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In Reply to: Good Hollywood movies/what happened? posted by Corbu on March 15, 2004 at 17:25:40:
Escapism has always been Hollywood's forte dating back to the dawn of film. It's always been a business and business is about the bottom line. Today, the numbers are bigger so the risks taken are fewer.As already mentioned in this thread and also by me several times on this board in the past, Hollywood makes a ton of films every year. A lot of them stink. A few don't. This is no different in 2004 than in 1934 or 1964. It's just that the old movies that sucked disappeared. They were shown on TV in the middle of the night on UHF and if they ever actually made it to VHS, they will never make it to DVD. Just like "Bad Boys 2" which will disappear without a trace in about 25-35 years. Time has a way of weeding out the crap.
And also, you think the studio knew that those old Capra flicks or Bogart noir movies and other things you're talking about were going to be the classics of the future? What about the fact that classics like Fantasia, Touch of Evil and Wizard of Oz were all roundly panned by the critics of the times? No, for every Casablanca, Laura or Thin Man there were 300 movies of the same exact formula made on the Hwood assembly-line using different combinations of whoever needed work that week. A few combinations worked, most didn't. Again, time weeded out the bad ones.
It's a different world today. If you want smart American movies, look to the indie scene. That's where most of the good stuff is coming from. The Lauras and Casablancas of this generation will come from the indie world while Hwood cranks out flashy and loud bubblegum movies that will be completely forgotten in a few years.
I think it's really easy and cheap to bellyache and whine about how bad or lost Hwood is today. But the fact is, it's pretty much the same as it ever was.
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