other instruments. And anything written after 1700 is complete trash. Yes there are these people.

The same with movies - the fact that something is in color and is in the English language automatically means it can't be rated higher than a B.

Movies like plays can be summed up in a manner to Aristotle's outline of importance: Plot, Character, Theme, Language, Rhythm, and Spectacle

What is interesting is the the artsy types typically accuse the mainstream of being suckers for spectacle - big loud special effects - although they themselves focus a LOT (indeed most) of their attention on cinematography and various oohs and aahs of camera angles and lighting. But this too is pure spectacle - the lowest form (least important) aspect of theater and by modern times film.
- Interesting take on the "anti-Hollywood" mentality... - Steve O 20:24:10 06/16/15 (0)
  ...and as you imply/state, less than coincidental parallels to the "popular" vs "audiophile/artsy" mentality as regards music. Neither is surprising considering our location at the moment. Goes with the territory.
You're not alone in that first thought... - musetap 17:13:25 06/16/15 (0)
Grumpy Old Men, now THAT was a pretty bad movie.

Hell, you KNOW I leave some grumpy-ass posts and be the grumpus amongst us!

I just had a moment of... clarlty... where that made-to-be-a-blockbuster
didn't annoy me as much as they usually do!

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure

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