Movies are inherently better than books It takes many more people to make a movie than a book, which means that movies are overall job creators and stimulate the economy, whereas generally speaking books are not
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Well, yes, if "stimulates the economy" is your main criterion for art, that's … certainly SOMETHING.
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Replying to @iridienne @Nymphomachy
Hey it's an easy concern to dismiss if it's not your job If everyone stopped watching TV and movies and just read books LA would enter a devastating recession
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
*shrug* They could be better at their jobs and i would withdraw my objections.
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But honestly, i don't care that Hollywood continues to EXIST, i just want them to stop making movies out of books i give a shit about.
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Replying to @iridienne @Nymphomachy
Most adaptations are probably of books you've never heard of Like the Oscar-winning screenplay for Jojo Rabbit is from a novel no one read (and those who have read it say the movie barely resembles the book)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Well, if i haven't read it, it is definitely not in the class "books i give a shit about", now, is it?
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I also don't give a shit if they make movies about Twilight and 50 Shades and Harry Potter unto eternity, forever and ever, amen, because those are all shitty books and they will be turned into shitty movies, and, y'know, whatever?
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I watch stupid fucking cop shows all the time as background noise! I don't pretend to myself that they're any good, though, and that's the difference between me and most consumers of Cinema As An Art Form.
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Replying to @iridienne @Nymphomachy
I read books all the time but that doesn't make books good either Books are generally pretty bad
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Books are just what happens when someone is allowed to just keep on talking Normal people stop after a while and let someone else talk, but nope, some people have to just keep going for 200 pages, and that's why they write books
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