True dat, can't wait for Buckethead to start making movies!It's like watching the slow death of cinema.
Smart TV. You can watch split screen, watch multiple movies at the same time. Sound down, Buckethead on.You're watching 3 movies at the same time? How many TV's do you own?
War For the Planet of the Apes trailer:
Comments like this are far more detrimental to cinema than the movies being played.It's like watching the slow death of cinema.
Cinema is all about perceptions. The concept that today's cinema is pumping out piles of crap whereas yesteryear's cinema was full of riches is both a false narrative and rather unfair to some of the franchises that are operating today. So yes, the idea that today's films are somehow lesser than what came before is a false idea that undermines a fair free attitude towards modern films.One quip/comment by Cried on an Iron Maiden forum is more detrimental to cinema than a flood of largely forgettable franchise films?
Maybe that sounded good when you said it to yourself, but that makes no sense.
All? Absolutely nothing else?Cinema is all about perceptions.
That would be relevant if I had said anything like that. I didn't.The concept that today's cinema is pumping out piles of crap whereas yesteryear's cinema was full of riches is both a false narrative and rather unfair to some of the franchises that are operating today. So yes, the idea that today's films are somehow lesser than what came before is a false idea that undermines a fair free attitude towards modern films.
I'd also like to look at the people and way they made films. Do we have figures as revolutionary and/or influential as e.g. Hitchcock, Kurosawa and Kubrick (just a few) these days? No, we do not. While the results of modern day cinema can be as equally great as films from the past (due to a good story and acting etc.), I miss a visionary "author" consistently making many strong films with an own signature.
Aye, agreed. Although I think others (e.g. Foro) probably hold some of these older/classic films in higher regard than I do. It also means that the best from the past are good; they have stood the test of time. So comparing them to most films today & saying they're better is probably pretty fair. How many individual films from one of today's franchises will be remembered & well regarded in 20-30 years time? I think the franchises themselves will be remembered, but I'm not sure about individual films.There's also the fact that terrible and mediocre films of the past aren't very well known and only the exceptionally good ones are remembered.
Yip.I'm not a fan of sausage meat cinema, where films come across as being churned out to seize a fleeting marketing trend or some sort of contract fulfilment rather than offering something new (that Jurassic sequel I mentioned earlier springs to mind). That's just the most centre-mainstream market, though, usually ultra family friendly and PG rated so they can get as many snack-buying people into the auditorium as possible.
They are entertaining, I just don't think they're particularly great films.Ones that further the plot in a popular franchise are entertaining enough.
It'll be interesting to see how people view them in the future.The plot in a lot of older films develops in a different way that would probably be considered too slow by today's standards.