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Originally Posted by soylentgreen
Kids want to see movies very often because, quite simply, they look cool. Where's the harm in seeing something that doesn't get the imprimatur of
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Speak for yourself. When I was of any age I'd consider appropriate for seeing
10,000 BC, which is after all PG-13, I was at least equally interested in plot. In fact, I've never really been much of a "Hey, that looks shiny" sort of person. Yes, the main reason I saw
The Other Boleyn Girl was the costuming, but had the plot sounded bad enough, I still wouldn't've seen it. Honestly, if someone else hadn't paid, I probably would've waited for DVD.
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Did I do myself a grave disservice by actually seeing stuff like THE SWARM, ORCA, KING KONG, LOGAN'S RUN or NIGHTWING(go David Warner!) in a real theater? I don't think so. Was my moviegoing childhood better for not being culturally burdened by boxofficemojo, rottentomatoes or endless internet jibberjabbery? Probably.
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Personally, I got a great deal out of my childhood viewings of
Siskel and Ebert. Not, almost assuredly, for their movie reviews, though they did help me be a more discerning movie-goer, which I didn't and don't think is a bad thing. However, by listening to other people who know more than I about film, I have learned more myself.
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Not every film can be STAR WARS. And before you saw that, you couldn't be sure it was either.
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By listening to what other people who'd seen it thought, you could get a good idea, though.
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Man, when did you folks lose such touch with your inner child? Of course, photorealistic mammoth herds chasing little humans is pretty damn cool looking. Why people can't fess up to it, is headscratching. And would I watch Doug McClure and Peter Cushing battling pteradactyls on strings in a theater today? You betcha!
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That's a cheap excuse, in my opinion. "Who cares if it's bad, because it looks cool and your inner child would dig it?" Feh. My inner child was bored senseless at the recent
King Kong. Yes, it looked cool. Also Adrien Brody isn't hard on the eyes. But there was, as Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, no
there there. Also, I have to say, it didn't look all that cool. I was much more impressed by the overhead shots of Tudor London in
The Other Boleyn Girl or Imperial Rome in
Gladiator than the giant bugs of
King Kong. The best visual of that movie, so far as I was concerned, was the beauty of the dawn sky toward the end. And
Gone with the Wind had a better one--with no CGI needed. (No, it wasn't a matte painting, either.)