>>>>You probably would have grown up not much caring about it. At least you would have been less likely to harangue everyone else just because they enjoy things that you feel may be less worthy than other things. Maybe I missed some good movies in languages I can't understand, but since I thoroughly enjoyed the movies I grew up watching on late night TV, as I said, I don't feel deprived. What is life about if not finding ways to enjoy ones self. You enjoy what you enjoy, and I enjoy what I enjoy, and the fact that you feel I've been deprived doesn't make it necessarily a cosmic truth.
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>>>Are you really so eager to prove my point?
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>>>If it's all about enjoying oneself, I'd probably had all the fun I ever wanted by now, and would then have nothing left but to arrange acute lead poisoning to escape boredom.
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>>Sorry Dragan, but that is one of the silliest things I've ever read. Mind boggling, in fact. I marvel at the fact that you feel you've experienced everything there is to experience in the U.S. If that is, in fact, true, then yes, I'd say you're about ready for the scrap heap.
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>My point was that there are different kinds of joys. I find very little nowadays in what is sold as entertainment, but then that I don't regret that. I find joy in other things - and, among movies, I enjoy diversity, surprise, movies which show me what I didn't see or which make me think. And, yes there are things to experience here, but they aren't in the movies. It's a rare gem to find something that I haven't already seen, and I have pretty much given up hope that I'll find a lot of that here. But then there's the long tail of Netfilix, and I find things to watch.

But somewhere along the line you seem to have made a non-intuitive leap that the person who put up the web page that started this and I have no other experiences that we enjoy than watching hollywood movies. That's a heck of a jump. That person enjoyed Remington Steele and enjoys old hollywood movies, so she created this web page connecting the two things to share her enjoyment. How you then decided that therefore she has nothing else in her life, or even that she has never watched anything but Hollywood movies, I'll never figure out. Maybe you could explain?

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>>>But what if more joy comes from getting to know things you didn't know? Seeing the whole Earth and all its different people, and at that not necessarily limit myself to those who speak my language, what then? I guess I'd better get into traveling if I was born here, for there's much more outside this tower that you'll never see on the pewter screen.
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>>What on earth does travel have to do with watching movies while growing up? Is that what you do when you travel? Go to Spain so you can spend your time in movie theatres watching Spanish movies? Travel to Malaysia to watch Malaysian movies? Most people who travel spend very little, if any, time going to movies.
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>On Earth, so far :), yes it does. Movies were showing us (and I grew up watching Hollywood stuff, if you can believe that, but then also a lot of European, Mexican and Japanese as well; I also saw a bunch of Soviet flicks but mostly watched them with about dozen other people - they weren't popular at all) life in other countries long before we were able to go there and see them (in my case, about six years, I think - our first trip abroad was in '67). Travel and moving images were both ways of getting to know the world beyond what we knew.
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>I guess you'd never see it that way, as in your choice of movies there isn't much of the rest of the world, and even when there is, it's never made in the country it was about. But then, I should have guessed you'd never think of movies as a source of knowledge about other countries, if you think of them as solely entertainment - but my predictions are suboptimal most of the time anyway.

Sure I see movies as entertainment. As you are well aware, movies rarely show the truth. Or am I wrong. Do you believe everything you see in a movie? Do you automatically assume that if you saw something in a movie about a country, then that is how things really are?

>I actually went into a movie abroad, once, no - twice. One was a movie bar, watching Billy Wilder "Front page" over a [unspellable], i.e. a half-liter mug of dark German beer with friends who translated most of the German dub back into English :). The other was the unforgettable experience of Fellini's "Satiricon" in Amsterdam, in Italian with Dutch subtitles, with a friend translating bits of it. Simply because this movie was shown once on FEST in Belgrade, but wasn't distributed and I was itching with curiosity to understand what was it about.