Something I was thinking about recently after seeing the Incredibles, which I imagine will be one of the top grossing movies of the year. Seems to get near unanimous acclaim from mainstream music listeners who proudly display Usher's latest CD as the newest addition to their collection, as well as indie snobs like me who call a band sellout if they move more than 20,000 copies of their latest. Well, I'm not really that bad...but you get the point. Troy loved it too and he, like me, probably doesn't even know half the people in the Billboard top 10 albums of the year. So is mainstream music really that different from mainstream film? I'm not really a good barometer because I don't see many movies, so for all I know, if fed a steady diet of low budget indie films maybe the Incredibles would come off like the latest Avril Lavigne or Jessica Simpson or Norah Jones album? Whaddaya think? Is mainstream taste better for film than music? Or am I just a jaded listener who can no longer appreciate some of the same joys that the average listener can? Or maybe the Incredibles is just a fluke - like that occasional piece of music that captures both the average listener and the jaded indie snob as well?