The cinema, as a form of popular culture has, more or less, always been a democratic medium, contingent on viewers showing up in support.
The “Drudge siren” headline this year is that Pixar’s uncharacteristically horrible Cars 2 will probably keep the house that Woody built completely out of the race.
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