i have tried to post an entry for the last four days. and every time, my computer has crashed. the good news is that soon i will be writing from a different computer, just as soon as i clean everything out of the BeatCave and rearrange some furniture in order to make some kind of computer-friendly environment.
to this end, i have been staging the room-cleaning movie marathon! which is a fun way to say that i've been watching a lot of dvds and attempting to go through the mountain of stuff that accumulates when i'm not looking (why do i have this bag of broken glass? i'm sure i had a project planned for it at some point...). and since, like amishboy, i have been waxing nostalgic of late, i've watched pump up the volume at least three times in the last two weeks.
i've come to the conclusion that the eighties were the golden age of the teen movie. people would like to think that the last few years have been filled with good teen movies, but i beg to differ. true, teen movies were the new hollywood 'thing' for a while, but the problem with these movies is a lack of substance. compare 'the breakfast club' to 'american pie.'
one sociological theory i have is marginalization. if you don't want to take a group seriously, or to have them take themselves seriously, then comedy shows will reign supreme while drama fades into nonexistence. the major teen movies of today are mainly banal, gross-out humor. (notable exceptions exist, but at the moment i can only think of ghost world, one of the coolest movies ever made.)
of course, it's probably more to do with the corporate greed and laziness than some vast conspiracy to preserve the status quo by making the youth of today vapid and shallow. i'm not sure which is worse...aren't we getting a little bored of fighting corporate greed and laziness? wouldn't an evil consiracy be a nice change?
in the breakfast club, i would've been the ally sheedy character.
--beatpoetgrrl
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