In Reply to: Good Hollywood movies/what happened? posted by Corbu on March 15, 2004 at 17:25:40:
are by definition hobbled. The reason Hollywood was able to make great movies more regularly in the past was due to the individuals at the helm---and their absolute power---of the major studios. These guys loved film---as well as a good profit.
Still, modern corporations can occasionally put out a great product, just don't expect it very often.
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- Huge corporations, run by bean-counters and boards of directors, - tinear 06:27:19 03/16/04 (8)
- Absolutely! Movies used to be made by movie people...now they're made by business people. - sjb 07:52:50 03/16/04 (7)
- Yes. Sophia Coppola... Ed Burns... the Polish brothers... Campbell Scott... Cameron Crowe... Sell-outs all... nt - clarkjohnsen 13:58:07 03/16/04 (5)
- Please expand more on your comment - Corbu 16:48:00 03/16/04 (1)
- Simply, that there are still many mavericks in the movie system. Also not to forget... - clarkjohnsen 08:01:00 03/17/04 (0)
- Forgive me for assuming that basically intelligent people would understand that there are exceptions. - sjb 15:31:24 03/16/04 (1)
- "Ed Burns?!?!?!?" Made a coupla' very pleasant movies, in one of which... - clarkjohnsen 07:58:05 03/17/04 (0)
- Exceptions to the rule, - tinear 15:28:13 03/16/04 (0)
- Re: Absolutely! nt - patrickU 07:53:42 03/16/04 (0)