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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!
I can certainly appreciate your point of view, htismaqe. A lot of people don't want to see this type of movie, but I'll say again that if you're in that type of audience then it's not being made for you, and I don't mean that in ANY derogatory sense. Just that you are not its target audience.
Likewise, I'm not the target audience of Harold and Kumar. I'm not sure I laughed even once. Same with SuperTroopers... that was the first movie in more than 10 years I didn't finish.
But I recognize its place in cinema, and I don't go around say that it encourages illegal drug use and I don't say it influences children.
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But that's what you don't get. The target audience of Harold and Kumar IS stoners. No it doesn't encourage illegal drug use, it GLORIFIES it. In the end, that's what all movies do - they put a topic on a HUGE screen, make it larger than life, and glorify it. An even better example would be Cheech and Chong - I highly doubt many people STARTED smoking pot because of Cheech and Chong, but there's a damn good reason "Up in Smoke" was one of the highest-selling home video titles of all time.
Which brings me back to the Dakota Fanning pic. What's the purpose?