Who Agrees With Me That

[crazy_billy_bats]

personally i pimp out all my posts....

like Snatch N£mo? or piece of shit?

and u adthomp?

[Homersimpson]

I loved The Transporter

[Wizzandabe]

i would say more like 80% some are really shit and some are really good, there is more shit noes though. i must admit.

[ShareDaddy]

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.

[miffo]

agree that they make about 10-15 good movies every year
at least these good ones hold high standards (can u write that?)

[Bait Master]

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 .

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.

[thegroggman]

I hate those old 70's movies.

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.

[3RA1N1AC]

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????

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.

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.

[Cl1mh4224rd]

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.

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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