Oh, good gosh. What a damn snoot, both the actor and the person writing the article. These people would have us watching “The Piano” or “The Hours”, which are, in their view, rich and meaningful movies, but will annihilate the consciousness of any normal people who try to watch them.
But I will say, I see how she comes to the incorrect conclusion, because she simply isn’t paying attention.
I went to watch the 3D Avengers the other night. I found myself enjoying it, and feeling guilty for doing so, since it was the stupidest, most stereotypical, cartoonish movie I had seen in a while. I probably forgot to mention it was highly entertaining, if not dizzying.
When I thought about it afterwards, I wanted to slap my forehead...of COURSE it is stereotypical...of COURSE it is stupid...and most of all, of COURSE it is cartoonish...it was a comic book presenting to us as a movie!
I made the mistake of watching it and thinking I was watching a movie...but it was actually comic book made into a movie. That mindset explained a lot...all the camera angles, the inconsistent moral lessons (as if they would throw a moral lesson into the mix, without full context or interconnection into anything else...as if they threw it in to fill a frame on a comic book page...which is what they did!)
Well, there are plenty of movies out there that will want to go hang yourself. I can’t watch a steady diet of those like these elitist tools would like us to. There is enough of that crap in real life, why watch a movie?
And this guy thinks these things are “dumbing us down”? I guess he gets to make his living by being in stupid movies that dumb us all down, but when he rises high enough, well, that is childish stuff at that point.
I was recently on a flight and tried watching a movie Hollywood and critics were gushing about - Birdman. Un. Freaking. Watchable.
Graphic Novel!
Just kidding. :)