Maybe that's H'Wood's Ultimate Ulterior Motive, to make their ducats by
nickel-and-diming every moviegoer. Make fifty twenty-million-dollar grossers,
and you've grossed a billion.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because, unfortunately, illiterate work still
pulls people into the theatres. I was just talking to some friends about how
much i disliked "Transformers" from a plot and acting point. Great fX, but
really horrid lines that actually had me wincing in the theatre. I want to see
the picture again, but i honestly havea hard time thinking about sitting
through the bad acting again. Yet, it made lots and lots of money. Same for
sh** like "Bad Boys 2", which I can see is one of the worst movies i've seen in
the last decade. And all those crappy gore-filled horror films that flame out
at the theatre--but not before taking in twenty mill or so the first weekend.
For every "Batman Begins" or "The Incredibles" or "3:10 to Yuma", Hollywood
finds enough suckers to support half-baked crap.
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From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mine, too. I wonder again why no one in H'Wood has picked up on the fact that
what fans want is literate work.
"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gattaca is one of my favorites. This trend of remakes and adaptations
is scary. While I often enjoy some of the final productions, it smacks
of a trend of decreasing use of creativity in movie making and TV
production. I fear movies created from original scripts may be a thing
of the past
maidmarian_thepoet wrote:
> Not a whole lot for me. I want something more involved than comic
> book heroes. Nevertheless, I picked a few for nostalgia sake. In
> fact, most of these picks are based on nostalgia. Maybe someday some
> one will write a movie as literate as say, Gattaca, was.
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> The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian
> Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
> The Dark Knight
> Hancock
> The Dark Knight
> Watchmen
> The Hobbit
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> Since the market is based on young men, a lot of the others may hit big.
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