Netflix hasn’t killed shit, not least movies because their “original content” is mostly crap (and it may end up killing my Apple TV subscriptions).
Facebook has killed the magic that was movie stars. Don’t like what you’re watching in the metroplex? Break out the phone and watch something you prefer. What I’m saying is that, short of finding a realistic way of removing those watching in the metroplex from their phones or their networks, Hollywood and its star system are ceding ground to Zuckerberg and his crap like FM radio ceded ground to MTV.
Movie viewers are voting with their screen choices in movie theaters, a battle that Facebook wins hands down, even in rooms reserved and equipped for film (i.e., movie theaters). Just like MTV viewers voted with their music views - which song is better? - rather than remain in the old FM regime of playing-then-crowning national hits.
Have you had your attention span shortened too much to follow a movie setup? Or you don’t like what you see once it’s developed? You judge within ten or twenty minutes that what you see on the metroplex screen is boring? No problem, Mark Zuckerberg has the solution and it’s on the phone that’s in your pocket.
I guess you’ve heard that Facebook has been developing original content like Apple. But unless things are different in TDubs, they haven’t really released anything notable yet. Apple’s first big gamble, a shark tank knock off, failed. That’s why they acquired Carpool Kareoke from the popular CBS Late Show segment.
YouTube would be a bigger player in that market, with the abundance of amateur and semi-pro content creators on the platform.
Friends were a bit iffy about seeing it, but I think I might go see it.
Pretty sure a majority of people choosing not to see it is because Harrison Ford isn’t the lead role. However, I’m a bit curious about the story and how all of the characters meet.
They should have given the role to Harrison Ford purely from a public safety perspective. If he spends more time acting, he has less time to crash his airplane.
Fwiw I had some fun. Obviously the movie had some strict lines it had to color in, but by and large it wasn’t the disaster it could have been.
Otoh more curious about the Boba Fett movie. At least it’ll be written and directed by the filmmaker who did Logan, so theoretically it shouldn’t be too bad.
I wouldn’t call all of them better - the bad ones just get forgotten - but definitely today’s studio budgets disproportionately go towards all-flash-no-substance, transformer-y type stuff.
On the other hand, I’d break out my criterion blu-ray of The Rules of the Game for the second time this week than sit through a free screening of that new gnome movie. Non, merci.
Maybe not better as in the overall quality is higher, but the ones recognised by the Academy definitely used to be stronger. The Best Picture winners since the beginning of the century (the ones I’ve seen anyway, which is most of them), other than The Return of the King and No Country for Old Men, are just not worthy of the prize to me.
I will eventually. I’ve always been a Emily Blunt fan.
I thought There Will Be Blood should have won that year, but I guess it’s unusual to have two such deserving films in one year. The recent winners have indeed been lame.
Well there’s only been like 18 of them. Return of the king = lord of the rings? I could take or leave those. No country is fantastic, agree, though There will be blood honestly should have won.
Say what you will, I really enjoyed a beautiful mind the one time I saw it (edit: I’m just told it stole bp from a better movie - damnit). And I really like gangs of new york (edit: not 100% if it ended up winning bp).
There are others I enjoyed, but most of them as far as I’m concerned stole the prize from a worthier nominee.
Unfortunately one other disgrace that Weinstein has brought to the industry is the culture of award campaigning.
If there’s anything you should know by now, is that to be nominated usually suggests quality. But actually winning basically equals political success.
i watched Aronofsky’s “Mother!” last night. There were a couple of moments where I said, “this is bullshit” out loud, but on the other hand I do tend to like difficult films. It sort of had the feel of a von Trier movie but without the latent manic-depressive quality, so in a way it lacked soul. It was like a two hour hallucinatory fever dream.
I thought it was bullshit too but also loved it. It’s been a while but if I remember right, He’s God and She’s Mother Nature - then come Adam and Eve, etc - and if you think about that while you watch, you get it. Could still be bullshit though.
Solo was just okay. It was fine. Can’t remeber how to post spoilers through my phone so I’ll leave it there for now.
They are about equally deserving. I think There Will Be Blood is the more important film, but No Country for Old Men is more enjoyable. My favourite PTA is The Master.
Honestly, I am glad for all the choices we have here in Taiwan regarding world cinema.
Said it once, said it again: Korean movies are so good. Finally got hold of an English subtitled Along with the gods. Up to the ending, it was soooo good. Contrary to the latest Avengers, I did not notice it was over 2 hours long until the credits. That is my kind of movie. Not quite a satisfactory ending for me, but the rest was smart writing and beautifully done.
One thing you don’t seem to hear much anymore is “I liked the book better.” No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy being a case in point. Has reading become a lost art or has film making just become so much better that it rivals literature in depth and quality? It’s certainly the golden age of television. I just wonder sometimes if we’ve unknowingly lost something important in the age of instant multimedia gratification.
The modern movie that the current young ones like, corny lines, nothing but CGI, car crashes, bodies torn in half, etc. Total gore fest. It’s not surprising it leads some kids to do school shoot ups and then surrender. Because they saw something similar in the movies.
Where is the acting, the human predicaments in say Scent of a Woman, Rain Man, heck even Top Gun.
There is no acting, just CGI destruction and mayhem and dodgy concepts of life and death.
I fell asleep , it was just one big asinine movie.
A lot of movies these days are just that. A CGI spotlight of mass destruction , mediocre acting and stupid plots
BAh Humbug. And these suckers sell too, in the billions of dollars.
Doesn’t say a whole lot for our current generation of humanoids.
