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To: discostu
A distinction between Art and Fun? Come on! These days people seem to think that anything not aimed at a Juvenile audience is an ‘Art Film’. If ‘The Godfather’ were released today it would be play at Repertory Theaters and be more of a cult thing as opposed to the huge populist success that it was in 1972.
45 posted on 03/25/2010 9:41:44 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

There is a distinction between art and fun. And there’s nothing wrong with having that distinction. Godfather isn’t really at the level of art film I’m thinking of. It’s really those oddball foreign movies and ones similar. Stuff that winds up on the second “page” at Rotten Tomatoes, Sundance favorites and such, critics tend to LOVE those movies while the majority of the general populace doesn’t even know where to find the theaters that show them. Meanwhile most critics, except Ebert, won’t even watch Russ Meyer or Roger Corman movies, movies that can be a hell of a lot of fun, but no one will ever mistake them for art.


46 posted on 03/25/2010 9:50:00 AM PDT by discostu (wanted: brick, must be thick and well kept)
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