It's disgusting what passes for movies these days. The days of epic films are gone forever.
I think that "Flags of Our Fathers" will be worth watching. Does anyone know when it will be released?
Not too much objectionable in that one; a good story about WWI with nothing anti-American.
Enjoyed it.
I saw "Flyboys" the other night and it is a real exception to the current bilge. Not totally authentic, but a rousing good film that contains more than a bit of historical accuracy. It is a throwback to the old epic film although the critics apparently hate it because it "glorfies war." Well, World War I was entered into with themes of glory most prominant followed by complete disillusionment. The movie captures this fact well, but I guess the liberal critics out there either know little of history or else don't like clean films without the gratuitous f bomb and nudity. Go see it. I think you would like it.
Oh please don't be melodramatic. While there is certainly a nice crapfest of movies coming out, hardly is the epic gone.... Lets face it, several multi part epics have only recently completed.... TLOTR, SW I, II, III... as well as such far as Narnia... etc etc.
While I won't deny there is a ton of drivel, there always has been. Great movies are few and far between, ever actually go back and see what kinds of movies were released during a particular 10 year span? Yes you will find some great classics... but you'll also find a lot of crap.
There will always be low end and poor quality movies being made... difference is before, people would not go see them in droves.... It speaks volumes about our culture today that a film about a bunch of homos abusing themselves in front of the camera is the #1 movie out...
If you let MTV into your home as a parent, you frankly just need publicly shamed.
>>It's disgusting what passes for movies these days. The days of epic films are gone forever.<<
I agree very much with the first part. But I am optimistic about the second part.
I think that technology is advancing so rapidly that, like the media, Hollywood will no longer have a monopoly in the entertainment business, giving rise to more and more smaller-budget, independent films that will change the movie world forever.
It would be great if there could be some movie theaters that only ran the classic movies.(Maybe there are some.) I know I would pay to see them shown again on the "big screen".
I agree that many modern movies are disgusting. I refuse to see a movie if I know that it's rated "R" because of profanity. The Marx brothers were in some great comedies that didn't use profanity. Why did the amount of profanity in movies increase within the past 50 years? I e-mailed this question to Michael Medved, but he didn't answer. I hope to read many ideas about it.
As they should be - time (and technology) moves on. Back in the 30s, movies had only radio as competition. Then came TV in the 50s; now there's computer games. Each competitive niche draws away the most creatively brilliant artists, leaving movies no different than any mature industry that's run for cash flow by studio executives.
If you were in your late teens/young 20s, and were very creative, where would you go? All the very best talent is going into computer games since that's where the future lies.
See Flyboys.
So true. Kinda stupid that movies like Faherenheit 9/11, Little Man, Material Girls, and Inconvient Truth get full release, while Idiocracy gets limited release. You got Jackass 2, kinda like Ow, My Balls. What is happening in the movie Idiocracy is happening today. So pathetic.
That's mostly true. Every now and then a good movie comes out but 95% of what Hollyweird puts out is junk.
Guess that's why I haven't been to a movie theater since 2003.