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.
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