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Hollywood can we have some good movies please!!!

post #1 of 20
1/26/08 at 6:58pm
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With everyone here investing so much in their theater, hopefully Hollywood can make some decent movies. It seems like all the best flicks are behind us. I just am not excited about any of the new flicks in the last year or more. Wondering if anyone feels the same as me. I remember being excited every Tuesday when the new movies were coming out and that was probably at least 5 years ago!!


Joey
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post #2 of 20
1/26/08 at 7:20pm
aye!


OR... How about some decent classic releases on BlueRay for Starters... The CES announcements were dismal.
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post #3 of 20
1/26/08 at 8:20pm
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Peter,

Watched Rambo First Blood last night and it is an awesome BLuray disk. Highly recommended!! I am also a big Stallone fan.

Hey man your pic looks like it's out of a Stephen King Novel

Joey
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post #4 of 20
1/26/08 at 8:28pm
Watched No Country For Old Men last night in our HT courtesy of a USC Cinema Professor. We loved it. The subtle clues were so much fun, and being able to go back to verify some of the Coen Brothers tricks was a blast. This was much better than the theatrical experience would have been. Even though this was an SD disk, we ran it on a Theta Compli with SDI out into the new HD/SD SDI card in the DVDO VP-50 Pro. Shadow detail was excellent, and necessary. Great film making.
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post #5 of 20
1/26/08 at 8:42pm
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With everyone here investing so much in their theater, hopefully Hollywood can make some decent movies. It seems like all the best flicks are behind us. I just am not excited about any of the new flicks in the last year or more. Wondering if anyone feels the same as me. I remember being excited every Tuesday when the new movies were coming out and that was probably at least 5 years ago!!


Joey

The industry waxes and wanes...
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post #6 of 20
1/26/08 at 8:57pm
I was just having a conversation with another member about this earlier today. The quality of cinema over the last year has really taken a turn for the worst. It seems like ill humor, bottom of the barrel comedy (Knocked Up, Blades of Glory, etc.) has really taken a front seat to well thought out, truly entertaining films. I have also been really disappointed with the hi def content that has been released thus far. To make it worse, while waiting for new content to come out we are forced to beg for past releases and as we're holding our breath for some of the greats such as LOTR or even Star Wars, every Tue I continue to see worse and worse films released that I wouldn't pay to see on regular DVD let alone Blu Ray/HDDVD.
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post #7 of 20
1/27/08 at 3:11am
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With everyone here investing so much in their theater, hopefully Hollywood can make some decent movies. It seems like all the best flicks are behind us.

Joey

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Watched Rambo First Blood last night and it is an awesome...

First you bemoan the lack of good movies...and then wax poetic about Rambo.

I just wish there were more great and thought provoking reading today....like the National Enquirer and Mad Magazine.
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post #8 of 20
1/27/08 at 5:02am
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I just wish there were more great and thought provoking reading today....like the National Enquirer and Mad Magazine.

The best years are behind us I'm afraid. I had a twenty something here who told me that my generation took all of the good ideas.

Art
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post #9 of 20
1/27/08 at 5:32am
As far as great comedies go, I have to disagree that there hasn't been anything great lately... Both Superbad and Borat had me ROFLMAO.

"My name is McLovin..."

While the output may be sparse in other genres, in terms of "great" films, there are some solid films that were released in the last few years.
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post #10 of 20
1/27/08 at 5:47am
I agree that the quality generally is down although very good films are still there.

I do feel like I have way fewer instances of really anticipating a release.

Art
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post #11 of 20
1/27/08 at 9:33am
I think that bad movies have *always* been a staple of the movie industry. I don't think things have gotten worse exactly, just that it's hard to come up with original ideas. The great movies always get buried under the barrage of BS. Last King of Scotland was great. Batman Begins was fantastically cool. American Psycho.

And I think that the fact that you can film and produce a very high quality looking movie with under $10K in equipment these days means that a lot of ideas that are dismissed too quickly, like "God Inc" will get produced, dropped on the internet and then will get picked up and done professionally. plus you have the rest of the world pumping out better and better movies. So i think it's getting better if anything.

Albuquerque hosts a digital film festival where an entire 12 minute mini movie is created in a few days and that is generating deals and talent.
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post #12 of 20
1/27/08 at 9:42am
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I think that bad movies have *always* been a staple of the movie industry. I don't think things have gotten worse exactly, just that it's hard to come up with original ideas. The great movies always get buried under the barrage of BS. Last King of Scotland was great. Batman Begins was fantastically cool. American Psycho.

And I think that the fact that you can film and produce a very high quality looking movie with under $10K in equipment these days means that a lot of ideas that are dismissed too quickly, like "God Inc" will get produced, dropped on the internet and then will get picked up and done professionally. plus you have the rest of the world pumping out better and better movies. So i think it's getting better if anything.

Albuquerque hosts a digital film festival where an entire 12 minute mini movie is created in a few days and that is generating deals and talent.

I'm sorry, I totally disagree. Sure bad films have always been there but go back and look at academy choices for best picture say 30 to 40 years ago and now.

As you say the potential is there but I feel as yet is untapped. Hollywood has settled into sequals effects for their own sake etc rather than original thought which might be risky.

Art
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post #13 of 20
1/27/08 at 9:48am
Eh, people say the same thing every decade.

The Academy has become a popularity contest, which is less an indication of movie quality than it is an indication of politics. if it weren't, most of the nominated performances and movies would be unknown and unseen by most people.

just like music. people that say that music keeps getting worse usually don't take the time or effort to seek good new music which is out there, just buried.
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post #14 of 20
1/27/08 at 9:54am
Charlie Wilson's War was a pretty good film... you just have to pick and choose. Hollywood has always produced many movies most of which were nothing to write home about. I liken it to Gaussian distribution. Put out as many movies as possible in as many genres as possible, and you get a lot of average movies, some really crappy ones, but some epic ones as well!
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post #15 of 20
1/27/08 at 10:21am
Another one of "they don't make'em like they used to" thread. Let face it, we are all most impressionable when we were young. The tastes that we developed up to age 20 is gonna stick with us forever. I'm 31. I look at Star Wars and laugh cuz it's so cheesy. And The Exorcist"? Hellraiser scared the crap outta me. You ask a 10 year old 20yrs from now, what's their fave action movie and they're gonna say Transformers. Animal House/Porky's is like American Pie. Star Wars is like LOTR/Matrix.

There will always be bunches of old guys reminiscing about the past.
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post #16 of 20
1/27/08 at 10:24am
My stepkids say that Star Wars is 'gay'. i look at some old movies i thought were good and watch them now and i can't understand what i liked about them the first time!
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post #17 of 20
1/27/08 at 10:30am
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My stepkids say that Star Wars is 'gay'. i look at some old movies i thought were good and watch them now and i can't understand what i liked about them the first time!

I totally agree. Fast Times at Ridgemont High was my high school staple movie. I watched it again last year, and was disappointed. Ditto with Porky's that I paid to go see in the theater 3 X in college.

Went and saw 'I am Legend' in IMAX on Friday night. I was in awe of the shots of abandoned NYC probably moreso than the movie itself, but I think I got what I paid for, and Will Smith did an excellent job I thought.
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post #18 of 20
1/27/08 at 10:34am
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I don't think things have gotten worse exactly, just that it's hard to come up with original ideas.

As has been said before of literature: there are only nine basic plots, and every story is a different combination of those nine plots.
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post #19 of 20
1/27/08 at 10:36am
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The Academy has become a popularity contest, which is less an indication of movie quality than it is an indication of politics. if it weren't, most of the nominated performances and movies would be unknown and unseen by most people.

I know someone on the committee and this is correct. There is a lot of posturing and favor asking when it comes to nominations and award giving...
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post #20 of 20
1/27/08 at 10:44am
A lot of the acting in the so called greats, just seems like people are reading lines off a card. True acting didn't begin until a few decades ago. of course, by then, a lot of the lines weren't believable. That's my big issue, when people say or do things that just don't fit the scene. you can't act your way out of an unbelievable line.
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