EyeShotFirst said:I thought I would get e-shanked for my list.
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Have you seen any movie recently that didn't have explosions and car chases? Every movie I have seen is some nobody the government forces into doing their dirty work. I get so sick of that kind of movie. American cinema and television has really gone down the crapper. They honestly think that all we want to see is big loud explosions and car chases which most people do. Television is pure reality shows. Who gives a crap about who flava flav is banging. I get so pissed at television and cinemas I want to just yank out the cable on my TV and just watch movies I actually like. They are already destroying the internet. What next?
We really are not into "e-shanking" people here at OT.com, or any other forms of e-violence really.
To answer the, "Have you seen any movie recently that didn't have explosions and car chases?" question, as a matter of fact, I have. I particularly liked the two Clint Eastwood directed films we were treated to during the course of last year, Gran Torino and The Changling. Whether you liked them or not, they are most certainly two well written, directed, and acted films. Perhaps a bit sentimental and sappy, but since seeing Eastwood's A Perfect World, I've found that I enjoy Eastwood's brand of sappy.
I suppose it is easy to check the movie listings on most days and though your hands up in despair because there is nothing worth going to see. Hollywood continually turds them out, and like flies, we are all over them each and ever time. With "record breaking box officer numbers" having reached the point of being the norm, I guess you'd have a pretty hard time blaming Hollywood for pumping them out as quickly as they can.
I think the problem is more the demograph that guys like you and I belong to. The fact that we are having this discussion on a Star Wars forum says quite a lot about the kind of movies you and I are into. The summer blockbuster type movies are aimed at guys like you and I, and from the sounds of it, neither of us have been very impressed in recent years. But to be perfectly honest, I don't really remember a time when I was impressed. Summer blockbusters are typically high budget throw-aways. I think it has always kind of been this way. You win some and you lose some. Remember how every one was talking about Independance Day when it first came out? Or how they couldn't shut up about Armageddon? That is how it has always been, only now, we are all plugged in with the internet and have the ability to continually complain about it, when in the past we'd forget about the dogs and continue with our lives.
While there are a lot of turd being dropped, and enjoyable film makes its way into our lives from time to time. In recent history I will name just a few movies I really liked, and that I felt were pretty high quality. We had the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which I thought was incredibly well done. The first two Spider-Man films which I also thought were great. Serenity, 300, The first X-Men film, Watchmen, Batman Begins, Casino Royale. And all those are just in one particular genre, and only off the top of my head. If we search outside films targeted at an audience of teens to thirty some year olds, you'll find plenty more that are pretty decent films, and are likely to be remembered way beyond their time.