[quote]eic wrote:
jtrinsey wrote:
eic wrote:
Anyone else notice that the overall quality of movies started to decline as Hollywood got more and more politically vocal? Wish they would STFU and go back to making some decent flicks.
I dunno man; just in the past year:
Dark Knight
Tropic Thunder
Pineapple Express
Vicky Christina
Hancock
Zach and Miri
Role Models
Quantum of Solace
Gran Torino
The Wrestler
7 Pounds
Valkyrie
Benjamin Button
The Unborn
Underworld 3
Taken
Watchmen
Last House on the Left
The Soloist
Star Trek
Angels and Demons
Terminator: Salvation
The Girlfriend Experience
Taking of Pelham 123
Transformers 2
District 9
All movies that to me ranged somewhere from decent to excellent. So in about 12 months, that’s 26 movies that were, in my opinion, worthy of a trip to the movies for. A few of these I didn’t see in theaters but there’s a few other ones that other people liked that I didn’t see yet, so it balances. Just take Dark Knight, Gran Torino, 7 Pounds, Taken, Watchmen, Angels and Demons and District 9. That’s 7 movies in the past year that the vast majority of people I know loved. So, essentially every two months you’re getting 3 decent movies plus one excellent one. I think that’s pretty good.
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You’re just proving my point. Our standards are so low now that “The Unborn,” “Zach and Miri,” “Hancock,” etc. are considered “decent” to “excellent.” We’ve become totally desensitized to absolute shit, so that anything with even a whiff of quality seems like the greatest thing ever.
From your list, the only movies that I would consider better than mediocre are:
Dark Knight
Gran Torino
The Wrestler
Valkyrie
Benjamin Button
Of those, only The Wrestler, Valkyrie, and Benjamin Button could be considered excellent. The rest of the movies you listed range from total garbage to “meh.” Think back to the 90s when they were churing out fewer movies, but of much higher quality: Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Falling Down, My Cousin Vinny, The Fugitive . . . Now those were movies! Today it’s all about special effects, shock factor, and putting in a big-name actor. Fucking ridiculous. [/quote]
seriously, you didn’t like Watchmen? that movie was fucking epic dude. waaaaaaay better than The Wrestler.
it was also the same length as Dark Knight, without the boring parts.