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Michael Medved has almost made a career out of demonstrating that Hollywood movies...

...made with G and PG ratings (as a whole) earn more money -- and are cheaper to make! -- than those with R ratings; yet the studios continue to churn out the same old F*ck f*ck f*ck flicks. (Hey! Not a bad line...)



Why is that?

Well perhaps it's safer not to go into it here...

And then there's the audience, increasingly composed of young boys looking for game-type thrills and whose parents don't mind their kids' being exposed to violence, profanity and sometimes even morbid sexuality. That explains the blockbusters and their FX budgets..

Grownups do still get, however, fine movies like Spring Forward, The Station Agent, Mystic River, Half Nelson, Apocalypto, Children of Men, The Lives of Others, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Once -- not all of them "Hollywood", but all (I think) had Hollywood money in them.

Maybe it's kind of like how, in the history of recordings, the million-sellers (all pop) supported the real music.

As for television, it's been more consistently enjoyable in the past decade than the movies, although thank God it isn't good all three evening hours of every night of every week!

clark

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