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- From: tmohler+@cs.cmu.edu (Tim Mohler)
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- Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 23 December 1993
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 23:23:56 GMT
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- In article <76028@apple.apple.COM> mattm@Apple.COM (Matthew Melmon) writes:
- >I think, however, that the failure of X to perfrom well is
- >a surprise to a lot of people (myself included, actually).
-
- Not to me. About half of the people I've talked to about X said
- they didn't want to watch "three hours of being told how evil
- white men are."
-
- I think that is insensitive, and downright stupid myself, but
- I don't doubt that these attitudes have a fairly strong hold
- on a large portion of the movie-going audience.
-
- The movie X may or may not have been three hours of telling white
- men how evil they are, but prejudging the movie based on a
- non-existent knowledge of what Malcolm X said and did (at least
- in the people I talked to) is pretty stupid.
-
- Not to bring in a conspiracy or anything, but when I went to
- see X, it had been out for only two weeks, but had already been
- moved to the smallest screen in the theater. I wondered if
- perhaps the theater-owners had pegged the movie as a
- "minority" film. If this is true, perhaps there are some theater
- owners who decided not to show X, thinking it would not have
- a wide appeal.
-
- My random thoughts
- Tim
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