Myers (Longtime H'wood Flack) fears Hollywood's end is near (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Daily Variety ^ | January 11, 2008 | TATIANA SIEGEL

[Borges]

Promoted here as in on FR? Most of the movies mentioned here aren’t being what I’d call ‘promoted’. :-) Anyway, Zodiac was about the infamous series of murders in the Bay area back in ‘69 or so. It’s one of the best crime films ever made.

[StarCMC]

I’ll have to check it out. Thanks! And no — I meant the ones promoted when I do actually get to see a movie. It seems like all the trailers I see are “icky” — to use a non-prefessional term. LOL

[Dr. Eckleburg]

The sky isn't falling and Hollywood isn't dying.

Profits are astronomical and the strike will end eventually with a more equitable distribution of payments than there is currently.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

“3:10 to Yuma” is an excellent film, too. It takes the audience to another time and place, and returns them better for it.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Only a Hollywood queen would equate a writers strike to a civil war.

lol. Either that and/or he's a flaming leftist who thought Stalin was a good role model.

[hinckley buzzard]

"Does a dying Hollywood need a civil war today to hasten its erosion?"

Whatever it takes, old man. Whatever it takes.

[hinckley buzzard]

The industry is actually faced with an historic opportunity.

You make a good point. Show biz is totally anachronistic and obsolete. It is crying out for some creative destruction.

[Mr. Blonde]

There is nothing on TV to watch

Tune your dial to HBO tonight at 8 central time and I think you will change your mind about that.

The Wire is quite possibly the best show ever on tv.

[wideawake]

People seem to eat it up.

The Spiderman movies have such aggressive use of CGI that they honestly seem like animated films for long stretches, but almost everyone I've spoken to marvels at how realistic they seem.

Perhaps my brain works differently.

[hinckley buzzard]

Something for the people cheering for the disjointedness of American culture to keep in mind.

Show biz is most appropriately understood as entertainment, not culture. A movie is no more significant than an athletic event or video game. At best they are lagging indicators of culture, not drivers. To believe otherwise is to buy into the entertainment world's inflated sense of self-importance and desperate need to be taken seriously, against a tsunami of argument to the contrary.

[Borges]

Is literature culture? Is music? Then so is film. Movies have decisively shaped the culture of the last century.

[Borges]

Did you see Zodiac? There CGI was used for what it’s best for...removing satellite dishes from rooftops to a enhance the sense of period, putting the Escadero Bridge in the background of a scene set when it was still standing.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I want to see a movie made of My Grandfather's Son.

[Vision]

That’s a great idea.

[Milhous]

Perhaps an Indie with the courage to stand up to conventional Hollywood ethos will make My Men Are My Heros.

[Vision]

I wonder...will movies continue to be distributed or just get streamed over the internet or to a home dish?

[twntaipan]

Copy that!

[JLS]

You are exactly right. Someone different might make and distribute video entertainment, but it will likely still happen. If you ignore, lecture and belittle your customers, you can generally expect to be replaced in the market by someone who is more attuned to the customers.

[Milhous]

Careful there - Zodiac looks like Brokeback Mountain meets Dirty Harry.

[Dinsdale]

CGI has single handedly killed action movies. It’s OK for TV shows but unless used with discretion. as in Zodiac, it screams ‘fake’.

Yeah, because action movies were never at all 'fake' before CGI. < /Sarc >