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People have been saying that for years.
@Creasy47 no not all contemporary films are bad but most need some serious overhaul.
Well, of course taking @Creasy47's point on board, I can only agree, but still good and original films do continue to be made and hail to that.
We are almost certainly living in the golden age of something now, quite possibly the internet, but we can't recognize it until it's passed. Come twenty or thirty years from now and our children (or grandchildren, depending on age and circumstance), will be wishing that they were able to experience what we did, and forgetting all the nonsense that we had to deal with and all the good things at their disposal.
Without being too glib I think one of the really major differences between films then and films now is that on the whole filmmakers don't take risks like they used to do. George Lazenby could never be James Bond nowadays, or anything really. It's all become too safe, too predictable and too nostalgic with all of the reboots, remakes, reimaginings and sequels that litter the cinema screen these days like a giant trash can of celluloid.
It doesn't make it any less true. I'm not saying that all films are bad now, but most comedy films coming out are pretty terrible. Also everything has to be "gritty" now it seems, the film industry is over-saturated with "gritty".
Well, I suppose there's still foreign language and indie flicks out there but I've not world enough to keep up with all that. Good films still get made every so often I guess, but you might have to wade through the (seemingly unending) tide of cinematic sewage that comes unbidden into your multiplex!
Agreed.
To be honest I don't think there are many "genre" films these days that will go down as classics. The use of CG/quick cutting dates them pretty quickly.
I've just done a mini marathon of late 80s/early 90s action films (the Die Hards, True Lies, Cliffhanger etc) and, while silly, most still look fairly impressive. I'm not quite sure films have that sort of lasting quality anymore.
I suppose you have the first three Bourne movies too in fairness. They are decent flicks.
I think a film like Terminator 2 has lasting quality. It has arguably the best/most well written plot out of the 90's Stallone/Schwarzenegger/Etc. big budget action flicks.
And Bond is currently undergoing one hell of a revival. We haven't had two movies like Casino Royale and Skyfall this close together since the 60's.
Again a good point. I'll shut up now :p
Upon giving their verdict for the film, Empire magazine simply said 'MISS'. :-)
What were the "good movies" you watched?
Well, I suppose that you could say that we in the West live in a Disposable Age/Society and a "throw-away" culture rather than a wartime-specific "make-do and mend" culture, and that films have clearly caught up with that sentiment long ago, though they may not realise it in their exceeding crassness.
Die Hard
Death Wish III
GoldenEye
Star Trek II Wrath of Khan
Casino Royale
Mission:Impossible
Movies I enjoy.
I hear that! I'm a massive fan of Hong Kong cinema and Korean movies and you just cant go wrong with them...most of the time.
Make mine Marvel!