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.
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