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Message: <blockquote data-quote="laughing_lunatic" data-source="post: 24446" data-attributes="member: 597">I don't think it's ruined entertainment at all. It's most certainly dominated it, because it's profitable. Take movies for instance, I don't know what the actual figures are, but I'm willing to bet that whatever Micheal Bay bang-boom-ratatatatat blockbuster is playing in screen 1, it's outselling the latest Lars Von Trier mindf*** in screen 2 by orders of magnitude, although Von Trier is CLEARLY the better film maker (a true genius of cinema IMO. He and Bergman should be mentioned in the same breath, no question), Bay gives the public what they want. Stare at a screen, switch off the brain and ohhh and ahhhh at the bigness of it all. And that's the difference. Bay makes movies, Von Trier creates cinema. But Bay doing his thing hasn't ruined the medium, it's simply exploited it for all the $$$ it can get.People leave "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" saying "dooooood, awesomeness, totally awesome..." People leave "Antichrist" saying "what....whh.... what TF DID I just watch ???" Awesomidity will always outsell having to think.</blockquote>

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