[Borges]

American films are one of this country's greatest cultural achievements. Readily able to be put beside American Literature or American music. There's good and bad in any profession. And at any given time the bad and mediocre outnumbers the good. that's just the way it is. From my experience most people who say what you say 1. Don't regard film making as an art form. and 2. Don't go to many movies.

[Jan171781]

I agree that movies can be an art form.

"Gone with the Wind", "The Ten Commandments", "The Last of the Mohegans", "Glory", "The Mask of Zorro", "Saving Private Ryan", "Band of Brothers", "The Last Samurai", "High Noon", "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", "Master and Commander" are some of my favorites.

But the pure sex and violence flicks or movies like "Silence of the Lambs", "Halloween 7", etc. - garbage.