Good night and good riddance.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Good night and good riddance.:
@89th said in Good night and good riddance.:
Movies peaked in the late 90s, IMO.
Coincidentally, just when you were young and getting into them?
I had that thought as I wrote this out. Yes, likely biased. I was working in the movies at the time, and was really getting into it. I think there is a bit of an argument for it though... or at least some points to consider, primarily that it was the quality of the stories, scores, and originality before we got into CGI reliance, reboots, comic book adaptations, and woke story arcs.
@89th said in Good night and good riddance.:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Good night and good riddance.:
@89th said in Good night and good riddance.:
Movies peaked in the late 90s, IMO.
Coincidentally, just when you were young and getting into them?
I had that thought as I wrote this out. Yes, likely biased. I was working in the movies at the time, and was really getting into it. I think there is a bit of an argument for it though... or at least some points to consider, primarily that it was the quality of the stories, scores, and originality before we got into CGI reliance, reboots, comic book adaptations, and woke story arcs.
I think we all have that bias. I've watched a few movies from the 80's and thought how great they were, particularly the comedies. When I see movies from the so-called golden age, the acting frequently seems really wooden, and so many American characters have that weird pseudo-British way of speaking in many of them that seemed so popular, presumably because a lot of them came from more theatrical backgrounds.
I was only joking
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We tend to remember the great movies, but not all the shite.
I think it's the same with all of the entertainment media. Admittedly, you'd be hard-pushed to find an actual equivalent to Beethoven today.
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True.
@Doctor-Phibes I'd have to say the comedies in the 80s were much better than anything since. Some classic movies, too of course.
@Horace Godfather is my #1 movie, too. The late 70s and early 80s did see the start of some big blockbuster ideas that have been an emulation goal ever since.
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Speaking of Blockbuster ideas, I remember standing in video rental stores for like an hour in the 90's, completely unable to find a movie I actually wanted to watch. So it can't have been that great.
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Funny. There's a trend of nostalgic "remember Friday nights at Blockbuster?" videos out there that at first make me... yes, nostalgic. Loved that in the 90s. Driving to the story, finding the right movie or two, getting some snacks, then popping in the VHS tape in the living room.
Then someone made a good comment about... yeah it wasn't exactly THAT great. Many times the movie you wanted to see were already rented and missing behind the cardboard placeholder of it on the shelf.
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I think it would have died a quieter death without this hubbub. I'm sure the movie is garbage, after all. But there might be a backlash against the backlash, people buying tickets to support it. Pass the popcorn in any case, I've never been more curious about a movie's box office numbers.
@Horace said in Good night and good riddance.:
I'm sure the movie is garbage, after all. But there might be a backlash against the backlash, people buying tickets to support it.
As the (minority person) explained, the movie was made in 1937 - when people liked love stories.
Now people want movies about women being powerful leaders and a prince who is a stalker, and a gang of perverts to replace the dwarves.I think some parents might not choose that for their children.
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Funny. There's a trend of nostalgic "remember Friday nights at Blockbuster?" videos out there that at first make me... yes, nostalgic. Loved that in the 90s. Driving to the story, finding the right movie or two, getting some snacks, then popping in the VHS tape in the living room.
Then someone made a good comment about... yeah it wasn't exactly THAT great. Many times the movie you wanted to see were already rented and missing behind the cardboard placeholder of it on the shelf.
@89th said in Good night and good riddance.:
Funny. There's a trend of nostalgic "remember Friday nights at Blockbuster?" videos out there that at first make me... yes, nostalgic. Loved that in the 90s. Driving to the story, finding the right movie or two, getting some snacks, then popping in the VHS tape in the living room.
Then someone made a good comment about... yeah it wasn't exactly THAT great. Many times the movie you wanted to see were already rented and missing behind the cardboard placeholder of it on the shelf.
It's so much better now. Being able to watch TV shows from the 80's and 90's, or Netflix/Amazon/HBO series, or whichever.
In some ways, this is the golden age.
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Early reviews are not good. Less than 50% in the pro critic reviews on rotten tomatoes. And you know they wanted to like it. One of the snippets on the RT page is from a critic who just outright says that the movie isn’t very good but the anti fascist message is too important for our times, so she gave it a positive review. I guess the audience score will be much lower than the critic score. There is no way I’ll ever watch this, even for free.
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@89th said in Good night and good riddance.:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Good night and good riddance.:
@89th said in Good night and good riddance.:
Movies peaked in the late 90s, IMO.
Coincidentally, just when you were young and getting into them?
I had that thought as I wrote this out. Yes, likely biased. I was working in the movies at the time, and was really getting into it. I think there is a bit of an argument for it though... or at least some points to consider, primarily that it was the quality of the stories, scores, and originality before we got into CGI reliance, reboots, comic book adaptations, and woke story arcs.
I think we all have that bias. I've watched a few movies from the 80's and thought how great they were, particularly the comedies. When I see movies from the so-called golden age, the acting frequently seems really wooden, and so many American characters have that weird pseudo-British way of speaking in many of them that seemed so popular, presumably because a lot of them came from more theatrical backgrounds.
larly the comedies. When I see movies from the so-called golden age, the acting frequently seems really wooden, and so many American characters have that weird pseudo-British way of speaking in many of them that seemed so popular….
I think was called a mid Atlantic accent. It was vogue and state of the art in theatre and cinema throughout the 30s and 40s. Katherine Hepburn built her career around it. Even born Englishmen like Carey Grant had to cultivate it.
