http://madisonian.net/2006/08/21/notes-on-an-entertainment-weekend/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2006/08/21/notes-on-an-entertainment-weekend/comment-page-1/#comment-70504 Adorno2 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:21:21 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=747#comment-70504 I have to say, SOaP strikes me as one more expression of the meta-ed out, jaded culture that has had so much dreck from Hollywood it's started to enjoy its worst aspects. It's a variant of Stockholm syndrome: audiences are saying, don't even try to make a good action film....just make something so full of cliche, pablum, and tired tropes that we don't even have to think, we can react to entirely reflexively. Ala Robert Bly's The Sibling Society, perhaps we are moving back in time to very early childhood, where many kids enjoy watching the same video over and over again. I have to say, SOaP strikes me as one more expression of the meta-ed out, jaded culture that has had so much dreck from Hollywood it’s started to enjoy its worst aspects. It’s a variant of Stockholm syndrome: audiences are saying, don’t even try to make a good action film….just make something so full of cliche, pablum, and tired tropes that we don’t even have to think, we can react to entirely reflexively. Ala Robert Bly’s The Sibling Society, perhaps we are moving back in time to very early childhood, where many kids enjoy watching the same video over and over again.

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