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Anee Stanford <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
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Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:42:37 EST
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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

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