personally i pimp out all my posts....
like Snatch N£mo? or piece of shit?
and u adthomp?
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personally i pimp out all my posts....
like Snatch N£mo? or piece of shit?
and u adthomp?
I loved The Transporter
i would say more like 80% some are really shit and some are really good, there is more shit noes though. i must admit.
I am an avid movie watcher as you may be able to tell from checking out my movie string, I strongly dissagree with you. I happen to like a wide variety of movies, Romantic / Comedy / Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller and yes even Family, you name it I could point out some good movies in each category.
Now having said that, there are quite a few mediocre or worse films, but being that each year there are well over 1000 movies released by all of the studios there are going to be some tankers and there are going to be some great ones. I think you may be pointing out the fact that the studios are bringing back a lot of old television series and making numerous sequels, prequels and remakes. But you also have to understand that they would not be doing this if they did not do well.
The consumers habits are what eventually drives the studios to doing different things, so until people stop spending money on re-runs we will be seeing more of the same.
agree that they make about 10-15 good movies every year
at least these good ones hold high standards (can u write that?)
I hate those old 70's movies. Of couse it's just shy of my generation so why would i like out dated crappy looking films :P .
Not to many movies pre 90's that i like at all except the 80's horror movies.
Different strokes for different folks i guess.
Im...shocked! Really there isnt a single 70s film that you like? Godfather? Star Wars? The French Connection? Attack on Precint 13? Alien? The Shining? Animal House? Young Frankenstein? Annie Hall? Blazing Saddles? Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Chinatown? One Flew Over the Cookus Nest? Taxi Driver? Clockwork Orange? Apocalypse Now? The Deer Hunter? Dog Day Afternoon? Jaws? Manhattan? Dirty Harry? Rocky? The Exorcist? Patton? Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Netowork? And those are just my favorites...I mean there has to be some movies you like from the period.Quote:
I hate those old 70's movies.
i disagree completely. i think you're only saying this because hindsight is 20/20. there was just as much crap in the 70s, the 60s, the 50s, etc as there is now, but it's mostly been (deservedly) forgotten and now we only remember the good movies from those times.Quote:
Originally posted by adthomp@2 June 2003 - 21:58
ok it brings to my attention that all the movies today are just crap with the exception of two towers and hits like that most of the movies today are aimed for teens such as american pie crap. tenn movies. just whre is everything going now????
there've been fantastic movies directed in the past several years by quentin tarantino, wes anderson, lars von trier, joel & ethan coen, paul thomas anderson, jean-pierre jeunet, david cronenberg, martin scorcese, paul schrader, takashi miike, roman polanski, milos forman, and many other talented people. if you're not satisfied with the movies that are most popular, maybe you should be making an effort to dig up lesser known things that suit your tastes... you can't rely on advertising or the general consensus to tell you which modern films are "good" or "important." popularity has never meant the same thing as quality-- citizen kane is considered to be the greatest film of all time by many people, but at the time of its release it was neither popular nor well-received by critics.
it seems like people are saying "movies are worse now than they used to be" because it's possible to watch so much nowadays from so many sources (cinema, television, cable, video rental, internet, etc) that we all watch so much more than we used to and we appreciate it less. of course movies seemed better back in the days when you had to go to the cinema and you might only see two or three per month.
i dunno, i could prolly state my opinion more clearly, but i think your claim that all movies are crap now... is just wrong. absolutely wrong. maybe 90% of popular culture is crap, but if it's like that now, it's because it has always been like that. it's just hindsight that helps us sort the good from the bad, later on.
Heh. I love it... People look to the past and only remember the good movies. They say, "Man... the 70's fucking rocked. What's wrong with movies today" ... forgetting that the awesome-to-sucks ratio is probably about the same.
yeah but movies in the 70s wern't about money
and there was not as many teen crap movies like american pie and shit like that. its all appealing to young people now and its a big problem
LOL...what?!? There has never been a movie produced by a movie studio, no matter how good, that hasnt been about money. The bottomline is always how much money they can make off a property. As for teenie-bopper films, I think there was actually a sharp drop off in the 70s due to content restrictions being dropped. Directors for awhile would place anything into their films, so the innocent teenie bopper films of the late 50s and 60s dissapeared. But they made their return in the 80s during the Regean Administration...and havent left since. The only teen film I can think of from the time was Animal House...and that unlike current teen films, was funny.Quote:
yeah but movies in the 70s eerbnt about money
thegroggman lol u must have quoted me before I got to edit :lol:
DAMM U!!!
i agree with ya most of today's movies suck with a few execptions
but uh
indiana Jones
that movie was made in the early 80's
There's a ton of awesome movies these days. Watch MTV on June 5th. Thats when the MTV Video Music Adwards are. Wouldnt wanna miss those would ya... :) But if your lazy human ass's dont get out of ur damn bed from sleeping for 16 hours because u stayed up until 5 am the night before ( as will most likely happen to me) then u can just catch the VMA's the next day on MTV. :)
no what I am saying is this
70s would u pay an actor to 4 million to do lethal weapon 4????
no they wouldn't Mel Gibson has admitted he is sick of doing this shit becasue he is board he has admitted that hes only doing it for the money.
also 70s had better actors im not saying that today we havent got good actors but 70s had more.
we are full of actors that are exremly overrated
70s had the best actors
marlon Brando
Robert Denero
Al Pachino
I can go on this is jsut a few example I know there still going today but name some good ones that are brought up in the 90s decade that are as good as these guys???
Nichle Kidman for example wtf??? how did she win?? worst performance ever in days of thunder I have ever seen actully.
o man, the 70s... they sure didn't make any disposable, exploitative adolescent crap back then...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302316405/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6303102700/
http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/pro...ean=43396062023
:rolleyes:
lol just had a read of all that I didn't say the 70s had no crap I said that 60s had less crap and more classic movies.
these days its 4 million
teen
and special effects
thats what ruined Phatom Menece never live up to the original star wars
all those special effects ruined it and it seemed to appeal for a much much younger audience
U have a look at the 20 top movies of all time see what movie is there today
Titanic maybe the latest
and yes someone mention Quetson Tarintinos stuff yes I love it that is the decent 90s stuff of today.
I guess Im just getting too old already now I need Help!!! :lol:
Well the reason Lucas has done what he did with the current Star Wars films is because he wanted to appeal to a younger audience...and apparently it worked, cuz when I went and saw Phantom Menace and AOTC both were packed with screaming 13 year olds. Id kinda say he sold out...but hes out to make tons of doe just like anyone else. Besides when you make a classic like the Star Wars series...its hard to strike oil twice.
As for the actors in the 70s being superior to todays...I think I would agree...although a lot of those actors are still acting...Actually my favorite actors would have to be from the 50s/60s...Jimmy Stewart, Peter O. Toole, Audrey Hepburn, and my favorite actor ever...Steve McQueen. But there are also good actors who have debuted in relatively recent years...Tom Hanks comes to mind...
Edit: Whoops left out the part about the money that actors are paid. I agree that actors are paid too much...kind of gives them the wrong motivation...but actors back in the day were also payed alot, just the economy was different. When a blockbuster cost 20 million tops, paying your lead $500,000 was a lot of money.
Out of that list i can pick 2 that i like. The Shining and Monty Python. Even then i couldn't stand to watch either 1 more than once every few months.Quote:
Originally posted by thegroggman@4 June 2003 - 06:21
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Im...shocked! Really there isnt a single 70s film that you like? Godfather? Star Wars? The French Connection? Attack on Precint 13? Alien? The Shining? Animal House? Young Frankenstein? Annie Hall? Blazing Saddles? Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Chinatown? One Flew Over the Cookus Nest? Taxi Driver? Clockwork Orange? Apocalypse Now? The Deer Hunter? Dog Day Afternoon? Jaws? Manhattan? Dirty Harry? Rocky? The Exorcist? Patton? Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Netowork? .
See the problems i have with those 70's movies is: Picture quality (that erks me the most), the cloths(disco is dead, friggen hippies :P ), special effects (if there's one thing i hate more than total computerized graphics it's old crappy graphics/special effects.)
See the wierd thing is that i like allmost every time i have seen a movie in the past 5-10 years i have liked. Even the crappy ones everyone else hates.
What do/did you people like about Gangs of New York?
I saw it at a moviefestival in Holland, and I thought it was the biggest piece of crap I had ever seen.
(btw I'm going to see Lizzie next Sunday (just out in Holland in theaters))
Most movies nowadays are overhyped. Take the horror films, best horror since exorcist, and crap like that. I seen exorcist uncut and it stank like hell, the end of the 70s to the mid 80s saw a big stream of horror films, and classics like friday the 13th and a nightmare on elm street totally piss on the exorcist. As for nowadays the only decent horrors i have seen are
Sleepless(dario Argento)
Opera(Dario Argento)
freddy Vs jason
Jeepers creepers 1 and 2
The ring
Ringu 1 and 2
The eye
All are very good and the one i look forward to next is HOUSE OF THE DEAD. Not one in the list was overhyped like Wrong turn, which was not as good as it said, and the same goes for My little eye and Long time dead
<_< just passin` but i thought jeepers creepers look like some buffy the vampire slayer shit, haven`t seen the 2nd. i liked requiem for a dream
pi;equibrium;memento;matrix 1&2;the hulk;audition;training day;the secretary
and a lot more.
there`s loadz of movies out there.Seek and you shall find. :ph34r: :blink: :ninja: :zorro: :w00t: :flame:
i agree its 95% crap with the exception of lord of the rings, maitrix
Totally agree with people slating 90/00's Horror flicks (Scream, Jeepers Creepers, I Know what ya did last Tuesday!?!?!)...They're all piss poor excuses for horror, Like Dawsons Creek on Bad Acid and PMT, they just dont scare ya..make ya feel uncomfortable etc...Thats a combo of things, and i'll let BAD acting slide coz 70/80's horror flicks had some of the worst acting ever commmited to cellophane!?! In the 80's, horror movies looked more Raw, shoestring budgets, unknown actors etc..and i think that definetely helped tha genre at the time..Maybe the Horror flick as we knew it has been and gone, had their time..coz this goes back to the question of the thread itself, about no good movies nowadays and i think its a combination of things...some styles of a certain genre have now gone...Horror flicks (made on the cheap, the argento stuff etc), Action movies (in the style of Arnies/Stallones 80's stuff, wave after wave of bad guys getting mown down), these type of flicks we all enjoyed immensely and i think thats what people think back to when judging todays movies.........Dont get me wrong some modern stuff has been f***in great-
The Usual suspects
Heat
Silence of the Lambs
Blade
The Matrix etc .etc...
But come on compare that to-
Beverley Hills cop
Robocop
Predator
A nightmare on Elm street (the 1st one people not part 32)
Cheech & Chong Up in smoke
The Empire strikes back
Rambo 2
No competition.....LOL....... :lol:
i don't understand as both group have some realy good movies in themQuote:
Originally posted by slimboyfatz@6 September 2003 - 03:57
Totally agree with people slating 90/00's Horror flicks (Scream, Jeepers Creepers, I Know what ya did last Tuesday!?!?!)...They're all piss poor excuses for horror, Like Dawsons Creek on Bad Acid and PMT, they just dont scare ya..make ya feel uncomfortable etc...Thats a combo of things, and i'll let BAD acting slide coz 70/80's horror flicks had some of the worst acting ever commmited to cellophane!?! In the 80's, horror movies looked more Raw, shoestring budgets, unknown actors etc..and i think that definetely helped tha genre at the time..Maybe the Horror flick as we knew it has been and gone, had their time..coz this goes back to the question of the thread itself, about no good movies nowadays and i think its a combination of things...some styles of a certain genre have now gone...Horror flicks (made on the cheap, the argento stuff etc), Action movies (in the style of Arnies/Stallones 80's stuff, wave after wave of bad guys getting mown down), these type of flicks we all enjoyed immensely and i think thats what people think back to when judging todays movies.........Dont get me wrong some modern stuff has been f***in great-
The Usual suspects
Heat
Silence of the Lambs
Blade
The Matrix etc .etc...
But come on compare that to-
Beverley Hills cop
Robocop
Predator
A nightmare on Elm street (the 1st one people not part 32)
Cheech & Chong Up in smoke
The Empire strikes back
Rambo 2
No competition.....LOL....... :lol:
Yeah they are both great lists but the bottom 1 is somewhat better, i think u forgot last of the mohicans tho
i don't understand as both group have some realy good movies in them [/b][/quote]Quote:
Originally posted by MUSLEMAN+6 September 2003 - 09:13--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (MUSLEMAN @ 6 September 2003 - 09:13)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-slimboyfatz@6 September 2003 - 03:57
Totally agree with people slating 90/00's Horror flicks (Scream, Jeepers Creepers, I Know what ya did last Tuesday!?!?!)...They're all piss poor excuses for horror, Like Dawsons Creek on Bad Acid and PMT, they just dont scare ya..make ya feel uncomfortable etc...Thats a combo of things, and i'll let BAD acting slide coz 70/80's horror flicks had some of the worst acting ever commmited to cellophane!?! In the 80's, horror movies looked more Raw, shoestring budgets, unknown actors etc..and i think that definetely helped tha genre at the time..Maybe the Horror flick as we knew it has been and gone, had their time..coz this goes back to the question of the thread itself, about no good movies nowadays and i think its a combination of things...some styles of a certain genre have now gone...Horror flicks (made on the cheap, the argento stuff etc), Action movies (in the style of Arnies/Stallones 80's stuff, wave after wave of bad guys getting mown down), these type of flicks we all enjoyed immensely and i think thats what people think back to when judging todays movies.........Dont get me wrong some modern stuff has been f***in great-
The Usual suspects
Heat
Silence of the Lambs
Blade
The Matrix etc .etc...
But come on compare that to-
Beverley Hills cop
Robocop
Predator
A nightmare on Elm street (the 1st one people not part 32)
Cheech & Chong Up in smoke
The Empire strikes back
Rambo 2
No competition.....LOL....... :lol:
Its sorta Tongue in Cheek in m8...and also the list for Older flicks would be much extensive than the more modern movies (but i thought i had typed enough already).. ;)
and the end of the 70s to the mid 80s did spur some films being banned in the uk. Exorcist just aint scary at all. But i saw maniac other day uncut and man some of the stuff he does in it, no wonder it was banned. He blows this guys head to bits with a shotgun, real good stuff. They seem too scared to do it with some style nowadays, but i will give thumbd up to the following 3.
Final destination 2, totally ruled for the death scenes
freddy vs jason, because it was just ten times better than i expected
jeepers creepers 2, because it pissed on the 1st one and the killings were better as well. But if you want gore you cannot go wrong with any argento film, man did he go over the top in some of his horror films, no wonder i am a fan
me.
I agree. This year has been dire for movies with only a few exceptions.
75% are crap not 95 thats way to high there are some discent one you just have to know what they are.
I would say the vast majority of new movies are rubbish, but 95% is probably a little high.
The figure is probably closer to 78.3%
well i usually see 1 turkey in 10, and at least 4 or 5 are okay. maybe 1 or 2 are brilliant. as for the rest they are very good. so for me it would probably be 10 to 50 per cent.
Down with the crappy movies!! :angry:
We want some good entertainment dammit! And we know you have the money to do it Hollywood!!!! So don't be mad at us if we want to download all your garbage movies instead of paying to see them. Start making good movies again and people will actually fork over their hard earned money to go see it.
gotta say yes
your wrong.
95% of the people todey just expect to much from movies. theres nothing wrong with most movies, just ignorant people that want every single movie that comes out to be exactly how they want it.
i think 95% of movies have always been crap, it's kinda how distributors make money - they only let cinemas have the good movies if they also buy the crap ones