Hopkins Hits Out at Hollywood {You will love this!)

This is London ^ | 3/07/2006 | Staff Writers

[shield]

Love an actor who'll tell it like it is...Thanks Tony ;o)

[One Proud Dad]

I am a whiz at typing programming words I use in code everyday, but typing the Queens English makes me have to think.

[Wyatt's Torch]

the ads featured the Houses of Parlament getting blown up. Where is the movie with a positive take on the War on Terror?

Tom Clancy wrote about terrorists flying a plane into the Capitol building during a joint session of Congress with the POTIS and most of the Cabinet and SCOTUS also attending. Then turned it into a kick the terrorists ass book in Executive Orders. The Parliament scene could have been to set something up...

[Fedora]

""I'm also tired of the camera moving all over the place, with car chases so cut and edited you don't know what's happening."

I laughed at this part--I've been complaining about this for years :-) It's like everyone in Hollywood decided to copy MTV starting somewhere in the early 1990s.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The original comic book, published in Britain in the 1980s, was morally ambiguous-Britain in the graphic novel is clearly a dictatorship, but V's actions are also questionable, to put it mildly. The ending is left unresolved.

Hopkins is one of the good guys. I'm glad somebody of his stature finally brought up the point about the moving camera work. When done well, it can be very effective-it can give TV shows like 24, The Shield, and Battlestar Galactica a tense, documentary-style feel-but the rest of the time it's clearly being used by people who grew up watching music videos and playing video games. Somebody needs to teach people how to just tell a story again.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I laughed at this part [constant changes of camera position]--I've been complaining about this for years :-) It's like everyone in Hollywood decided to copy MTV starting somewhere in the early 1990s.

I wish I could laugh; I can't stand watching it, and I turn it off. Unfortunately, all the young people entering the "biz" have grown up with this style, and we might be stuck with it. If so, I say just hand the camera to a monkey; you'll get the same result, and it'll only cost you a banana.

[Liz]

The attention span of your average MTV'er is about a single nanosecond.

[Mamzelle]

Did you see "Proof"?

[OldArmy52]

Yep, right you are.

You don't need to stand on a stool with sheep.

Need a stool for cows.

Kneel for pigs.

Ducks are handy, portable, convenient....kind of like Gameboys...hand held, compact.

[OldArmy52]

Note: Previous post is not representative of personal beliefs, but does go to show how P.C. I am.

P.C....it's the "in thing".

[Fedora]

"If so, I say just hand the camera to a monkey; you'll get the same result, and it'll only cost you a banana."

ROFL! Yep. . .And the cinematic quality would be about the same. I hope we don't get stuck with it permanently. Maybe if we're lucky, someday a film student will rediscover the camera techniques of the pioneers of cinema. Of course then they'd probably win an Academy Award for inventing something new, because by then no one will remember how to make a movie anymore.

[Fedora]

"The attention span of your average MTV'er is about a single nanosecond."

My theory is that was a deliberate attempt to re-introduce subliminal advertising by another name, probably concocted by someone on Wall Street drawing from the latest in applications of hypnosis to marketing. I've thought that ever since I started noticing them overdoing super-rapid montage cutaways timed to extremely violent music. It has essentially the same effect as subliminal advertising, only it's probably not quite rapid enough to be illegal under the laws passed in the 1950s.

[cornelis]

There are two films titled "Shadowlands," both about Lewis.

I prefer the Emmy-award winning version with Joss Ackland. I think anyone who has even a little distaste for Hollywood would choose the same.

Hopkins is good in "Remains of the Day."

[Gumdrop]

I saw the Lindbergh story on TV when it first appeared. I also saw "Audrey Rose" on TV with Anthony Hopkins as the father of a girl who was very traumatized and always having nightmares. The story was based on a belief in reincarnation, and although I have a lot of scepticism on the subject matter, the story was fascinating and Hopkins brilliant as the father trying to determine what was wrong with his daughter.

[Rakkasan1]

nope. any good?

[sine_nomine]

I could never catch onto code.

[Mamzelle]

I enjoyed it. I found the portrayal of the insular and prestige-greedy academics very realistic.

[Americanexpat]

I have often wondered why they cant make a good war movie now a days. Then I looked at the current crop of actors and see there are very few that could pull off a role as a warrior. But I wish they would make more war movies.

Movies I would like to see:

1. A movie about General Walton Walker and the Korean War.

2. A movie based on Running Through The Raindrops, by Dale Dye. An excellent book about the Marines in the battle of Hue.

3. A movie about the first US Korean war and the Marines fighting in Korea in the 1870s I believe it was.

4. The invasion of Cambodia in 1970 based on the book by Keith Nolan I believe.

5. A movie about the DMZ battles for those people that think we were just fighting a bunch of peasants in black pajamas in Vietnam.

6. Movies about the current war in Iraq.

There are so many great stories out there but I feel with poor quality of actors these days and the liberalism of Hollywood they will never be told.

[Rakkasan1]

available on rental yet? (I have not previosly heard of it)
I rarely go to theaters any more.