I think that films appeal to personal taste and experience. Different viewers can have radically different responses to the same movie. And this has always struck me as surprising.

I have always thought that movies were an expression of style and substance combined. We can appreciate a movie that isnt necessarily outstanding in substance-but the style of the movie makes up for it. Or substance can make up for style .

I suspect that Hollywood is making a mistake with most of today’s movies–too much money thrown at the big name actors-and too little money offered to the writers. The writer is the soul of the movie-the actors are just tools to express this soul.

And by the way-that Father of Stacey’s sure sounds like a “character”.