Posted on 08/11/2005 2:03:46 AM PDT by beaversmom
I hope so too....it's a great story to be told...but can today's hollywood pull it off?
Particularly poetry, which is fairly dead. But then, they destroy everything they touch.
Come to Nikki.
I might be totally off my rocker, and I was half asleep when I caught it, but I think I saw a trailer for this movie and I thought it looked like trash. I remember wishing James Woods was NOT associated with it.
It's Turner Classics and the Western Channel for me.
I refuse to see the movies coming out of Hollywood. For the most part, those movies are shadows of the quality productions that Hollywood formerly produced.
The Golden Age of Hollywood is long gone.
I think you nailed it.
Wasn't it "Raid on Entebbe" ? I think "Victory at Entebbe" came out at roughly the same time, but had Kirk Douglas in it.
It doesn't surprise me to hear James Woods say that any heterosexual white guy can only play "the a$$hole in the suit."
No business titan, such as Bill Gates, would want their name associated with the garbage the Left excretes as "art", so the only clueless entity, that has no reputation to worry about, is the government. At least Soviet art was understandable, as opposed to our government-sponsored trash.
If you go back to Hollywood's and TV's past the most obvious difference, aside from gore and profanity, is the modern absence of conversation. Movies, even action flicks, always had literate conversation. On TV a show like Gunsmoke would always have Matt and Doc and Kitty and Festus sitting in The Long Branch passing time in conversation only tangentially related to plot. About the only guy still capable of doing that on TV is Bellisario. But that's what I miss, a sense of literacy in movies.
Have heard him talk about this on tv. He was really surprised the FBI was at his house so fast.
Besides the fact that he is one of the best and sexiest actors around this is why I will watch any James Woods film.
Woods is a pretty funny guy. He's also quite brilliant and has a knack for imitating Forrest Gump popping up at critical junctures of American history.
Hung like a horse too, I hear.
I think your analysis is extraordinary, you must be in the business.
"Movies were always "big money" projects, going back to the studio days. That's why Chaplin et al formed United Artists.
What's changed is that movies now have a global market. The film has to appeal to the guy in Cleveland and the guy in New Dehli and the guy in Paris."
I disagree. Chaplin's movies were distributed (and incredibly popular) worldwide - in fact, silent movies made it EASIER for the film-makers, as there was no language barrier to overcome.
As for the horrible state of today's movie industry - I guess it's easy to pin it down to the pin-headed liberals who are in control of things, but lots of pin-headed liberals were making great movies 50-75 years ago (Chaplin, in fact, was one of them!). My theory is that movies today suck because the scripts suck. Period. The acting and production values are still there - but I can't think of an American film I've seen in many years where I was impressed by the script - just the opposite.
Another contributing factor is Hollyweird's "film by committee" playbook. Put out 10 movies. If all 10 suck, keep re-using the formula of the top two, because people paid money to see them. This would explain the current insane fixation on re-making EVERYTHING (I keep waiting for "My Mother the Car - The Movie!"), no matter how mediocre it was to begin with.
Anyway, I confess, I usually just watch Asian or other foreign films these days. Even the U.S. stuff winning "best picture" for the past decade or so has been crap.
TROLL ALERT!
That was not true of the movie Sea Biscuit, but political correctness kilt that movie, nonetheless. They had a great horse and took third place money.
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