The Oregon Daily Emerald's Enteriamment Guide
Decade closes with
field of movies that
lack in artistic merit
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holster revenues h.imputed In takeovers anil mergers
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the main ohjec live companies
will lake sure investments he
tore riskv ones And in mov ies.
— the sale investments are in
While movie-making suf
fered. it was instead a
great decade for the movie
making industry, which
raked in money as it never
has before.
Sequels riles S e Ini the
HUs m untold numbers
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tbe ruin ol Kenneth
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logo iMtli its lilllc symbol i'v
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( ould pul il every \\ here
U i ll ignore llic implu atioiis
ill .1 leu giant conglomerates
i ontrnllnig all the means nl m
liirin.ition ten mm Whether nr
nut i (iilip.lllies have am hidden
agendas lhe\ all have one puli
Iu line tu make money
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delit pa\iillls these huge take
nvers ami leveraged buyouts
.ue hurdened with {Sum paid
S t I trillion tin ( olumbial the
perhole we know l[i,il si'(|ui*ls
haw always been around And
we know a sequel is never .is
good as the tirst film but it wr
liked tile lirsl we pay to see the
sequel anyvvay We're sot lal
uniters ive want to revisit old
triends We liked (ihostbiislris.
and we hope there's some ot
tile old inagii lett for (Ihost
hnsler* II
With the industry mortgaged
to the lull e\er\ studio is look
ing lor the breakthrough blot k
blister Kvervone wants a
through the root film like K.iid
e/s o/ the Lost Ark and the sur
I'st svas !d gel that through I In
roof film is to remake it Again
And then one morn time \\ ho
i an altoril to take a i ham c on a
Spike I.ee or a (ins Van /.ant?
Video I love (ho stuff hut i
think tin- growing home video
craze is also responsible for the
downfall of the Amerii an nun
ie (Consider: going out to the
movies now is a hig event It
mists five. si\ mavbe seven
dollars There's parking to has
sle with, ( OIK ess ions to pa V loo
mui h for (or smuggle in). V\ e
want to take a date hei ause
we're afraid we ll look sdl\ it
we're h\ ourselves We don I
want to have a had time so liki
the movie industrv. we don t
take i ham es
When we slas at home, ev
ervthing is different \\f < a11
park our butts on the com h
\\ e i an he alone
One more beef with the
grow nig video ini ket It's re
sponsible for the one movie
news event of the Hits that is
trills evil, something despii
able even bevond the i onspua
is theors conglomerates merg
ing into Hig brother
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