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Back then, moviegoers in search of culture were not only closer in time to the silents, they also acknowledged their stature, and stature mattered to audiences then more than it does now.
The exact character of your hat mattered a lot then, much as the look of your hair does now.
Because of nuclear weapons, the United States and the Soviet Union could not afford to do what great rival empires would previously have done: go to war over the places that really mattered to them, in this case Europe and China-Taiwan-Japan.
And one of the things that was most different was the feeling that music really mattered, that Nirvana's having a No.
The implied question in most criticism of the Fear and Loathing movie is: Why on earth did we ever think this crap mattered?