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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. |
You must have short memory or havent seen many older movies.
What people are saying are the big movies was of better quality in 60's-80's.
Nowadays movies that make money are more about the computer effects than actors skill.
Compare Oscar winning Godfather to Gladatior winning oscar......
Of course there has always been many crappy movies but they didnt use to be the biggest movies.
You diss Simpson. I thought it was one of few decent movies i have seen this year.
One thing i agree with you though, the people that watch every Saw,Jason X ruins for others. The people that want quality movies must be careful what to spend money on. Which is why everytime i see a good qaulity movies that isnt mass produced,cashing in crap i go see it. Just to show i dont want Saw 10.
Before i was like the masses seeing every crappy movie just cause you were bored but not anymore.