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Re: Well, well... Mr. Stickler, while you are getting me on a technicality, I get you on substance

Language is important. Write what you mean. Do not write in vagaries and then expect the reader to intuit what you meant. Perhaps doing so requires more words, but the trade off is that the reader understands your point. You use inexact and vague words to express your opinion, and then blame the reader for not "reading between the lines."

Here is the point: You and Tin bash Hollywood for what it produces. If you reread Tin's original post, and my response, I agreed with his general observations, though I disagreed with the value judgment he made of the observation. You, like a crappie gulping down a minnow, entered the fray with more bashing of Hollywood. I fairly presume you post inviting responses. So I respond that one area of cinema where Hollywood still leads foreign cinema is in their productions for children.

Which, of course, is not to say that Foreign cinema does not produce children's films, as I recently posted on Children of Heaven, a very good children's film from Iran. When you bashed Hollywood films, you did not limit your critism to adult fare. Children's fare being part of Hollywood's output, it was fair for me to draw the conversation to those films. Had you limited your comments to "adult" films from Hollywood, we would not be corresponding about its children's films.

So I write about two such films, which you respond are made for "morons", which include children the world over (I wonder where Patrick is with his complaints about personal attacks), and then claim that there are "no small amount" of children's films making their rounds in Europe. I am not sure why you feel it necessary to call as "morons" children who enjoy those films.

Of course, you fail to name one single such foreign film, which makes your very generalized statement valueless. Second, although you try to backtrack on your "morons" statement, you insult those who like those types of films as being "morons", so I proffer one such person who clearly enjoyed at least one such film, and you fail to respond.

You also fail to respond to the argument that Hollywood still produces better children's films than the rest of the world. Rather than admit that Hollywood produces better children's films almost by default, your retort was to make up a statement that they produce "no small number" of such films.

Why would you make up such statements? Why would you call as "morons" all the people, including Clark, who enjoy such films? I posit these statements are of a person who is pre-disposed to bash Hollywood, particularly in light of the un-rebutted statement, with specifics, that Hollywood produces generally better children's films than the rest of the World. You simply say no, without providing examples.

Rather than admit that there is one area where Hollywood outproduces foreign cinema, your ego drives you to make false claims. Making things up is usually not a good sign of reliability. You win on substance? Provide me the names of the "no small amount" of European films for children. That would be substance. Really, the web has brought the world into our offices. I would think for a man of your advanced intellect and culture, proving your point with facts rather than conjecture would be important to you.


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