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Why 99% Of Movies Today Are Garbage - Chris Gore

Chris Gore is a writer, comedian, author and television personality who has built a solid reputation as a hilariously outspoken voice in the entertainment world. As a teenager, Chris founded the brutally honest magazine Film Threat, which began as a fanzine while he was a college student in Detroit. As Film Threat evolved into a respected national magazine, he relocated to Los Angeles. The print magazine was retired in 1997 when it was re-launched as a web site. FilmThreat.com found a huge audience online and was named one of the top five movie web sites by the Wall Street Journal. Chris has appeared as a film expert on MSNBC, E!, CNN, Travel Channel, and Reelz Channel. Chis has also hosted shows on FX, Starz, IFC and G4TV’s Attack of the Show as the show’s film expert. His weekly movie review segment DVDuesday was among the most popular on G4. Chris is also an author, having written The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made and The Complete DVD Book. His book The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide is considered the bible of the industry and is required reading at film school.

Gore makes some excellent points in this interview he did I feel. He speaks alot about the corporate studios and how they are only interested in making films for the world, rather than American films for America. In that sense I believe his argument is on solid ground when he speaks of how America is losing it's identity to corporate interests who only care about money and political agendas first and foremost, instead of good entertainment firstly, which is what films are supposed to provide before anything else.

Lest we forget, globalization would not have happened had the industrial revolution and western colonialism not preceded them. Globalization is merely an extension and furtherance of both.