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if somebody could once and for all please splain me
- why the american "high-end" movie experience of today must include having one's eardrums virtually blasted outta one's skull; and
- why the makers of the american movies of today can't lend even a fraction of the intelligence, imagination and virtuosity employed in the execution of the special effects to the writing of a script that doesn't have holes you could crash a goddam train through
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Well, if you had paid $1 for it from Red Box and saw the movie on your TV, would you feel less taken advantage of?
The secret of the moviegoing public is that it is very young and male, so most movies are aimed at the core audience: 14 year old boys.
So, there's your answer.
Of course, that does not explain why "The King's Speech" won the Oscar for supposedly being the best film of 2010. That was drivel, but adult drivel.
It wouldn't have anything to do with the abandonment of arts education in our schools, the insidious anti-intellectual campaign of the Republicans to brand anything to do with the arts or even a decent education as "elitist," or the fact that American parents are now largely content to raise a nation of oafs, would it?
Of course, noblesavage makes the excellent point of the movies being pegged to the 14 year old male audience, a demographic not noted for its urbanity or sophistication, that gets off on gratuitous explosions, violence, and destruction of property at rock concert volume levels.
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