Re: Where to find EVIL books???

On Aug 6, 10:37 am, Lots42 <lot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 1:19 pm, David Loftus <dlof...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > > Exactly.  What idiot smokes a cigarette over a priceless book?  And
laying them
> > > out on their spines!  Shudder.
>
> > Well, he was an actor, not a reader.
>
> > And the storytellers in this case were filmmakers, not bibliophiles.
>
> > So of course they wouldn't know anything.
>
> It's this kind of stuff that worries me about Hollywood. Not knowing
> the difference between an XJ-17 jet engine and an XR-19 jet
> engine...fine. But when they have characters slamming open priceless
> books or...they kill off the black person FIRST (still) or have the
> amazing vani****ng ground (Jurassic Park 1),  it makes me wonder. How
> drunk do you have to be to not realize a major part of your movie
> revolves around ten cubic tons of earth vani****ng with no explanation?
> There are so many, many examples of Hollwyood being so incredibly,
> astoni****ngly, inexpecliably dumb. Do they pay people to keep the real
> world away from them?



No. We (that is, the movie-ticket-buying public) do, of course.

It's a you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours situation: American
moviegoers pay big bucks to have CGI-drunken thrillers fill the screen
and take their minds off everything that really frightens them, and
Hollywood keeps supplying the visual booze.