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When I say movie ---
I mean anything from PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, FORREST GUMP, BAMBI, GHOSTBUSTERS, BATMAN RETURNS, THE STEPFATHER PART 3, and so on...
Those movies, be them comedic or tragic or terror inducing or attempting with or without success any combination of the three, have one or more people uniting others to reflect his her or their perspective.  It doesn't matter if you agree with the perspective or not.  It doesn't matter if it's well conveyed nor does it matter if the movie was self released or shot by an 8 year old whose work was so shoddy even he recognized it and never showed it to anyone.
Documentaries are not movies.  Documentaries are journalism.  Journalism is not art.  When it becomes art, it becomes an assault to journalism and an exception can perhaps be made.
Regardless, between all the appalling PLAN 9s and reboots of BATMAN and BASIC INSTINCT direct to video cashgrabs and borefests like ANGELA'S ASHES and mindtwerks like HEATHERS, you ultimately have a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE qty of films that get released every week.
Most people, when you combine the knowledge of your average movie goer, are only aware of at most 10 that come out each week.  A bonafide film buff might be aware of more than that and I'd say your average film goer's individual knowledge of movies is limited to maybe 3 or 4 movies that come out each week.  Maybe 5.  And of those movies, an average of 0 make history.  1 or 2 during the summer months might blow a person away and there may be 3 or 4 movies that get caught on video later in the year that really stick out in one's memory for years to come.
That's 6 DVDs in your collection for every year.  Each week?  There's 52 weeks in a year.  Seriously.  How many movies are in your DVD collection and how many came out all in the same year?  How many are you deadset on keeping and how many do you just happen to own for some reason you aren't really sure you're comfortable explaining?

There are 166 hours in a week.  From 10pm to 7pm nothing but talk shows and reality TV is aired on network TV in between what passes for journalism in the morning hours and afternoon and evening/night.
So from 7pm to 9:59pm roughly television studios attempt to bring the big screen to the small screen by providing bite size portions of drama, comedy and sometimes horror (mostly not the latter, although it does happen).  The problem with that is the bite sizes are ultimately expected to be followed up on.  You take a bit of THE GOOD WIFE, or LAW&ORDER, or SCANDAL, or BLUE BLOODS or THE BIG BANG THEORY, or FRAISER or THE SIMPSONS or DAWSON'S CREEK, whatever the show is, it's never the end when you just have one bite.  The effort is ongoing to produce a quality bite and that poses 2 monolithic problems A) The TV show doesn't ever end and the quantity of mediocre to poor output eventually overshadows what drew you to the show to begin with (i.e.: THE SIMPSONS).  B) The show, despite being extremely good, gets cancelled midway through a side plot that was developed only a few weeks ago, for any number of reasons such as an actor on the show posted a hotly contested opinion on Twitter or simply lost interest in working on the show or, worse yet, you and a small handful of other people were the only ones watching the show still and the majority of viewers lost interest somewhat suddenly for whatever reason.

People complain about lack of privacy regarding the availability of data. 
1) The data is collected.  It was never illegal to do so and therefore anyone can use that data to stalk you or your loved one(s) or extort information from you in exchange for a political contribution to an affiliate super pac.
or whatever
2) How many hours did people bemoan the presence of commercials on TV?  People without internet can still be heard complaining about commercials.  Here's an idea.  What if instead of hearing about your local car dealerships and furniture stores or fast food options in steady rotation, you actually received advertising that was useful and perhaps even entertaining?
Ads are a part of life.  You can get recommendations from friends and family when looking to buy something, but just as someone has to teach humanity the difference between right and wrong, someone has to tell people that the automobile -- a revolutionary concept at one point in time -- exists and furthermore, explanation of what it is and where to buy it also necessary.  If people watching TV are more apt to run for the hills until the programming resumes, you can bet investors are not going to want to try to explain their product on network TV unless these companies have data to support the idea that x demographic is more receptive to an explanation about this or that product's appeal.

Maybe I'm an oddity, but don't people generally have a percentage of their income that is almost guaranteed to get spent, come hell or high water?  Heck, even if it's just throwing it in a wishing well or spending it on a movie that's so far behind in paying for itself it makes you wonder if giving yourself a lobotomy would make you a pepper too(!)  It's not just the super rich who do this.  As far as I can tell, people with middle of the road incomes, and people in the lesser grips of poverty still spend money that perhaps should be saved but ultimately ends up spent without a whole lot of forethought.  Many of these dollars get spent habitually, on products that everybody and their dog knows good and well about, products that are so ubiquitous that advertising isn't even needed.
But imagine, a startup company selling medicinal quality soap that can't legally be sold as medicine just like Jesus can't be legally said to be The Truth --- let's start with one examplee, multiply it however you wish ----- let's name it Super Hero Man Inc.
they get access to data about consumers that give it - SHM Inc. - just enough if not ample info to know where and how to advertise their company & its products/services and in turn the half dozen employees that work there turn into 12 full dozen employees, with 2 or more dozen receiving full-time employment benefits.  And imagine if this company grew to the heights of Starbucks!  Wouldn't it be nice if all the big wigs that work on the board of directors at Starbucks had an extra set of dopplegangers?  One of those dopplegangers could end up being someone you know or someone whose will your included in (wink, wink)
C'mom people.  Quit fearing big business.  The government is who you should fear if you're going to fear anyone.  I guess it makes more sense to be on guard regarding the government.  True, business owners make careless decisions that cause much strife and nationally televised carnage.  However, how many people wishing they had more money and more recognition from their boss can honestly say they know enough about the circusmtances that led their neighbors' boss or possibly their own former boss to make said decisions?  Anyone reading this who happens to be operating on full cylinders, leaving nothing neglected or cut might be well to seriously consider starting a business if you have anything remotely unique to offer any faction of the the human race.  However, police put their lives on the line daily, and a few dozen incidences across the nation suddenly proves that police are not worthy of trust?  That may be true in a large number of PDs, but seriously -- "A large #" could be 5,000 and that would still not be remotely close to half of the police departments in the nation.  A big chunk of the south I'm sure has police departments that are systematically racist.  Does that mean you shouldn't trust them?  Ultimately, it's your God given right to live and breathe without police harrassmentt.  But if you set foot in an automoible, you're bound to make a traffic violation and if a cop pulls you over, you are not doing yourself any favors treating the situation like an outrage against humanity.  Even if your skin color is not "the weapon they fear", you still would be better off being appreciative of the police offier's job even if they did pull you over on false suspicions or nothing more than being nit picky and bored.  True, if they seize your property or get violent with you before you're able to act toward them with any shred of kindness, I would be worried about my future, knowing that I am unarmed and they are very much not and its' truly sickening when such a situation turns into blatant murder as has been documented on a few occassions over the past couple years.  Racism isn't limited to police.  It simply is that the police who are racist are more apt to be a problem because racist police offers are not exempt from having guns along with their badge IDs.  If MLK Jr & co.'s attempts to open people's eyes to the realities of the plight of colored people were not so successful, the dash cam videos would not exist because they would either be turned off or never purchased in the first place.  Cameras were what brought this nation's attn to the need for the Civil Rights Act and the Voter's Rights Act.  Why would the Blue Brotherhood, if still so heavily steeped in a mindset that was alive & flying high in 1955, want to be seen doing anything, let alone something that might make them need to register with Witness Protection or simply leave the state and change their legal name to avoid being in fear of a nighttime pummeling by their nearby resident(s)?
But anyway.  Due dillegence is key in all situations.  You can't control the outcome of your actions.  But generally good things will follow good deeds.  If your deeds are a combination of good and bad, you can expect a combination of good and bad in your life.
idk why I even started talking about that.  I'm sure there's plenty of information available that I could use to more clearly state my case.  I do think it's sick the way people take the statement "Black lives matter" and say it's a racist slogan.  That's like saying BATMEN MATTER.  Does that mean SUPERMEN don't?  Everybody loves Superman.  They always have.  Nobody ever had qualms about Superman.  He was a Cub Scout.  Batman was the mentally unstable half nephew who smiled kindly during the day and let loose his screws at night.  Enough people identiifed with Batman for him to have a hit TV show and a subsequent series of cartoon shows and the like, but I'm sure there were some parents who would have taken their kid to a shrink of they spent more time reading Batman than they did Superman.  Likewise, black lives have always been under question.  The ruling school of thought in The United States, among other nations acting on the impulse to colonize the planet, have come a long way from accepting this defense of slavery by defining black people as being something other than human, but there is still a large segment of society that values black lives less than white lives.  It may not be a conscious perspective and it may not even be an accurate statement to begin with.  After all, life itself is devalued by many people in the modern world.  Hatred festers and violence breaks out.  Sometimes it's race related, sometimes it's gender related, or political and/or religious.  Perhaps a better slogan for the BLM movement would be DON'T SHOOT ME JUST BECAUSE I'M BLACK.  DSJBB?  Those 5 letters alone are still a mouthful.  Or would that somehow imply that it's ok to shoot someone for just being white?  Um........I'm sure that has happened maybe a few times in the history of this nation...................................................I can't say I'm readily aware of anything recent....and by recent I mean within the past 5 years (yeah, I'm old now.  My 14 year old self would cringe)