Posted on 07/03/2008 12:21:50 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Hollywood goes with what works and, let's face it, there are a few things audiences like to see again and again in their movies. The underdog wins big, the loser gets his dream girl, Batman is awesome, etc.
But there are some themes that are either so wrong, stupid or harmful that they need to be retired once and for all. Such as ...
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Along with life lessons we have the movie cliches like every bomb will have a huge digital readout counting down to zero, and the resulting explosion will chase you down a narrow hall way.
6. The American military is full of corrupt, insane generals who want to kill everyone.
8. Prostitutes actually all have hearts of gold .
However, it made no mention of why "In The Valley of Elah," "Lions for Lambs," and other similar garbage is detrimental to our National Security.
PS... Bullet 4 is especially relevant to the rampant narcissism in today's public schools. The mantra of "everyone is a winner" is echoed in the classroom, and reinforced through cinema.
Someone once posted here about hearing a group of schoolkids singing,
"I am special, I am special, look at me, look at me!"
Such egocentric nonsense will yield some tremendously broken spirits once these kids realize how expendable/disposable they are in the real world.
Hollywood plays up this false sense of reality by the individual making some amazing accomplishments in exchange for doing next to nothing.
You beat me to it!
I agree.
What happened to #7?
Or more accurately, the remake of that Yankees movie
GETREAL
And Nuclear Bombs are very complicated... yet somehow they can be opened up in minutes with common tools. On the bomb there is always a digital LED counting the seconds down to detonation. And somehow it always comes down to whether you cut the red or the black wire.
Oddly, the first countdown was in a movie. Lang’s Woman in the Moon. It was later adopted by scientists...
That is intriguing and could lead off off into a stimulating thread upon its own. Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita.
I think.., not there is anything wrong with that.., the scientists adopted that for their own.
don’t forget either that shooting a can of fuel will automatically cause a huge explosion.
I deployed my hidden, secret powers years ago. Now I’m homeless and sick. WTF?
jk
"The Incredibles" is a rare movie that plays against the stereotype of "everyone is a winner". Its a great animation too!
“Prostitutes actually all have hearts of gold .”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I met a gal from Venus
her insides were lined with gold
she did what she did
said how was it kid
she was politely told
pretty good not bad I can’t complain
but actually
everything is just about the same
with apologies to John Prine who is left of me politically but is the world’s most amazing lyric writer
Michael Caine once said “If a whore had a heart of gold, she’d sell it”.
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