A great show that you should invest in that doesn’t show rich lifestyles

Dude if it’s to see the life of middle class or poor people I just need to walk down the street… don’t need to waste money on it… only a rich dude would say something like let’s invest on dvds to see how poor people live!

Something happened when I put the article up… Therefore without thinking….

That explains a lot about the article lol

First off, let me just say that YES the brains sometimes needs to relax, and that sometimes, something pointless and amusing is enjoyable… Like any muscle the brain doesn’t need to work all the time, actually it’s healthier if it doesn’t…

Movies are like books, sometime you want to read the latest essay from Gore Vidal, and sometimes you want to escape and go into a dream, and read a book written by Jules Verne…

I disagree with the escapism is a bad; at its extreme, it can be; however, escaping leads to dreaming, which leads us to move forward… How many astronauts have aknowledged that they have read “from the Earth to the Moon” and that gave them the desire, the dream of going into space…

Now let’s talk about marketing and the smart viewer… and let’s talk about Paranormal Activity… a movie that looks like the Blair Witch Project in its mockumentary style, and that like the Blair Witch Project has been heavily promoted in a viral way…

Because what you call smart viewers are in fact young internet monging consumers, that will go on a certain category of websites which have been targeted, with viral ads promoting this movie.

There is no such thing as smart viewers, there are condescending viewers, who believe that they are smarter than others, but to tell the truth, working in the advertising world, it’s just one target audience amongst plenty of others, and what makes a movie successfull is a movie meeting its target audience…

Case in point, the smart viewers in 92 flocked to go see Pulp Fiction and said it was the smart choice, when at the exact same time, a studio movie called the Shawshank Redemption came out, and was a box office failure… 15 years later, it is widely considered that Shawshank is a far better picture one of the best in history, whereas according to the critics of the time, it was just an average movie, and Pulp Fiction was far better.

Even last year the smart condescending viewers have chosen Slumdog Millionaire as opposed to the Hollywoodian, the Curious Life of Benjamin Bunton… why, because the smart viewers likes those independently produced foreign movies about poor kids in a country far away, when it fact it is a very high budget British movie. But again the good doers who want to show how open minded they are with foreign cultures just show how shallow and condescending they were… Neglecting one of the finest cinematic achievments of the last decade, just because it had a talented actor that should be juged by his performance but for the smart viewers he cannot be good, because of his celebrity status.

Also I truly believe that there is a disconnect between the movie critics and the general audience, certain genre and personalities are considered good and other bad, when it comes to a lot of the reviewers of out time, they are just arrogant fanboys… How come they all helm JJ Abrams’ Star Trek as a masterpiece, and trash Transformers 2… Wow JJ Abrams doing a Trekkie favorite is praised, while the hated Michael Bay directed sequel is trashed… what a surprise…

I did enjoyed Transformers 2, it was a neat action packed nonsense, I had fun watching it, where as I really didn’t like Star Trek… I am not saying Transformers 2 is a good movie or a better movie that Star Trek, I’m saying both were mediocre movies who have been treated differently because of who made them and not because of their intrinsec qualities…

Now let’s talk about couples retreat… I haven’t seen it either, but I think I know what it is about… Couples going a retreat!!!… why is going to be successfull, because sometimes you don’t wanna go see a crappy independent condescending artistic bullshit, but you want to see something lighthearted with tongue-and-cheek jokes…

Humor and Comedy is something vital in our lives… it is as important to relax and laugh, as doing something serious… it’s not one or the other it’s a symbiosis…