I've seen all of them escept two! Can I have, like, gold stars or something? Oh, Jaffas!
Seriously, the dominance of "family" rated movies here really matters to markets and marketing and while the relation between ratings, marketing and production are a really complex question that's not even touched on in this list one of the reasons I would have seen many of these movies is because they are pitched as fantasy accessible to children. And children are now a crucial movie audience category for gaining the kind of dollars at stake in this list.
C
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Doug Henwood Sent: Wed 18/11/2009 09:06 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] why movies suck
On Nov 17, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> It's essence is that one shows superiority to the vulgar mob by what
> one can superciliously sneer at rather than by what one finds
> admirable.
> The prbolem with the latter is aby approving of any new poem,
> building,
> or musical composition one becomes vulnerable to the sneers of others
> with even higher standards. It is sort of a race to find more things
> to
> sneer at than your slightly less agile neighbor.
By the way, Carrol, how many of those movies have you seen? Of course you probably won't answer, but I thought it was worth a try anyway.
Oh, and you don't think that profit maximization has any deleterious effects on culture? Or does your usual railing about rampant barbarism exempt culture from its critique?
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