Jun 18 2008
Dumbing down a nation with pretty colors
“Say hello to my little friend!” There are those among us who have never seen 1983’s Scarface, but most people can at least recognize that this quote came from the movie. On the other hand, “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.”, how many of us are able to say where this quote came from? Hollywood cranks out movies, week after week and month after month, but at what cost?
It’s evident that the movie industry is a multibillion dollar business, but where is the substance? The money generated from the majority of the movies we watch come at the expense of our own intelligence. In 2006, two movies based on true stories, Akeelah and the Bee and Take the Lead both came out in April and together grossed $53,590,496 in the U.S. One month earlier, Ice Age: the Meltdown grossed $195,330,621 while a month later, Mission Impossible 3 grossed $134,029,801. Now it’s contrary to think that it was the actors that had something to do with poor sales because A Mighty Heart, the true story of Mariane Pearl, the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl grossed only $9,176,787. Now take into consideration that Tomb Raider: the Cradle of Life grossed $65,660,196 and both movies had Angelina Jolie as the main character. Basically, no matter how well you dance or spell, you’re only entertaining if you’re animated and no matter how good you look, you need a gun in your hand to make the movie sell.
You’re hard pressed to find an intelligent movie, let alone a true story that is considered a blockbuster by Hollywood’s standards, but who is to blame for the technicolor ruin that is Tinseltown? Is is the greedy studio executive, the producer, or maybe the director….no, the villain here is the guy who wrote this article and everyone who’s reading it. Resident Evil: Extinction and the 239th Land Before Time were both able to come out because we spent the money on their predecessors. Yes, I am happy to say there is a solution to end the lack of creativity and intelligence in Hollywood. You can do it today and it will cost you absolutely NOTHING! Simply put, if you don’t watch it, they won’t make it.
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I understand where you are coming from with your commentary, but truth be told . . . .I shelled out some of my hard earned cashj for a few of those movies on your list. I like the movies. I like sitting in a dark theatre and losing myself in the make believe world of other people. It is my escape and after a week of working under sometimes hostile conditions . .. I deserve that escape.
I will say that the price of a movie keeps going up and it is making me less inclined to part with my coin. Before long . . .movie going will be a rich man’s luxury . . . .