Willie Mears: Blog 4

I have seen the movie Battle LA twice already. It's awesome. After the second time around however, I realized that there are not a lot of underlying themes in the movie, not a lot of subliminal messages, not a lot of thinking. Aliens attack Earth, we lose at first, then win. That's the movie, the whole movie. Now why is that the type of movie I am most drawn to? I think since I am an American and grew up watching mindless movies that is a factor, and also because I am a guy who would love to save Earth from aliens, if/when they attack, but why else? I mean I love watching movies in our class, and those are certainly ones that make you think, but I also feel like I need to take a nap after I watch those movies. The general consensus is that European films are deeper and make you think more, but I am skeptical of the notion that Europeans love to think and watch movies that are beyond complicated simply because they like to challenge themselves, but somehow lost to the Americans in the space race, atomic bomb race, and virtually any other race you can think of. It does not add up, unless the entire continent of Europe is, as a whole, dumber than americans. There is no way they love learning way more than americans but somehow cannot figure out how to launch a few guys into space before nose-picking, cheeseburger eating Americans can. The only think I can think of is that culturally we watch movies at different times and for different reasons. I watch a movie in order to not think, typically with friends and I usually talk for a lot of it. I think in Europe they watch movies less, and don't do it to unwind with buddies but probably more to think and be lame. I mean they certainly don't have to spend time thinking about space exploration, they are too busy trying to figure out why the heck Babett spent all that money on that one meal.