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To: Borges

I don't like watching trash, gratituous violence, and other junk so what I see at the theater is limited. I really enjoyed "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Incredibles," the latter of which was nominated for Best of in appropriate categories.

My other remark was meant to indicate that hollywood most often these days promotes and rewards trash, junk, meaningless death, no morals, yada yada yada, the lowest common denominators. That is their myopia. They have lost their ability to lift their eyes and get out of the hole they dug for themselves a few decades back. They need to come up and "breathe the free air again."


322 posted on 01/25/2005 12:49:17 PM PST by GretchenM (It remains to be seen what God will do through a person who gives Him all the glory.)
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To: GretchenM

If your complaint is rewarding 'lowest common denominator' you should be happy this year since the Best Picture nominees were not 'big' mass marketing films by any means. There are good movies all the time you just have to look for them.


324 posted on 01/25/2005 12:51:06 PM PST by Borges
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To: GretchenM

RE: "I don't like watching trash, gratituous violence, and other junk so what I see at the theater is limited."


Don't go there. One person's trash is another's treasure, and that is never more evident than in the movies. My grampa, for instance, used to consider practically any movie featuring sex or nudity to be "trash", whereas I view some movies that are comparatively "clean" but utterly useless and offensive to the intellect (like "Christmas With the Kranks") as trash.


334 posted on 01/25/2005 1:08:14 PM PST by RockAgainsttheLeft04 (Chaos is great. Chaos is what killed the dinosaurs, darling. -- from Heathers (1989))
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