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JustAnotherGen

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13. I think it was always bad
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 03:20 PM
Oct 2014

In the 1920's we had so much 'real life' on the screen. Then enter the Hays Codes. And a 38 year studio system of 'secrets' and power plays comes about. And then the American New Wave is set free (think Wild Bunch, Midnight Cowboy - maybe even Bonnie and Clyde were the start) and we moved into down and dirty pictures. Then we have Don Simpson and his 'high concept'.

Thank god - God is gonna get me for this - for the Weinsteins, Sundance, and Sex Lies and Video Tape - because if not -

We never would have had something like Thelma and Louise to hold on to.

But somewhere in all of it - there are a lot of used and abused souls that have been thrown away.

And we buy it. Or we don't. I'll never see a Michael Bay film. To me - he's one of the worst of the worst out there. It's the line I draw. I can't 'see everything' as a consumer - but if I 'know' - I don't go.

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