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the G-man said:


And Hollywood wonders why so many are calling it "out of touch."



Just to touch on this and the title of the thread a bit.....

When the Matrix was released, did "Hollywood" and all it's ominous anti-everything that is decent and American, connotations, release it?

what about ...

Superman: the Movie?
Star Wars?
The Incredibles?
Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Schindlers List?
Sky Captain?
Jurassic Park?
Aliens?
Spider-Man?
Hook?
Unbreakable?
O'Brother Where art thou?
Tombstone?
Armageddon?
Deep Impact?
The Rock?
The Breakfast Club?
The Terminator?
The Rocketeer?
The Sixth Sense?
Back to the Future?
The Saint?
Harry Potter?
Clash of the Titans?
The Perfect Storm?
Cast Away?
Air Force One?
Braveheart?
Airplane?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
National Lampoon's Vacation?
BlackHawk Down?
Stargate?
Twister?
Goodfellas?
Pirates of the Carribean?
E.T.?
Ghostbusters?
Blazing Saddles?
The Mask?
Patriot Games?
Say Anything?
Finding Nemo?
The Perfect Storm?
Once Upon a Time In Mexico?
Shark Tales?
Die Hard?
12 Monkeys?
Jaws?
Starship Troopers?
Clear and Present Danger?
Blade Runner?
Minority Report?
The Iron Giant?
Austin Powers?
The Hulk?
The X-Men?
Saving Private Ryan?
Apollo 13?
Road To Perdiation?
Gladiator?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Mask of Zorro?
Toy Story?
Oceans 11?
Shreck?
Unforgiven?
Mission Impossible?
The Hunt for Red October?
The Godfather?
The Lion King?
The Bourne Identity?
The Three Kings?
Apocalypse Now?
The Polar Express?
Jerry Maguire?
The Count of Monte Cristo?
The Predator?
The Untouchables?
The Star Trek franchise?
Batman
Rocky?
Independence Day?
etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum................................

Was "HOLLYWOOD" (learned and practiced right winger code for "liberal elite"), "out of touch" then for releasing all that?

Or does the phrase "Hollywood" (as if the entire city plus it's evil Chamber of Commerce there is geared and fired up and plotting the downfall of your morals) only come out when you find something objectionable? When not, does a film simply gets categorized by those out there using the negative "Hollywood" moniker, as a "good movie"? Oblivious to the fact that "HOLLYWOOD" happened to make it too?

Do good movies somehow get made by the tooth fairie and only the objectionable ones get made by "HOLLYWOOD" and their warped morality?

Isn't blaming "HOLLYWOOD" for ONLY that which you find objectionable, rather silly? Especially in light of the fact that there are many many movies made by, if not in, HOLLYWOOD. Films of which most of you comment approvingly and enthusiastically here in this forum. Both family fare and R rated fare as well.

If some of you here don't want to be seen as right wing fundamentalist extremists, then I'd suggestfor you guys to stop SOUNDING like the crazed preachers on the street corners, railing on about an entire city out to corrupt your immortal souls with their ...their... FILTH!!.

If you talk the talk, then walk the walk.

Because then it's just silly. Especially considering that most if not all of us here will be in line for just about everything "HOLLYWOOD" will be releasing from here to next summer with eager anticipation. From Ep. III to Batman to Fantastic Four. From G rated fare to NC17 indie flicks and everything in between. and you'll eat it up too! It's then that it just starts sounding as if you're parroting shit you heard but don't follow.

When and if the next edgy risky controversial film comes out, i'm sure "HOLLYWOOD" will suddenly be your boogeyman once more for all that is sick and wrong in America, and all that popcorn you guys fattened yourselves with and all the fun you enjoyed thru the years will undoubtedly all be forgotten as an entire industry (and city) gets the usual crap beaten out of it by the very people who actually wearn't forced to see any of it and even saw most of it without having resorted to accusing any cities of wickedness during the entire time .

I'm deviating from the subject which is the Nicole Kidman film but not from the thread title which is incredibly and ignorantly sweeping and generalizing.

Shit, my mom talks like this but hey, at least she sticks to her talk. Not even Disney's Pinnochio can pass the fundie test for her.

Whitchcraft you see.....

p.s. Off the top of my head, I can think of only Paramount Studios as actually being IN Hollywood.

Warners is in Burbank. Universal is in Universal City. 20th Century FOX is in Studio City. Disney is in Burbank. Sony is in Culver City. Dreamworks is in Glendale.

So "HOLLYWOOD". Ffht.

Pavlovian code words. If "HOLLYWOOD" is so bad, stay home then reading your bible and pray for all of us lost sheep and our wayward moviegoing souls as we all enjoy Batman next summer and maybe even an R rated movie too!..