Movies, TV
Aug 21, 2013 17:47:02 #
PinOakEO
Loc: NA
When was the last time you saw a great movie?
Great acting, great writing? New material?
Several months ago I read where one of the great directors stated that ALL the ideas have been used up. An actress stated today that there is no writing available today. Cartoons and "super hero" movies are only crap being made.
What's going to be the fall schedule of TV? CRAP, CRAP & MORE
CRAP!
How many more "shootem ups" will we get. How many more stupid "comedies" of gays will we get?
DVD makers are now going all out and showing all the smoking going on in the movies and TV shows of B/W and 50 yrs ago.
Along with the heavy drinking scenes of movies past.
:evil: :twisted: :?: :shock: :-(
YUK
Great acting, great writing? New material?
Several months ago I read where one of the great directors stated that ALL the ideas have been used up. An actress stated today that there is no writing available today. Cartoons and "super hero" movies are only crap being made.
What's going to be the fall schedule of TV? CRAP, CRAP & MORE
CRAP!
How many more "shootem ups" will we get. How many more stupid "comedies" of gays will we get?
DVD makers are now going all out and showing all the smoking going on in the movies and TV shows of B/W and 50 yrs ago.
Along with the heavy drinking scenes of movies past.
:evil: :twisted: :?: :shock: :-(
YUK
Aug 21, 2013 18:35:29 #
oldmalky
Loc: West Midlands,England.
A good war film is always greeted well, The longest Day, Saving Private Ryan and Rourkes Drift. I am not a film person.
Aug 21, 2013 19:42:34 #
Thin Man series, Boston Blackie, All the old stuff I had near forgotten are all coming back, and I am stocking up.
Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello. Road movies with Bob and Bing, Bob Hope series.
All this beats what ever is on 200 channels of nothing.
Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello. Road movies with Bob and Bing, Bob Hope series.
All this beats what ever is on 200 channels of nothing.
Aug 21, 2013 20:26:52 #
Even "Coming of Age" movies are all but extinct (e.g."Summer of '42"; "The Graduate"; "16 Candles"; "Ferris Bueller"). The new ones are raunchy/homosexual/ and/or stupid comedies that compromise the actors into drug/alcohol/sex scenarios.
A recent internet search featured over 300 TV "reality" shows (http://sharetv.org/shows?gclid=CODh8eHjj7kCFYwWMgodNQcAjw#!cat=reality) that are
bombarding the networks!!
"Lunacy" has become the new reality.
A recent internet search featured over 300 TV "reality" shows (http://sharetv.org/shows?gclid=CODh8eHjj7kCFYwWMgodNQcAjw#!cat=reality) that are
bombarding the networks!!
"Lunacy" has become the new reality.
Aug 21, 2013 20:38:10 #
PinOakEO wrote:
When was the last time you saw a great movie? br G... (show quote)
I think what you are saying is that Hollywood hasn't changed much.....different day different crap ! :thumbup:
Aug 21, 2013 20:47:13 #
I'm really going to think hard on this one but Sally Fields, Merrill Streep, and Sidney Portier are way up there. Honey Boo Boo is defineitly not in the running!
Aug 21, 2013 23:56:20 #
I don't watch TV soaps and sitcom's... the same old plot every show every day every week. I would rather buy DVD movies.
Aug 22, 2013 00:59:46 #
Pepper
Loc: Planet Earth Country USA
I think the same could be said of music. Loud, beatin and bangin and you wouldn't want to hear the lyric even if you could understand it.
Aug 22, 2013 05:36:55 #
Remus
Loc: Norfolk, UK
If it's not superheroes it's vampires or zombies. Hollywood seems to be running out of ideas. It's quite possible to have a good horror movie without involving the supernatural as Dr Lecter would testify, or maybe a night at the Bates Motel would convince.
Aug 22, 2013 08:29:25 #
PinOakEO wrote:
When was the last time you saw a great movie? br G... (show quote)
So pick up your camera and go shoot.
Aug 22, 2013 08:39:56 #
Aug 22, 2013 10:08:23 #
Aug 22, 2013 10:59:21 #
Do you remember when great movies were originally adaptions of even greater books? Think of 'Gone With The Wind'; 'Oliver Twist'; et al.
Now we get so much rubbish designed for an illiterate 15 year old: no plot, no dialog, except mumbling; no believable acting; just nonsense that appears to make money.
Oh! I get it. Modern settings don't cost much; you can get free ketchup with your burger. Phoney vampire teeth from the joke store and you are in business.
OK, so I'm old and grumpy today. I'm glad I don't watch TV, too many soaps.
Now we get so much rubbish designed for an illiterate 15 year old: no plot, no dialog, except mumbling; no believable acting; just nonsense that appears to make money.
Oh! I get it. Modern settings don't cost much; you can get free ketchup with your burger. Phoney vampire teeth from the joke store and you are in business.
OK, so I'm old and grumpy today. I'm glad I don't watch TV, too many soaps.
Aug 22, 2013 11:12:38 #
Aug 22, 2013 11:50:29 #
oldmalky wrote:
A good war film is always greeted well, The longest Day, Saving Private Ryan and Rourkes Drift. I am not a film person.
Must point out that Rourkes Drift was actually called Zulu, starring probably one of the finest casts ever assembled for a war film. I came out from seeing it the first time with aching teeth where I had sat with them clenched for most of the film.
Brilliant acting, brilliant story, brilliant photography.
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