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Date: | Mon, 6 Dec 1999 08:44:27 -0500 |
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Anee,
I agree with you completely. Hollywood targets the young, slick
audiences who appreciate the sex, violence and profanity. I am not a total
prude, I will watch it, but Hollywood overdoes it. I watched "Tuesday with
Morrie" last night. It was wonderful!! But Hollywood is out to make a buck.
That's it.
Bobby
>Hi All-
>
>This is not at all on topic but last night I went to block buster to rent a
>movie--you know just to have some fun that night snuggled up on the couch and
>so forth.
>
>I chose Good Will Hunting. I had heard that it was a good movie and that it
>won a bunch of Academy Awards so I thought why not give it a go.
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>Well the story it was attempting to tell was good but the moive was
>compleetly ruined by sex and most of all by language to the extent of a dirty
>word being uttered every other word spoken! It almost made the movie
>impossible to watch. I think that the overuse of violence, sex, and language
>is a big problem in hollywood today. Like I said I found the story very
>enjoyable but the experience was ruined by the language.
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>I wonder why hollywoood continues to use these tactics. Making movies more
>and more offfensive to we the people. Wether it be steroetyping of the
>disabled or language or sex or what ever it has just continued to go over the
>edge. Now I belive as I think I said yesterday that some jokes about any
>group are ok and I will continue to go with that--like I said a cupple of
>years ago some how I just can't get upset about the sterotyping that was a
>part of the Hunchback of Noter Dame--if we can't sometimes laugh at our
>selves than we have no right to laugh at others when they are the subjects of
>the joke--and if we all followed that rule then there would be no laughter in
>the world and what a sad world that would be. But what gets my goat--to use
>an old expression--is the extent to wich moviemakers are taking some of this
>stuff (the jokes, sterotyping, sex, violence, and language)...
>
>I meen I don;t see why Austin Powers got such a large audience when even the
>commercials for it make me gag! I think why do people want to see this
>stuff? It's gross! Is the attrachtion: that it is gross? Same thing with
>Adam Sandler's Big Daddy movie--the comercials alone were enough to turn me
>off.
>
>I don;t know I am not one of those types like my mother and grandmother who
>look for the deeper meaning in movies--I watch strictly for
>entertainment--but I am not entertained by many of these movies that come out
>now--I am offended--not because I am disabled--but becasue I am human!
>
>Just a little commentary for you all,
>
>Anee
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