There's 4 VA movies. Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma. 5, now, with J+SBSB.
I also think that you're wrong in your assessment of this movie. The slow mo shots, reuse of old stuff, etc was all part of the satirization of Hollywood by a reluctant insider. It's almost as if Smith was saying, "I'll make a clever movie, but I'm going to put in all the parts of other movies that I think suck, just so I can show you how and why they suck."
The fact of the matter is that, whatever course of action is decided upon to try and resolve these issues, it is ridiculous to expect children to "think of themselves as a cohesive group" and "[resist] against the curtailment of everyone's rights." They're children after all.
They're in school for more than rote learning, they're there also to learn how to be a social human being. It is a difficult fact to accept, but children are cruel, and everyone has to deal with that at least once in their early life. This has always been the case in every school in the world, throughout history. Taking that as a steady-state condition, then, the reason, I think, that we have seen a proliferation of juvenile violence in the last several years, is the degradation of the home life. If parents would simply instill better values in their children, which is their job as parents, then this would not be happening. It used to be that children had enough morals and values that anything like this would not have happened, if for no other reason than that they would not want to disappoint their parents. That's no longer the case, and we are seeing the results of that every time we turn on the news to hear about another school shooting.
Trying to blame things like games and the internet is short-sighted, realistically stupid, the wrong idea, but it is politically smart. We all need to remember that politicians are rarely interested in long term solutions, but the quick solutions that will give results during their terms in office. That's part of their job description.
At any rate, that's my nickel's worth.
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There's 4 VA movies. Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma. 5, now, with J+SBSB.
I also think that you're wrong in your assessment of this movie. The slow mo shots, reuse of old stuff, etc was all part of the satirization of Hollywood by a reluctant insider. It's almost as if Smith was saying, "I'll make a clever movie, but I'm going to put in all the parts of other movies that I think suck, just so I can show you how and why they suck."
The fact of the matter is that, whatever course of action is decided upon to try and resolve these issues, it is ridiculous to expect children to "think of themselves as a cohesive group" and "[resist] against the curtailment of everyone's rights." They're children after all.
They're in school for more than rote learning, they're there also to learn how to be a social human being. It is a difficult fact to accept, but children are cruel, and everyone has to deal with that at least once in their early life. This has always been the case in every school in the world, throughout history. Taking that as a steady-state condition, then, the reason, I think, that we have seen a proliferation of juvenile violence in the last several years, is the degradation of the home life. If parents would simply instill better values in their children, which is their job as parents, then this would not be happening. It used to be that children had enough morals and values that anything like this would not have happened, if for no other reason than that they would not want to disappoint their parents. That's no longer the case, and we are seeing the results of that every time we turn on the news to hear about another school shooting.
Trying to blame things like games and the internet is short-sighted, realistically stupid, the wrong idea, but it is politically smart. We all need to remember that politicians are rarely interested in long term solutions, but the quick solutions that will give results during their terms in office. That's part of their job description. At any rate, that's my nickel's worth.