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In Reply to: What is the last movie you saw (last five years or so, on release, not some warhorse) posted by tinear on September 11, 2002 at 16:29:18:
"Spider Man"....and before that "Rush Hour 2".What's the use of going out for the movies, when, 1) theatrical releses are mainly "trailers" for home video release, and 2)DVD is the best way to enjoy a film...with all of the commentary and film presentation features, it's like going to film school without the dull, pendantic teacher.
A majority of my DVD purchases are foreign and "classic" films, that one would ordinarily view at special run theaters. Living in the NYC area, say, just twenty or so years ago, there were many of these theaters that catered to people who loved these classic and foreign films...in a big way. They have all been shut down and replaced with multi-plexes that sell garbage, first run films by the truck full!
It used to be a genuine social event to go out to the movies...now it's a big pain in the butt! And for what ? Nothing.
That there are large box office grosses, means to me, that people are THAT desperate for entertainment and they will endure the most vilest of garbage just to get out of the house...or wherever they spend most of their time sleeping.
Follow Ups:
I'd seriously have to consider "The Thin Red Line" by Terrance Malick or "Magnolia" by P.T. Anderson.1) Malick's cinematography. As a personal request to Mr. Malick, PLEASE put out another film.
2) The slow immersion into so many lives filled with regret in Anderson's film. The film's only characters without lingering regrets
are also the most lonely, John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
How I can still find this uplifting by the film's end I can never quite put my finger on, yet it never fails to inspire.
Hopefully Malick will make more films. I think his last one before TTRL was Days of Heaven. He seems to be even more a perfectionist than Kubrick, who made films more often than Malick does. I agree with you on the characters in PTA's films, but this goes to show that it's not the story that's so important in film, but how the story is told. It's the art of film that I find so uplifting. Same with music.
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