Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by njjohn (A) on September 24, 2002 at 19:45:15

In Reply to: What the hell has happened to Hollywood? posted by mvwine on September 24, 2002 at 07:01:53:

take the film "flight of the innocent". i think it is an excellent film. it's like they took the action genre from the americans and did it italian cinema style with great sensitivity to family and emotion.

so you have a great action film with what italian cinema has always been good at. emotions, poignancy for one. fellini was a master of making the most out of facial expression.

american filmmakers just can't do it. and they have gotten extemely one-dimensional with their protrayal of 'characters'.

take a movie like 'in the bedroom' where the parents only offspring is murdered. sure they brood, and the characterers are locked into their reactions, and personalities. and of course they have to 'act'. but it's also somewhat one dimensional.

'changing lanes', characters are extemely one-dimensional. what is the sense of that!!! are we all really that one dimensional now? monsters ball, predictable, one-dimensional characters.

we have cardboard figures in our films. cardboard heroes and champions.