Some Movie Thoughts

If you’ve been to a movie lately, you’ve seen the anti-piracy ads. I’m not sure why they put these ads up at the movies since anyone at the theater is already a paying customer. Next they’ll be putting commercials on TV that decry fast-forwarding through commercials. After the anti-piracy ad, though, I did have to do some soul-searching about an upcoming film or two.

The ad I saw shows a stunt-man talking about all the work that goes into doing stunts for a film, and he wants to give you a guilt trip about boot-legging a movie because it cuts into his paycheck. I think Ben Affleck’s salary cuts into his paycheck more than boot-legging which leads to my soul crisis. I want to see Ben’s new movie but I don’t want to contribute in any way to his paycheck or the success of a movie that carries his name. I think Paycheck will be a good movie DESPITE Ben’s presence.

I want to start a boycott where people buy tickets for The Alamo (because it’s all filmed locally) or Honey (which will surely be awful, but it’s not entirely Jessica Alba’s fault that she can’t get a decent script) and then sneak into Paycheck. I want to support John Woo and Uma Thurman. I want a movie based on a Philip K. Dick story to do well. I just don’t want Ben Afleck to get any more of my money. His satisfaction rating is inversely proportional to his career timeline.

What should I do?

Posted by etrigan at November 3, 2003 1:06 PM