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Omar
30 May 2008, 12:06pm
is it just me or is the new movies getting worse and worse for every year that passes by, i liked the old movies, the 2: 30 min long movie, with good story line and dialog. now they are shitty, or is it just me having high standards?. i mean, my friends says " OMG THAT WAS A GReAT MOVIE I LOVed IT!!" when im thinking, "what a waste of time. id rather be home and eat sum ice cream". wheres the 3 hour long movies..... where... WHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!! . i mean when i saw 10.000 yrs bc. i felt like go kill the actors, the producer and the guy who invested in that 2 hour piece of flying penguin shit.. oh and btw no jk comments, im surios. (im a bad speller) :(

Italian Jew
30 May 2008, 12:14pm
Movies are worse because of lower standards. Back in the day, better movies were made because the studios could not afford to screw up. Nowadays, there are millions of dollars being thrown around making many movies that do produce a profit, but are not very good in a film fanatic's point of view. Movies today are made to make money. They are for entertainment purposes whereas the good ones are more like art. The great ones are the ones that successfully blend art and entertainment, but the producers, writers, etc. capable of making those types of movies are rare these days.

Repus
30 May 2008, 12:29pm
Movie makers don't anymore use their hearts and souls to make movie, bc they make money more easier by throwing something shit.

VirDeBello
30 May 2008, 12:30pm
Dude what are you talking about The Sex in the City movie is gonna be fucking great, that is art and entertainment right there.

dpgpowerlifter
30 May 2008, 01:24pm
ha sex in the city

Itch
30 May 2008, 01:29pm
Yes mainstream movies have gone down hill.

If you want to watch some good films that aren't always high budget but are worth the time to see.. come to Utah and go to the Sundance film fesitval.http://www.sundance.org/festival/

Red
30 May 2008, 01:37pm
most movies do indeed suck much ass nowadays

EvInReaLife
30 May 2008, 02:00pm
After getting used to the good stuff, you find it hard to settle for anything else.

Take the gangster genre for example.

I saw the godfather series front to back last year for the first time (go ahead laugh), then i went to go to see American Gangster, but it wasn't the same. Not that it was a bad movie, which it defiantly wasn't but, The Godfather was better.

Now this is not to say that every old movie was excellent, and all multiplexes should only be playing 30 year old movies. They defiantly had their share, if not more of, shitty movies.

SATAN
30 May 2008, 02:05pm
bah i dont think thats true, theres only 1 really GREAT movie coming out every 1 or 2 years.

When we think of old movies we like, theres usualy 10-15 that come to mind over like 20 years, which is not much.
Think about it, theres what, 200 movies that come out nationaly every year, they cant all be good... im sure you can think of 1 great movie that came out within a year.

I got my uncle and my aunt watching really old black and white movies and think they are a thousand times better than what comes out nowdays, and they probably are for them, but not so much for me :001_huh:
In 20 years our kids will probably make fun of us when we are watching the godfather.

Bill Smauz
30 May 2008, 04:22pm
Lets take a look at the Alien and Predator Movies:

Alien -
Date: 1979
Comments: Very good movie.

Aliens -
Date: 1986
Comments: Very good movie.

Alien3 -
Date: 1992
Comments: Terrible Movie.

Alien4 -
Date: 1997
Comments: Terrible Movie



Now for Predator


Predator -
Date: 1987
Comments: Epic good movie.

Predator2 -
Date: 1990
Comments: Terrible movie.




Now for the worst AVP



AVP -
Date: 2004
Comments: Terrible.

AVP2 -
Date: 2007
Comments: As if AVP couldn't get any worse but it did.

Italian Jew
30 May 2008, 05:18pm
You also have to look at who was directing and producing those movies. James Cameron could do another great Alien film today.

Omar
30 May 2008, 05:33pm
yea u guys are right. no more art. good ol days. i love em , our kids are gonna laugh when im gonna sit in my couch watching V for vendetta and the count of monto cristo. GREAT MOVIES.!!!!!! LOTR were fine 2. but i didnt like the genre that much. ^^ spiderman was also good. oh and lets take a look at Resident evil. ^^


Resident evil 1 great move.
Resident evil 2 bad.
resident evil 2 HORRIBLE shit, id rather play my little pony.

why
becouse in evil 2 the horror was gone, it wasnt as scary as the first one, not by a long shot, number 3 was well ya shitty as hell. super powers... come the f***k on

VirDeBello
30 May 2008, 08:05pm
You guys suck........Sex in the City will be epic......:sad:

Italian Jew
30 May 2008, 08:13pm
You guys suck........Sex in the City will be epic......:sad:


New York is not getting destroyed in some way....so it will not be EPIC!

SATAN
30 May 2008, 08:36pm
if they make it into a porn then it might be good


altough they are kinda old now :001_huh:

EvInReaLife
30 May 2008, 08:59pm
You guys suck........Sex in the City will be epic......:sad:

OMG It is sex AND the city, not sex IN the city. DAMMIT!

Itch
31 May 2008, 12:10am
OMG It is sex AND the city, not sex IN the city. DAMMIT!

You're wrong.. he was referring to the Porn spoof film "Sex IN the City!" It WILL be epic. You might also want to check out the "Harry Pooter" films.. not to be confused with Harry Potter.

Senior
31 May 2008, 12:16am
true theyre all money hungry bastards 8[

at least you can always trust uwe boll and his director skills :001_smile:

BOOWY
31 May 2008, 12:33am
I love the Saw series, but that's about it in terms of movies made in North America for the past 15 years. Japan however has some great modern stuff like Ichi The Killer, Audition, Battle Royale, Ringu, Dark Water and Kairo to name a few, the last three having had American remakes and Battle Royale is supposedly going to have a remake as well. The actress that played the Yubari schoolgirl chick in Kill Bill is in Battle Royale which was the movie that skyrocketed her career.

trakaill
2 Jun 2008, 01:13am
The reason why movies arent good is because there are no new ideas after a 100 year of producing. For me they are all similar. So i forget that fact and enjoy movies for what they are and not compared to other movies. then again sequels are rarely good. last keanu reeves mouvie was good. Im legend was awesome.. I robot was great. Minority report was good. MI3 was great. I can name tons. So stop complaing and enjoy what you have!!!! you guys are just weinning

Captain Colon
5 Jun 2008, 03:08pm
The great ones are the ones that successfully blend art and entertainment, but the producers, writers, etc. capable of making those types of movies are rare these days.
Not really. They can either write "generic" scripts that they know studios will buy, or write something with more artistic value that they might never be able to sell. That's why indie movies are generally considered to be better than mainstream movies, because the writers don't have to change the script in ways that the studio thinks will make it sell better. To have that kind of freedom in a mainstream production you generally need to already be a big name.


Predator2 -
Date: 1990
Comments: Terrible movie.
Note to self: disregard all movie critiques from Bill. I bet you thought Commando was a bad movie too.

Italian Jew
5 Jun 2008, 09:48pm
It can be good in the terms of that it was a fun movie. Predator 2 was a fun movie movie, but there was nothing great about it except maybe the action scenes. I use in the term great to refer to more than just how popular the movie was, was it fun to watch, was Brad Pitt in it, etc. Many indie movies I think are not good because the content itself doesn't reach a whole lot of people most of the time. Its not that the movie isn't widespread, just that it may be something that many people do not understand or are able to comprehend, but some do have a quality of art which one can appreciate in a film. They were first made as a form of art, but the newer movies that are good or fun should not be held to that scale unless they go above in beyond in some field of filmography.

Lux
6 Jun 2008, 03:04am
I get annoyed because my friends are only interested in seeing "Super Bad" and basically any other teen retarded movie which just isn't that good.

To have a good movie you need some sort of good plot, or a good background or emotion or whatever.

Some good movies I have seen in the recent past

- Cloverfield
- Die Hard 4.0
- James Bond?

Where as some of the worst movies I have seen are

- Be kind rewind
- Anything in the epic movie chain.


I mean who let these epic movie dudes make movies???

Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, Date Movie??? ALL RUBBISH!

Blubla
22 Jul 2008, 03:22pm
@Topic Starter

Children of Men
Adams æbler
Adaptation
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
Being John Malkovich
Batman Begins and Dark Knight
James Bond
Sideways
About Schmidt
American Beauty
Kinsey
Triad Election
Oldboy
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Gone Baby Gone
Half Nelson
....and so on. Honestly, I don’t get your Point. Maybe you watch the wrong movies.

Suri
22 Jul 2008, 03:41pm
Where as some of the worst movies I have seen are

- Be kind rewind
- Anything in the epic movie chain.




DANG IT!!!! WHY DID I NOT READ THIS 3 DAYS AGO. Be Kind Rewind SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man did I waste my money on that.

AppleShark
22 Jul 2008, 05:21pm
DANG IT!!!! WHY DID I NOT READ THIS 3 DAYS AGO. Be Kind Rewind SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man did I waste my money on that.

You expected it to be good??? Jack Black is in it and you expected it to be good? A fool and his money are easily parted ;)