>Denise, > >I heartily agree with you. Movies are foremost entertainment. Any effort to >educate or extract a response beyond enjoyment is secondary. I posted a >similar opinion on CINEMA-L and got shot down for it too. > >Guy Och, we're just not postmodern enough, I fear. I'm used to getting shot down. Some people just seem to want to make other people's lives a plethora of guilt and self-flagellation, punctuated by loud and fervent sanctimonious diatribes about the Derridean margins of chocolate chips. Or something like that. I make a pretty rotten academic--but a damned GOOD film critic, I think. Alas, criticism doesn't pay (much) compared to teaching 18-year-olds the joys of writing, and so I'll stick around academia and vociferously refuse to be assimilated. "We are Borg; you will be assimilated|" sounds an awful lot like "we are Politically Correct; you will be sensitized|" to me. Go well, Denise Bryson, Language and Literature [log in to unmask] ======================================================================= = Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot = = change, the strength to change those things I can, and = = the wisdome to hide the bodies of those I've killed = = because they PISSED ME OFF| - Anonymous _ = =======================================================================