A couple of peeves I have about the movies (add your own,please).

[RZM]

13. One thing that annoys me is that too many films try to hit every demo they possibly can

So many films now try to have little bit of everything. There has to be a little action, a little romance, a little comedy, and mandatory dick jokes (or at least somebody getting hit in the nuts).

There is a time and place for all of those things. I just think putting them all in the same movie usually doesn't work.

Another phenomenon is increasing attention to the foreign box office. Hollywood has always made a good percentage of its money abroad, but it seems now that films intended to be really big around the world are quietly ditching some of the specific cultural references that are key for wry comedy, realism, and insightful social commentary.

I remember I saw 'Being John Malkovich' in the theater in Europe. I went with some American friends, but the rest of the audience seemed to be locals. We were cracking up the whole time, but the rest of the people there really didn't seem to find the movie very funny. There were just too many quirky cultural references (such as the portal dumping people on the NJ turnpike) that weren't really in their frame of reference.