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Posted by petew on June 14, 1999 at 18:26:15

In Reply to: Some good movies to recommend posted by Victor Khomenko on June 12, 1999 at 07:29:31:

Regal just opened a 24-screen movie house about a mile from my home. What do you think I can see there? How about 20 showings of Star Wars and 4 showings of similar 13-year-old sex and violence movies. I haven't been yet, but my neighbor has and he tells me the screens are small, the volume astonishingly loud--to the point that many were stuffing popcorn napkins in their ears, the picture good, but not great, and the sound bleed-thru from the show next door distracting.

The blockbusters and their ilk here in the 'burbs advertise they carry 50,000 titles: yea, they have 20,000 copies of Rocky XXXIX, 18,000 of Batman, 32,000 copies of some Segal movies and --of course, some airobic work-out tapes (soft porn).

Victor, do you rent tape, go to the city to the "art cinema", or rent DVD? Do you do it thru the mail? Can you tell us where to get such good fare?

I haven't bought a DVD because I fear there's nothing I want to buy and see more than a couple of times, maybe, but hey--if you can rent thru the mail a DVD with titles such as you've mentioned--clue me in! I love foreign film. When you watch them enough times you don't even see the subtitles. My fear is the Americanization of the world will slowly force all filmakers to stop surprising/challanging us. In a few years the only films made around the world will be for the 13-year-old boy market. Every film has a predictable happy ending, you can see it comming in the first frame. Some guns appear, big explosions, hero boy gets his ass kicked, naked girl with the wrong crowd, hero boy kicks ass, car chase/crash, more explosions, everybody gets laid. roll credits. buy soundtrack.buy action figures. Hey, that sounds like Henry V ! Now that was a good teenage boy flick! Is that on DVD?

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