> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bobby Greer [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 8:44 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Movies
>
> 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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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