First off, I'm 39 years old. I feel like I'm pretty with it and into todays world rather than living in the past in most ways.
I don't go to the movies too often but when I do it seems I leave pretty disappointed probably 3 times out of 4. There's always been bad movies but why is this? Do you guys feel the same?
Are all the good movie ideas taken for the most part?
I find myself wanting to simply not want to spend the money and go. I'd rather watch a tv series on netflix.
Which movies do you think sucked?and which didn't?
The Lego movie was good!
I've heard similar complaints about SNL being bad in recent history. And maybe with movies and SNL people are actually right, but at least part of the perception is that when I think about movies or sketches from earlier eras I only am remembering the good ones. There were plenty of bad movies/sketches in the past, we just forget about them.
Yes.
Movies are terrible at the moment.
I blame the internet, CGI and atrocious video games.
Mainstream music is also the worst I've ever heard. There's no depth or variety at all at the moment.
They've also destroyed the Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters with pointless and hideous, cringeworthy remakes.Unforgiveable.
TV is the medium that is attracting ALL the talent. It's funny how used to tv was where people started with a goal towards the movies, but now that long trend is reversing.
A really great mini-series allows the actors & writers to really develop characters and tell a story with a really big long arch. Look at the tv adaptation of Fargo, or any of these great shows like Breaking Bad,Stranger Things, The Sopranos. Not possible to develop these characters in a 2.5 hr movie, but with 8-10 hrs a season you really get to explore.
The movies now only cater to 15 yr olds. It's all CGI comic book stuff and endless sequels. (I guess there's all the animation stuff for the young kids.)
Spotlight is really good. Guardians of the Galaxy was fun. Wolf of Wall Street was watchable. Most of the other mainstream movies were somewhere between terrible and awful. The indie films all seem to either be painfully melodramatic or too weird to be watchable. I do like Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina and Inside Llewyn Davis (the new Star Wars was a blatant retread of the original). But yeah. It is slim pickings at the movies these days.
Yeah. I wholeheartedly agree. I was dissapointed with the Jason Bourne movie. My first trip to the theater in over a year.
In my opinion the root cause is the studio exes at the top. They are the ones greenlighting the garbage that gets put out there.
Over reliance on CGI, too risk adverse for not trying anything new, playing it safe and falling back on re-makes, and honestly the "whitewash" of many films that turn a lof of viewers off. A film set in ancient Eygpt featuring Christian Bale??? Really!!
Perhaps Hollywood needs to fail and many people need to be fired in order for a new guard to come in and offer fresh perspectives and a different way of doing business.
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Yeah. I wholeheartedly agree. I was dissapointed with the Jason Bourne movie. My first trip to the theater in over a year.
In my opinion the root cause is the studio exes at the top. They are the ones greenlighting the garbage that gets put out there.
Over reliance on CGI, too risk adverse for not trying anything new, playing it safe and falling back on re-makes, and honestly the "whitewash" of many films that turn a lof of viewers off. A film set in ancient Eygpt featuring Christian Bale??? Really!!
Perhaps Hollywood needs to fail and many people need to be fired in order for a new guard to come in and offer fresh perspectives and a different way of doing business.
Have we been talking? This sounds verbatim to my complaints.
Watch Mortdecai--that movie made me wonder if the investors actually had the director and producers murdered.
There are some pretty good movies being made, but most of them aren't the ones playing in most movie theaters. I am lucky in that I have an independent movie theater in my city that plays really good movies (not pretentious one all the time like most indie theaters). I live in a fairly small-to-mid sized city, so this is unique.
A few that I have really like recently have been Irrational Man, Short Term 12, Leviathan, The Big Short, Me, Earl & the Dying Girl (although it got panned and labeled racist) and Saint Vincent. I also continue to love Wes Anderson movies even though they are super predictable and overly twee.
I know there are a million other movies that I am forgetting, but there are some good ones out there... Blockbusters are pretty much terrible.