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To: TopQuark

I disagree. The most profitable movies are those that are “family friendly”, yet the Tarantinos of the world insist on making violent, anti-family movies.

No, the driving “value” of Hollywood is to promote the leftist agenda of destroying our society so that it can be remade in the leftists’ image.


7 posted on 05/25/2007 6:55:39 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: MrB; TopQuark

Which came first.....the chicken or the egg?


8 posted on 05/25/2007 10:52:07 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: MrB
The most profitable movies are those that are “family friendly”,

It is true, Medved has suggested that many times, but he is wrong. Given that truly "family-friendly" movies are made infrequently, people gobble them up and create good profit. But if you made twice more of such movies, the novelty effect would not be there, and you would not get twice more profit. If people know they can wait for a month and see another family-friendly movie, they will.

But if you create twice as many "scary" movies, you will sell all of them. That is why you see so many.

Medved's and yours mistake is in extrapolation from a few movies to many. As a category, "action" movies with blood and sex are much, much more profitable than the CATEGORY of family-friendly movies. That reflects the culture. When WE wanted to see patriotic movies and heroes that concurred the west, we got those movies in abundance. We no longer want them and prefer value-free sex and violence.

Hollywood is in no way different than IBM or Procter & Gamble; they only sell what we demand and willing to pay for.

10 posted on 05/25/2007 2:19:27 PM PDT by TopQuark
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