Posted on 06/24/2007 1:35:27 AM PDT by Caipirabob
Is this all a decade of movies is worth?
According to the American Film Institute's new list of the 100 greatest films, the last 10 years have produced only four great ones: "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (No. 50), "Saving Private Ryan" (No. 71), "Titanic" (No. 83) and "The Sixth Sense" (No. 89).
I get bloated just typing those titles. Granted, the last 10 years have been a historically weak period for films. They can't touch Hollywood's golden era of the '40s, or the heralded '70s, when maverick directors roamed the studios.
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I liked it because of denise richards’ hooters...8-)
I watched Star Wars on tv the other night and was immediately struck by how incredibly cheap it looks now compared to the movies we see these days.
Also, the only movie that has entertained me in the past two years is Casino Royale.
Is this 45 movie out on DVD, or has it been in the theaters yet?
I havent seen it.
I quit going to see films. In musical performance we might use amplification but we also use compression so we can keep a comfortable level of sound while keeping some range of expression in volume. The movies were getting less and less compressed in both brightness and sound volume so earplugs were necessary to preserve some hearing for the orchestra gigs, but the quiet conversation then is inaudible, and the light intensity is going from black to sudden full white with some blinding effect. This obtrusion of technique is not appropriate to content: movies have made themselves obnoxious and should be ignored.
The thing I liked about it was their unapologetic attitude towards war.
They knew that humans were the dominant species of the galaxy and weren’t afraid to nuke you to get the point across.
It’s actually a very refreshing departure from Hollywood’s stereotypical angst-ridden hand wringing about war.
Make that 6. It's one of those really bad, but fun to watch movies... Sort of similar to (but not on par with) "Evil Dead II" and "The Fifth Element."
I thought that for the most part "Starship Troopers" was really enjoyable as long as I kept telling myself that this movie was from an alternate universe (sort of like in RAH's "Number of the Beast") and was actually penned by Jubal Harshaw.
Mark
Keep away, she's MINE!!!! :-)
I'm a big fan of hers, but I hate those Resident Evil movies (I only saw part of the first one). I thought she was enjoyable in "The Fifth Element." However, "Ultraviolet" was a complete stinker.
Mark
ROFLMAO!! I guess whenever I want to pick a fight with my wife I’ll start quoting from that conversation. All I have to do is mention the pigs squealing and that sets her off. She says “Those are not pigs squealing. That’s how the Nazguls communicate”. To which I respond, “I’m an old farm boy and I know the sound of hogs squealing when I hear it”.
Hey! The Pixar movies were great! Maybe it’s because they weren’t epic or had a moving message, though. They’re just fun.
Cinderella Man is good. My husband will watch it whenever it’s on.
Yes...that’s it....don’t know why IMDB has the other name....remember it starts slow but gets better...it’s hard to recognize the main characters because they are all in parkas! enjoy!....cool movie... ;)
What’s the correct number of great movies a decade should produce, so that we can warn the oughts to step it up?
Patch Adams, 1998. Worst movie ever made. A hundred good ones can’t pay the debt owed to society. Everyone associated with it should be papilloned to French Guiana.
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Let me begin by addressing the title of the article, YES this past decade of movies have SUCKED big time, I really want to see great movies since I’m invested in the big screen hi-def, surround sound home theater thingy.
Now as for Patch Adams, I will take your word for it since I hate Robin Williams-especially when he plays a sugary sweet Jesus type role which he seems to love so much.
I was forced to watch “Dr T & the Women” with Richard Gere, the most insipid piece of garbage in the history of mankind. Excruciating and cringe-inducing are the best things I can say about this movie.
If you liked this movie, please seek medical attention or watch it again and if you still like it report to your local emergency room for a lobotomy.
orry wrong answer!
This DR.T and the Women is hands down the WORST MOVIE EVER MADE!
I could watch Patch Adams a thousand times in a row and not break a sweat (and it was a bad movie) but I cringe if I even see a glimpse of Dr. T and the Women.
Trust me on this, don’t SEE for yourself!
Mad Dawgg
ROFLMAO!
I didn’t even get to your reply before I posted my response to the same post calling Patch Adams the worst movie ever made, see my prior post about “Dr T”
Many of the blockbusters of the 1970s really sucked.
The era of Love Story, Car Wash, and countless wild beast attack films and major disaster clusterf***s.
And then we had widely distributed “documentaries” like Chariots of the Gods.
Feh.
It wasn’t all Star Wars and Planet of the Apes.
Theaters aren’t what they used to be. Going to the movies isn’t what it used to be.
The “great” films of old used to be REVIVED every so many years for rerelease. Now Disney cartoons (not even the live action films) are the only films that get this treatment from Hollywood.
Even successful films like King Kong, Gone With The Wind, and Wizard Of Oz (which was not successful in original release) are relegated to home video and television.
So it isn’t the “type” of stories that aren’t being “made”, they can’t even be retold to knew audiences.
I will say that Hollywood studios can’t tell an epic story to save their life anymore. When was the last time you saw a 2.5-3 hour movie THAT HAD AN INTERMISSION? Used to be the stories were arranged with a 1,2,3 act format (lay out the story, build to a climax, take a break to take it in, stretch your legs, anticipate the rest, take a leak, get a drink/smoke). Now you are welcome to walk out and do these things at any moment and the directors realize that you may “miss something” but it must not really be important in the end because they stories sprawl out and meander for untold hours.
They need better editors to make sense of the mess.
Longer doesn’t mean “more important”. You need story structure too.
I enjoyed the Sixth Sense better the second time I saw it, when I knew the ending. When I was watching the second time, I kept thinking to myself "Dang, the surprise ending was soooo obvious, how did I miss it the first time". The fact that I didn't see that ending coming the first time I saw it makes it a good piece of film-making. Top 100, though? Probably not.
So you didn't notice that the movie completely trashed the coming-of-age story the RAH wrote, or that it portrayed military people as stupid and psychotic?
I agree that the special effects were good- and with better direction, it could have been a wonderful movie, instead of the insult to the author's memory that it is.
If you haven't read Starship Troopers, I suggest that you do. Then you'll understand why so many people hated this movie.
Stromship Trooper was okay - the acting was allright, the special effects great, couple of cute girls (I like the redhead better myself, Denise Richards never did anything for me), but there were too many Nazi overtones to the movie, to make the patriotic attitudes “acceptable”. It’s subtle, but disturbing. Too much emphasis on the propaganda as well.
The sad part is, that’s not what the book is about. The book is about patriotism, and the mentality of a trooper, and why they fight, and it’s about honor - the book is a cap trooper who learns the hard way what honor is, the movie is a pretty boy who gets inconvenienced once in a while and somehow along the way becomes a better man.
UGH.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the movie. But it completely lacks the soul of the book. What the book has to say is something that would make half of Hollywood melt like a vampire in sunlight.
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