Posted on 01/26/2018 10:07:25 AM PST by rktman
Although a handful of movies had their moment in the spotlight, the 2018 edition of the Sundance Film Festival received bad reviews from many of the Hollywood dealmakers who trudged up the mountains of Park City, Utah, looking to find the next indie sensation.
“Awful,” was the frank assessment of one studio executive. “Boring,” was the takeaway of another. “Who are these movies for?” griped an influential distributor.
After a week of premieres at the Eccles Theatre and the other makeshift movie palaces that line the snowy resort town, buyers complained that the movies in this year’s lineup were chronically weak, leaving them underwhelmed and frequently annoyed. That combined with the stark economic realities of the independent film business — where even great movies struggle to sell enough tickets to break even — made for a festival where the most common word heard around town was “pass.”
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It’s a dying industry, and currently radioactive as well.
Meh, all the movies are about gay cowboys eating pudding, anyway.
Cable and streaming TV have left movies in the dust.
Preachy, politically correct films are box office poison.
"I watched the woman on screen walk away from the camera up a long straight street going over the hill. And I said, 'Surely this director won't film her walking all the way up that hill' But he did! The whole street! It was endless! And then he let the camera linger on the empty street after she was over the hill! Only this director would do such thing. No one else would dare."
Some people like slow movies. Most do not.
Having produced a crap product for the last 30 years, sold by a group openly hostile to its consumers, and demonstrating a remarkable lack of creativity, Hollow-wood can’t be too surprised that audiences are staying away in legions.
This is the film I’m interested in.
My son did theater with the director in a private Christian high school.
It’s fun seeing kids make something of themselves. He came back and spoke at my daughters’ graduation, and it was a great graduation speech. My mom was really impressed. We both talk about how much better their speaker was compared to my son’’s college speaker.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/search-review-1078023
I watched about 30 movie trailers a couple of days ago.
I wouldn’t pay money to see any of them.
Preachy, politically correct, social justice warrior films are box office poison.
Only idiots, who want to be beaten and abused would pay to watch any cheap movie based on the above.
Movies today are like old Army Training films ,LOL
Well MY scripts aren’t!
Now they may not be of the craft required (working on that and I think they’re MUCH better than when I started), but the stories are definitely not Hollywood garbage PC crap.
And then there’s Darkest Hour.....loved it
Looking forward to Clint Eastwood’s 1517 to Paris
And Hostiles
“Political Correctness is Sharia Law in it’s larvae form!”
Sundance Movie Festival is, and always has been, nothing but a leftist circle-jerk.
Have they finally run out of remakes? Hollywood has been out of good ideas for years.
LOL!! (and I don’t LOL often)
The sheer amount of new programming by Netflix and Amazon is staggering and it’s leaving all the conventional studios in the dust. They seem to be playing a quantity game, hoping there are some winners in there. They also don’t get distracted having to spend hundreds of millions on special effects “blockbusters” that are, by and large, real stinkers.
So far, I’ve liked Man in the High Castle (Season 1) and House of Cards (first 4 seasons).
Thankfully we now have fast-forward buttons on our home viewing machines. We’ll make the edits the filmmakers should have!
“...stories are definitely not Hollywood garbage PC crap.”
Ergo, they won’t ever get made, right?
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