Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by RGA (R) on June 16, 2015 at 18:01:27

In Reply to: RE: But it's an instant "classic"!... posted by Awe-d-o-file on June 16, 2015 at 12:00:54

What are you going to the movies for though? Many people don't want to go to a movie to get a dose of real life problems, or history lessons, or to watch someone's inner turmoil. What they go for is to release their brain for 2 hours in the world of candy land.

I usually find the folks who junk all of Hollywood tend to think they're above everyone else in taste or class - well I have an English Lit degree so I have seen the heightened self importance of readers abound. Everyone else is stupid because they like Rock/Pop/Jazz etc music - if they had any taste they would only like Classical music and only like 4 pianists in the history of piano playing and Piano is a superior instrument to all other instruments. And anything written after 1700 is complete trash. Yes there are these people.

The same with movies - the fact that something is in color and is in the English language automatically means it can't be rated higher than a B.

Movies like plays can be summed up in a manner to Aristotle's outline of importance: Plot, Character, Theme, Language, Rhythm, and Spectacle

What is interesting is the the artsy types typically accuse the mainstream of being suckers for spectacle - big loud special effects - although they themselves focus a LOT (indeed most) of their attention on cinematography and various oohs and aahs of camera angles and lighting. But this too is pure spectacle - the lowest form (least important) aspect of theater and by modern times film.