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Scorsese and Depp are far above the minds of most American movie goers. It is not necessary to bring them down to the level of the average American audience. This film is 100% American made but has all the quality of a French Foreign film. My daughter and her husband spend many weeks each year in Paris and they loved seeing what the movie showed as 1929 Paris. It has much of the same illusion as "Midnight in Paris." But maybe you will need an art class first.

But "Happy Feet 2" is showing next and maybe you guys will like that one. Stay away from the next Academy Award Winner called "Artists." It's way over your heads.

Jesus Christ on a Bike Sandy, you've actually managed to insult the intelligence of nearly every person in this forum.

That's perfectly okay, except that you in point of fact do NOT know anything about most of us, particularly with respect to our education, our cultural background or our level of involvement in the world of film appreciation.

The reason I say that is because lately you've consistently managed to not only IGNORE people when they tell you what they're made of, their qualifications, or when they state their views on an issue, you also have managed to make things up on the spot as well.

Is there a reason for this? Insults fly in forums, it's understood, but it's that old thing about opinions Sandy.

Informed opinion is one thing, spewing outright absurdity and falsehoods is another. Exactly what DO you know about Ranters and their level of film appreciation?

Exactly zip, zero, nada, that's what.

Numan used to be the one that could be counted on to blindly dish out hatred and hostility at anyone who happened to be walking by.

Now it's you, very sad.

WRT to 3D, a lot of industry mavens are now admitting that we may have witnessed yet another peak in the 3D game.

That makes it oh, say the THIRD time 3D has come to the fore, and then receded as the novelty item. This time it won't be a novelty.

A friend of mine in Santa Monica has been making an excellent living doing 2D to 3D conversions on a long list of very very big name features for the last four or five years.

At the peak his company was employing over 130 people just for 2D/3D conversions alone.

Last month he showed me a picture of the now empty office that used to have a cubicle farm in it.

It's not a disaster, he managed to place 90 percent of his digital artists and he made a small fortune. Now it's time to downsize and he's going back to 3D graphics and color work, which he also loves.

He said all along that he would ride the wave while it lasted. He also said he feels bad for all the kids who have been investing huge money in training that will not get leveraged at the level they expect.

I still say 3D has a wonderful place in science fiction, sports, nature and horror films.

But that's about it, and not every film in that genre will lend itself well and some that do will simply not be worth doing in 3D because the expected revenue won't be there.

We've seen the peak and now it's time to see the plateau.
It's not all bad, the present plateau HAS in fact elevated 3D to a somewhat higher spot than it has ever had in times past.

Yes, Sandy, those classics are still around and we've all read them. get off your stupid high horse and stop pretending to be smarter than everyone else when you have never read an novel either in the steampunk or the cyberpunk genres.
Do you think that imagination stopped with your generation? That they stopped handing out brains the year you were born?
Try to use yours a little bit more it seems to be full of cobwebs.

Over the past two weeks I've read an 1100 page novel by George R.R. Martin. I doubt if you've heard of the series but you may have watched some of it on television. The program "A Game of Thrones" is based on it and the other 4 books in that series. When I finished that I read a lovely little vampyre novel written for young readers. I just started reading a book on Paganism because a young friend of mine is interested in it. Like yourself, she is fed up with what passes for religion these days. I serve as her mentor and need to be knowlegeable about what she is interested in.
Don't get to feeling all high and mighty ma'am, I know a lot of young folks and they are extremely bright, curious, and well read.

And slapping down others is what you seem best at. Turn off the teevee and look out the window. There's a world out there. A world of smart, and thinking, and caring people.
Yeah, there's some creeps too, and some jerks and some morons and some whiners. But they are in the minority

Yes, Depp that genius actor would never place himself in a Hollywood motion picture franchise indulging the plebes. Oh wait, he did! Said franchise is called Pirates of the Caribbean... with the franchise winning an Academy Award® in 2006 and the entire franchise has over 18 nominations.

Wot? Movies for the masses get Academy Award® nominated and may even produce a few winners?

Happy Feet, wasn't that the 2006 Academy Award® winner for Best Animated Feature? Why, yes it was!


...so either Academy Awards® are handed out like swag at a Hollywood wrap party - or - someone is placing too much emphasis on the cerebral and the stature of the statue.

Evidently, we to go to the movies for very different reasons. Don't listen to me, I prefer Grand Opera....

I go to the movies for the excellent popcorn and drinks. I find that being critical of things is above my boorish station in life, and simply tends to make me and others uncomfortable.

(burrp!)

Maybe I am being a little unkind, but maybe you could just back off from spraying hostility and insults all over me and several others, just because we don't agree on things.

Calling us all the equivalent of dullards and ignoramuses when you don't actually know what tastes we have is also a little unkind, maybe more than a little.

We all have bad days and I am also guilty of occasionally taking it out on others.

Could you maybe just consider that maybe we are indeed human beings deserving of the benefit of the doubt once in a while?
Maybe some of us are every bit the art connoisseur that you are, or at least somewhere in the same league, maybe some of us are also well read and well educated.

Maybe...
Being well educated, well read and a connoisseur of the arts does not automatically mean we're going to agree on anything, it just means we've been exposed to a broad variety of elements that make up the catalogue, that flesh out the color palette.

Gauguin and Van Gogh might have had epic arguments but I wonder if Gauguin routinely called Van Gogh a moron who has never seen a bit of fine art in all his miserable life.