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Why should all movies be dumbed down for the teenager group? If that's pretentious, so be it.
Why should all movies be dumbed down for the teenager group? If that's pretentious, so be it.
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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If you like fluff, you like fluff. If you like movies made for adults, movies that would bore the 8 year old set (as opposed to LOTR and Spider Man), you like movies made for adults.
Nothing "pretentious" about it Asher, just an understanding that there is a qualitative difference between the themes in Chinatown and the themes (such as they were) in Spider Man 2.Comment
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No one said movies have to be dumbed down. But they don't need to be artificially "smart" like the Da Vinci Code was.
I suppose it's nice and hip for the people who don't know much about it, but the "smart" people found it annoyingly inaccurate bull****.
It's a classic example of a pretentious work with pretentious fans without a clue.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Aren't you a rabid Buffy fan?Originally posted by JohnT
If you like fluff, you like fluff.
You're part of the demographic that wants dumbed-down movies and TV. Titanic, for example. Buffy, for example.
I bet you watch Survivor and 24, too."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Didn't have to spend much time thinking about it.Originally posted by Asher
They're $13 here = $10.40USD.
And stealing implies lost revenue. If movies are only downloaded if you have no intention of ever paying $10.40 with a high chance of feeling ripped off, what is lost?
Think about it.
The lost revenue comes from lost rentals, from when the movie is released on DVD, VHS. If you're not paying $10.40 at the theater to see Action Asher, then you might be willing to pay $4.00 to see it at Blockbuster. Or pay ~$30 for HBO. Or watch it on commercial TV.
If you steal the damned thing, then you aren't going to pay for it at all as it makes its way through the various supply chains.Comment
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then you watch French films. Problem solved!Originally posted by JohnT
If you like fluff, you like fluff. If you like movies made for adults, movies that would bore the 8 year old set (as opposed to LOTR and Spider Man),
"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
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The Da Vinci code is a piece of pop-culture bull**** with idiots as its fanbase. Anybody who claims its pretentious, or that its audience is pretentious, really needs to stop bringing up examples that they don't understand.Originally posted by Asher
No one said movies have to be dumbed down. But they don't need to be artificially "smart" like the Da Vinci Code was.
I suppose it's nice and hip for the people who don't know much about it, but the "smart" people found it annoyingly inaccurate bull****.
It's a classic example of a pretentious work with pretentious fans without a clue.
Asher.Comment
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Oh no! Asher thinks all he doesn't like is beneath contempt!!! Whatsoever shall we do???????Originally posted by Asher
Aren't you a rabid Buffy fan?
You're part of the demographic that wants dumbed-down movies and TV. Titanic, for example. Buffy, for example.
I bet you watch Survivor and 24, too.Comment
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Actually, an example of that would be Sideways.Originally posted by Asher
It's a classic example of a pretentious work with pretentious fans without a clue.
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The Da Vinci Code? Pretentious?Originally posted by Asher
No one said movies have to be dumbed down. But they don't need to be artificially "smart" like the Da Vinci Code was.
I suppose it's nice and hip for the people who don't know much about it, but the "smart" people found it annoyingly inaccurate bull****.
It's a classic example of a pretentious work with pretentious fans without a clue.
Next you'll be telling me Steven King is pretentious!“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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I agree it's a piece of pop-culture bull**** with idiots as its fanbase, but so is Titanic and Buffy.Originally posted by JohnT
The Da Vinci code is a piece of pop-culture bull**** with idiots as its fanbase. Anybody who claims its pretentious, or that its audience is pretentious, really needs to stop bringing up examples that they don't understand.
Asher.
Da Vinci Code was supposed to be intelligent and original, and it's neither. That's my point. It is pretentious because it tries to be clever, but it's not.
Maybe some people here need to understand what's being said before replying.
JohnT..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Nope, nope, and nope...Originally posted by JohnT
Didn't have to spend much time thinking about it.
The lost revenue comes from lost rentals, from when the movie is released on DVD, VHS. If you're not paying $10.40 at the theater to see Action Asher, then you might be willing to pay $4.00 to see it at Blockbuster. Or pay ~$30 for HBO. Or watch it on commercial TV.
If I have no intention of going to the theatre to see it, nor to rent it, nor to subscribe to crap like HBO...where is the lost revenue?If you steal the damned thing, then you aren't going to pay for it at all as it makes its way through the various supply chains.
'cause I'm not seeing it."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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I'm just saying it cracks me up that you are moaning about the lack of "adult" entertainment when you're notoriously a Buffy and Titanic fanatic.Originally posted by JohnT
Oh no! Asher thinks all he doesn't like is beneath contempt!!! Whatsoever shall we do???????
You're clearly part of the problem..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Da Vinci Code was supposed to be intelligent and original, and it's neither. That's my point. It is pretentious because it tries to be clever, but it's not.
What?!! The Da Vinci Code is unabashed pop culture. It's a trashy novel with its background being some crazy conspiracy about the Catholic Church. Most novels like that end up mostly being read while people take in some sun at the beach (ie, trashy beach novels). The fact that it's super popular and some uber-atheists believe in the conspiracy doesn't change its character.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Anyone who was really honest with themselves would admit that they have certain classes of films:
1) Films they would pay to see in the theater
2) Films they would pay to rent
3) HBO or some other premium cable service they pay for that films sometimes show up on
4) Films they would completely ignore
The number of people who have only category 1 and 4 are vanishingly small. For everyone else, category 2 and perhaps 3 would result in a loss of revenue if they pirated those films instead.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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