Bleh. I hate each & every one of those three.As for the quality of movies... they just aren't very good any more. Perhaps this is a function of my age, but I don't think so.
1999 was the best year of movies, Ever. That wasn't that long ago. New talent and new ideas made it good. M. Night Shamalayan, the Wachowski brothers, ..., Blair Witch Project...
Fixing Hollywood
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
You'll recall Blair Witch being on my top 10 worst blockbuster of all time. I'm not saying it's good, I'm just saying that there were new ideas.Bleh. I hate each & every one of those three.As for the quality of movies... they just aren't very good any more. Perhaps this is a function of my age, but I don't think so.
1999 was the best year of movies, Ever. That wasn't that long ago. New talent and new ideas made it good. M. Night Shamalayan, the Wachowski brothers, ..., Blair Witch Project...
Maybe cuz everyone thought the world was ending in 2000, they didnt care.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Last year, Amy Pascal, the chairman of the Sony Motion Picture Group, complained about final-cut directors on AMC's weekly film industry show "Sunday Morning Shootout." "They have too much power," she said, adding that once a director makes a profitable movie, the studios tend to reward a director with final cut: "It is what happens. You make a movie with a major director, you have to give him final cut or you're not doing the movie. If the movie doesn't work, you're screwed. They bullshit you, you fall for it. They tell you how long it's going to be, tell you the stars you don't want, tell you the budget you don't want to hear. You start saying the things you want to hear. You paid for them and gave them the movie, and that's the movie you get."
To summarize, if I may...
Amy Pascal: "We're stupid"
It's not me, it's someone else.
Lead Actor - $20 million
Lead Actress - $15 million
Supporting Cast - $10 million
Director - $10 million
Special Effects - $50 million
Script - $100,000
Biggest complaints about movies - Bad writing and the never ending wave of remakes.
Can anyone in Hollywood see what might be wrong?
Lead Actress - $15 million
Supporting Cast - $10 million
Director - $10 million
Special Effects - $50 million
Script - $100,000
Biggest complaints about movies - Bad writing and the never ending wave of remakes.
Can anyone in Hollywood see what might be wrong?
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Who the fuck are those test audiences, btw? They gotta be fucking brain dead.Then they screen it to make sure test audiences approve of it.
I've heard one only one occasion (the ending to "Suicide Kings") where a director relied on a test audience & produced something that didn't suck.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."