The Role of Movies in the Arts

Real fear still feels as sort of fresh to me today as it did. You know, when I saw it fresher in some ways, because I'm older, you know what I mean? Like it. But at the time, we weren't looking to those movies as the great standard bearer for art. So now these theaters are only built for events,. and with 30 screens to play things every 15 minutes, which demands movies that blah, blah, blah. The correct response to this deep, deep, artistic rot is not to be like Greta Gerwig and Daniel Kalua, you fucking sellouts.

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