Auditing Your Tastes


There's an old saying, 'no accounting for taste.' That's a damned shame, really, because taste among our species and particularly the average denizen of north american culture is long overdue for an audit. In all things artistic the masses flock to garbage designed, as nearly as can be determined, for the sole purpose of placating the masses. But worse, even those of you among the top twenty percent, the shakers and doers, the minds and talent, grow increasingly lax and unfocused in your ability to distinguish art with merit from poorly disguised crap.

More than any other branch of the arts, it seems to me, your tastes (or, more to the point, LACK of taste) have affected the movie industry to its (and our) detriment. Art is, ultimately, driven by the patrons. Your money, your praise, your devotion all combine to determine which projects will be sponsored and which will not, literally creating a survival of the fittest environment where film 'evolves' to more effectively prey upon your wealth and endorsement. Of course, about fifteen years ago the investors, producers and studios began to notice something. They noticed that most of you weren't very smart. Then they noticed that you didn't have much taste. Then they caught on that most of you actually didn't have the facilities to appreciate more subtle characteristics of film. In essence, they realized that all those things that people had once felt were important in film, things like acting, storyline, plot, cinematography, etc etc, were beyond your ability to comprehend or desire to enjoy. Instead, they found that you were most easily impressed by a: blatant emotion and b: cool special effects. So by god that's what they gave you. It was simpler for them, a proper formula was established, and you all ate it up. As a result, the art of film and all of us who truly appreciate it have suffered.

Well, it's time for a reckoning. You've slipped by our agents for a few years, but it's time to pay the piper. Let's just look through your books here, shall we? What?!!! You don't have any records? Oh, of course, 'no accounting for taste.' Well, I guess we'll just have to use OUR records of your activities. It's always easier that way, anyway.

Movies you liked, but shouldn't have:

Notice that I say 'you', and not 'we' or 'I'. These are all the films which you retards gave a thumbs up to that you should have spit upon. These reaffirm the belief that most people lack the ability to distinguish art from bilge.

"But vs. Spy, couldn't it be that we just recognized merit where you didn't notice it?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, idiots.

"But vs. Spy, isn't quality in the eye of the beholder?" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, idiots.

If you think quality is in the eye of the beholder, then I'm sure you won't mind if your next air pilot uses his creative liberty to smash the plane, along with you and all the other passengers into the ground. Just like everything else in this fucking world, there is quality work and there is worthless crap. This applies to building a house and to writing a script, and until you figure that out, you're just another hopeless moron attempting to justify your own poor taste.

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