Posted on 08/23/2005 10:40:31 PM PDT by Plutarch
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23 - With the last of the summer blockbusters fading from the multiplex, Hollywood's box office slump has hardened into a reality that is setting the movie industry on edge.
Multiples theories for the decline abound: ...But many movie executives and industry experts are beginning to conclude that something more fundamental is at work: Too many Hollywood movies these days, they say, just are not good enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
We haven't been to see a single movie this summer.
Half the time the movies just look pathetic, and the other half has some nitwit trying to force feed us their leftist politics. We decided not to pay for any of it.
How about this one, Hollyweird:
The vast majority of Americans don't want to see our hard-earned dollars going to support the pampered, immoral, and leftist denizens of your pathetic "industry".
Put THAT in your crack pipe and smoke it.
There it is right there, for me.
The Great Raid is the only good movie I have seen so far this year.
Fact is, very little that is a)original, b)well acted, c)profound, d)amusing, e)insightful has come out of Hollywierd in the last 10 years or so. It's all shallow and trite re-makes or slashers and bashers. There have been some brilliant successes, like the Millenial blockbuster, "The Trilogy of the Ring." There have been others. I usually go to two, three movies at the most per year. The rest are just not worth my time.
True.
The only movies in the last few years that have been worth a damn were "The Lord of the Rings." To some lesser extent "Cinderella Man" and "The Islan" were very good movies with conservative overtones, but nothing else has been worth it at all.
You said it. I enjoy and have studied films and consider consider filmmaking an art. At one time, I used to go to films almost every week, many of them indie and foreign films. Now I can hardly be bothered.
I pay for premium cable and have On Demand. Nowadays I often wait until something comes on cable where I can fast forward or mute the garbage if need be. Considering the poor quality of most films, tho, I'm as likely to use On Demand to watch something on Discovery or the decorating channels as I am to watch a movie. That's a sad commentary on the current state of the film industry.
As the LSM's audience shrinks, it has become more shrill and devoted to editorializing and attacking conservatives. As they have become more shrill, lose audience, their approach has become to increase the shrillness. Now, its a cycle they don't or can't get out of. This applies to ABCCBSNBCPBS just as much as NYT_LAT_WP_etc.
Replace the worst abusers above with the big Hollyweird corporations, and it all applies equally as well...
Excitedly, we both read the movie section to try and decide which to see. Then we read the movie section again. We finally get a night off and we didn't want to see anything! Still, we had to seize the opportunity, so we ended up at Wedding Crashers. Funny, but a better rental than full-price fare. Oh yeah, and every trailer looked awful.
Our last theater visit was six months ago and we had the same blah experience. Every once in a while you get a LOTR or Passion or some other movie event. But those are getting more and more rare. I hope Narnia's good... I bet Hollywood does too.
Yep. I don't mess w/the MSM either. The only time I see a story from them is by reference in FR.
Batman Begins was a welcomed film. Finally got the character right for once.
The most obvious solution (other than better scripts!) is to pay the idiots IN the movies less so they can charge us less to see them. But they seem destined to hand out $20 million & more paychecks to their "major talents" (?!) like Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt ETC.
100% correct.
as the MSM shrinks, its core audience becomes more liberal and more angry
There always seem to have some offensive liberal as a headliner.
Current favorite star is Diane Lane (she gets more beautiful as she gets older), unless she's appearing with homo Richard Gere (in Unfaithful on my schedule tonight).
Have settled on 3 hours of TNT's X-Files repeats as a way to fall asleep tonight.
I agree that she keeps getting better looking.
(Favorite movies: "The Graduate" and "The Last Picture Show")
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