Quote of the week

I had to drive over 20 miles to reach a theater that was showing Ponyo. Meanwhile, every single theater in the area is showing another Disney movie about violent, flatulent guinea pigs. Now of course, Disney knows a lot about marketing animated films, and I’m sure that they will say that most Americans want to see the guinea pigs and don’t want to see a classic film by the greatest living master of animation. But this is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Most Americans don’t know that Ponyo is available and couldn’t find a theater showing it even if they wanted to see it.

Bonus quote:

“Who needs experience? I have theory!”

—John C Wright, Titans of Chaos

2 thoughts on “Quote of the week”

  1. There are very few good things about living in Los Angeles, but the availability of good films is one of them. We walked across the street to see Ponyo last week, on a very nice screen, with not too many chatty children (just a few oohing and ahhing, which is fine and good) since it was late in the evening.

  2. There are very few good things about living in Los Angeles, but the availability of good films is one of them. We walked across the street to see Ponyo last week, on a very nice screen, with not too many chatty children (just a few oohing and ahhing, which is fine and good) since it was late in the evening.

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