03-01-2014, 07:04 AM
Lol....I watched twin peaks on a vhs boxset I think...I didnt have tv growing up in Africa so missed most things until I turned 18 and left. :)
Yep, I agree with you about the tier thing to some degree. I'm not saying I can't enjoy well made "low brow" movies...I grew up in the 80s, I can tolerate and enjoy a lot of cheese too. I just can't tolerate poorly made crap that make millions of dollars because they make me feel somehow stupider as a human being...like if aliens showed up, I'd have to excuse the bulk of humanity's poor taste in movies. Granted not everything that makes a lot of money is bad. I definitely look more to other places for decent fare. The french have a wonderful little industry that produces really great movies, then of course the old gold masterpieces, and arthouse and indie stuff.
I refuse to pay money any more to keep getting fed Hollywood's studio financiers idea of what the audience wants. By doing so we just perpetuate the crap by rewarding it. I'm sure there are lots of great movie makers in the mire, but they can't get their stuff out past all the shlock. Then again there is always a rising suspicicion in my mind that shlock is actually what people like in the States more than other places because of the local audience's general ignorance of the wider world and so it gets beamed out to the rest of us as well....the scary thing for me is that we seem on masse to lap it up too.
Yep, I agree with you about the tier thing to some degree. I'm not saying I can't enjoy well made "low brow" movies...I grew up in the 80s, I can tolerate and enjoy a lot of cheese too. I just can't tolerate poorly made crap that make millions of dollars because they make me feel somehow stupider as a human being...like if aliens showed up, I'd have to excuse the bulk of humanity's poor taste in movies. Granted not everything that makes a lot of money is bad. I definitely look more to other places for decent fare. The french have a wonderful little industry that produces really great movies, then of course the old gold masterpieces, and arthouse and indie stuff.
I refuse to pay money any more to keep getting fed Hollywood's studio financiers idea of what the audience wants. By doing so we just perpetuate the crap by rewarding it. I'm sure there are lots of great movie makers in the mire, but they can't get their stuff out past all the shlock. Then again there is always a rising suspicicion in my mind that shlock is actually what people like in the States more than other places because of the local audience's general ignorance of the wider world and so it gets beamed out to the rest of us as well....the scary thing for me is that we seem on masse to lap it up too.