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<blockquote data-quote="Mr. Grimm" data-source="post: 81332" data-attributes="member: 1759">Ain't it the truth -- try watching or reading news that isn't corporate slanted -- they own everything.&nbsp; Well, not the Astro Stadium...&nbsp; What kills me here is that news, as in the presenting of observed facts and events, is now presented in as controversial a manner as possible&nbsp; -- but I can't get an intelligently written and presented plot in a movie.Anyone remember when &quot;Fast Times at Ridgemont High&quot; or a movie I think was called &quot;Teachers&quot; (w/ Nick Nolte) which were considered pretty much teen spoof movies, and both released in the ealy 80's,&nbsp; actually dealt with teens going through an abortion in a serious way?&nbsp; And those movies as a whole were considered comedies!&nbsp; I don't care if you're for or against a topic, at least there's some debate, some actual real life subject matter going on that is interesting when a film does something like this, especially in a drama, or &quot;epic drama&quot; as someone above referred to them.What's amazing is that topics that find us divisive in real life are considered taboo, yet they'll show us every manner of death and gore conceivable and we're all pretty much okay with it.&nbsp; You'd think in order to find some escapism, we'd head not to the movies, but instead to the local planetarium to watch the universe blow up or in or whatever the current convention thinks it'll do in the end.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mr. Grimm, post: 81332, member: 1759"] Ain't it the truth -- try watching or reading news that isn't corporate slanted -- they own everything. Well, not the Astro Stadium... What kills me here is that news, as in the presenting of observed facts and events, is now presented in as controversial a manner as possible -- but I can't get an intelligently written and presented plot in a movie. Anyone remember when "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" or a movie I think was called "Teachers" (w/ Nick Nolte) which were considered pretty much teen spoof movies, and both released in the ealy 80's, actually dealt with teens going through an abortion in a serious way? And those movies as a whole were considered comedies! I don't care if you're for or against a topic, at least there's some debate, some actual real life subject matter going on that is interesting when a film does something like this, especially in a drama, or "epic drama" as someone above referred to them. What's amazing is that topics that find us divisive in real life are considered taboo, yet they'll show us every manner of death and gore conceivable and we're all pretty much okay with it. You'd think in order to find some escapism, we'd head not to the movies, but instead to the local planetarium to watch the universe blow up or in or whatever the current convention thinks it'll do in the end. [/QUOTE]

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