Posted on 05/19/2015 1:47:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
“Now we’re essentially all consuming very childish things – comic books, superheroes. Adults are watching this stuff, and taking it seriously!
“It is a kind of dumbing down in a way, because it’s taking our focus away from real-world issues.”
“Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we’re walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
He’s right, we shouldn’t take 2 hours 3 times a year to relax and be entertained...
LEAVE MY ENTERTAINMENT ALONE! What I choose to do is my own d@mn business.
When I WANT to worry about real world issues, I will. Myself.
Don’t need some other guy telling me what to think and do.
It is definitely a “Thinker” near Future Sci Fi
As opposed to his movies such as ‘Shaun of the Dead’, a
zombie comedy.
Big issue is the lack of major studio films for adults. ‘The Godfather’, ‘Patton’, ‘Chinatown’, those type films are MIA. For the most part you have either summer blockbuster films full of CGI action, or you have the ‘small’ indie films for grownups. I don’t get to the movies much, but ‘Rush’ (Ron Howard) was the last really good film for grownups I saw (meaning good drama, good screenplay and good acting along with some action scenes).
He’s 40 and quit drinking, so he can tell you what to do...understand?
Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we’re walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.”
There certainly should be room for both in TV and movies, room for serious movies and TV shows which deal with important issues, as well as robot fights and special effects. And let us viewers decide what we are in the mood for.
I would just take issue that those movies and TV shows which do attempt to deal with issues, invariably end up pushing homosexuality or liberal views of whatever issue is discussed.
Well probably not.
American adults for a large part are pretty dumb already.
After all they elected Barak Obama President of the United States and then having seen what the man is capable of, elected him again.
I wish I had quit drinking when I turned 40.
I just did, you still going?
Shaun of the Dead?
That abortion known as “Faux Trek” that Pegg was in was about as bad as they come with “dumbed down.”
No it’s called propaganda. ‘Entertainment’ was co-opted for the cause long ago. I challenge anyone to find any average movie or TV show not heavily laden with left wing programming.
And now, having thoroughly absorbed TV and Hollywood, they are going after the net and video games where some semblance of old school thinking survives.
I started a rant on superhero movies being popular because they were the only game in town that didn’t have some leftist scum ideology attached. But then I read the article and the movies he misses are ones like “The Godfather” and “The French Connection.” He is dancing around an idea that I and others on FR put forth that we are heading towards Mike Judge’s dystopian “Idiocracy” where Michael Bay’s 3 hour explosion-fest is the height of cinema and movies like “Twelve Angry Men” go unwatched.
Obola voters cannot understand or have the attention span for anything else.
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