"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Ron wrote:
>> I was watching the lost in space movie and feeling kinda sad:
>> we have gone from loving and caring families to ****ed up,
>> dysfunctional ones. But was it really necessary to make the
>> Robinsons such a train wreck? Couldn't the writers made them
>> the way they were baack in the '60s and still have a decent
>> movie? Maybe even a better movie?
>
> That's modern storytelling for you. Everything has gotten
> darker and grimmer than the original:
>
> Battlestar Galactica
> Bionic Woman
> Lost in Space
>
> Hollywood seems to have some pretty grim, dismal, depressed
> writers these days. In their stories, it's all darkness, evil
> conspiracies, paranoia, corruption, dysfunctional families.
Hollywood has always tried to reflect how society views itself. Now
how society *is*, mind you, but how we view ourselves. Pity they're
generally so *bad* at it.
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