Conference bookie::movies

    
    	Rule #1:  Sex sells.
    	Rule #2:  Violence sells.
    	Rule #3:  The bad guys always lose.
    
    	Rule #4:  There is no rule #4.
    

    Siskel & Ebert did a show, heck probably LOTS of shows, along these
    themes. Their point in the show I remember is that the demographics
    of movies are such that teenagers are the big target audience. They
    like the bodies blowing up, etc., that adults often find gratuitous.
    
    They're the big target because they will watch the same movie over 
    and over, something adults restrict to Rocky Horror and a few personal
    favorites. The studios don't much care whether the admissions are repeats
    or new viewers.
    
    Here's the deal: in a few years we'll have an ENTIRELY NEW crop of
    teenagers, who like their predecessors will get a kick out of the
    gross and tasteless. Their predecessors will see fewer movies and
    more nightclub acts, and will no longer watch movies multiple times.
    But the new kids will, and the studios are determined to give them
    what they will pay for. So what if YOU have seen it before? You're not
    the market they're after.
    
      John

  It's not all that bad. I didn't see many movies this year for one reason or
another but I saw "Star Trek Generations" and Ann Rice's Vampire move and I
liked them both a lot. I saw Little Women and it was ok. 

  As for earlier films can't say I ever saw a movie quite like Schindler's
list. Had it's flaws but it was still quite an experience. Breaker Morant was a
war movie I'll never forget, same with Das Boat. And just last night I saw
Silence of the Lambs for the 2nd time on commercial TV. Ok it was a bit
irritating seeing the movie hacked up worse than Hannible Lector's victims but
still the acting from Jodie Foster and Antony Hopkins was awsome ("and did the
lambs stop screaming").

  Movies, granted you have to be a bit selective but they are still one of the
great experiences of our time. 

  George 

    
    	I agree... it just depends on what you make your diet of.

    	I enjoy many of the smaller avant-garde films seen at artistic
    	movie-houses.  Hollywood films have less of a hit percentage, but
    	even there I can find good choices. 

    	And of course I could live forever on Merchant/Ivory films, even
    	if they were up to "Maurice in a Room With a View at Howards End 
    	- Part 55"... :-) 

	-Erik

    
    
    Now your talking people: 20% Of films today are good, the rest
    are crap, video rentals, tv. etc...
    thats why I can get enough of some of the classics, of the 40's, 50's
    and early 60's. Which can be hard to find. I even like the crap of
    those decades better than todays. 
    
    WHo can you think of today other than DiNiro, Pacino, Hoffman, to
    name a few that comedians will imitate as they did years ago???
    

    A further thought, occationally a movie really works for us rinclies,
    like Highlander, alas the people that made it seem to have no idea why
    it worked, hence the very dissapionting Highlander 2/3.
    
    I would put Forrest Gump into the "older person" movie, I truelly dread
    the Gump rip offs which will follow.
    
    And, to return to an old theme, these teanagers, how come there happy
    to see women being portrayed so badly?   I offer up Stargate as a mild
    but typical example.  And Jurassic park as a movie that managed to do
    it right(ish).
    
    Old, Michael.

re .6

What's a "rinclies"?



Randy

    rinclie=Senile old person, who remembers, life when there was only one
    version of stagecoach, one James bond, and one err I forget...........
    
    R. Michael.

    Must be a UK only expression. 
    
    rinclie = wrinklie = person with wrinkles !
    
    Royston

    The spelling (no W) has to do with rice, as in the stuff they mash up
    and feed you while  your watching the wheel of fortune, (especially the
    penny pinching UK version.)
    
    Yours, missing notr 776, Michael.

    Overdoing it? I have the remedy: have a baby! I guarantee that your
    movie-going  rate will fall drastically. Even videos will be difficult
    to watch all the way through unless you're willing to stay up very
    late.
    
    One type of file you'll start seeing a lot of, though-- Disney films!
    Fortunately, I find that I like them, even on repeated viewing. Mary
    Poppins and Snow White are current faves. Anyway, it's a whole genre
    which opened up to me when I too was getting jaded with the majority of
    what's out there.
    				Jim

>>>    Overdoing it? I have the remedy: have a baby! I guarantee that your
>>>    movie-going  rate will fall drastically. Even videos will be difficult
>>>    to watch all the way through...
    
    Here Here.. Our boy just turned a year old and we haven't been in a 
    theatre for about a year and a half now.
    
    I have the video problem solved (by breaking the law :-) I rent them,
    tape them (while not watching) then we watch it in pieces for about two
    weeks.  
    
    We rented Natural Born Killers about 3 weeks ago and STILL haven't
    watched past the Rodney Dangerfield part (partially because my wife 
    is not quite interested after *seeing* the Rodney Dangerfield part).
    
    We actually watched Forrest Gump within ONE DAY (in three segments, 
    but within ONE DAY!)
    
    In any event, we're only playing the rented move one time and only 
    watching the copy one time, so I feel within the law.  Else, the 
    video stores wouldn't be getting our business ;-)
    
    Murph the Surf (video bandit)