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Post #649324

Author
generalfrevious
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Man of Steel - Your thoughts
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Date created
12-Jul-2013, 9:58 AM

It's not the audience that I have a problem with; it the thuggery of an industry that churns out horrible movie after horrible movie and constantly changes for the worse. Where is our generation's Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola? They can never come into the spotlight today because the marketing side of the industry has long ago obliterated the artistic aspect, fearing that taking risks equals making the next Heaven's Gate. Think of all the classic films in American cinema: Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Vertigo, etc. There is absolutely no chance in hell today that they would be made, because they would not help the Chinese box office or be familiar enough for the middle American to buy a ticket to see. Even films like There Will Be Blood and Mulholland Dr couldn't get made in the Hollywood climate of 2013 because they keep spending hundreds of millions of dollars in superhero reboots to stay relevant in public eye. The problem is that the superhero genre has worn itself out already; but there is no genre to take its place, so were stuck with the latest Superman or Spiderman reboot.