Comments on: Friday Link Love: Sex and the City edition http://www.thispile.com/archives/friday-link-love-sex-and-the-city-edition One Woman, Many Piles, Much Grace. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:06:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Greg Wright http://www.thispile.com/archives/friday-link-love-sex-and-the-city-edition#comment-87120 Greg Wright Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:46:16 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/archives/friday-link-love-sex-and-the-city-edition#comment-87120 Hey, Jen. It actually took seeing a Norwegian subtitled arthouse film called Reprise for me to "get" SatC. I still think the film, as a film per se, is one of the worst I've seen in a long time -- but now I understand the appeal for its target audience. (Which is not to say the target audience doesn't care about aesthetics or film theory, btw. 3:10 to Yuma was pretty horrible as films go, too -- but it was pretty darned popular, also, for similar reasons. Meeting genre or demographic expectations often trumps filmmaking technique... and probably rightly so, considering that films, after all, have to make money to "succeed.") Hey, Jen. It actually took seeing a Norwegian subtitled arthouse film called Reprise for me to “get” SatC. I still think the film, as a film per se, is one of the worst I’ve seen in a long time — but now I understand the appeal for its target audience.

(Which is not to say the target audience doesn’t care about aesthetics or film theory, btw. 3:10 to Yuma was pretty horrible as films go, too — but it was pretty darned popular, also, for similar reasons. Meeting genre or demographic expectations often trumps filmmaking technique… and probably rightly so, considering that films, after all, have to make money to “succeed.”)

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