Originally Posted by
jpmuscle
It’s like folks are incapable of simply going to the movies nowadays simply for the sake of being entertained.
Everyone’s an amateur critic
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If I'm going to see King Kong vs. Godzilla, I have certain expectations and standards.
If I'm going to see a film about Omaha Beach, I have certain expectations and standards.
If I'm going to see a film about time / space / black holes / space travel, I have certain expectations and standards.
My expectations and standards vary from genre to genre. Interstellar and The Arrival show what Hollywood is capable of, the rarity of films of that quality shows that Hollywood mostly doesn't care about quality films.
Look at what got nominated (or won) for an Academy Aware in the last 10 years and it's mostly shit.
Bohemian Rhapsody is the only film I recall liking from 2018 and honestly it was "just ok." In 2017 "Darkest Hour" was ok and honestly Dunkirk was crap. 2016 "Arrival" was great (but didn't win) and "Hacksaw Ridge" was ok. 2015 pretty much everything sucked including "The Martian." 2014 I liked "American Sniper" but hated that it was mostly fiction. 2013 was really the last year of amazing films with "American Hustle" and "Wolf of Wall Street" but most people hyped "Gravity" (which sucked) and "Capt. Phillips" which mostly sucked. 2012 also had two great films, "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" but everyone talked about "Django Unchained" (which sucked) and "Lincoln" which had a few too many historical inaccuracies (umm hello he was a Republican) to be enjoyed. It's hard when a Speilberg film is unwatchable.
2011, nothing. Everything sucked. 2010, nothing. Everything sucked. 2009, nothing. Everything sucked. In fact you have to go all the way back to 2005 to find an excellent film and there was only one, "Munich."
So that's not even one great film a year and how many films get cranked out?
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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