Actors - Is there space for them in a civilised society?

allend66

I've just watched a Mike Douglas film on Beeb1 (thanks to my comag SL65 + AMOS 4w) : "Don't Say a Word".

I'm sue you know the type of thing... well-off middle class fam (goodies), ugly, English-accented baddies. Baddies kidnap cute 10 yr-old daughter, Mike does a lot of acting, against the odds etc etc kills baddies (although in a super rare twist, the head-badguy was not dispatched, only to come back from the dead in a last desperate attack, to be decisively offed, to audience apreciation), cute all-American family live happily ever after.

Moan number 1 - does anybody else agree that they mix the background music too loud, inevitably leading to you not hearing the actors emoting in their finer "gentler moments"

Moan number 2 - Is it just me, or does anybody else think that actors are a complete waste of space?!? I mean if I were England now, I'd be paying over 100 quid just to have a TV in the house!!!!!

BGonaSTICK

1) This is probably just due to your age
2) This is just a tax on fun. If you didn't have a TV tax, you would have a tax on condoms. Or black cherry yoghurt. Or both.

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allend66

Great, thanks, so what your saying is (1) I'm past it, and (2) you have to pay through the nose for everything?

Remind me to PM you if I should ever feel depressed and need cheering up...

Lancelot

Wonder what the more Freudian amongst us wold make of the use of the words condom and black cherry yoghurt in the same reply


L.

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allend66

Oh, that's your basic narcissistic Oediple complex, with shades of Don Juan syndrome.But what about actors? flog them or stone them?

rolfw

Most of them are already stoned.

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Channel Hopper

Its our politicians that dabble in flogging
(mind you, most believe they are comedians)

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dig deep

So, U have them to

actor or comedian all end up in the Gov