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Through my wife fumes I smell a confusion... it is tin, not Tin!

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on January 17, 2007 at 17:48:36

In Reply to: Re: I see you still do not understand posted by jamesgarvin on January 17, 2007 at 16:22:45:

Your first paragraph simply states the viewpoint, not fact, which is fine with me. How does one make a judgement which country produces higher percentage of good films? Strictly speaking that is impossible. We all do it by sense, by feel. For instance, every time I go to Russia I sample their films. Much of them are pure trash, yet my gut feel, not based in any hard numbers, is telling me the percentage of those deserving my attention is higher than in the US.

Patrick has good handle on French and German crap, living there, so you might want to ask his impression... he is a very objective guy.

Notice, none of us really has a dog in that fight - none of us stands to gain anything from our conclusions, we all just state as we see it, including you.

When I watch films I do not watch a Hollywood film, a French one... it is later, when I think about it, I put it in a bin. I do see a very large number of US films, so I am quite aware of what's going on here. The Pirates satisfied my hunger for killing two hours, I'll be frank with you. Except for the scenes in the sword shop the rest was a big snoozer for me, but I will give you that - something might be wrong with me, not the movie.

I see you took my morons statement extremely personally... I would need to re-read it again, but surely what I mean by those were the mindless hordes of idiots watching the horrible, horrible films and liking them, not someone like you... not that I need to earn your love, really. I do watch many such films on my cable, just to know what's happening there, and I stand by my word - only morons would go and pay for many of them. And I actually have enjoyed many Hollywood movies - they are always extremely professionally made and many serve as good fun viewing. I usually not post on them because I think this forum should be mostly about a bit more unusual, unique, interesting, funny. I must have seen Die Hard ten times or more, but I see no reason to post on it.

But we are making circles producing no new ideas. It interests me, however, to dig deeper into your rather inriguing statement about the adultorous French films. I would like to know what caused you to make that statement.

In general, it is not the nature of event itself that we should find objectionable, but rather the gratuitous nature of its employment. Adultery - or I would rather call it love affairs, falling in love, etc. - is a part of our lives. It is something that always produces strong emotions. And when I mentally look at many French films that I love, it doesn't seem to be present there in any gratuitous form.

However, the fact primitive sex and violence do figure very prominently in American films hardly needs any proof, and yet you let it slide for some reason.

I would submit to you that your children are hurt much harder by watching the endless parade of idiots and deviants outdoing each other in mutilation and brutal sex than by observing Depardieu falling in love with his neighbor.

Are you sure you have your priorities in right places?

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