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In Reply to: RE: Comparing the STAR WARS script to Shakespeare posted by grhughes on August 21, 2010 at 06:01:02
EVERY movie is made to make money, no? Are we not discussing the movie business? Let's be a bit real here.
Degrading somebody ("Yes, If you have a 3 minute attention span" "Yes, for a culturally deprived 10 year old!") because they like a certain type of movie is elitist and immature IMO. To each their own.
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I'm 62 years old. At one time movies were a great passion in my life. I studied cinema in college and graduate school and worked as a producer of films for the medical industry. But Hollywood doesn't make movies for my age group any longer. Personally I long and yearn for the David Lean type of film and I think his three late films represent production values that have never been duplicated. Mr. Lucas has been very successful and I can't argue with his success. But I don't like plot lines that are at a fever pitch straight level line the entire 2 hour stretch. I like peaks and valleys in plot lines of movies. I don't like gratuatous violence and I think some things should never be shown. I like intelligent thought provoking dialog for an adult, something I haven't seen in a film for a long time now. Cinematography which I once had a passion for is now SLOPPY. I like everything in focus. Now most films are shot with a depth of field barely of a few inches with avaliable light. I'm sick and tired of every shot from a STEADYCAM sled doing 360 degree piroettes around an actor ad nauseum. This device now is grossly over used. Sound which used to be in 6 track stereo Cinerams is now presented in mono sound on a no larger screen than a bed sheet in a maxi cinema per square cubicle with a center isle in a shopping mall. Someone tall can sit in front of you who smokes and there is that odor of ground in pop corn and spilled coke and now bed bugs in the seat. I'll wait for it to come out of DVD.
The chances of a professional wrestler or a weight lifter becoming a Hollywood film maker is greater than anyone who studied film at NYU or USC.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
"I studied cinema in college and graduate school and worked as a producer of films for the medical industry."
Jeez why didn't you say so in the first place? Had I known you were one of thousands of failed film makers out of film school.....it explains everything.
Judging from your other posts in these forums, it seems that your juvenile mind can't comprehend the fact that STAR WARS is not a great film. About the only noteworthy thing about it is John Dykstra's motion control special effects and very good model making. It is a good children's movie. I took my 6 and 10 year old boys to see it when it first came out and they enjoyed it and went straight out and bought several miniature dolls to play with in their sand box. The 10 year old is now a lawyer in Boston, the 6 year old is now a major in the Air Force and flies C-130s in Afghanistan and my daughter is a Vet. I've taught college courses in television production and media for the last 25 years and tried to equip young minds for the professional media. I don't think you want to discuss cinema with me. So why don't you go get your OB1 Kenoby doll and maybe your Darth Vader doll and go to your sandbox and play. If that doesn't work then try sitting on your haunches contemplating your navel like a good little monkey.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
You know what they say...Those who can't, teach.
"I don't think you want to discuss cinema with me."
If all ya got is dumb ass insults you would be right. Show me a little substance and we can talk "cinema." So far all I see is pretentious posturing.
Failed/wannabe film makers who turn into pompous armchair critics with nothing other than the ability to regurgitate the same crap they were fed in some college class on "cinema" and piss all over other peoples' successes in the film business are a dime a dozen.
Your mischaracterizations of Star Wars, your failure to discriminate between your personal tastes and objective measures of cinematic excellence, your broad brush strokes used to paint the evils of "Hollywood" all in tandem with your failure to offer anything in the way of a critique of substance on Star Wars demonstrates all the earmarks of a pompous twit standing on a soapbox in his birthday suit, fully exposed.
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Guess I struck a nerve
teach. Teaching requires dedication and sacrifice; two things that obviously are foreign to your sensibilities.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." Thomas Jefferson
Thanks for proving my point.....teacher LOL
And I am only 60... :)
I too hate that in-fashion jumping camera.
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