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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Fucking stupid. Another reason why I don't pay attention to mainstream film anymore -- you have to go to a fucking "independant" theater to see David Cronenberg or David Lynch films now, because the mainstream box office is so overloaded with these stupid "Hollywood blockbusters". It's ridiculous. Mainstream film has been a dying art since the mid-90's; fuck, how many AMAZING films come out nowadays? Very very few. Even Anchor Bay has dropped the ball and released shit lately (Room 6 -- need I continue?). For the record, no more sequels to old ass films and no more goddamn remakes. I mean, the Departed was a great film, right? Yeah, well, it too was a remake! Even fucking little ass dumb comedies like 'I PRONOUCE YOU FAT GUY AND STEREOTYPICAL GAY JOKES HERE WE COME!' was a remake (of the film Strange Bedfellows -- a very very loose remake but come on). Also, many of my beloved horror favorites are being subjected to remakes; for fuck's sake, they're going to remake MIIKE films soon! And a remake of Battle Royale! What the fuck?!
...so, no, I'm not excited by this, Harrison Ford IS too old and his career was SHIT so he had to do this film, and this is fucking ridiculous. You can disagree, but you said honest thoughts, right?
For the record, I haven't seen Die Hard or Live Free but I really do love the films before it. And even if it IS good, it's still a sequel to a 20 year old film.. jesus, hollywood, get some new ideas, will you?
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I actually thought The Departed was crap. Haven't seen the original, so I can't make any judgments on that one.
I heard they were remaking Near Dark. Which should be super shitty.
I think the overuse of CGI has ruined a lot of mainstream movies for me. It can be used and it can look seamless, but people always want to go overboard for some reason, and abuse those capabilities that we have now.
I work at a movie theater now (not the sort that shows independent movies either). I haven't actually seen any of the movies that are out now in full, but I have seen the last 5 minutes of all of them, and they all end the same way.
With that said, I do enjoy the experience of going to the theater and seeing the blockbusters. I think when I was 8 years old my mom let me go to the movies without an adult for the first time. I went with my best friend, and the theater was packed, there wasn't a single seat left in the place. I can't remember what we saw, but I do remember that while we were all waiting for the movie to start, some kid got up in front of the screen and started to breakdance. And other people threw candy at him.