tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post6579090050310148206..comments2024-03-28T19:27:59.772+00:00Comments on A K Haart: Amazon Prime Trending MoviesA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-87077174920860787572017-08-12T19:15:46.850+01:002017-08-12T19:15:46.850+01:00Sam - we have it mainly for the grandkids. Better ...Sam - we have it mainly for the grandkids. Better value than the BBC in my view.<br /><br />Graeme - yes, we used to lap up a certain amount of violence and improbability, but on nothing like the same scale as today.<br /><br />Roger - yet presumably that revenue stream taps into something already there, a willingness to depart from the reality we have spent the last few centuries discovering. <br /><br />Henry - destroying reality is what bothers me. We've always done it, but not with this level of intensity and excess. Reality is our greatest discovery and we are throwing it away on entertainment and politics.<br /><br />Demetrius - that's exactly what it is.<br /><br />A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-49120500841009591002017-08-11T12:04:43.422+01:002017-08-11T12:04:43.422+01:00It is all very 17th Century, give me the age of Sh...It is all very 17th Century, give me the age of Sheridan.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-5573340623692535522017-08-11T10:19:13.075+01:002017-08-11T10:19:13.075+01:00Unfortunately, a very large proportion of our popu...Unfortunately, a very large proportion of our population live in a world of "make believe". It seems to me that the only solution is to get rid of those industries that create that world, enriching themselves and destroying reality.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03267170289726545355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-11528859796368262762017-08-11T09:06:50.653+01:002017-08-11T09:06:50.653+01:00Amazon et al are in the business of garnering a re...Amazon et al are in the business of garnering a revenue stream, that's all. Who needs high culture anyway, all that poncified poetry, high art, professors of embroidery for heaven's sake. Anything with a whoosh, a bang, blood, gore and sex is good. Game of Thrones = politics 101. Almost enough to make one fork out on Baudrillard.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-63880526467066022602017-08-11T00:44:49.359+01:002017-08-11T00:44:49.359+01:00Frankly yes. I saw Atomic Blonde last week... It r...Frankly yes. I saw Atomic Blonde last week... It revolved around unfeasible levels of violence, people walking around with knives sticking out of their backs and lots of unbelievable fighting, a script that might have been written by a hamster and delivered by hamsters... Yet the kids lapped it up. I would rate it minus 1000 but the millennials seem to lap up bullshit like mother's milk Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-44968735483105010892017-08-10T22:36:58.394+01:002017-08-10T22:36:58.394+01:00If people are daft enough to spend a lot of money ...If people are daft enough to spend a lot of money on this service, then they probably think that these films are documentaries.Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.com