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I considered your statement that 75% of all great movies come from America ridiculous, so I did this little experiemnt.I opened a large movie guide, one that rates 17,000 movies based on star ratings. While jumping between pages randomly, I started counting the 5-star rated movies, putting them into the following categories: US, Australia/New Zeland, Europe, Russia, Asia, Independent.
I counted about 89 entries. It was obvious from the beginning that it would be somewhat biased towards the American films, but that was OK. I stumbled over some silly choices, like giving 5 stars to Terminator 2.... but I didn't keep it against them.
So the score is:
US 17
Aus/NZ 5
Europe 57
Russia 2
Asia 5
Ind. 3So according to this quick test the US share is about 19%... a FAR cry from your 75%, I'd say.
Somehow I predict that if were to take a similar book written by a European author the proportion would be quite different... hmmmmmm....
The term "good" is, unfortunately, as devisive as GOP code-words for race which mean different things to different people, but that's a topic for another forum. Ratings are like critics (i.e., they're a dime a dozen even with today's inflationary rates); you can find favorable reviews and some sort of star rating system for just about any movie you want. For instance, Clark likes waxing poetic about that "grey poupon" wordsmith Duncan Shepherd who apparently gets about as much pleasure out of watching and reviewing films as the average person gets out of a trip to the dentist's office. It doesn't matter that the vast majority of reviewers for a given film might describe how enjoyable it is, a certain type of film critic will invariably jump on the "look at me" I'm different bandwagon; IMO these critics seem more interested in making a name for themselves than providing interesting and accurate information that the filmgoer can use.My point in saying that 75% of the good films produced are American films is that only 25% of foreign films might be judged as "good" from an entertainment standpoint by the average filmgoer; the rest would be a disappointment. If you want to use a different criteria for what is "good" (i.e., such as selecting a particular critic you see eye to eye with a majority of the time, as Clark has done, or a particular type of filmgoer with an emphasis on elitist tastes as Victor tends to do) then you can probably find enough examples to justify any percentage figure you want.
AuPh
no the really shocking thing is India. They have such a large populous, and they make the most movies of any country in the world, I read a few years back...but I can only remeber seeing a handful of them. Are they too culture specific for a broad appeal...or is it a marketing glitch. What is up with that?The few I have seen were excellent...
but I have to say I don't care for the indian music videos...but the music can be very good.mp
Since you said "good" films, not "great", and considering the entire history of filmmaking, I would say the number is more like about 20% or so. Of course, I've not had the exposure that someone live abroad has.Now if you had said the % of good films in the last ten years......
"Oh no, I can't do anything to the death. Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition, and death is the worst thing for it."
...(when confronted by a critic who was bored by LOTR), suggested "[He] should just take some Mylanta for that dyspepsia and quit his bellyaching!"Whenever Auphy goes All-American, he becomes a fan of pop crap.
clark
good grief, I don't even know where to begin explaining where you're off ...But let's play this game. Can someone take a look at Halliwell's Guide, which lists all **** movies in the back. They give out very, very few **** ratings, so it's not a difficult list to count up and calculate.
So without counting, what is your projection? You can start by saying that.
i just looked at the sight & vision polls, which were discussed here some weeks back and are linked below.american films make up about 20-25% of the critics' list and about 40-46% of the directors' list. (i say "about" because it depends on how you count films like "2001" or "Once Upon a Time in the West").
i'll look at my copy of haliwell's this weekend.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-long.html
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors-long.html
halliwells only goes up to three stars, and there are more movies listed as three stars than i care to count. also, many film titles i've never heard of, and i'm not going to bother looking up whether they're american or not. (the list is at the end of the book, in case anyone else wants to look it up.)quickly glancing at the list, i see that halliwell picks a lot of american films and give three stars to films like "speed".
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