Films/DVD Asylum

Certainly not but, it was entertaining.

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Wendell Narrod

In Reply to: RE: Is "Titanic" great art, too? And that Terminator film of Cameron's? nt posted by tinear on January 07, 2010 at 08:05:29

Films can simply be enjoyable without promising or delivering anything deeper. Sometimes, art and entertainment mesh and that is really special.

Too many films that have been highly recommended to me, as art, have bored me to tears. I accept I have rather pedestrian tastes. I can live with that.

-Wendell

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RE: Certainly not but, it was entertaining. - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 09:33:22 01/08/10 (0)
"Films can simply be enjoyable without promising or delivering anything deeper. Sometimes, art and entertainment mesh and that is really special.

Too many films that have been highly recommended to me, as art, have bored me to tears. I accept I have rather pedestrian tastes. I can live with that."

Totally agree, and personally I find many 'serious' films - usually with subtitles - far too pretentious, with self-indulgent writing designed to garner critical acclaim from intellectual snobs who can't see through the emporer's new clothes.

When a film is low budget and aimed at pseudo-intellectuals, it doesn't matter how dull, predictable, cliched or unrealistic it is, it's a 'serious' film, not Hollywood crap, and anyone who can't appreciate it simply doesn't understand.

I say bollocks.

I've had 'Super Whopper' meals that have provided far more enjoyment than meals I've had in what were supposed to be the best restaurants, but I've also had crap, luke-warm 'Super Dooper Wham Bang' meals and amazing culinary offerings from restaurants well deserved of their reputation.

It is possible to enjoy a pizza, an Indian, a Big-Mac, a hot-dog while also appreciating a four course lunch at a five star restaurant.

Avatar was about one thing and one thing only; entertainment, for the whole family, and everybody in the cinema I attended - whose comments I heard - thought the experience was fantastic.

If anyone's going to watch this film with his critics hat on I could probably write his opinion down here now and save him the price of admission.

"...story is predictable Hollywood, cliched and we know the end after ten minutes of the film - the American hero will lead the alien people to victory against the odds and will get the girl - a story which could have been written by a ten year old.....characters have no depth... it is Pocahontas re-write......."

Go to the cinema with a critical attitude and you'll find plenty to criticise in what is basically a tried and tested formula which the public are lapping up in their millions, and for some, popular is bad.

I'd say that once you've seen the start of the film, the end will be no surprise so why not just enjoy the journey and the wonderful scenery?

Today is a gift - that's why it's called the Present.

Best Regards,
Chris Redmond.

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