The best adult fare is on cable TV right now. Why put up with audiences who talk throughout the film and answer their cell phones?
Make more remakes of the classics, and more anti-war/anti-American movies. Those have been such rousing successes.
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No kidding. Take a classic movie with a sterling cast and remake it with John Travolta?
Not even Denzel Washington could save that one.
Who wants to watch a bunch of arrogant celebrities spout off their socialist tripe at the audience for two hours? I have no faith that Hollywood can produce an adult movie with serious themes that doesn’t insult my intelligence. Mindless entertainment is all they’re capable of delivering, why should I look to them for anything else?
That's why I bought all that crap in the first place!
Theater experience can't compare to the comfort of my own home. That's why the only people going to the cinema are teenagers and 20-somethings on dates. And that's why movies geared towards them are the only ones that make any money at the box office! It's that simple.
The trend has been pretty clear for the last 10 to 15 years. You’re getting junk summer hits like ‘Transformers’ and good ‘smaller’ films like ‘Juno’, but there’s not a lot in between that’s aimed at adults. What we’re seeing less and less of is films like ‘The Godfather’ or ‘Chinatown’, i.e. ‘big’ films aimed at adults.
I like smaller films like ‘Juno’ or ‘Little Miss Sunshine’, but the days when the studios were willing to invest in well written ‘big’ adult dramas are fading (and have been for a while).
When you charge $10 per ticket, $6 for a soda, and $8 for popcorn, you better be putting up something eye-popping on the screen.
Nobody's going to shell out those big bucks to see something like "The Soloist" - about a homeless violin player - unless you let him shoot lava out of his eyes and and launch him into an intergalactic space battle.
Quiet, understated, reflective movies are perfect for sitting at home and watching on the television. The big screen is for blowing big things up.
The ONLY Hollywood movie that I have seen w/in the past 5 years was “Valkare(sp?)”
Hollywood has forgotten how to tell a story. A story has a sympathic character, someone everyone can relate to. A story that invokes thought, maybe involves some personal ethics and personal responsibilty. This is not a license to preach Hollywood values; the movies that have attempted this have failed, miserabley (hello, Sean Penn).
The Count of Monte’ Cristo, Mister Roberts, Swiss Family Robinson, Toy Story and just about any Pixar movie before WALL-E.
The movie that is doing very well today is District 9. Why? Because it does NOT have hollywood stars, but does have character development and origional thought. It is not a rip-off of every alien movie ever made; and it is making money.
In short, Pro-America, pro-freedom, pro-democracy, be origional, create characters who people can relate to and create a story that is compelling. Don’t be afraid of offending the bad guys (Hint: there aren’t too many Nazi’s running around; but we do have a plethoa of terrorists andj people who think nothing of cutting the heads off innocent people in the name of their God).
The old formula’s in Hollywood aren’t working, are they?
When you go to a movie and you know that the people starring in that movie are all liberal cowards who wouldnt dream of serving the United States in the military and yet they are playing super-heroes it takes a lot out of the movie. It;s a bit like knowing Rock Hudson would rather be bent over getting hit from behind than making love to Doris Day. It just kind of spoils the effect.
Rock was lucky, he kept his secret long enough to get rich.
Or escape from left-wing propaganda.
I think people have learned the lesson that, in Hollywood-ese, "serious" and "grown-up" = a 2-hour political lecture.
Ummm. Last I checked “Julie and Julia” did pretty well.