Gotcha. With my eye towards the “Overrated/Underrated Movie” thread, I’ve been considering seeing the new Robocop…with the sad expectation that it would likely be crap.
And to your point about how our ideals have changed (or at least the things that tend to enrage us), in a thread some time ago, someone made the contention that American art is dead as a political statement because we don’t have anything worthwhile to say (implying, I suppose, that we’re past the point of being controlled by the wealthy and cowtowing to the government). Maybe American cinema (at least Hollywood cinema) has reached the point where, like art, we don’t have anything useful to say anymore? I know someone will jump in here and throw down several examples of such art that makes valid points, but it seems the only boundaries Hollywood is interested in lately is either the biggest budget or the biggest return, instead of being a groundbreaking political/social statement that gets folks thinking.
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