In Reply to: Re: Back to the future posted by patrickU on October 5, 2002 at 00:09:19:
In all of it's glorious, absurd, capitalist vulgarity, the film series succeeds because we can't help but be entertained by it all!Which is more one can say, sometimes, about some Art-sy Fart-sy PURRRRRRRRRE cinema, of great pithy renown, which I can think of.
I mean...how many long, turgid, borrrrrrring "cinema masterpieces", can one take ? For me there is a limit.
For every "Aguirre...Wrath of God" that I view and, especially, purchase, I have contribute to the national economy, and pick up a Junk Film, that's not quite "junk", but a film that has to be enjoyed on a purely visceral level.
That's why Ed Wood, Roger Corman, The Japanese "Godzilla" series, "Grand Theft Auto", Jackie Chan, and John Waters were "created"...to be enjoyed not agonized-analyzed to Death, right ?
Ever hear of the expression..."it's so bad, it's good". That's what I mean!
Come on...be truthful...what are YOUR guilty pleasures in Film ?
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