I tried to select a home screen on AOL (AOHell) that does not insult me with a bunch of useless entrainment crap. Screen number five did not have “entertainment” type stuff, but no sooner than firing up AOHell, I get some actor award type news crap!
Who gives a rats ass!!!
I don’t (8,9,10)
posting here for the actors and movies
You’re going to be hard pressed to find any news source that will completely ignore the Acadamy Awards.
I do! I wanted to know if Bill Murray got nominated for Lost in Translation.
Why? Film is a valid artform. I’m interested in all forms of artistic expression. When a good film like LiT comes along, I want to know if it’s getting the props it deserves.
Turns out that it is.
Really? An art form? I’ll give you that some films are indeed art, but these aren’t the ones that saturate the media. The vast majority of them that all the time in the mainstream media is spent on are anything but art. If you disagree then please explain to me the “art” of such films as, say, Lethal Weapon.
You seem to be making the argument that there’s a great deal of time spent on film by the media because it’s art. If that’s true, why so much time for film and little to none for other forms of art? Further, why is so much of this media time devoted to films like Lethal Weapon, which has no “art” to speak of and so little time given to films of greater art?
Why anyone could care about the academy awards, is beyond me. So much going on in the world, and shit like this consistantly makes the front page news.
I remember the day the rover landed on mars, and the front page of the post was Britney Spears.
<shaking head>
I’ve never understood why so much newsprint and TV-news airtime is wasted on sports.
Sports are not “news.” They are “games.”
Or perhaps the media thinks that we care.
I don’t know if they are telling the people what they want, or giving them what they want.
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… please explain to me the “art” of such films as, say, Lethal Weapon…
Sure, Lethal Weapon is a modern day Hamlet portraying one man’s struggle with the existential void. The Bard himself could not have written a better scene than the one where Mel Gibson is struggling over weather or not to kill himself as Loony Tunes play on the TV in the background.
Also, shit explodes and I am pretty sure that there a boobies.
You seem to be making the argument that there’s a great deal of time spent on film by the media because it’s art. If that’s true, why so much time for film and little to none for other forms of art? Further, why is so much of this media time devoted to films like Lethal Weapon, which has no “art” to speak of and so little time given to films of greater art?
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I have no clue what just happened there.
Tell that to Athens, Aug 13-29.
Ah yes, home of the Olympic News, er, no, wait…
Why? What happens in Athens in August?
I’m not sure I can do that. It would help if you gave an example of something (a film would be best, but whatever) that you think is art, and explain how Lethal Weapon doesn’t measure up.
I don’t think he’s making that argument at all. Seems to me, he was making the argument that he’s interested in it because it’s art. The media publishes so much about it because they’re interested in money, and writing about movies sells better than writing about sculpture.
Ah, yes, the Olympics. Buncha people playin’ games.
Eve darling - it’s a buncha fit, muscular people, in skimpy clothing playin’ games.
I trust you can see the distinction. 
And honestly that is all I care about in a movie 
Stuff with actual thought provoking content is far to much for me to handle
I spend alot of time at the Film and Entertainment Lounge message board (link in my sig) and have recently been dared to watch a film called Gummo, I have started watching it and so far although there have been some boobies there is a disappointing lack of explosions 
The people there seem to take movies very seriously where as my reviews are more likely to include references to the number of boobies and explosions.
I couldn’t tell you who won the Super Bowl last year, and I haven’t seen a new movie in three years.
I devote every waking moment to obscure old music that most people have never heard of, and the media never covers.
Do I have a problem with that?
No.
It’s one of the outcomes of a free market: apparently, more people care about sports and movies than the music I prefer.
I can avoid reading about the stuff I don’t care about, so can everyone else.
If you want more coverage of less-covered pastimes (yes, that’s what I would call sports, movies and all music, from Britney Spears to Bach), you should support those pastimes. (If you want to learn more about pre-War blues, let me know – I will talk (and play) your ear off).
Yes, I look so forward to the worlds latest and greatest competing in their “games”, sure to include Monopoly, Go Fish and Uno.
I don’t give a shit about the Olympics myself, but I know for a fact it’ll dominate the media for a month or so. Saying that sports is not news is irrelevant. News is perspective. What’s news to me? Some sports, some local events, some national. Saying sports isn’t news is like saying a homicide isn’t news, it’s homicide.
Now ping pong, that’s a game.