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What happened to movies?
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| Why haven't they made decent movies in the last 10 years? remember american beauty and fight club and american psycho.. the beach..? I watched rock n rolla the other day and it reminded me of that time.. i miss great movies =( | 2011-02-08 23:56:00 Author: reiko57  Posts: 115 |
| In the last 10 years? What about Black Swan, The King's Speech, Inception, Toy Story 3, The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings, WALL-E, or The Social Network (those just being off the top of my head) ? I haven't seen it yet, but the new True Grit is also supposed to be really good. Are you talking about a specific genre? | 2011-02-09 00:36:00 Author: Patronus21  Posts: 266 |
| In the last 10 years? What about Black Swan, The King's Speech, Inception, Toy Story 3, The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings, WALL-E, or The Social Network (those just being off the top of my head) ? I haven't seen it yet, but the new True Grit is also supposed to be really good. Are you talking about a specific genre? Exactly. Also, it's hard to do a thread like this without having mixed opinions. You might think one movie is GREAT while someone thinks it's poo. Like Inception, some people hated it but I liked it. The only thing happening is that there is almost no creativity, just remakes, but there's nothing wrong with that. As long as it's a good remake at least. | 2011-02-09 00:38:00 Author: Unknown User  |
| Also, it's hard to do a thread like this without having mixed opinions. You might think one movie is GREAT while someone thinks it's poo. Like Inception, some people hated it but I liked it. True. For example, reiko, you putting Rock N' Rolla next to movies like American Psycho and Fight Club confuses me. While it does eventually come down to an individual's opinion, I argue that a great enough number of people have a positive review of movies like Black Swan that you can at least say that it is accepted as a great example of film making, regardless of whether or not you would actually put in on your shelf (or hard drive). The only thing happening is that there is almost no creativity, just remakes, but there's nothing wrong with that. As long as it's a good remake at least. Also true. For example the remakes of The Fly and Ocean's Eleven I think are both great remakes. Then you've got movies like Scarface which were so well made that people don't even know anymore that it was a remake. Though on the flip side a lot of the movies I named are original. | 2011-02-09 01:10:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| I Know theres examples of what every one considers good film-making, I just miss the plethora of great movies of my early teen years, its hard if not impossible to find anything as good as even stuff like Go, the originality is dead, i guess i'm hoping people will prove me wrong here. =/ | 2011-02-09 01:36:00 Author: reiko57 Posts: 115 |
| I'm not really sure how I can respond to that more than I already have. There are a lot of good movies out there, and there are a decent number of original movies as well (see my previous list, though I can easily add to it). The problem you seem to be facing is that you're fighting against nostalgia. I'm not saying they weren't great movies. I'm 19 and movies like Back to the Future, Princess Bride, Young Frankenstein, and Dr. Strangelove are some of my favorites. It's like with people within my age range with video games: Super Mario 64 practically defined my childhood, but that shouldn't stop me and others my age from recognizing that fantastic games are still coming out. They're just no longer made in the style as those games because they've progressed to something new. | 2011-02-09 01:56:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| Ehh good points, imaybe it is just nostalgia.. Avatar was pretty awesome and theres a few things i do really like but i doubt i'll look back at these days as a twilight of film-making, so this is what its like to get old hrmmmm | 2011-02-09 02:25:00 Author: reiko57 Posts: 115 |
| Bieber happened. http://www.disneydreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Justin-Bieber-Never-Say-Never-Movie-Poster-22.jpg | 2011-02-09 03:02:00 Author: CyberSora Posts: 5551 |
| Bieber happened. http://www.disneydreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Justin-Bieber-Never-Say-Never-Movie-Poster-22.jpg well guys get your torches, we're having poster burnings | 2011-02-09 03:15:00 Author: wait wtf  Posts: 853 |
| Bieber happened. Lol to that point I concede. What happened to movies indeed. Still can't believe he got a movie that supposed to be his MEMOIR. Then of course it has to be in 3D. Meh. | 2011-02-09 04:00:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| Lol to that point I concede. What happened to movies indeed. Still can't believe he got a movie that supposed to be his MEMOIR. Then of course it has to be in 3D. Meh. Oh, haha. I thought that was a gag poster!  | 2011-02-09 04:06:00 Author: midnight_heist  Posts: 2513 |
| Bieber happened. Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers happened first. He's just perpetuating a terrible, terrible trend. | 2011-02-09 04:17:00 Author: Ninja_Gnome23  Posts: 198 |
| Bieber happened. http://www.disneydreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Justin-Bieber-Never-Say-Never-Movie-Poster-22.jpg <3 I have Goose Bumps <3 | 2011-02-09 04:40:00 Author: KILLA_TODDZILLA  Posts: 653 |
| <3 I have Goose Bumps <3 can you please direct your LAZOR!!!!!! to justin beiber? | 2011-02-09 04:44:00 Author: wait wtf Posts: 853 |
| In the last 10 years? What about Black Swan, The King's Speech, Inception, Toy Story 3, The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings, WALL-E, or The Social Network (those just being off the top of my head) ? I haven't seen it yet, but the new True Grit is also supposed to be really good. Are you talking about a specific genre? You forgot Shutter Island, If you like Inception you will like shutter island Bieber happened. http://www.disneydreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Justin-Bieber-Never-Say-Never-Movie-Poster-22.jpg Yea im pretty sure bieber was born 10 years ago | 2011-02-09 04:52:00 Author: SketchNZ  Posts: 1668 |
| Oh, haha. I thought that was a gag poster! Oh god if only, lol. Comes out February 11th in the US. | 2011-02-09 05:01:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| The Montana/Jonas/Bieber thing is cyclical. But as for the movies themselves, there has been a noticeable decline in overall quality. Then again, the movies we have gotten, as Patronus has pointed out, have been glorious shining bastions of epic win. And yes, True Grit is awesome, if a bit on the side of cynicism. But that's personal taste; it's excellently made. | 2011-02-09 05:05:00 Author: Astrosimi  Posts: 2046 |
| i have t-shirts older than Bieber | 2011-02-09 05:16:00 Author: reiko57 Posts: 115 |
| Avatar was good :3 | 2011-02-09 05:30:00 Author: Iudicium_86  Posts: 167 |
| The Sky Castle, Chihiro's Travel, The Wrestler, Tsotsi, The Departed, Million Dollar Baby, Gladiator, Frost/Nixon, Black Hawk Dawn, Sideways, Memento, Ray, Am?lie, Up, Wall E, Toy Story 3, Ratatouille, The fountain, Changeling, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, 4 months 3 weeks and 2 days, Avatar, M?nich, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2, Inglorious Basterds, How to train your Dragon, 21 grams, The Dark Knight, Unbreakable, A.I. :Artificial Intelligence, Children of Men, The new world, Big Fish, Road to perdition, Troy, Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events, Revolutionary Road, The Reader... Are you joking really? Because this are the films that I remember I've watched and all of them are from the past 10 years, and for me, the most of them are master pieces, and I'm sure that I have not seen everything that this decade brought. | 2011-02-09 06:24:00 Author: rOckalOvEer x73  Posts: 112 |
I agree that films and actually music for that matter isnt as good these days as it used to be, Fight Club, Blade, Christine, Gone in 60 Seconds, Maximum Overdrive, Terminator 2, Scarface, The wraith, The list goes on and what have we had the past few years hmm WALL-E pretty good actually and a few things like it, and Drive Angry which I cant wait to watch but thats about it  | 2011-02-09 06:27:00 Author: ghostrider135  Posts: 259 |
| The Sky Castle, Chihiro's Travel, The Wrestler, Tsotsi, The Departed, Million Dollar Baby, Gladiator, Frost/Nixon, Black Hawk Dawn, Sideways, Memento, Ray, Am?lie, Up, Wall E, Toy Story 3, Ratatouille, The fountain, Changeling, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, 4 months 3 weeks and 2 days, Avatar, M?nich, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2, Inglorious Basterds, How to train your Dragon, 21 grams, The Dark Knight, Unbreakable, A.I. :Artificial Intelligence, Children of Men, The new world, Big Fish, Road to perdition, Troy, Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events, Revolutionary Road, The Reader... Are you joking really? Because this are the films that I remember I've watched and all of them are from the past 10 years, and for me, the most of them are master pieces, and I'm sure that I have not seen everything that this decade brought. ok sir there are some great movies on that list no doubt, but wheres your Boogie Nights? or I noticed you reference a couple Tarantino films, how come nothing has come close to Pulp Fiction or even reservoir dogs? movies just aren't the same, i guess things just evolve, i'm just wondering if we haven't started devolving here.. | 2011-02-09 07:03:00 Author: reiko57 Posts: 115 |
| Remember, simply money. People msay want to make all kinds of movies, but if the person at the top thinks it won't sell, it won't be suported. This is mostly set by "current trends." If 2 scary movies have been recently released and sold well, they'll approve more of scarry movies at that time, than others, fo example. Which is why you usually see 3 movies of the same style/ genre release at about the same time, a lot of the times recently. | 2011-02-09 07:27:00 Author: Silverleon  Posts: 6707 |
| Comparing is not the essence of movies, or art. If you do it, then you never are going to be happy with something new. You just have nostalgy. | 2011-02-09 07:35:00 Author: rOckalOvEer x73 Posts: 112 |
| Exactly... I was watching I-Robot the other night. And if it wasn;t for Will Smith... all of the over the top action sequences.... and the blatant product placement... it may have been a half decent film. But there is a whole industry in Hollywood designed to make movies as expensively as possible. Regardless of wether the film needs it or not. If they hadn't gone all out to make I-Robot yet another Summer Action Blockbuster - and instead concentrated more on what was in the original story written by Isaac Asimov - they may have made a decent film... instead fo the Art Crime that they ended up producing. If they had given the film a much slower pace and made it more about the book, instead being about converse trainers and fist fights on the bonnets of audi cars... it would have been 1000x better. And then there's the surrounding marketing strategy. Hollywood will churn out some god awful piece of populist crud with no artisitic merit what-so-ever... in this instance lets call it "Summer Action Film 4".. Now, the way we have our media organisations set up (originally for the dissemination of important news and events) makes it easy for a crappy action flick like "Summer Action Film 4" to be marketed globally - appearing on billboards, bus-stops, breakfast shows, newspapers, magazines etc etc etc. And they can use their hundred million dollar budget to "force" awareness of the film on you. Even if you were to bury yourself under a rock, you still wouldn't be able to shield yourself from awareness of this "Summer Action Film 4". All you can do is refuse to go and see it (though you would still probably know the entire story, simply from the trailer)... and go see something "good" instead. & there are good films being made, but these won't be the big hollywood blockbusters, written by audience consensus and mass marketed to you. | 2011-02-09 07:54:00 Author: Macnme  Posts: 1970 |
| Hi, Avatar is a clich?-ridden mess with pretty visuals. Please refrain from mentioning it in any list of good movies. Thanks! | 2011-02-09 08:37:00 Author: Syroc Posts: 3193 |
| http://io9.com/#!5748577/are-we-witnessing-the-death-spiral-of-the-hollywood-blockbuster | 2011-02-09 11:27:00 Author: Rabid-Coot  Posts: 6728 |
| The Sky Castle, Chihiro's Travel, The Wrestler, Tsotsi, The Departed, Million Dollar Baby, Gladiator, Frost/Nixon, Black Hawk Dawn, Sideways, Memento, Ray, Am?lie, Up, Wall E, Toy Story 3, Ratatouille, The fountain, Changeling, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, 4 months 3 weeks and 2 days, Avatar, M?nich, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2, Inglorious Basterds, How to train your Dragon, 21 grams, The Dark Knight, Unbreakable, A.I. :Artificial Intelligence, Children of Men, The new world, Big Fish, Road to perdition, Troy, Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events, Revolutionary Road, The Reader... Are you joking really? Because this are the films that I remember I've watched and all of them are from the past 10 years, and for me, the most of them are master pieces, and I'm sure that I have not seen everything that this decade brought. Oh and don't forget Pan's Labyrinth | 2011-02-09 12:42:00 Author: Dragonvarsity  Posts: 5208 |
| People come out with comments like this for every generation of movies (and games for that matter), but the nostalgia blinkers are firmly on. There are a wide array of amazing films released every year - just because 90% of the Hollywood system is pumping out unimaginative, formulaic bilge doesn't negate the other 10% of interesting films, the indie scene or the increasing availability of quality foreign films. As other people have said, the last year seems to have been especially good. Look at the Oscar nominations; very few of the films up for awards are typical Oscar bait. Go watch Black Swan, King's Speech, The Fighter, 127 Hours or True grit if you want cinema. Dvd/blu ray your thing? Go pick up Inception, Toy Story 3, Social Network or The Illusionist... None of those tickle your fancy, then I can't help restore your faith in movies. Go sift through the many, many classics that have probably passed you by or delve into foreign cinema. I reccomend Korean cinema - anything by Park Chan Wook! Don't let the rubbish distract you from the genuinely brilliant films out there - no shortage of them, you just might have to look a little harder. | 2011-02-09 12:49:00 Author: Unknown User |
| Long list of films The Sky Castle, Chihiro's Travel, The Wrestler, Tsotsi, The Departed, Million Dollar Baby, Gladiator, Frost/Nixon, Black Hawk Dawn, Sideways, Memento, Ray, Am?lie, Up, Wall E, Toy Story 3, Ratatouille, The fountain, Changeling, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, 4 months 3 weeks and 2 days, Avatar, M?nich, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2, Inglorious Basterds, How to train your Dragon, 21 grams, The Dark Knight, Unbreakable, A.I. :Artificial Intelligence, Children of Men, The new world, Big Fish, Road to perdition, Troy, Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events, Revolutionary Road, The Reader... Are you joking really? Because this are the films that I remember I've watched and all of them are from the past 10 years, and for me, the most of them are master pieces, and I'm sure that I have not seen everything that this decade brought. Nearly everyone of those films is exactly the kind of hollywood trash that I usually complain about - not all of them, but certainly "most"  | 2011-02-09 12:56:00 Author: Macnme Posts: 1970 |
| Long list of films The Sky Castle, Chihiro's Travel, The Wrestler, Tsotsi, The Departed, Million Dollar Baby, Gladiator, Frost/Nixon, Black Hawk Dawn, Sideways, Memento, Ray, Am?lie, Up, Wall E, Toy Story 3, Ratatouille, The fountain, Changeling, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, 4 months 3 weeks and 2 days, Avatar, M?nich, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2, Inglorious Basterds, How to train your Dragon, 21 grams, The Dark Knight, Unbreakable, A.I. :Artificial Intelligence, Children of Men, The new world, Big Fish, Road to perdition, Troy, Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events, Revolutionary Road, The Reader... Are you joking really? Because this are the films that I remember I've watched and all of them are from the past 10 years, and for me, the most of them are master pieces, and I'm sure that I have not seen everything that this decade brought. Nearly everyone of those films is exactly the kind of hollywood trash that I usually complain about - not all, but certainly "most" Here's a tip... always go and see the film first and then read the book after... because the books are *always* better and can spoil your enjoyment of a film. I do tend to find myself having to get my jollies from Foriegn/Independant Cinema as I am increasingly alienated from popular culture. | 2011-02-09 12:59:00 Author: Macnme Posts: 1970 |
| Not sure all of the movies mentioned are just from the last ten years, but either way I think the point of this topic has been accomplished. We all know that great movies have indeed been coming out, though we are also willing to admit that we die a little on inside when they announce Scary Movie 5 (I s**t you not), and that happens on a regular basis. Are we treated to a Dark Knight every time we go see a superhero movie? Clearly not, but the Spider-Man 3's serve their purpose too because the stark contrast makes the masterpieces that much more epic. Plus we have received a large amount of entertainment (due to sheer stupidity) from craptastic releases like 1991's Captain America. | 2011-02-09 16:55:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| I hate the movies that do this: "Oh we made a lot of money with the first one, let's make another!" "We made a lot of money with the second one too! We can't make another decent one though, we are out of ideas, but we can make more money! Let's make a crappy movie!" Most 3 part films fail. Also, for lulz http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/130283/original.jpg | 2011-02-09 16:58:00 Author: Unknown User |
| I tend to not be as hard on Avatar as other people simply because of the fact that most movies follow some sort of template. Avatar just happens to be part of a smaller sub-genre so there are only a small number of movies to compare it to (such as Pocahontas or Dances With Wolves), and for whatever reason people have suddenly caught on to the template. Every genre has a template that many movies follow. I argue that as a movie on its own, it's a solid movie. Yeah, the way that the military is portrayed as culturally-insensitive morons is a little insulting and is still a fault of the movie, but overall it's not bad. To use Plinkett's words: It's effective. | 2011-02-09 17:08:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| Ehh good points, imaybe it is just nostalgia.. Avatar was pretty awesome and theres a few things i do really like but i doubt i'll look back at these days as a twilight of film-making, so this is what its like to get old hrmmmm Avatar was good :3 WHOAHWHOAHWHOAH Lemme stop you right there. You took AVATAR as an example of a good movie made in the last 10 years? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? Avatar may have great effects and may have made a ****load of money, that doesn't make it a good movie. Try to look beyond the visuals, and tell me what you find. Well actually, let me spoil it for you, you will find ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. The movie is complete crap made to make money. Watch something people made to make ART and not to make some idiot rich, please. The Kings speech, A single man, etc. those are movies, not a bunch of blue computer made people jumping around. Good day. | 2011-02-09 19:47:00 Author: ExplosiveCheddar  Posts: 978 |
| WHOAHWHOAHWHOAH Lemme stop you right there. You took AVATAR as an example of a good movie made in the last 10 years? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? Avatar may have great effects and may have made a ****load of money, that doesn't make it a good movie. Try to look beyond the visuals, and tell me what you find. Well actually, let me spoil it for you, you will find ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. The movie is complete crap made to make money. Watch something people made to make ART and not to make some idiot rich, please. The Kings speech, A single man, etc. those are movies, not a bunch of blue computer made people jumping around. Good day. Statement: 10/10 Making a Good Point: 7/10 Keeping Your Cool: Not so great.... | 2011-02-09 19:57:00 Author: CyberSora Posts: 5551 |
| WHOAHWHOAHWHOAH Lemme stop you right there. You took AVATAR as an example of a good movie made in the last 10 years? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? Avatar may have great effects and may have made a ****load of money, that doesn't make it a good movie. Try to look beyond the visuals, and tell me what you find. Well actually, let me spoil it for you, you will find ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. The movie is complete crap made to make money. Watch something people made to make ART and not to make some idiot rich, please. The Kings speech, A single man, etc. those are movies, not a bunch of blue computer made people jumping around. Good day. Lol true Avatar shouldn't be on any list that has to do with "best movies". The movie is art in its own right. The difference being that Cameron spent so much time on the absolutely beautiful aesthetics, that the actual characters suffered. So is it a fantastic movie? No. Can you get some really amazing still from it? Yes. Saying that Cameron isn't trying to make art is a little unfair. For the characters I thought Weaver at least managed to make her character bearable. Course, she's much more talented than most of the others, lol. | 2011-02-09 20:13:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| Lol true Avatar shouldn't be on any list that has to do with "best movies". The movie is art in its own right. The difference being that Cameron spent so much time on the absolutely beautiful aesthetics, that the actual characters suffered. So is it a fantastic movie? No. Can you get some really amazing still from it? Yes. Saying that Cameron isn't trying to make art is a little unfair. For the characters I thought Weaver at least managed to make her character bearable. Course, she's much more talented than most of the others, lol. What I meant by art, was by making a movie that would turn into a classic. A movie that in the year 8,973 will be worth watching. A movie that has a message of any sort. Example: Metropolis | 2011-02-09 20:15:00 Author: ExplosiveCheddar Posts: 978 |
What I meant by art, was by making a movie that would turn into a classic. A movie that in the year 8,973 will be worth watching. Example: Metropolis  Haven't actually seen Metropolis. Maybe use an example that's a little more recognizable like Wizard of Oz or Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder version)? EDIT: Lol timing. | 2011-02-09 20:20:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| Haven't actually seen Metropolis. Maybe use an example that's a little more recognizable like Wizard of Oz or Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder version)? EDIT: Lol timing. Metropolis was the first science-fiction movie ever made, in 1927. It's got a very interesting history (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/movies/05metropolis.html), and it's amazing how ahead of it's time it is. I am aware it's not recognizable, I really think it should be more recognizable than The wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka, and I don't think you should compare THIS with THOSE. | 2011-02-09 20:29:00 Author: ExplosiveCheddar Posts: 978 |
| why cant i like Avatar? can i be me so no one thinks i'm bitin thier style, i hate the idea of role models, trust me its better this way. | 2011-02-09 20:30:00 Author: reiko57 Posts: 115 |
| I think films are getting a little lazy when it comes to originality. A lot of movies nowadays start off on a creative premise but aren't consistent. I think that's why most of them don't have that "magic" iconic feel to them like the old movies had. (ex. Indiana Jones, The Matrix, etc.) I think Christopher Nolan is the only "good" director right now. Inception is probably the most iconic movie I've seen this generation. Avatar was beautiful I'll admit but the story could have been so much better. It's sad that a movie with so much potential goes with a Pocahantas spin-off. A masterpiece should appease more than just the senses, also the mind. On a positive note I think the newer generations will make better movies. Like right now I'm 18 and I have so many ideas for movies I don't know what to do with them lol. | 2011-02-09 20:33:00 Author: comishguy67 Posts: 849 |
| why cant i like Avatar? can i be me so no one thinks i'm bitin thier style, i hate the idea of role models, trust me its better this way. I never said you couldn't like it... | 2011-02-09 20:35:00 Author: ExplosiveCheddar Posts: 978 |
| I think films are getting a little lazy when it comes to originality. A lot of movies nowadays start off on a creative premise but aren't consistent. I think that's why most of them don't have that "magic" iconic feel to them like the old movies had. (ex. Indiana Jones, The Matrix, etc.) I think Christopher Nolan is the only "good" director right now. Inception is probably the most iconic movie I've seen this generation. Avatar was beautiful I'll admit but the story could have been so much better. It's sad that a movie with so much potential goes with a Pocahantas spin-off. A masterpiece should appease more than just the senses, also the mind. On a positive note I think the newer generations will make better movies. Like right now I'm 18 and I have so many ideas for movies I don't know what to do with them lol. sell them dude, write a few pages, TM it, and sell it! | 2011-02-09 20:36:00 Author: reiko57 Posts: 115 |
| I think films are getting a little lazy when it comes to originality. A lot of movies nowadays start off on a creative premise but aren't consistent. I think that's why most of them don't have that "magic" iconic feel to them like the old movies had. (ex. Indiana Jones, The Matrix, etc.) I think Christopher Nolan is the only "good" director right now. Inception is probably the most iconic movie I've seen this generation. Avatar was beautiful I'll admit but the story could have been so much better. It's sad that a movie with so much potential goes with a Pocahantas spin-off. A masterpiece should appease more than just the senses, also the mind. On a positive note I think the newer generations will make better movies. Like right now I'm 18 and I have so many ideas for movies I don't know what to do with them lol. Write them, share them  you could go far ;D | 2011-02-09 20:37:00 Author: ExplosiveCheddar Posts: 978 |
| I never said you couldn't like it... oh good cause i do like it, if other people say it sucks, i cant help that , i still like | 2011-02-09 20:38:00 Author: reiko57 Posts: 115 |
| I think films are getting a little lazy when it comes to originality. A lot of movies nowadays start off on a creative premise but aren't consistent. I think that's why most of them don't have that "magic" iconic feel to them like the old movies had. (ex. Indiana Jones, The Matrix, etc.) I think Christopher Nolan is the only "good" director right now. Inception is probably the most iconic movie I've seen this generation. Avatar was beautiful I'll admit but the story could have been so much better. It's sad that a movie with so much potential goes with a Pocahantas spin-off. A masterpiece should appease more than just the senses, also the mind. On a positive note I think the newer generations will make better movies. Like right now I'm 18 and I have so many ideas for movies I don't know what to do with them lol. I'm willing to agree with that. There is a bit of an original icon shortage. Personally I thought Scott Pilgrim had that potential, but it seems that will only be true with a small group of people. Within the last year or two there does seem to be a major shift in the way people are thinking about movies (ignoring Russell not evening playing the Uncharted game before wanting to direct the movie. MEH). | 2011-02-09 20:54:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpzUCA5i6zY Need I say more? | 2011-02-10 00:27:00 Author: Whalio Cappuccino  Posts: 5250 |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpzUCA5i6zY Need I say more? When I first saw that, about a year ago, and saw J.J. Abrams' name, I already knew I wasn't gonna know what the movie was about. J.J., Y U NO TELL US WHAT IT IS!? | 2011-02-10 01:40:00 Author: Unknown User |
| Write them, share them you could go far ;D Until one of the film directors goes online and decides to rip-off the idea. | 2011-02-10 03:34:00 Author: CyberSora Posts: 5551 |
| Until one of the film directors goes online and decides to rip-off the idea. thats what TM is for, and getting ripped off doesn't hurt it actually feels pretty good.. it feels good to create something worth stealing | 2011-02-10 03:37:00 Author: reiko57 Posts: 115 |
| Super 8 does look awesome. J.J. Abrams has produced enough good things (nerdgasmed over Star Trek) that I'm willing to trust him with whatever this is. He has a little info slip since he recognizes that Super 8 is coming in the midst of a bunch of really big movies that everyone knows a lot about. | 2011-02-10 04:10:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| Super 8 does look awesome. J.J. Abrams has produced enough good things (nerdgasmed over Star Trek) that I'm willing to trust him with whatever this is. He has a little info slip since he recognizes that Super 8 is coming in the midst of a bunch of really big movies that everyone knows a lot about. ohreally? What is that? o: | 2011-02-10 04:13:00 Author: Unknown User |
| To me, all people need to know is that it's an adventure about a small town and it's funny, it's sweet, it's scary and there?s a mystery: What is this thing that has escaped? What are the ramifications of its presence? And what is the effect on people? Full information here. (http://screenrant.com/jj-abrams-super-8-movie-sandy-100292/) | 2011-02-10 04:17:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| Originality isn't the problem... it's execution (which is what some of these directors deserve ) As time goes by, it gets more and more difficult to come up with any truely "original" ideas, and they instead fall back on the tried and tested tropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage). [tvtropes is a great website - I would recommend everyone to take a while to bumble around the site ]When cultural black-holes like Avatar go on to become box-office smashes... while true "Works of Art" like Titus remain completely unwatched by the masses - it makes me despair. I mean, Titus has one of the finest actors of our generation (Sir Anthony Hopkins), giving one of his finest screen performances, along to one of the worlds all-time best plays, written by what is widely regarded as the greatest playwright that ever lived.... and what's more, manages to do it in an *original* style.... and NO-ONE has seen it?!!?! You all have only yourselves to blame for the crap that gets released | 2011-02-10 14:29:00 Author: Macnme Posts: 1970 |
| You all have only yourselves to blame for the crap that gets released It does seem to boil down to this in the end. If Hollywood makes lots of crap, it's because it has been proven that crap makes money. | 2011-02-10 16:28:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| You all have only yourselves to blame for the crap that gets released pfff i saw office space in the theatre | 2011-02-10 16:58:00 Author: reiko57 Posts: 115 |
| It does seem to boil down to this in the end. If Hollywood makes lots of crap, it's because it has been proven that crap makes money. Well, with a big percentage of the world having an I.Q. lower than a mop, we wont be able to change it easily. | 2011-02-10 16:58:00 Author: Unknown User |
| Well, with a big percentage of the world having an I.Q. lower than a mop, we wont be able to change it easily. I.Q.? What's that taste like? =P | 2011-02-10 17:09:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| I.Q.? What's that taste like? =P Tacks and Nails with Rabbit Ears. | 2011-02-10 17:10:00 Author: Unknown User |
| Tacks and Nails with Rabbit Ears. breakfast burrito! | 2011-02-10 17:17:00 Author: reiko57 Posts: 115 |
| It's a mob mentality. "The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters" | 2011-02-13 14:16:00 Author: Macnme Posts: 1970 |
| It's a mob mentality. "The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters" Lol that is an awesome quote. | 2011-02-13 22:54:00 Author: Patronus21 Posts: 266 |
| Lol that is an awesome quote. Terry Pratchett - Discworld. Not sure which one though | 2011-02-14 12:48:00 Author: Macnme Posts: 1970 |
| I was a passionate devourer of movies, but lately there isn't anything that sparks my interest. Book adaptations are always worst than the books. Reboots just kill glorious legends. CGI (that I like) has gone too far and it's replacing human work way too much. Actors are getting worse and worse. Same for Directors. I think that the "latest" 3 movies that I enjoyed for some reason or another were: 300, The Dark Knight and Planet Terror... | 2011-02-14 14:21:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112 |
| *True Story* My sister picked up a copy of "Inglorious B*stards" in a dvd bargain bin... I asked her what she thought of it, and she said "It was absolute rubbish! Tarantino has just gone way too far with the whole 70's nostaligia trip... the whole movie looks/feels and sounds like it was filmed on cheap 70's equipment - it completely ruined my enjoyment of the film"; So I looked at the DVD cover... and it turns out she had bought the *original* one from the 70's "I wondered where Brad Pitt was?!" she quipped afterwards | 2011-02-14 14:41:00 Author: Macnme Posts: 1970 |
| *True Story* My sister picked up a copy of "Inglorious B*stards" in a dvd bargain bin... I asked her what she thought of it, and she said "It was absolute rubbish! Tarantino has just gone way too far with the whole 70's nostaligia trip... the whole movie looks/feels and sounds like it was filmed on cheap 70's equipment - it completely ruined my enjoyment of the film"; So I looked at the DVD cover... and it turns out she had bought the *original* one from the 70's "I wondered where Brad Pitt was?!" she quipped afterwards That movie is rubbish anyway...the movie is only worth for the acting of Christophe Waltz...I only enjoyed the scene when "the Sicilian Pitt" meets Waltz...but only because the dialogues there were heavily rewritten for the dubbing, using Italian local slang and regional bad mouthing, since the original ones doesn't make me laugh but this one yes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmzOH0nOy-c Oh, and I liked District 9 too | 2011-02-14 15:40:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112 |
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