Word: films
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film industry is like a cat with nine lives. It constantly seems to be able to come up with a new salvation. First there was the VCR, which has saved films that were theatrical failures, and now the opening up of European television puts a new value on second- and third-run new films. The film industry is probably on life six or seven...
...Have the standards of the American film audience declined...
...standards, the expectations. The audience lives on a diet of television that is something like McDonald's hamburgers -- nobody asks how nutritious they are; they taste good. Without any lack of gratitude, I remember thinking after Chariots of Fire won the Academy Award that it was the kind of film audiences should expect every single week and shouldn't be accounted the best film of the year. I only became comfortable when Killing Fields won. Somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I believed that taken together the two films deserved an Oscar...
Perhaps Video Sickness's most valuable asset is the quality of its acting. Its fourteen cast members, the majority of which are drawn from Harvard's improvisational theater groups, add a real vivacity to the film and often save it from lapsing into contrived, run-of-the-mill bad jokes...
...whole, Video Sickness is an energetic and often entertaining piece of work. It's worth seeing. Its problems in editing and cliched writing may cause a few yawns at some points in the film, but its fast-paced variety and skillful acting save it from growing stale...