why are 90% of films aimed at kids today so damn LOUD AND SEIZURE INDUCING? sitting through the trailer reel before Princess and the Frog last week was excrutiating...
I prefer to call it Movie 2: The Quickening.It's funny, I have been using "the Electric Boogaloo" to make fun of sequels since the mid 80's. Now it's a meme? I'm honored.
Yep, whenever people are skeptical of an upcoming sequel, sooner or later someone will call it [Movie] 2: Electric Boogaloo.![]()
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The Maltese Falcon was a remake.
The Godfather Part II, arguably one of the greatest films of all time, was, obviously, a sequel.
I blame you people for any decline in quality that may be occurring.
Hollywood is not to blame. I blame you people for any decline in quality that may be occurring. If you don't pay to see it they stop making it. If you pay they make more. Whatever schlock Hollywood is making now is mainly your fault-if you'd stop paying to go and see it maybe things will change. The pure capitalism of the movie industry is the only true democracy-consider carefully before casting your vote.
Come now, like spectacle wasn't popular in the days of yore. When George Lucas included the Ben-Hur chariot race in The Phantom Menace, he was onto something as far as that continutiy went - the extravagant period pieces of yesteryear are the predecessors of the epic blockbusters today. Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Avatar, Titanic, they're all a piece. Bloated extravagance in film goes all the way, way back to, uh, Italian pictures like Cabiria, which was then copied by D.W. Griffith's monumentally indulgent Intolerance. We love our epics!I have been a little critical of how these blockbusters have gone. People are watching Transformers, Avatar...great SFx movies but terribly written movies.
Okay I confess. It's mostly me. When I'm not goofing around here, I spend all my time going to see the worst movies possible.I blame you people for any decline in quality that may be occurring.Due to my supernatural powers over the space/time continuum I managed to see All About Steve and Transformers 2 11,345 times apiece.
You might be right about the former, but I've a feeling plots holes have been around for a long time and probably are as common then as now.Films nowadays don't grab me as they used to, too much fantasy and films with plot holes.
God yeah, I envy the days of the Greatest Show on Earth and Oliver!, really do.I'm too lazy to attempt to quantify but I was just looking at the best picture Ocsar nominees over the decades and looking at the list I get the distinct impression that far fewer "great" films are made now.
I think there are more films made each year than appear on the list of Oscar nominees. Some of the future great ones might not eve get nominated.I would concede Hollywood has been making garbage as long as it's been making motion pictures, but the diamonds in the rough sure seem much fewer and further in between now. Very seldom am I compelled to go to the theater now, my preferred venue to see movies. Most of my movie watching hours are devoted to films made in a time when Hollywood sucked less.
I'm too lazy to attempt to quantify but I was just looking at the best picture Ocsar nominees over the decades and looking at the list I get the distinct impression that far fewer "great" films are made now.
Its [Hollywood's] idea of "production value" is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.
Raymond Chandler, 1945
The Maltese Falcon was a remake.
How can you possibly compare an over-special effects'd piece of crap like The Phantom Menace to a classic like Ben-Hur?Come now, like spectacle wasn't popular in the days of yore. When George Lucas included the Ben-Hur chariot race in The Phantom Menace, he was onto something as far as that continutiy went - the extravagant period pieces of yesteryear are the predecessors of the epic blockbusters today. Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Avatar, Titanic, they're all a piece. Bloated extravagance in film goes all the way, way back to, uh, Italian pictures like Cabiria, which was then copied by D.W. Griffith's monumentally indulgent Intolerance. We love our epics!I have been a little critical of how these blockbusters have gone. People are watching Transformers, Avatar...great SFx movies but terribly written movies.
Come now, like spectacle wasn't popular in the days of yore.I have been a little critical of how these blockbusters have gone. People are watching Transformers, Avatar...great SFx movies but terribly written movies.
Have they? Do You have something to back that up or are you just repeating the same tropes people have been spouting since movies began.Come now, like spectacle wasn't popular in the days of yore.I have been a little critical of how these blockbusters have gone. People are watching Transformers, Avatar...great SFx movies but terribly written movies.
But the writing and acting have declined significantly. Even the crappy shows like the Last Starfighter, Little Monsters, stuff like that was fun to watch because it was engaging.
Hardly any of these blockbusters in the summer are hardly engaging anymore.
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