I have just about reached my limit on DC Comics and Marvel Comics movies. What was refreshing and new is now just down right boring and predictable.
Not too long ago I watched Brad Pitt's movie “Allied”, it looked pretty good. Upon finally seeing the whole movie I was disappointed, it could have been so much better.
Once great TV shows that are made into movies are terrible. They either try to take something that was serious and make it into a comedy or just take what was a great show and butcher it and make it unwatchable.
Hollywood has only themselves to blame. I was a kid who grew up in the 1960’s and we had great and solid movies of all types to choose from all the time. I saw all kinds of films and I almost look it at that period as the last great gasp of creativity that the old Hollywood had. Everything that came later, with a few exceptions, become crude and appealed to the lowest common denominator.
Once upon a time Hollywood strived to tell real stories and a lot of them made you think, no more.
There are hundreds of good movies coming out all year that are made by hollywood.
The good movies never are blockbusters, especially summer ones.
Allied was way too long, problem with most films, they give final cut over to the directors...
I agree with you in saying movies, in general, in the 1940’s to about 1960 were much better. THEY EVEN HAD MORAL NORMS!
I stopped watching DC Comics and Marvel Comics movies intentionally when I couldn't tell what number in the series the movie was. At least with Star Wars they told you what number it was. I don't want to watch the last one if I haven't seen the two or three before it. It's the same with Transformers and the The Hunger Games.
Even these recent Star Wars movies are blurring the sequence. I've seen one of them on Netflix but I don't know which one it was. I haven't been in a theater since The Patriot seventeen years ago.
I've been watching a lot of foreign movies. Much better than Hollywood trash. Unfortunately, my wife doesn't like reading English subtitles when the audio is a foreign language, so I watch alone. Lot of excellent Korean movies, which surprised me. You can find lots of foreign movies on Netflix, etc. I no longer go to movie theaters, too expensive for a one-time watch of a movie versus relatively free at home.