“Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, sustained and shared introspection, so sexual in its own way). All advertisements and films and songs are addressed to sexuals, to their rash whims and finicky tastes.” PeopleWorldWayAbleFilmYoungSongPoorCrazyHugeTasteSickMajorityActivePartnersLuxuryMinoritiesIntrospectionPowerlessRecognizingSexuallySystematicWhimAdvertisementsHomely Author:Edmund White
“It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every category - humor, intelligence, creativity, and just plain entertainment value - ranks it somewhere between a bad infomercial and a local cable newscast. Rarely do I consider the act of seeing a movie to be a chore, but this kind of experience is the exception.” MindKindFilmValuesPoorQualityCreativitySeeingCommittedEntertainmentLocalsExceptionCategoriesCablesChoresPestsMind BogglingPoor QualityInfomercials Author:James Berardinelli
“There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.” PeopleSeemsTodayFilmActorsPoorScriptsActressesRamaActors And Actresses Author:Frederick Lenz
“Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.” PersonsSoulFilmPoorClearDoorsHabitHorrorHollywoodAskingSaneNastyObserversOccasionalMisguidedCellarsAtticsAsking Why Author:Andrew Tudor
“In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose other possibilities. In the horror movies there is finally a Hobbesian state of nature: 'continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.” MenStatesFilmPoorRoomsDangerPossibilityHorrorReflectionHollywoodWesternViolentSolitaryNastyThrillersViolent Death Author:Andrew Tudor
“When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.” LittlesMadeRealFilmPoorRoundsLondonHillsShootingDocumentariesSlumsNotting Hill Author:David Suchet