Audiences on the Oscars: Less Politics, More Mainstream Love?

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by J_UNTITLED

I respectfully disagree to the highest order with that.

If you consider my concurrent interest in image detail, color, blacks, shadow detail, grain, soundstage, dialog clarity and surround effects it might be more than vapid. But every time I sit to watch a motion picture, I do it completely without consequence, other than the time, money and energer expended.

Look at the box office hits. They are about action, visual effects and sound effects. That's what most people are going to see. That's what is the most fun to watch.

That's not to say I don't spend time watching and completely enjoying motion pictures you would consider the art of "cinema", but those are not all "fun" to watch, and I certainly refuse to sit through something I find tedious, irrespective of any accolades it has received.

But as I said, someone who is more of an enthusiast than I, may be happy sitting through such tedium, just because they are interested in moviemaking, which is more than moviewatching.