I was reading the thread, then bored with it so I was scanning down and a few words in your post caught my eye, and I have to disagree....
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1. reality tv
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being number 1 I nearly skipped your post altogether. I totally f'in agree though, but to the point that this stuff is so banal anyone that watches it simply needs a brain transplant.
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5. Foreign films - It seems that if a film has some tears in it and some sub titles, the avant guard posh to do wannabe crowd jumps all over it as a real film and 100 times better than anything released in hollywood... ever. To me, subtitles, some tears and a lack of special effects does not an instant work of art make.
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I was reading this, and thought that you hadn't simply watched enough foreign films, or maybe watched a really bad one once and that had forged you contre anything with subtitles, then I read...
To me, subtitles, some tears and a lack of special effects does not an instant work of art make.
I think that lack of special effects things really STANDS OUT
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6. works of art - this brings me to many works of art. News stories of 6 year olds finger painting being mistaken by art critics as a priceless masterpiece always amuse the hell out of me because, although many pieces in a museum are masterpieces, a lot if it just a pile of paint thrown onto a canvas.
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So you class "Black On Canvas" with the same type of the fingers as Matisse's Self Portrait In A Striped T-Shirt?? Surely not....
I'm sure there's more but there's also more work to do.[/QUOTE]