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Re: Good Hollywood movies/what happened?

"There is no question that money plays a part but Ben Hur versus the Gladiator. Personally neither is particularly great...or even good."

I have to disagree with you there. IMO they were both great.

" The fact that the Academy Awards don't help matters by picking Gladiator, Titanic, LOTR, A Beautiful Mind --- don't help. Though I respect the attempt in Titanic and the visuals(for the most part) and the attempted idea of having an invented story to follow."

You support the one stinker in the group. Titanic was a classic case of Jim Cameron not being able to get away from his one favorite plot line. Am I the only one who noticed it was the same exact story as The Terminator? At least that story works in that context.

Depends on your definition of great. Perhaps Platoon or JFK. And of course Spielberg is a separate ball game. Jaws, Raiders, E.T., Schindler's List, are all masterpieces. Star Wars could be viewed as revolutionary I suppose.

Those were all "Hollywood" movies. All funded and produced by major studios. I thought Platoon stank. It was painfully heavy handed. The characters were cartoons. The deliberate attempts to push buttons were laughable.


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