Friday, March 10, 2006
Out of the Frame
Out of the Frame: "Movie ticket receipts in North America dipped by six percent in 2005 to nine billion dollars.
But if George Clooney was right when he said Hollywood should be proud to be out of touch, it’s got more and more to be proud of every year.
I don’t want to pay $9.00 to see a movie because somebody else thought it would be good for me. I buy entertainment from Hollywood, not moral prescriptions, and if Hollywood now thinks its job is to improve my character it can just fuck off.
the harder you try to ‘uplift’ me in either direction, the more I’ll gravitate to the simple thalamic pleasures of gratuitous nudity and big explosions.
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But if George Clooney was right when he said Hollywood should be proud to be out of touch, it’s got more and more to be proud of every year.
I don’t want to pay $9.00 to see a movie because somebody else thought it would be good for me. I buy entertainment from Hollywood, not moral prescriptions, and if Hollywood now thinks its job is to improve my character it can just fuck off.
the harder you try to ‘uplift’ me in either direction, the more I’ll gravitate to the simple thalamic pleasures of gratuitous nudity and big explosions.
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