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To put a finer point on things, when a Hollywood production "sucks" it has failed its mega budget, mega stars and mega hype.
When an independent film "sucks" it has failed to get the best out of its limited resources, its part-time actors and its genuine artistic intentions.
To see a low-budget story derivative, badly told and badly executed pisses us off - we could probably do better, we think to ourselves (before pausing to remember the time and effort involved).
But to sit through a Hollywood blockbuster with similar failings pisses us off even more. Something about that old chestnut... money. And the thought of the cocaine-snorting fat guys in suits responsible for it all, rather than the over-enthusiastic film-school geeks.
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