Posted on 12/21/2016 8:43:37 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
There hasn’t been a good movie made since Porky’s....................
Was Smoky and the Bandit before or after Porky’s?
this is the one I’m waiting for:
https://www.google.com/search?q=you+paint+houses+scorsese&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=the+irishman+scorsese
I think the last movie i paid to go see was “Hurtlocker”. Nothing much worth seeing since then.
Scorsese is absolutely correct. And TV is now producing WAY more interesting shows than cinema, including, “Preacher”, “Gotham”, “Mr. Robot”, “Sherlock”, “Foyle’s War”, “Midsomer Murders”, “Jack Taylor”, “Paradise Valley”, British “House of Cards”, “Walking Dead” (until this season), “Orphan Black”, “Still the King”, “Bosch”, and older classics like “The Sopranos”, “Deadwood”, “Pacfic”, “The Wire” and “True Blood” (before it turned all-homo).
Before.............
Good. I'm tired of the filth, cursing, sexual scenes, selfishness, meanness, indoctrination and blasphemy billed as entertainment.
You forgot “The Women” (1939).
Okay then ;)
Just a little trivia, but Scorcese (and Deniro) wouldn’t have careers if it were not for John Lennon. When “Mean Streets” was first released, someone sent a print to Phil Spector, because they had used one of his songs to open the film, and hadn’t bothered to get the rights to it. Spector was furious and wanted to get the film pulled from distribution and sue Scorcese into oblivion.
But, John Lennon was hanging out with him that day and liked the movie, so he convinced Phil Spector that he should cut them a break, reminding him that Phil and him had done crazy things when they were young too. So Spector let him use the song in exchange for a percentage of Scorcese’s future films.
They also have to pay homage to blacks, homosexuals and Hispanics to get financing. That is the way the world works these days in Hollywood.
We’re lucky we have TCM. The rest I’m forced to buy on dvd. Thank God also for the Criterion Collection.
I went to the source and read the entire article and I’m still not sure what his specific complaints with contemporary cinema are.
And how was Boardwalk Empire any different or special than other of the most popular series??? It threw shocking sex or shocking violence at you every 14.3 minutes like all the others. After a while you get bored of that stuff. I’d like a series where shocking sex and violence didn’t even happen or happened very rarely. Violence, ok, someone gets killed. But apparently normal sex isn’t good enough for series makers. They allllll have to go to incest now. Enough. It’s disgusting. That isn’t cinema. Boardwalk Empire wasn’t that great except at the beginning.
Just this morning I saw, in part, a 1931 movie with Irene Dunne - possibly my favorite actress. She was so young! Years before Show Boat and she was very young in that.
To Russia With Love is my personal favorite of the series.
No that is still here. He just said his version of cinema is gone although it seems to me his movies weren’t exactly kiddie fare either. Anyway I have been hearing this lament for a long time now. A few good movies slip through the cracks on occasion and they can be enjoyed.
The “Mini-Series” has killed the traditional movie. Four or five seasons of compelling TV like “Breaking Bad,” “Game Of Thrones,” “Justified,” and the “Sopranos” can be delivered to multiple formats at the viewer’s convenience.
Who needs some over-priced, over-hyped, stupid video-game-like movie at a theatre full of inconsiderate morons.
You are correct. There are still a few needles in that haystack!
The only thing wrong with the mini-series is they go on and on and past all ridiculousness.
Finite runs of 6-7 episodes is what I like. At some point the starss always become more important that the story. I don’t care if the actors get to show their range, just make a good story.
“Old Acquaintance “ with Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins and “The Heiress” with Olivia de Havilland are two of my favorites.
That’s why I specified 4-5 seasons. After that it’s mostly downhill. See “Walking Dead” for example.
“The Best Years of Our Lives” from 1949 is proably the best movie ever made.
The only story to approach it might be “The Searchers.”
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