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No to "Indy" and Yes to "Indie"
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:05 am
by Bob Juch
Column urges viewers to stay away from
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
http://www.independentfilmsdirect.com/c ... w/2148/41/
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:52 am
by gsabc
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.