Real people that only have enough time in a week to watch maybe one movie on a good week don't want to go to an art house and see some boring foreign film about people's feelings. Sorry Chris, but art house films are just not what regular folks want to see, unless there is excessive nudity and swearing.

Darn it, I always thought I was a normal person. But thanks to Zzzzz, I now realize that - because I have time to go to the arthouse and actually like my films to be intelligent and entertaining rather than mindless and boring - I'm actually a fake person. Thanks Zzzzz!

Though I would point out to Zzzzz that I'm fairly certain Chris is aware that "normal people" don't want to see arthouse films. The point of the article, as far as I can tell, is to try to make people more interested in them. Because I think people would find that many of the foreign and independent films that play in such theaters - though they take some getting used to - are far more intelligent, enlightening AND entertaining than a vast majority of the stuff they regularly see. But people are raised on juvenile Hollywood productions and their taste in film, unlike their taste in literature and music (and so on,) never quite evolves past that first childish stage. And then they convince themselves that foreign films are all "boring" and not for "normal people." But good job defending philistinism, Zzzzz.