DISQUS

The Film Talk: dr higgins is embarrassed

  • Kiley · 1 year ago
    Is cinema dead? hmm...cinema as a form of artistic outlet? yes. cinema as a commercial vehicle? nope, but getting close. I think, honestly, Hollywood no longer knows how to tell a story. Not cinamatically, not thematically, and not any other 'atically' i can think of to balance that statement out. I think if you're looking for art or meaning, it can be more found in the 'user uploaded' community. Granted, you gotta wade thru a lotta crap, but then...you find something and it feels good and right, because it's real. Even if it's hideously fake, it's real...if that makes sense...and so i think the 'cinema' survives, thriving and alive and well, thru the common people..for now
  • Tom · 1 year ago
    I'm not so sure that that's the case. Its true that there does seem to be an awfully large number of terrible movies out there (especially in the last few weeks), but I feel that this is more a case of there being a greater output of rubbish than there being any dip in the output of quality pictures. Take recent pictures such as There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men. Great pictures that stand like giants over the heads of recent movies, but then, nobody remembers the low-quality films that came out around the same time as 2001 for example. In a few years, nobody will remember Meet the Spartans, but No Country will be probably be remembered 50 years hence.
  • jettloe · 1 year ago
    Old fashioned 'Hollywood Cinema' / movies that could tell a good story in an adult fashion seem to be dead - oddly enough though not in other countries - for example the German film 'The Lives of Others' is a very good 'conventional' pic of the kind that Hollywood just does not seem to be able to do anymore.