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The other day I attended a new movie, Sherlock Holmes. As a youth, I had seen many Sherlock Holmes movies based on the Conan Doyle’s characters staring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. I was excited to see a movie  based on these characters. Seeing this recent movie was an appalling and atrocious  experience. First, there was no connection to Conan Doyle”s characters. The character portrayed as Sherlock Holmes was the exact opposite of the character described by Conan Doyle. In addition, there was no story.

I should have been warned by  the many previews I sat through before the “feature” film. The previewed movies were an insult to anyone over 8 years old. All these movies featured their version of “car chases”. I left the theater asking myself why I wasted 2 hours to sit through this horrible motion picture.

Then I thought, why would any rational person spend millions of dollars to produce this worthless trash. Obviously, the producers deduced that their was a huge market for this level of entertainment.

The 2009 estimate of US population is about 315,000,000. The median age is 37 years old. So half our population is over 36. The  population 15 to 30 years old is only 20% of the total US population. This 20% of the population has a major impact of the other 80%.

My only conclusion was this youthful segment of the population was the lucrative market the producers of these junk are seeking.  Apparently, much of the Billions of dollars spent on producing entertainment is dictated by the tastes of this 20%.

No wonder George Bernard Shaw wrote about youth being wasted on youth. This is a sad commentary on our education system and the mental health of this “lucrative” market.

Incidently, as I was leaving the theater, most of the comments I heard , were similar to what I have written about this “movie”. When I arrived home, my wife reminded me that she had told me that all the reviews of this movie said it was horrible. I should have listened.