Thank You Hollywood
 

You guys have just dropped my iq even lower with Kangoroo (sp?) Jack. It was already low because of Ghost Ship.

Well, look at the top 5 this past weekend:

1) Darkness Falls
2) Kangaroo Jack
3) Chicago
4) Just Married
5) National Security

While Gangs of New York, a (somewhat) accurate representation of an untold era of our history, never got higher than 3rd.

On www.rottentomatoes.com , only Chicago got a fresh rating. It's just become the norm for directors to include boring cliches and formulas, and use fast action scenes for smart dialouge and great cinematography. People's attention spans have gotten shorter, and more people cater to it by flashing from one scene to another filled with chases and explosions.

I think that every idea for a good movie has been made, because most movies these days are just dumb rehashes of much better movies that were done long ago. Every romantic comedy basically tells the same story, with the only attempt to be original being trying to create new sight gags, which get old.

And most movies that should never have had sequels are getting them just to cash in on the success of the original.

I'm sorry if I follow what others say, but I try to watch what movie critics say about particualr movies, because most of the time I'm on the same level as they are.

I want to be intellectually stimulated, I want something that makes me think. I'm tired of seeing jokes about masterbation, defecation and regurgitation. Ah well, I guess I'm in the minority.

Stan, I agree with you 110%. However, I read an article lately from a studio executive where he says we claim to want originality yet most of the top grossing movies this year were sequels. There's a weird discrepancy between what we say and what actually sells.

I am truly dismayed that anyone over the age of 12 went to see Kangaroo Jack and anyone period went to see National Security. As long as they make money though, they will continue to be made.

The only movie from that list that I've seen - and the only one I plan on ever seeing period is Chicago.

I used to love those dumb 20-something movies - like Just married - now I want something that can get my attention and keep it, something with the smart dialogue, interesting and more complicated plot...

Re: Thank You Hollywood
 

I'm sorry that you wasted your time with Kangaroo Jack, but why would you go and see it in the first place? I could have told you it was shit just from the ads.

Babysitting my neighbours kids. It was as scary as Glitter. And then u have bunch of little kids around me, the horror.

I completely agree. *sigh* what is our country coming to :p

Hey, STFU.

I saw Kangaroo Jack TWICE.

I don't really care if a movie is intellectually stimulating or not...as long as it is funny as hell or scares me crapless.

But I must admit, a lot of these popular movies are insults to peoples intelligence.

With particular thanks to MTV and music videos. Think about it.

This past weekend, all top 5 movies, according to www.rottentomatoes.com are rotten.

1) Bringing Down The House (48 Good Reviews, 81 Bad)
2) Dreamcatcher (36 Good, 77 Bad)
3) Agent Cody Banks (32 Good, 46 Bad)
4) View From The Top ( SEVEN Good, SEVENTY TWO Bad)
5) The Hunted (35 Good, 81 Bad)

Plus, 8 of the top ten are rotten, the exceptions being Chicago and Piglet's Big Movie.

People never cease to amaze me.............

I liked Bringing Down the House. But in reference to this, sometimes it's nice to just go to a movie and turn off your brain and tune out the world for 90 minutes.

my iq just lowered even more when I saw that Rob Schenieder movie. Please, I need some Oliver Stone movie to get it to respectible leve. At lest Gang of NY upped my IQ. Great great movie, it got robbed.

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What? That was a horrible movie! It was "too long"! Everyone knows that!

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I can't believe some of those movies were even made. Still, View from top has Christina Apellegate. She is pretty.

well dreamcatcher was an excellent book....they most have %&($# something up.

That's what's happened with most of the Stephen King stories that have been converted to film - they lose a lot and end up as mediocre movies (except for Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption)

And Misery

It was pretty good, granted it was a mini series, but the clown freaked me out.

and stand by me..and carrie..

On the other hand, Apt Pupil wasn't that good.

actually..come to think of it, there are a lot of good stephen king movies..

pet cemetary, the shining, silver bullet, salems lot, christine, cujo, etc etc etc..

A very dissapointing movie.

Actually, I wasn't a fan of any except for The Shining (which I inexplicably forgot along with Misery). I thought the rest were ok, but nothing all that good.

Just my opinion though.

i agree...especially considering pretty much all of his books are bestsellers. I think one of the biggest problems is that because his books are so long, the storyline and characterization get skewed when important detail out of the book is thrown away to make the movie.

also another problem is when people read the books, they have a preconceived notion of how the film should be made. A little like the pre-hype around Lord of the Rings. I remmember a lot of people hoping that the movie would not butcher the serie. I know Stephen King's book are long and they go into details of character development. Which is why I love his book.

I saw the most f*cked up movie: Unfaithful

Man that was MESSED UP> She had a perfectly good marriage and she throws it away for what? FOR WHAT?

And on top of all that, HE TAKES HER BACK!!!!!!!!!

You know what we just realized last night? Someone actually SAT DOWN and wrote the dildo fight scene in Sorority Boys, amongst other crap scenes/scripts?

And Carrie and Stand By Me and Christine

just some random responses
 

ok, first off, you're write. Movies DO suck nowadays. The only arguably "good" ones are those that are either based on books or are sequels. Case in point, the only movies I've seen lately that I've enjoyed have been movies like: Spiderman (based on comic book), the Ring (a remake of a Japanese movie), Lord of the Rings (more on this later... but duh, it's a book... a f**king great book btw...), League of Extraordinary Gentlmen (book or comic book... I forget which), and Pirates of the Caribean (sp?) (based on a ride... :-D ) Where's the orginal ideas people!? Even stuff like 28 Days Later was just a sort of rip-off of Resident Evil/the Stand. Which reminds me...

And I just wanted to add that I thought that "the Stand" and "the Langoliers" (sp?) were also two good Stephen King movies, and almost Rose Red... it was disappointing at times.

Finally, just wanted to say that I CANNOT WAIT until Dec 17 when the final Lord of the Rings movie hits theaters. It's the only thing I'm looking forward to until Spring break in March :(