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     A commentary on today’s movies ~ 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Sean Hennessey 
     
    
   
   
    
     As I was watching the news 
     
     last night, one of the broad- 
     
     casters stated that the Cana- 
     
     dian population has become 
     
     better educated and more 
     
    
   
   
    
     sophisticated during the past ~ 
     
    
   
   
    
     mm 15 years. 
     
    

    
     This statement would tend 
     
     to imply that the younger 
     
     generation is turning to more 
     
     advanced and better quality 
     
     forms of entertainment. 
     
    
   
   
    
     With regard to the movide. 
     
    
   
   
    
     industry, I would have to 
     
     argue with this contention. 
     
    

    
     _ Take a look at some of the 
     
     movies which have been play- 
     
     ing in Charlottetown Cine- 
     
     .mans recently. we have had 
     
     A Passage to India, The 
     
     Killing Fields, Places in the 
     
     Heart, Country, A Solider’s 
     
     Story, Starman, and The 
     
     Natural. 7 
     
    

    
     On the opposite end of the 
     
     spectrum (the low-quality 
     
     end): Mischief, Firestarter, 
     
    

    
     - Red Dawn, Runaway, Johnny 
     
     Dangerously, Against All 
     
     Odds, Children of the Corn, 
     
     Heavenly Bodies, Beat Street, 
     
     Cheech & Chang’s The 
     
     Corsican Brothers and of 
     
     course, Porky’s III. 
     
    

    
     The first list consists of 
     
     ‘movies which I would con- 
     
     sider good quality, worth- 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
            
     
         
     
         
     
           
     
             
     
             
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     while movies. They are cha- 
     
     racterized by a good story, 
     
     good acting, and good di- 
     
     recting. 
     
    

    
     The second list are movies 
     
     which are at the opposite end 
     
     of the spectrum. Everything 
     
     that is good about the movies 
     
     in the first list is poor with 
     
     regard to the movies on the 
     
     second list. Their basic 
     
     appeal, the reason people 
     
     attend, is a combination of 
     
     good promotion, big names, 
     
     gratuituous scense of sex and 
     
    
   
   
    
     violence, expectations of 
     
     laughs, or simply some 
     
     ‘entertainment’. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I am not suggesting these 
     
     movies should not be made. 
     
     As with any product or ser~ 
     
     vice, if there is demand for 
     
     these types of movies, they 
     
     will be produced. As evident 
     
     from the number of showings 
     
     these movies enjoy at our 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,local cinemas, there is ade- 
     
    
   
   
    
     quate demand. 
     
    

    
     What bothers me is that 
     
     when a good quality movie 
     
     does come to Charlottetown, 
     
     it is doing well if it remains 
     
     in the Cinemas for more than 
     
    
   
   
    
     four nights. 
     
     What is even more annoy- 
     
     ing is that movies like, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Amadeus, Crimes of Passion, 
     
     Under the Volcano, and The 
     
     Purple Rose of Cairo, which 
     
    
   
   
    
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     have been released for many 
     
     weeks, still haven’t played 
     
     here. 
     
    

    
     Why does this occur when 
     
     we know that -A Soldier’s 
     
     Story, an Academy Award 
     
     nominee for Best Picture, 
     
     played here for four days? 
     
     It’s unfortunate but an intel- 
     
     ligent well-acted movie like 
     
     A Soldier’s Story which 
     
     didn’t have any car chase 
     
     scenes, simply doesn’t appeal 
     
     enough to the Porky’s gene- 
     
     ration of movie-goers to war— 
     
     rant a longer run. 
     
    

    
     You mean to tell me that 
     
     this taste in movies is a sign 
     
     of the Canadian population 
     
     becoming better educated 
     
     and mor sophisticated? 
     
    

    
     instead, we have the privi- 
     
     lege of viewing Porky’s III, 
     
     the re-release of Return of the 
     
     Jedi, or Friday the 13th, 
     
     Part V. 
     
    

    
     The biggest market for 
     
     these types of movies is teen- 
     
    
   
   
    
     agers and younger adults. —' 
     
    
   
   
    
     This group will pay $4.50 
     
     per person to attend the new 
     
     edition of a movie about the 
     
     fun-filled gang that inhabits 
     
    
   
   
    
     .Porky’s world. Also, enough 
     
    
   
   
    
     of them will pay this money 
     
     to warrant Porky’s [11 re- 
     
     mains in the Cinema for three 
     
     to five weeks. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     “ iT’S YOUR 414.50...“ 
     
    
   
   
    
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     “I like the taste ofa cold beer on a hot day, 
     
     but I certainly don't think you have to get the gang 
     
     together with a couple of cases of beer just to celebrate 
     
     the fact you've had 
     
     a bit of exercise.” 
     
    
   
   
    
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