[Richard Kimball]

Thanks. The thing that started me thinking about it was how movies such as Pleasantville (which I liked), The World According to Garp (hated), Edward Scissorhands (never could get through), The Last Picture Show (ultra-nihilistic), etc., had such a negative view of middle America. Then it hit me. If the actors and directors had liked middle America, they wouldn't have left.

[Borges]

I don't think LPS scribe Larry Mcmurtry hates Middle America. He wrote Lonesome Dove. It's an elegy to the Death of the myth of the West. I wouldn't call it nihilistic.