Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Wednesday, July 23, 2003
JACK fights MOVIE PIRACY! AGAIN!
If it weren't JACK, I'd say he has a case. Movie piracy does hurt "the little guy." But JACK didn't get where he is by being a little guy, and somebody like that anonymous brilliant actor named for a character in Tristram Shandy isn't a little guy, and every actress who fakes fornication before the cameras for an eight-digit fee isn't a little guy. The movie cretins evidence a sudden interest in "the little guy" only because their tax dodges could be depleted, and to provide flimsy cover for their infinite contempt of the filmgoing airheads. JACK's trade is bent on proving the old maxim, you get what you pay for, by providing a PRODUCT that isn't worth paying for, and the pirates have created a nice niche out of the biz' artistic bankruptcy. Yes, movie piracy is wrong, but with the biz defecating more masterworks than ever, it has at least a little bit of serves-you-right. And here's predicting the ads get laughed at in the movie houses -- even by the dumb blind teens.
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