英語リスニング - No.342 Movie Critique
Todd talks about what he does not like about movies.
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Todd: OK. I'mgoing to talk about movies. I love movies. I think many, many peoplearound the world today love movies. I probably see one or two moviesa week on DVD in my room. I watch the movies on my computer so I ama big, big fan of movies, and I watch them all the time, but I havethree big complaints about movies, about Hollywood, my country thatI wish they would change. The first complaint is that movies have toomany guns. This really bothers me. If you go into a video store andyou look at the cover of all the movies, almost on 50% or more of themovie covers there is somebody holding a gun, and I think this is absolutelycrazy. In my country, unfortunately there are many guns, but in reality,you never see guns. People have guns, but it's not common to see a personwith a gun and in movies, there's always guns and shooting and killingand violence and blood and I just think it's unnecessary, so I reallywish that they would not have so many guns in movies and maybe not somuch violence. My second complaint is that the stories of most of themovies today from Hollywood are terrible. They're so bad that you can'teven watch the movie. I guess most movies now are geared towards specialeffects and visual effects so the story is often really bad and I thinkthat's just terrible.
I wish Hollywood wouldmake fewer movies, and concentrate on movies with a really good story,like my favorite movie is a movie called "Wall street" andit just has a fantastic story. Another movie I really liked was "ThePaper" and also "Field of Dreams" and both these movieshave really good stories and almost no special effects, so I think thatwe don't need so many special effects in movies. And my last thing,my last complaint about movies, is that, or Hollywood, that they stoponly using beautiful people. Every time you see a movie, or movie stars,it's always really beautiful people, but in reality most of us, definitelymyself, we're not beautiful. Most people look average so why don't theyjust use actors and actresses that look average. I'm sure that thereare many, many really good actors and actresses that just aren't beautifuland they would do a fantastic job in a movie and it would be a reallygood story, compelling story, but they don't get the role because they'renot beautiful and they're not young, and I just think that's kind ofsad. I know that movies are the way they are because they are gearedtowards younger people, but I think there's a lot of older people, likemyself, I'm 35, who would like to see more movies with good stories,less violence, less special effects, good writing, and people that lookaverage like everybody else.