It looks like since we got into the year 2000 you cannot hope to see a decent movie coming out. Last time I was happy to pay for the ticket and a bag of pop corns was when I went to see Ronin with Robert De Niro in 1998. Since then it got downhill. I saw movies with high budget but bad actors flashing my TV screen, with popish previews that can make you salivate. Not me.
It got to a point where the studios started making movies because they somehow were under the inertia of production and quality was an option. You can read on your local paper the listing of the theater playing the latest pop movie, tailored to target the specific age group.
You went to see Iron Man and you got slightly disappointed because, like me, you know the hero and you read the comic book enough to understand who Tony Stark really is. And if you think like me, you probably started to hate all comic-book-movie titles since the first X man movie came out.
But beside the Marvel universe, the film industry took a turn for the worst since we switched into the new millennium. The pop fever managed to infect the silver screen and to produce bad titles for sometimes. The crowd got stupider and childish, and the movie houses kept producing titles that even chickens could understand.
I can say that the 90's where a sandbox decade for corporate producers to see how the public was responding to their titles, and it turned out as the 10-year-long marketing campaign that developed the new generation of crap watcher.
But it got to a point where the spirit of good movies kept coming back, reminding people of their sins committed upon the quality screens. Take for example the 80's and its movies. Now Rocky, Rambo, Die Hard, and Indiana Jones made their comeback with good accolade. Why? Because the rest was shit! Simple as that.
Good movies like Frantic or Black Rain are now a distant memory of an era of the movies, that was dedicated to tell a story in quality, rather than in quantity. And you can see how all the production houses changed their vision. They are now devoted to commercialize anything that is a seller, doesn't matter what it is, rather for how long. Look at Disney and how it changes drastically. From Micky Mouse to Hannah Montana, wtf!?
There is no good movie around, lately. Nothing that can be really called a landmark in the film industries. A few decent flick here and there, but no movie that can be really awarded with a serious prize.
It got to a point where the studios started making movies because they somehow were under the inertia of production and quality was an option. You can read on your local paper the listing of the theater playing the latest pop movie, tailored to target the specific age group.
You went to see Iron Man and you got slightly disappointed because, like me, you know the hero and you read the comic book enough to understand who Tony Stark really is. And if you think like me, you probably started to hate all comic-book-movie titles since the first X man movie came out.
But beside the Marvel universe, the film industry took a turn for the worst since we switched into the new millennium. The pop fever managed to infect the silver screen and to produce bad titles for sometimes. The crowd got stupider and childish, and the movie houses kept producing titles that even chickens could understand.
I can say that the 90's where a sandbox decade for corporate producers to see how the public was responding to their titles, and it turned out as the 10-year-long marketing campaign that developed the new generation of crap watcher.
But it got to a point where the spirit of good movies kept coming back, reminding people of their sins committed upon the quality screens. Take for example the 80's and its movies. Now Rocky, Rambo, Die Hard, and Indiana Jones made their comeback with good accolade. Why? Because the rest was shit! Simple as that.
Good movies like Frantic or Black Rain are now a distant memory of an era of the movies, that was dedicated to tell a story in quality, rather than in quantity. And you can see how all the production houses changed their vision. They are now devoted to commercialize anything that is a seller, doesn't matter what it is, rather for how long. Look at Disney and how it changes drastically. From Micky Mouse to Hannah Montana, wtf!?
There is no good movie around, lately. Nothing that can be really called a landmark in the film industries. A few decent flick here and there, but no movie that can be really awarded with a serious prize.
