In Reply to: It is all entropy... posted by Victor Khomenko on November 24, 1999 at 04:57:18:
I'm no prude and I've been know to cuss, sometimes frequently (most frequently when designing with a computer - plotters are truly evil, possessed devices), and occasionally the only rational response to some people is f* you, but for the most part I find cussing in movies to be gratuitous and a substitution for having to actually come up with intelligent dialog."Every once in a while there is a good new one too."
I don't see that many new movies. Usually see them after they are 2 or 3 years old. Of the movies I consider to be above average that I've seen in the last 3-4 years, only one of them has much cussing in them. To wit: Titantic, Braveheart, Apollo 13. Braveheart is one of only 3 or 4 movies I have on tape and will repeat watch. The fourth movie that springs to mind is older and every other word is a cuss word. "Fear of a Black Hat". A truly funny, low budget flick that parodies the parody "This is Final Tap". Note "Fear" is not a chick flick. Fear is a supposed documentary that follows a rap group on tour. In this context the cussing is sorta realistic as opposed to gratuitous.
If you want to really see an abuse of language watch "Hoffa" sometime. Being a Nicholson fan and a DeVito fan and from a blue collar, union family from Detroit, I was really interested in this movie. There was so much swearing in it I actually was embarrassed and ultimately bored by it.
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Follow Ups
- Re: It is all entropy... - MikeP 05:43:55 11/24/99 (4)
- Back to Social Realism? - Victor Khomenko 06:27:12 11/24/99 (3)
- Re: Back to Social Realism? - MikeP 07:06:13 11/24/99 (2)
- Should that be Socialist Realism, perhaps? - Victor Khomenko 07:17:34 11/24/99 (1)
- understand now (nt) - MikeP 07:50:16 11/24/99 (0)