Thread: Is this Hollywood's worst era ever?
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Old 12.20.2010, 10:26 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I was talking to some friends about this last night. We couldn't decide. Some said it was (overemphasis on remakes, reduction of plots to satisfy a teen/multiplex audience, reliance on gimmicks (3D), etc) while others pointed to the 80s (endless sequels of films like Police Academy, etc). What about the 90s? Is Hollywood in better shape now that it was then? Every decade produces the odd good film but overall which one has been worse than the current one?

this is possible the worst era for film, but by comparison look at tv. it's like all the talented people got tired of the studio bullshit and got hired by HBO. the past decade or so has been a sort of golden age of television.

the 90s had "indie" movies to save the day, but then the indie movie got gobbled up as a formula and now you have a bunch of predictable shit as well.

about the 80s, it was a lot of dumb shit, as the people who boomed in the 70s got replaced by shitheads like spielberg and zemeckis. the movie proclaimed as "best" of the 80s (raging bull) came out in... 1980! all downwards from there, until sex lies and videotape, while not a great movie in itself, sparks some kind of hope, but disney promptly buys miramax in 93 and everything goes to shit in the late 90s-- which is when tv starts to get good (buffy, the west wing, sopranos) .

i have this theery that it's a migration of talent from film to tv somehow, maybe cuz people stay at home with their "home theatre" rather than go out to the movies and getting people out to the amoebaplex requires "blockbusters".
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