Posted on 10/26/2011 7:49:15 PM PDT by stolinsky
Movies $uck and Hollywood $ucks. Next question.
That is a great suggestion for this weekend - cheers!
Actually, I would suggest watching the original Gone In 60 Seconds from 1973 and then the remake.
Politics has ruined the movies.
Politics is ruining sports too.
My husband was daydreaming the other day about how he used to love pro football back in the good times.
Politics, leftist politics, has wound its ugly tentacles like a cancer into just about everything.
I have DirecTV with all the channels and watch from the quiet comfort of home.
The last two movies I attended were: The Lion King (1990’s) with my Daughter and then Transformers a few years ago with my son. That is it.
IMHO?? The one reason is the 'net. EVERYTHING is available on the 'net. Now, in your face, and anytime you want it. Entertainment, "sex", information, religion, fellowship, any other reasons we sought out the "movies" when we were younger. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is now on the 'net, and in living color too.
Hey, someone should make a movie about it.......
Oh...What?? They did??..Nevermind!
If they just do a preachy, pro-communism and pro-global-warming film, Gollywoood’s fortunes will finally reverse.
lets see:
they use actors and actresses who have to proclaim their personal mating habits, deal breaker.
they use actors and actresses who have to make anti-american / commie political or just plain stupid statements.
They produce plots which are left wing garbage.
They make remakes into PC drivel (see the aforementioned remake of the three muskateers)
They make going to the theater an ordeal not an experience.
Do they seriously expect me to open my wallet for a ticket/dvd/download for them to insult me and mine?
They play the whole song at the end with the closing credits of the movie.
I wonder if this was an attempt to pump up the two mentioned movies.
The hero [Jason Bourne] is so disgusted with being an assassin for the CIA that he develops amnesia.
Did you watch these movies with anything but a chip on your shoulder? You can't even get the premise right.
Instead, we now watch “Training Day” and see police as drug dealers who kill their own partners.
First, have there EVER been any other movies/TV shows showing cops in a positive light? What about a negative light? Were you awake for this film? Was ANYTHING about Alonso portrayed in a positive light? His entire act was a lie. He appeared to be an effective cop, and he turned out to be a murdering psychopath. His partners were burned out killers, too. How was this movie glorifying of his actions? You may as well say "The Shield" was the beginning of the end since it's protagonist was a dirty cop.
We have “United 93,” a docudrama about the brave passengers who fought the hijackers on 9/11 and prevented the plane from crashing into the Capitol or the White House. But omitted was the heroic Todd Beamer reciting the Lord’s Prayer with the phone supervisor, then shouting, “God help me. Jesus help me. Are you ready? Let’s roll!” All this is documented − why omit anything of religious significance?
You obviously completely missed the point of "United 93." That movie was meant to be as close to a documentary as possible. If it had included this scene, the audience would've been expecting John Wayne to ride into the cabin on his trusty steed. "Let's roll" was actually spoken in the movie, but it was purposely downplayed so as not to pull attention from the drama of the moment. That movie was very powerful and brilliantly done, and you're citing it as part of the problem?
“The Hurt Locker” is conspicuous by its rarity.
I hope you're only talking about it's return on investment numbers. That movie was pure garbage. I did a 15-month combat tour in Iraq, and it was probably the least realistic of any Iraq film out there (no, I didn't see "Valley of Elah," but who did?). You want to see some terrific filmmaking about Iraq? Watch "Generation Kill." Those guys nailed it. "Hurt Locker" was the definition of Hollywood crap. "Avatar" was a better film, and that's saying something.
This whole article comes across as neo-Luddite, "The last good movie was made when I was a kid!" pap. Please spare us.
One look at the previews is sufficient to drive away future business. An overload of scatological humor aimed at 12-year-old boys. If they start making films for adults again, people might come back...but that 55” LCD TV with Blu-ray in the living room is usually too comfortable to leave. :)
Basically, it slams modern culture. It jumps 500 yeaars into the future only to find people have dumbed down so much that a movie is nothing but a still camera view of a butt, it farts, and people laugh. That's it. 2 hours of butt.
Not a movie for children, but it is a great movie in that it slams pop culture to Hell and back.
Love your tag line from Ward Bond. “The Searchers” is one of the 10 best movies ever made. Regards!
Domestic releases are on pace to top 10 billion theatrically for the 3rd year in a row. And they get at least that much foreign and around that much non-theatrically (DVD, HBO, etc). I wanna work in a “dieing” industry that’s hauling in 30 billion dollars a year.
I’d rather watch a Michael Bay movie than suffer through Doctor Zhivago again, and I think Bay should be tried in the Hague for crimes against humanity. Zhivago is just plain a boring movie.
I think of it as the dysfunctional making movies for each other.
Normal people just say, “No, thanks.”
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