[McMurphy]

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.

Amen!

I have nothing else to say, though, so this is a little awkward....