Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by njjohn (A) on September 25, 2002 at 14:53:22

In Reply to: Re: The audience did posted by SR on September 24, 2002 at 21:58:12:

i always noticed the following. i don't know when it began. but i noticed in american film that action was the way it operated. now it's full of killings, which are action death/mortality issues. it's a cheap hook in terms of holding an audience's attention.

i do marvel at how good hollywood has taken the action genre. it's quite remarkable really and these films are of interest in their own right. the action never ends in 'collateral damage'. explosions, fires, i just love the scene where arnold plunges into the water, going down a large waterfall. as as he goes under water, my subwoofer kicks in with a great underwater sound effect.

so i'm there with the action. i got the surround sound and the hdtv. it's alot of fun.

i also notice how pumped up i feel after a movie like this. watching my superheroes, i am almost ready for battle.

my complaints here are poor movies like changing lanes in which the social dramas are pathetic. everything is cardboard.

where is this going to go? i envision movies like mtv music videos, where brief sexual images are played for a whole movie and the mind can't fully grasp what it wants to attend to before the image is changed.

i think we are already at the point where it doesn't matter who the director is. they will basically follow the same formula and come out with the same movie. seeing the recent woody allen movie reminded me that he is an individualistic director, that his movie would not be the same as another director.

i saw a movie recently that i thought was okay but the next day i had absolutely no recollection of what the movie was about!!!!!! i completely forgot the whole content of the movie, that's how insignificant it was. and since it was a dvd rental, i could not use the cover to help me remember the movie.

actually if you want to go back to the seventies, remember how unreliable american cars were getting then? how bad it was getting until the japanese cars surged onto the market.