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Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante  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...... |
60's?
80's?!?
I have a short memory?
How 'bout the fifties? The forties?
The thirties? The oldest movie you mentioned was
The Godfather. Seen anything in black and white?
How many movies came out in the same year as
Citizen Kane?
Lawrence of Arabia?
On The Waterfront?
Gone With The Wind?
Casablanca?
The Caine Mutiny?
Midway? Lots. How many of them do we remember? Not many. Why? Most of them were dogs.
I'm talking Hollywood's
entire history... not just the last few decades. You go all the way back to the silent era, and you'll find more dogs than good flicks! Hollywood has always used the revenue from popular movies to finance lesser movies, which they promoted as much as possible to get as many people in to see them (and make more money). And plenty of those other movies sucked eggs... that's why we evolved a critics system, to give the public fair warning when Hollywood wouldn't!
I have a hard time finding movies at the video store too... mostly, that's because, as they've dumped their VHS collections for DVDs, they stock fewer and fewer of the old movies, the classics, the oscar winners, and more
Final Destination 6-7/8 and
Little Nicky. I rarely even go to the video store anymore, I just buy the movies I really want, mostly from online sources.