Column urges viewers to stay away from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
http://www.independentfilmsdirect.com/c ... w/2148/41/
No to "Indy" and Yes to "Indie"
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Bob Juch
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No to "Indy" and Yes to "Indie"
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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gsabc
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Good for him. Now have his indies make interesting movies that are escapist.
I go to movies for one reason and one reason only. To escape. I don't want deep thinking. I don't want moralizing. I don't even necessarily want good acting. I want a logical plot where people act intelligently to the situations presented and which makes me interested in what happens to them. I want to get away from things going on in the world, not wallow in it or watch actors pretend to. I don't need to spend $12 a head to do that. I can turn on the 6 o'clock news for free.
I'm not a sophisticate, I guess. I've tried renting (cheaper than the theaters) several recent Oscar-winning movies to see what they're like and what all the hoopla was about. I've turned them all off well before the end, either depressed, bored, not giving a rat's ass what happened to any of the characters, or some combination of the three.
It doesn't even have to be completely logical. If it can get me to suspend my disbelief for a while, I'm in. If it's an "idiot plot", where everyone in the movie has to be or behave like an idiot for the story to work at all, I'm gone. If I can lose myself in what's happening on the screen in front of me, I'm there. If new movies, whether Hollywood, Bollywood or independent, doesn't satisfy that, I'll save my money and time. I'll go see Indy IV, Potter VI, Cars III and whatever other sequels may be coming where past performance at least promises future enjoyment.
I go to movies for one reason and one reason only. To escape. I don't want deep thinking. I don't want moralizing. I don't even necessarily want good acting. I want a logical plot where people act intelligently to the situations presented and which makes me interested in what happens to them. I want to get away from things going on in the world, not wallow in it or watch actors pretend to. I don't need to spend $12 a head to do that. I can turn on the 6 o'clock news for free.
I'm not a sophisticate, I guess. I've tried renting (cheaper than the theaters) several recent Oscar-winning movies to see what they're like and what all the hoopla was about. I've turned them all off well before the end, either depressed, bored, not giving a rat's ass what happened to any of the characters, or some combination of the three.
It doesn't even have to be completely logical. If it can get me to suspend my disbelief for a while, I'm in. If it's an "idiot plot", where everyone in the movie has to be or behave like an idiot for the story to work at all, I'm gone. If I can lose myself in what's happening on the screen in front of me, I'm there. If new movies, whether Hollywood, Bollywood or independent, doesn't satisfy that, I'll save my money and time. I'll go see Indy IV, Potter VI, Cars III and whatever other sequels may be coming where past performance at least promises future enjoyment.
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.