Seabiscuit
July 26th 2003
I just saw Seabiscuit — very good movie, I highly reccomend it.
But that’s not really what I want to talk about right now. I just want to quickly comment on a certain minute-long clip that was shown before the movie — it was the MPAA’s ad against movie piracy (”Movies: they’re worth it.”). I was appalled. But not at the Ad, nor the premise. I agree with the MPAA. Movies are worth it, and pirated movies probably do cost the industry quite a bit of money. But I wasn’t appalled that they were advertising against piracy. Nor was I appalled that they charged me $9.50 to get in the theater to see the movie; nor that they charge half that for a coke and as much for nachos.
No, I was appalled that they played the music to ‘Contact’ in the background while running that ad. Contact… it makes me laugh, it’s so ironic….
“See, in all our searching, the only thing that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”
“I was part of something wonderful, something that changed me forever; a vision of the Universe that tells us undeniably how tiny, and insignificant, and how rare and precious we all are. A vision that tells us we belong to something that is greater than ourselves. That we are not, that none of us are alone.”
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