Re: AFI's Top 100 Movies

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:02:23 -0700, WQ <wq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 21, 10:51 am, "Victor Velazquez" <victhr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"WQ" <w...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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--- On the contrary, the more you have anything, the more that junk
will overwhelm the greatness.

I would think that the more of something you have, the more of the good
stuff you'd keep around, so while we continually produce the same ratio of
good to crap, we're also building up a surplus of mostly good.

--- You'll have to prove that math to me. If you look at TV alone,
can you honestly say that there's the same ration of good to bad in a
300-channel universe as there was in a 3-channel one? If you're only
watching 20 hours a week that you find worth watching now and you
would've been watching the same number of hours per week in the 3-
channel days, then that disproves what you claim.

Or it establishes that he isn't settling as much. For example, last
night I watched an Inu-Yasha feature film and The Last Detective,
shows I'd never would have had the chance to see in a 3 channel
universe (because they're both foreign) and I certainly would have
watched them in preference to many of the things I settled for in the
old days if I'd had the chance then. In fact I chose them over a
Captain Blood movie and The Closer, which are exactly the kind of
things I would have watched in 70s by preference, not because I like
them any less now, but because I have more options now. Tonight I
plan to watch the BBC news, Painkiller Jane, Hamish Macbeth and the
History of English, and of those shows, the only one that I could
possibly have seen in a three channel universe in the evening is
Painkiller Jane.
.

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