The state of movies today

[Fellfrosch]

I really dig Jim Emerson's blog about movies, and I found today's entry to be especially intriguing (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/SCANNERS/60222004). He's talking about movies, and where they're going, and why, and includes insights such as this one:

True, it seems that the more adaptable medium of television -- once famously derided as a vast wasteland*-- has (in all its programming forms: broadcast, cable, satellite, Internet, DVR, DVD -- even iPod) largely usurped the (shrinking) audience for intelligent, well-crafted, broad-appeal adult fare that was once the staple of the motion pictures. Movies, meanwhile, continue to aim lowbrow (with comedies and horror films targeting teens), and occasionally "art-house" highbrow (usually with foreign financing), while largely abandoning the middle.

[House of Mustard]

Who cares about the middle?  To me, it's high-brow or nothing.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

"The Middle" is a good song.

[Fellfrosch]

"Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right" is actually a pretty description of the modern movie-going experience.

[Archon]

Hey, don't write yourself off yet, it's only in your head you feel left out and looked down on. Just try your best, try everything you can, and don't you worry what they tell themselves, when you're away.