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To: Borges

No. We don’t go to movies very often. I’ve heard True Grit was very good, as was The King’s Speech. We’ll rent the movies we want to see, but honestly, I have a hard time paying dearly to be in a darkened room with strangers (who are usually talking) listening to a constant stream of profanity (in the theater and on screen) while watching gratuitous sex and violence that has little or nothing to do with the plot, if there even IS a plot. I think Ironman was the last movie I saw in a theater. Before that, Serenity (or maybe it was the other way around, I don’t remember).

We try our best not to support actors and actresses who are anti-every value we hold. If you’re a movie buff, you’re going to argue with me that I should see the movies before I make any decisions about them, that the actors politics shouldn’t make a difference - it does, though. It is our small way of making a statement to Hollywood. If more people would do it, they might get the message.

Besides, I’d rather read a book. So much of the story is lost in the movies.


67 posted on 02/28/2011 10:09:36 AM PST by stansblugrassgrl (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!! YEEEEEHAW!)
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To: stansblugrassgrl
It's a hugely variegated industry now so you aren't really making a statement to some monolithic factory like it was in the 1940s.
68 posted on 02/28/2011 10:11:42 AM PST by Borges
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