Films/DVD Asylum

The problem with movies these days.

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(With thanks/apologies to Elmo's post below for the title and subject).
--Reliance on fx (shock and awe, if you will, instead of plot-character-dialogue).
--Reliance on test audience preferences (it routinely effects endings).
--Reduction of dialogue to "clever" one-liners, at the expense of reasoned, intelligent, clever/witty exposition.
--Poor distribution of indies and foreign films in medium-sized markets, while tens of screens play the same more popular films to audiences of 15, after the first week, or so (the many screens are necessary to generate the large profits before word of mouth can sink mediocre fare).

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Be thankful if you have an "Art Theater" in your area - dennzio 05:46:21 04/25/04 (2)
We have one just a couple of miles from my house. Last film I saw there was "touching the Void", a docu-drama about a climbing accident that I really wanted to see on the big screen.
- Lucky you, we have no such "art house" cinema. However, - tinear 06:48:59 04/25/04 (1)
  our multiplexes show, roughly, one "artsy" movie every 2-weeks or so. I saw Touching the Void there. What a great movie! The actors disappeared into their roles. Doesn't make me feel like taking up mountaineering anytime soon, either...
  - Me neither. Those actors were incredible climbers. (nt - dennzio 12:05:22 04/25/04 (0)
    nt
Most of Jack Nicholoson's recent flicks, Lost in translation,Alamo,yawn..nt - late 18:45:43 04/24/04 (0)
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No, that's the problem with Hollywood and mainstream theaters. - Jack G 15:08:05 04/24/04 (0)
If you haven't already, get an all region DVD player. Then your options are far greater-Even better if you speak multiple languages.
If I had to watch what was shown locally I wouldn't bother most of the time.
Jack
Drugs. - Elmo 09:51:46 04/24/04 (2)
Maybe a beer, a little pot. Once in a blue moon some ten cent bennies ('weed, whites and wine'. The seventies really were a time of innocence. What had gone before in the country and the culture, was a springboard to a new but small, golden age of cinema. Everything was casual (of course including the sex). The war was winding down. There was a freedom up on the screen. The scripts and film making reflected the overall ease of the artists minds of the times. The world has become more complex, less simple, and innocence cannot be found. The decline of cinema, not too different from the fragmented exponential scattering of a life gone by. A world that may never come to pass again.
- Trying to make sense of it all? You won't find it here. (Open in New Window)
- Confusing that whole inside outside thing? ..nt - late 18:47:28 04/24/04 (0)
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- Most of your post went over my head - tinear 10:13:50 04/24/04 (0)
  (an uncomfortable place for your political posts, had it been one...) but your link made me extraordinarily happy!
  Uma...still available. Hope the cad continues to treat her so, she'll be ready for a guy who knows how to treat a lady. Then again, I'd be too scared to "dis" her...(she could give "head over heels" new meaning).
Made for CHILDREN by CHILDREN! - grhughes 08:29:22 04/24/04 (4)
The only director I would go to see would be Milos Foreman and I better be interested in it! When I was young (grduated from college in 72) I was really interested in movies. But boy has that interest wanned! The last good movies I've seen: ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKU'S NEST and AMADEUS. Maybe it's the dumbing of America! Or maybe free enterprise is working on some sort of Peter Principle:" Filmakers only rise to the level of their own incompetence." I've given up on commerical TV with all its SICKENING reality. And why is it that when I see some stupendous computer special effect, if pours over me like water over a duck's back not phasing me at all. Is it because we all know that it's MEMOREX and not real? The Republicans and Newt Gengrich have ruined Public Broadcasting in America. All the stations are now manned by volunteers. They've figured out a way to make you pay if you want entertainment. The problem is that the avaliable entertainment is in poor taste. Maybe it's the failure of the American educational system. What would the murderer's of Columbine High want to look at? GR
- "The Republicans and Newt Gengrich have ruined Public Broadcasting." LOL! - clarkjohnsen 13:50:50 04/25/04 (2)
  Surpassingly boring programming and stultifyingly PC attitudes have done the trick all by themselves.
  clark
  - "stultifyingly PC attitudes"....HUH, Heaving UP Heavily: - grhughes 18:40:56 04/26/04 (1)
    Yes, When you consider programs lIke ANTIQUES ROADSHOW. They don't even have to write a script. Just let people know they'll be in town and mindless blivets will bring and talk about their junk. It is truly amazing what is popular among Americans. Why not a CIRCUS MAXIMUS? They could burn queers at the stake or let Lions tear them apart. Barbara Walters could MC it. Of course LIVE would have to be in the title. How's that for excitement. GR
    - "Of course LIVE would have to be in the title." Or, DEAD. Either way... nt - clarkjohnsen 09:30:57 04/27/04 (0)
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- Oh, boy... (nt) - Victor Khomenko 09:05:30 04/24/04 (0)
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