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where have all the good movies gone? (1 Viewer)

koala_face

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has anyone noticed how cinemas seem to be playing more crap than usual lately- Hollywood is taking over with all its sentimental garbage like 'monster in law', a (I hesitate to say) comedy. If that is what comedy is like today, give me a good old B-grade horror movie anyday- at least you can laugh when they kill of each of the characters.
 

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This is what happens when it turns into an industry... It caters for the lowst common denominator.

SEE ALSO: Literature, music.
 

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"more crap than usual"? I've been thinking the same thing for the last 5 years or so.

Maybe you should look away from mainstream hollywood. There are always interesting indies that no one sees.
 

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koala_face said:
has anyone noticed how cinemas seem to be playing more crap than usual lately- Hollywood is taking over with all its sentimental garbage like 'monster in law', a (I hesitate to say) comedy. If that is what comedy is like today, give me a good old B-grade horror movie anyday- at least you can laugh when they kill of each of the characters.
as far as i know, Hollywood has dominated the film industry for ages and has always produced much crap. this is nothing new. as time goes on it's really hard to come up with something original, and i dont blame them.
 

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payafee's right, though i think there's just as many great films being made today as there was 50, 25, or 10 years ago. problem is that Hollywood continues to depreciate the past in the form of gratuitous remakes and sequels and the like, making it easy to compare the films of today with those of yesteryear strictly on those terms, as if to give evidence of the downward spiral of creativity in filmmaking as a collective whole over the years.

i still think there's an equal amount of creativity or at least an inherent capacity from creativity in the film industry today, just not as much in the mainstream like there was in the 70's; what with the likes of scorsese, coppola, terrence malick, robert altman and woody allen hitting big (i blame the legacy of spielberg and lucas for this downfall, if not the filmmakers themselves). we've just gotta dig deeper and spend our cash on the films that deserve to usurp the crap being churned out. i mean, there's a reason the valhalla cinema in glebe closed recently.

this was a public announcement on behalf of icecreamdisco. that is all.
 

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erawamai said:
they are gonna remake i dream of jeanie with jessica alba!
*pukes*


Someone come to the russian film festival with me =( haha...
I want to try something different for a change.

Films like Monster in Law do very well because it has a broad audience range 18+years, aimed at couples, old couples, teens, pop fans =/ Some films trailers I see are just aweful and decieving. What's with all those tween movies like A Perfect Man, and all that rubbish thats on now.

Everything is sequals and remakes now.
I mean theres
- Saw 2 (which I'm keen to see)
- Transporter 2
- Charlie and the CHocolate Factory remake.
- Superman Returns
- Batman Begins
- Deuce Bigalow
- Harry Potter (Not that theres anything wrong with it).

I'm done with all those patriotic war movies and all those comedies starring the same ring of actors (Zoolander/Wedding Crashers/Dodgeball/Meet The Parents/ Starsky and Hutch)

I've yet to see Crash and Dark Water.
 
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PerfectByNature said:
Harry Potter isnt a remake and they arent really sequels seeing as its a series...
ummm...that's kinda the definition of a sequel. one in a series of movies
 

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bscienceboi said:
Everything is sequals and remakes now.
movies currently in cinemas that are not sequels or remakes:

Stealth
Sky High
Wedding Crashers
Red-Eye
Skeleton Key
The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl
Unleashed
Look Both Ways
Little Fish
The Perfect Man
Kicking & Screaming
Monster-in-Law
A Good Woman
Oyster Farmer
P.S.
The Island
Kung Fu Hustle
Me & My Sister
Millions
Turtles Can Fly
The Last Days
Mysterious Skin
Sin City
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Lords of Dogtown
Madagascar
My House in Umbria
Ladies in Lavender
Palindromes
Layer Cake
 

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crazyhomo said:
movies currently in cinemas that are not sequels or remakes:
I'm just saying that there are heaps of sequels out there. After the release of all these trilogies and all, every successful film seems to provoke them.

Obviously , there are also many films that are not sequels and are originals (or based on books) and of course those listed were mainly mainstream films, so yes there are a lot of non-sequel films or remakes.

Ooh Look Both Ways seems interesting.
 

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bscienceboi said:
I'm just saying that there are heaps of sequels out there. After the release of all these trilogies and all, every successful film seems to provoke them.
and what's wrong with sequels? if anything, the sequels of today show that the amount of quality films is increasing. in the 70s and 80s making a quality trilogy was such a momentous occasion that only star wars and the godfather managed to pull it off. every other sequel to a good movie was pretty much guaranteed to be shit (example: hitchcock's psycho spawned 3 sequels. yes, psycho 2, 3 and 4 were all made). today, if you go to see a sequel, you are pretty much guaranteed to see a movie that is actually good
 

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Most sequels still reek of laziness and a desire to beat a horse for as much as its worth.
 

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crazyhomo said:
and what's wrong with sequels? if anything, the sequels of today show that the amount of quality films is increasing. in the 70s and 80s making a quality trilogy was such a momentous occasion that only star wars and the godfather managed to pull it off. every other sequel to a good movie was pretty much guaranteed to be shit (example: hitchcock's psycho spawned 3 sequels. yes, psycho 2, 3 and 4 were all made). today, if you go to see a sequel, you are pretty much guaranteed to see a movie that is actually good
big momma's house 2, yo.
 

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icecreamdisco said:
big momma's house 2, yo.
shrek 2, harry potter 3, spiderman 2, xmen 2, the bourne supremacy, ocean's twelve, kill bill vol 2, riddick, meet the fockers, star wars 3 and batman begins, yo
 
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