> -----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