Standard Of Cinema and What is Entertainment?

      The standards of cinema have evolved immensely in the last 20 years. One can see that what people considered entertainment 20 years ago would not bring in a large audience today. This raises the question of the involvement of technology within the cinema industry. With the ever-growing technology that is being applied to cinema today, is it that humans are getting harder to entertain or the movie- makers need more special affects to get their vision across?

     There is a large amount of cinema that people consider entertainment that is just embodying the everyday life of an individual or character. On the other hand, a new movie called "Gods and Kings" is absolutely loaded with special effects and epic scenes. It seems also destruction action movies is the new standard for action thrillers. 

      The term comedy is left up to the receiver of the comedy. Comedians like Eddie Murphy were breaking the limitations with what could be said and done with his tight leather apparel and raunchy jokes. It seems today that in order to get an audience to laugh comedians must be that more raunchy and outrageous, compared to the guys poking each other's eyes out. 

     Modern movies also are acting as advocates for the major issues in society. I see it all over. These issues include: gay rights, women equality, and marijuana. It seems one cannot see any genre of movie without seeing at least of these themes being pushed into audience's view. 

     One can see through cinema and comedy where society is going and the direction of the progression of thought. 

This is post number 7, I'm all out of standards at this point!