Posted on 01/18/2018 6:43:18 AM PST by C19fan
Frankly, I think it’s time for National Alliance of Theater Owners (NATO)to carry their own weight, and pay for their own military expenditures.
The Iron Curtain is no more!
But for real: I can’t go to movie theaters because where I live are a lot of black people. I won’t subject my family to rudeness, hostility, savagery, and possible violence.
superman flies off the screen and catches Lois over a surprised audience and flies her around the auditorium to show the audience she is ok and then they kiss over the stage and fly back into the screen. It’s purple rose of cairo but it’s also the future. Disney will build a theatre with hologram technology. I will bet on it and it could save theatres.
Next up you’re watching Alabama USC and the camera puts you in the huddle. You pick a position and you are part of the play as seen by that player. Everyone is kicked and you chose who to hone onto. This will be done at home.
Yeah, kept your trash, “ya filthy animal”.
It's not filthy trash that's the problem. Americans love filthy trash. Look at the TV shows they watch. They just love it from the comfort of their 4k HDTV home theaters.
Yeah.. it’s a shame they STILL misspell it.... Only Europeans, Yankees, Liberals and Canuks still spell it that way >,<
I don't quite agree that Darkest Hour did not deserve a theatrical run. It would have been an expensive TV movie, what with all the period sets, costumes, travel conveyances and locations. Gary Oldman's larger than life portrayal of a larger than life man deserved to be seen on a big screen IMO. Besides, many of the greatest Hollywood films from the Golden Age of filmmaking were "small" films by today's standards. People are so used to epics and superhero films that anything that isn't "explosive" seems too small for bigscreen release now. If Casablanca were made today, it would probably be made for TV and would be a Lifetime or Hallmark movie at that. People would see it as a "chick flick".
I would like to see more well-written and well acted and thoughtful movies, rather than all the CGI epics Hollywood keeps churning out.
What a ridiculous thing to say about Casablanca! My husband teaches it at his film school and the young kids love it. Men and women. In fact, boys prefer it to the girls. It’s about war and loyalty from a man’s point of view.
It would never be made today as a new theatrical film. If it were made today, it would flop. A film class does not count. They are a captive audience, and they already have a greater interest in film than the average movie-goer.
Film courses don’t count. Right.
First of all, I didn’t speculate on whether it would be a hit today or not. I said it was an insult to infer that it would be considered a chick flick.
I get tired of arguing “culture” with freepers. You can never win because the people arguing don’t know what they’re talking about.
Check out where this thread is going!
I think it’s snobbish to take the unusual or British spelling and try to let everyone know how cool you are. Colour me crazy. LOL
Obviously you have far less knowledge about T.V. show, made in America ( which STINK ON ICE now )nor Brit ones, than you believe you have and absolutely NO knowledge, none at all, about old movies.
The "GOLDEN AGE" of both movies and American T.V. were NEVER "small" and both cost a lot of money
The Brits still do produce period pieces for T.V. and though Brit actors and actresses now mumble and directors tend to film the T.V. programs in the dark, far too often, they are not just "big"...they are HUGE, costly productions!
Today, Hollywood makes utter CRAP, filled with lousy acting, worse directing, and CGI!
Even in the SILENTS ERA, there were MASSIVE epic movies!
You want to talk about "epics", do you?
GONE WITH THE WIND ( late '30s ), BEN HUR ( silent/'20s & remake in the '50s and then there is today's recent POS remake, which stank on ice, was filled with CGI crap and was more like a stinking grade z Italian movie from the '50s ), THE WIZARD OF OZ ( late '30s ), to name only a very few.
Today's movie and T.V. audiences, for the most part, have less than NO idea what's funny, what's good acting, and no attention span for anything that doesn't contain a massive amount of F words, car chases, pornographic sex scenes, loads of PC crap, "diversity" casting, close-ups of extreme violence and gore. Most movies, today are utterly WORTHLESS and made for the brain dead stupids, because that's who is making them.
You claim that you would prefer better written films with less CGI and then have the temerity to put down CASABLANCA? LOL
Go watch CASABLANCA again and then watch THE WOMEN, SCARLET STREET, THREE STRANGERS, THE THIRD MAN, THE BEST MAN, THE MIRACLE WOMAN, DODSWORTH, ANN VICKERS, GRAND HOTEL, PORTRAIT OF JENNY, DINNER AT EIGHT, THE LETTER ( the 1929 and the 1940 versions ) WATCH ON THE RHINE, and the now rather hokey FLASH GORDEN serials, which were made for kids, but which are more like today's silly, very dumbed down movies made for today's adults.
That spelling was being taught, in college and university classes through at least the 1970s, right here in the USA and had NOTHING at all to do with being "snobbish" nor being "cool". It's called being well educated!
And it's also quite unlike those Americans, today, who still pronounce that word, incorrectly, as : "theAteer".
“Not everyone just HAS to see some movie the minute it comes out, nor do they care to pay exorbitant prices to sit in a crowd where people talk, play with their cell phones, misbehave in general+
I love movies,but only go to the first showing of the day,no problems.
We also NEVER go to a multiplex,but only to the local,”art film” type theaters———that’s where the good movies of today are shown.
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See my reply re movies, to that poster. :-)
I take my daughter to the movies from time to time.
Last week, we went to see Paddington 2.
The tickets: $20.26
Concessions (medium popcorn, two drinks and one pack of candy): $20.77
That’s $41.03 for one movie for two people.
There's almost NOTHING made today, that I even want to see and I'm perfectly happy to wait to see the very few "new" films, I want to, to come on a cable channel.
And when I was growing up, into my 20s and early 30s, I went to the movies a LOT! But the movies grew worse and the audiences even MORE wretched, so I refuse to go.
Again,I love the movies but even though we go the the first showing of the day sometimes people can be annoying.
My friend and I arrived at a theater on the last day that a pic was showing and there were approximately TEN people in the entire theater.
A couple came in and sat in the seats DIRECTLY in front of us.
The two of us just looked at each other,laughed,shrugged,-——and moved.
On my facebook page, I have up a video of the denouement of Kurasawa’s “Throne of Blood” - Mifune being killed with a fusillade of arrows. One of the most shocking sequences in motion picture history. Happily, I am in touch with really knowledgeable film fans and it is a pleasure to post with them. Wish it was the same here!
I love many of the great epics, like GWTW, Ben-Hur (1959) El Cid, et al. But in the days of those epics, you would still see movies like Goodbye Mr. Chips, or the great Bette Davis dramas like The Letter and Now, Voyager. I seldom go to movies these days. Darkest Hour was my first theatrical movie in at least two years. I have a massive Blu-ray and DVD collection of movies, most of which are made before the 1970's. Seeing Gary Oldman on the big screen as Churchill reminded me of seeing George C. Scott in Patton. It was larger than life, and I am glad some people were able to see a literate drama instead of some mindless superhero twaddle when they went to the movies.
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