Here's a thing that's been gnawing on me for quite a while: Hollywood makes so much garbage, and sub-par actors are continuing to appear in movies giving of a seemingly bad performance.
At least that's how it appears to me. For example, Nicholas Cage. Now, he's not exactly a BAD actor. I'd say he's a very situational actor, that requires rather particular roles, but in many movies his acting just seems like pure shit.
Let's mention J.J Abrahms too, because that's a horse we never get tired of beating. Mainly, why it seems that he gets a free ride, being a very popular director among the big-wigs of Hollywood, and asked to ruin a lot of movies with potential.
Maybe I'm just jumping the bandwagon here, let's look at it from a broader perspective. Of the movies that I know about from the last years, there's very few of them that have made me want to actually see them, to shell out my hard-earned cash to be granted the privilege of being entertained by what is deemed the greatest people of the movie industry.
Only, to me they don't seem that great. For one thing, it's nothing short of amazing what the people behind the Scary Movie-franchise is STILL getting away with. The last movie I saw from those guys was Disaster Movie. The ONE thing that movie had going for it was that the name was very accurate. It was an absolute disaster, relying mainly on fart- and burp-jokes, passing lousy parodies as comedy, and being generally insulting. I wasn't even able to watch all of it, because it was just too bad, I didn't want to waste any more of my life to this blatant insult of a movie. The studio that shat it out should be ashamed! Here they are cranking out one dross movie after another, while I'm sure people with WAY more interesting ideas are being rejected because they haven't established a name for themselves yet, or have been praised by Spielberg or whatever.
I am aware that movies fall under the "purely subjective"-category, but I feel that most movies are adequate, some might be amusing there and then, but nothing more besides that. Not thought-provoking, no sense of "what the hell did I watch?" (in a good way), just bland entertainment, whizz-bang-whoosh, done deal. It's one of the reasons I like the movies of Kubrick (yeah I went there), because at least there seems to be something more behind it all, either some grand scheme, a protest, or in the case with Barry Lyndon, just seeing what he can get away with (because holy hell that movie is boring!).
Sometimes of course I also watch movies simply because I'm bored, not because I want to be challenged with some deeper thought, but there is so much of that, and so very few of movies that give food to thought. Am I just blind to the gems that come out, or is there really nothing interesting being pushed out by any major movie publisher any more?
At least that's how it appears to me. For example, Nicholas Cage. Now, he's not exactly a BAD actor. I'd say he's a very situational actor, that requires rather particular roles, but in many movies his acting just seems like pure shit.
Let's mention J.J Abrahms too, because that's a horse we never get tired of beating. Mainly, why it seems that he gets a free ride, being a very popular director among the big-wigs of Hollywood, and asked to ruin a lot of movies with potential.
Maybe I'm just jumping the bandwagon here, let's look at it from a broader perspective. Of the movies that I know about from the last years, there's very few of them that have made me want to actually see them, to shell out my hard-earned cash to be granted the privilege of being entertained by what is deemed the greatest people of the movie industry.
Only, to me they don't seem that great. For one thing, it's nothing short of amazing what the people behind the Scary Movie-franchise is STILL getting away with. The last movie I saw from those guys was Disaster Movie. The ONE thing that movie had going for it was that the name was very accurate. It was an absolute disaster, relying mainly on fart- and burp-jokes, passing lousy parodies as comedy, and being generally insulting. I wasn't even able to watch all of it, because it was just too bad, I didn't want to waste any more of my life to this blatant insult of a movie. The studio that shat it out should be ashamed! Here they are cranking out one dross movie after another, while I'm sure people with WAY more interesting ideas are being rejected because they haven't established a name for themselves yet, or have been praised by Spielberg or whatever.
I am aware that movies fall under the "purely subjective"-category, but I feel that most movies are adequate, some might be amusing there and then, but nothing more besides that. Not thought-provoking, no sense of "what the hell did I watch?" (in a good way), just bland entertainment, whizz-bang-whoosh, done deal. It's one of the reasons I like the movies of Kubrick (yeah I went there), because at least there seems to be something more behind it all, either some grand scheme, a protest, or in the case with Barry Lyndon, just seeing what he can get away with (because holy hell that movie is boring!).
Sometimes of course I also watch movies simply because I'm bored, not because I want to be challenged with some deeper thought, but there is so much of that, and so very few of movies that give food to thought. Am I just blind to the gems that come out, or is there really nothing interesting being pushed out by any major movie publisher any more?
