Are you more or less likely to watch a movie or TV show if a character is a hometown kid?

[charlie and algernon]

Poll question: Are you more or less likely to watch a movie or TV show if a character is a hometown kid?

for me, it depends on the actor. I have more of a loyalty to Star Trek: TNG since Jonathan Frankes is a hometown boy. I also have a sense of pride knowing that Jin (Daniel Dae Kwan) is a local boy too. As for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, I could give a rats ass what movies he's in.

[Mike 03]

1. Where he or she comes from has less bearing than just if I am lucky enough to know them. The

ultimate quality of the work is a private issue. I would never want to hurt someone's feelings.

For example, living in Los Angeles or knowing a particular actor or actress didn't make me more likely to appreciate the work of a certain actress, or going to school with a particular artist didn't make me more likely to praise her work as a result of that, if that is what you are getting at?

Not sure.

ON EDIT:

Just to clarify, I would see anything that a friend or someone known to me personally did, as in terms of a work of art, or movie, or anything. But I would never lie about the quality of the work to a third person.

[charlie and algernon]

2. heh, I guess LA and NYC are the exceptions

since so many hail from one or the other. I guess I was thinking if you came from a small to mid size town and one of your own made it big. If you knew that person was in a movie or TV show would you go out of your way to watch their show?

[WildEyedLiberal]

3. I think I'd try to watch the show, yeah

Someone I went to high school with was on a season of Survivor. Another person I went to high school with relocated to New York to become an actor; he ended up being in a Chappelle Show skit and had a bit part in an episode of Law and Order SVU. So yeah, it was neat to see someone I remembered seeing around the halls on TV.

[charlie and algernon]

4. that's cool

there's a kid I distinctly remember falling asleep in the middle of the grade school christmas recital who's now racing in the Indy 500, was rookie of the year and has a couple indy car wins. it never gets old seeing his name flash by on the screen and his car screaming around the track.

[WildEyedLiberal]

5. Those of us from Small Town USA have to stick together

It doesn't take much to make my high school's Hall of Fame, :rofl:

Indy Car driver is pretty cool, though. No one that cool is from my town.

[Bucky]

6. More likely, but only for an episode or two.

I remember when it's someone from Houston. I think there were two Houston high school graduates on Gray's anatomy. That didn't make it seem like any less of a boring show, so I quit watching. But knowing the chick playing Gabriela on Xena Warrior Princess did help me remember to catch the show whenever I could.

[bigwillq]

7. Doesn't matter.

As long as it's good.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. Considering I come from a town of 1,100

no one is a hometown kid. :shrug: