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Apes Vs. Apes
by Barry Meyer

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I'm not going to try and dictate that only quality stories be made, and entertaining fluff should not be. And I can't say that I never watched trite stupid films that had absolutely no depth to them, because I did. And I love them! But, those future Mystery Science Theater offerings are nothing more than what a Harlequin Romance is to literature - just simple fun, and no harm to anyone. The difference is that nowadays these trivial films are being made with flagrantly excessive budgets to feed the flagrantly excessive producers and studios pockets. Go ahead and think that they make blockbuster movies for the audience's pleasures.

I won't make this a political rambling, but for many obvious reason - why do we need to spend tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on the making of a single movie? Movies have been made for much less and have been much more effective. Because they used a bit of magic.

No more though. People flock to reality shows, and the filmmakers further endeavor to pump their films full of realism. We've become so captivated by the unreal reality of our entertainment that we need to see how all this realism was designed by watching the endless Making of…, or the countless Behind the Scenes… We are no longer fulfilled by watching a good story. We've become more fascinated with deconstructing of the magic of the stories, and less bewitched by the stories themselves.

We no longer believe in the magic.

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