Paul D G
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I'm going to share an article from GQ entitled "The Day the Movies Died."
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris?currentPage=all
I'm not sure I agree with the author's point, tho. He complains that good movies aren't being made anymore, or rather, they are, but they're too few and far between. But hasn't it always been like this? Pick any year and look at what came out. For every quality film there are dozens upon dozens of lessor, forgettable films. Today we have blockbusters, back then we had star vehicles. Doesn't mean those were any better. For every Scorsese there's a dozen Alan Smithees. True now as it was true then.
- I agree with the overabundance of sequels (of the eight films in HTF's banner above this, six are sequels, but how many Universal Horror sequels came out? Ma and Pa Kettle, Bowery Boys, Henry Aldrich, Andy Hardy - weren't they all sequels?)
- Disagree with his distaste for films based on comics (many films are based on comics - just as valid a resource as books, plays, and short stories - and they don't all involve superheroes)
- Agree with his assessment that women's films are mostly crap (i feel bad for my wife that every chick flick she looks forward to seeing invariably turns out to be crap)
- And disagree with his overall standpoint - Not every movie has to be an Inception. Some movies can be, as Quentin Tarantino once said, "just a fun night out at the movies, man!"
(I will say that I hate the idea of watching a movie on an ipad or a phone. that we have 65 inch HD tv screens and we're apparently fine watching movies and tv streamed off the internet)
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris?currentPage=all
I'm not sure I agree with the author's point, tho. He complains that good movies aren't being made anymore, or rather, they are, but they're too few and far between. But hasn't it always been like this? Pick any year and look at what came out. For every quality film there are dozens upon dozens of lessor, forgettable films. Today we have blockbusters, back then we had star vehicles. Doesn't mean those were any better. For every Scorsese there's a dozen Alan Smithees. True now as it was true then.
- I agree with the overabundance of sequels (of the eight films in HTF's banner above this, six are sequels, but how many Universal Horror sequels came out? Ma and Pa Kettle, Bowery Boys, Henry Aldrich, Andy Hardy - weren't they all sequels?)
- Disagree with his distaste for films based on comics (many films are based on comics - just as valid a resource as books, plays, and short stories - and they don't all involve superheroes)
- Agree with his assessment that women's films are mostly crap (i feel bad for my wife that every chick flick she looks forward to seeing invariably turns out to be crap)
- And disagree with his overall standpoint - Not every movie has to be an Inception. Some movies can be, as Quentin Tarantino once said, "just a fun night out at the movies, man!"
(I will say that I hate the idea of watching a movie on an ipad or a phone. that we have 65 inch HD tv screens and we're apparently fine watching movies and tv streamed off the internet)