Blockbuster Movies or Thought Provoking Film

In a recent interview with Ron Bennington Don Cheadle talked about the roles of Popcorn/Blockbuster Movies vs more serious Films:

Don Cheadle: And I think, look, life has gotten exponentially harder for a lot of people. And it make sense that on a Friday night, people don’t necessarily want to go and spend– what it is now, $15, and if you want anything at the concession stand, add another $30, and you have to park and if you have a babysitter, now its $120 to go to a movie. Do I want to go to the movie and then work? Some people are like no. I want to go to the movie and turn my brain off, and just see some pretty pictures, and watch the actors walk around and look pretty and say funny shit to each other, and then I want to walk out and go, ahh I didn’t think about my life for two and a half hours– that was great. And I’m all good with that. I think movies’ primary job is to entertain. Some people though, want to go and they’re like, okay I want to think about Rwanda, I want to think about the vicissitudes of racism and how that affects us, I want to think about these bigger ideas, and that’s where those smaller, important, interesting movies come in. Where you can be nuanced. Where you can play with it a little bit.

If you had to choose between only being able to see blockbusters, or only the kinds of films that make you think, which would you pick?

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