AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

LA Times “Web Scout” blog

Enter a cineplex this summer and you’re basically wandering into a giant circus. Each tent pole — the biz term for a colossally expensive movie — is sure to include at least one outlandish, or even freakish, main character. Step right up. On your left, watch an old man — incredibly! — age in reverse. On your right, a demon in a raincoat wields a revolver as big as a car. And up ahead, a man in a bat suit faces off with a murderous, cackling clown.

No room for nuance in these parts. Nuance has too much to do with reality and is therefore not awesome! Hippie-bohemians seeking boring reality-based “films” will have to look in the phone book for sour-smelling old movie houses with bad sound. Or you could try the Internet.….more….