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Originally posted by Samueul:
Does anybody not see movies anymore for the sheer enjoyment of letting the "everyday" slide into the backround for a couple of hours? Geez guys, I liked Battlefield Earth... Movies were created to take you away from the everyday grind of reality... I'll watch anything from an old B movie to Godzilla, to anime to pretty much anything else.... Do I like "deep" movies, sure, Trainspotting was a great movie, but do I want to be reminded of the tragedies of life etc... not all the time, so a mindless movie filled with philisophical drivel is excellent fodder for my senses.....

Crouching Tiger could have stood on it's own without any action scenes at all. The story itself was excellent.
Yes, they are fun.

And I wouldn't mind spending $3, maybe $4 for a little mindless summer fun for a couple hours.

But after $15 for tix, $4.50 for popcorn, $6.00 for two medium sodas, and a theater full of little shits who can't, or won't, turn off the cell-phones and pagers, I'm now broke and frustrated as I spend two hours watching the same movie a second time, with great special effects, that does not transport me anywhere. Instead, I sit there, fuming, for two hours about how bad the writing is, how pedestrian the plot is, and about how gullible and addle-brained the studios think (or maybe know?) I am . . .

George Lucas still owes me $8.00 and two hours of my life back for "Phantom Menace" . . .

BTW, Samueul . . . you thought Trainspotting was "deep"?

[Freak]
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