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In Reply to: Because you a Grey Poupon lover? Why no LoTR? You are NZ hater... posted by Victor Khomenko on January 15, 2007 at 11:42:47:
fare, even the higher quality stuff, for some time. American indie stuff, largely, too.
The very language of N. American film has become stale, ritualistic, and subconsciously cannabilistic.
Example: THE dramatic moment. Notice how artificially almost all its movies approach THOSE moments? How the "star" is highlighted? The bigger the star, the more we get those Herculean-effort moments.
Hell, in "The Departed" one gets the definite impression Nicholson couldn't ask someone for directions to the john w/out arching his eyebrows several times, looking this way and that several times, and grinning like The Joker.
In fact, in that movie, we didn't get any continuity. What we got was Leonard's heavily lobbied touchstone scenes, Marky Mark's, Baldwin's, Grinnin' Jacks, etc.
The story was incidental to all these "stars" radiant explosions.
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As I watch them as they come, I basically though have to agree with your conclusions - that Hollywood simply is not equipped to make good films. All its production seems to be very professionally done fast food.Regarding the star culture... there has always been plenty in Europe, but perhaps you are right, and they had done it more subtly. Here it is in your face. And speaking of "stars" - for the life of me I can't imagine a European Tom Cruise - there is something undeniably low life that can only be found in the US trailer parks about that shmuck.
But now... about that Brazilian beauty...
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