[unclejack]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Two things going on in this thread are noteworthy:

One, many of the posters suggest that Hollywood has somehow increased the number of non-quality movies as opposed to high-quality movies over the years. Examine Hollywood's production years closely, and you'll find that it has always produced many more non-quality movies than high-quality movies in proportion. It's not really a "cycle"... it's always been that way. We've just (thankfully) lost and/or forgotten most of the bad ones over the years.

And two, many put Hollywood in the position of being solely at fault. Remember, if it wasn't for so many people going to those bad movies, Hollywood wouldn't be making them.

That said, it can be even more difficult when the group here doesn't agree with what constitutes a "good" movie. I know I, for example, wouldn't include "The Simpsons Movie" as one. I would include Steven Soderberg's Solaris: Even though Solaris has been done, the new film was well-done, intelligent, and seen by me and only about 39 others, apparently.

So, maybe Hollywood is unoriginal. So what? Think about this: If it weren't for the revenue raked in by those "Rocky IX" and "Saw XXVI" remakes, no one in Hollywood would be making loss-leaders like Solaris at all.

That's the business they're in, and we've all bought into it, hook, line and buttered popcorn. So cut 'em a little slack... or go read a book.

I agree with you when it comes to saw but I have to say that I was very impressed with the last Rocky movie, I thought it was a satisfying conclusion to the Rocky saga. And I also disagree on it always bein like this, I cant remember ever havin to hunto so hard for good movies to rent in the video store, I used to look forward to Tuesday's at Blockbuster, but not anymore. A good movie comes out about once every two to three months if that. I will say that I'm lookin forward to seeing Awake and Southland tales and I am very pleased to know that they are makin another Narnia movie. I will also be at the front of the line for the next Batman movie and Spiderman movie and potential Superman movie so don't think I've totally given up on Hollywood. The comic book scene is one thing they actually do quite well.