We Aren’t Just Watching the Decline of the Oscars. We’re Watching the End of the Movies.

NY Times ^ | 25 Mar2022 | Ross Douthat

[Rummyfan]

The Darkest Hour was great!

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Gene Wilder film. I’ll check it out.

[Rummyfan]

The most recent was the Artist.

The premise of The Artist, was done definitively in Singin' In The Rain, arguably the best musical ever made.

I remember when I watched The Artist I thought 'that's it?'. Disappointing.

[sphinx]

The Railway Man (2013) deals with the Japanese forced labor as well.

[Rummyfan]

Yet we quit looking for Japanese war criminals around 1950.

We hung quite a few Japanese as war criminals. But with the start of the Korean War .... that pretty much stopped.

[Rummyfan]

I Dustin Hoffman I’d/was ok with doing disturbing trash. So no.

For some reason I can no longer watch Dustin Hoffman.

[Trillian]

I have all my favorite tv shows and movies on dvd. I’ll be fine :)

[Rummyfan]

Looking back a few years: On the Rocks, Dear Comrades!, Greyhound, Little Women, Straight Up (this will surprise you, but a fun movie that brings some order out of moral chaos), Chernobyl, Tolkien, The Professor and the Madman, Mr. Jones, Balloon, Ashes in the Snow, Operation Finale, Support the Girls, Leave no Trace, Death of Stalin, Lady Bird, Gifted, First They Killed My Father, and Columbus. That takes me through 2017. I list them here for the "nuke Hollywood from orbit" folks.

Thanks for the list. Some I've seen. The Death of Stalin was fantastic.

[Rummyfan]

That will truly destroy major studio film-making.

[Rummyfan]

So to all: what has "Hollywood" done for YOU lately? I don't care if you watched something in the theater or at home, but what good films have you seen that are relatively new?

Drive My Car... very good.
Belfast... good but I thought it would be ... bigger. I was a little disappointed. Great cast and great soundtrack though.
Nightmare Alley... a real bummer. Well done and well acted but what a comment on human nature.

[DouglasKC]

Is Don't Look Up a comedy or a drama?!

A dramedy really. Quite good. I heard that it was meant to skewer global warming deniers but actually skewers celebrity culture and the news media more so than anyone else. I found it very entertaining....just have to get past the obligatory conservative stereotypes...

[Parley Baer]

Exactly Go Woke, Go Broke.

[hanamizu]

The graduate is trash. Yes it is.

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Saw ‘The Graduate’ while in college in Santa Barbara. When Hoffman enters the tunnel to go the the wedding, everyone in the theater said, “He’s going the wrong way!” Don’t remember which way on US 101 (now Cal !) used the tunnel but it wasn’t the way he was supposed to be going.

[sheik yerbouty]

It’s morphing into syphilisation..

[DoodleDawg]

CODA wasn't bad at all Predictable but still well acted and well done. Hope it wins.

'Being the Ricardos' probably should have been a nominee, but Javier Bardem is up for best Actor and he was fantastic.

[Texan]

"Top Gun 2"

Saw the previews of Top Gun-Maverick last night. I think that's what you're looking for. Might be good but boy did Tom Cruise look old.

We had gone to see The Lost City at our neighborhood theater. A stupid movie IMO but 90% liked it on Rotten Tomatoes.

[Sgt_Schultze]

We’re not watching the end of movies, were watching the end of actors and Hollywood. So much is already CG greenscreen, locations can all be virtual. As computing improves, the characters too will be computer generated. All that’s left will be dialogue, and that’s in the works to be computer generated as well. I bet the future of film will be in the recussitation of long-dead actors in brand new roles.

[xp38]

Same here. That said one would have to know some of the history of the USSR to get a lot of it.

[dfwgator]

Thumbs way up for Dear Comrades!

[muir_redwoods]

They make too many movies about comic book characters I stopped reading about when I was 12. Why would an adult want to watch a superhero movie?