Some are better than others, though: Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Iron Man, and The Dark Knight I enjoyed quite a lot. 
Posted on 10/11/2009 7:51:43 PM PDT by Frantzie
Can't post Bloomberg content but looks like Coppola thinks Hollywood is in big trouble. Awww.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ajbmamDBit14
Francis - you area lib but not really a loathesome lib but you don't get it. Keep avoiding the movies folks.
Looks like The Hope & Change Depression is killing Hollywood too.
"Barrack Hussein Obama plus dying dinosaur liberal media mmm,mmm,mmm"
My movie entertainment is coming out of the Walmart five dollar bins these days. My John Wayne collection is almost complete.
“We pledge to be servants to the president.” And they wonder why we don’t go.
Do you have the John Wayne movie where he fights the octopus?
1) The moviegoing experience is getting worse and worse. Between high price of tickets, even higher cost of concessions, uncomfortable seating, subpar picture and sound quality, and rude behavior by the moviegoing audience, is it small wonder why sales of flat-panel TV's and home theater systems have gone through the roof?
2) Movies in theatrical release are often hacked up to meet MPAA ratings and/or time considerations. Often, the movie in video release is a better movie because the video release version is what the director originally intended for the film.
Bad economy, many crapola movies, over priced theatre tickets and refreshments. Noisy atmosphere and having to sit through all those movie trailers on the screen-—I’m one that does not go anymore to movies! Bye Hollyweird!
give it time and we will have commercials during the movie.
Wake of the Red Witch. Yes.
You already DO have commercials during movies. Companies pay to have a coke v. pepsi on an actor’s desk, or to show a Shell gas station, or any other name brand. They actually bid for those placements. Subliminal advertising.
Too many gangbangers at even nice cinemas. The only good stuff is foreign directors who avoid overt political commentary.
Ridley Scott with Gladiator, the Lord of the Rings with Peter Jackson, the Brit director and actrs who took over Batman and made it interesting.
I don’t have to hear liberal s**t from people like Russel Crowe, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale and a few other non-American actors.
Best film I have seen recently and probably ever:
German film, The Lives of Others, which Rush Limbaugh and many others loved including the late Bill Buckley. It was about the evils of socialism in East Germany.
I encourage every one to rent it. Very very powerful.
Product placement. Has been in Bond films for decades.
Yessiree! When I was a kid, you got a cartoon or two before the movie and no previews. Then one or two previews showed up and that was the end of the line for the cartoons. After that, theaters showed slide shows of still photo adverts for local businesses and pleasant accompanying music, but the previews had grown to over 10 minutes. Now it's about 20 minutes of rapid fire loud adverts and previews that are edited for constant quick shot cuts alternating black and white with each flash lasting maybe a half second. The incredibly loud noise with the strobe effect is just nauseating.
For me, it's now the movie of my choice at the time I choose on the BluRay and Plasma at home. MUCH nicer.
Yeah - but who’s got any ammo? ;-)
And even THAT advantage is disappearing as flat-panel TV's will soon have 3-D viewing technology, too. Anyway, I've seen my brother's home setup with the 55-inch Samsung UN55B7000 flat panel and even hooked up currently with a upconverting DVD player through the HDMI port, the picture quality of this flat-panel blows away the picture quality I've seen in most theaters.
I watched “The Lives of Others” based on Rush’s recommendation a few weeks ago. I agree — very powerful and scary. Highly recommended.
not just Bond .. all of them! It’s a Hollywood way of doing business.
Yes. I will not mention any things to avoid ruining it for anyone but it is a must see.
If the movies weren’t garbage people would go.
You know you’ve lost it with Hollywood Californicatia when you find yourself rooting for the villains in all their stupid movies. I was rooting for Danial Day Louis all the way in Gangs of New York...
Then there are they high school drama club reproductions of really good Old movies.
And the comic book movies.
And they disrespect the intelligence of their audiences.
John Wayne was a cross dresser
The one where the guy makes the little purse dog “talk.”
You already do its called product placement
I can’t believe that there’s no “ban hollywood” movement or websites.
If half the country stopped going to the movies it would bring hollywood to their knees.
Can you post a link to the article I can click on, please.
Some are better than others, though: Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Iron Man, and The Dark Knight I enjoyed quite a lot.
Lately the only movies I’ve seen is when we take my 64 Chevy to the local drive-in for old time’s sake and even then the best part is the intermission cartoon, the dancing popcorn boxes, the soda cups on the high wire, the hot dog jumping in the bun, now THAT’S entertainment compared to the crapola that passes for artistic mastery the substance abusing, 0bama worshipping, narcissistic, overpaid mannequins regurgitate.
**Wake of the Red Witch. Yes.***
Wow! It ends EXACTLY like BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS or REAP THE WILD WIND!
when the only craft put into a movie is with the knowledge that 2 days after release, it will be on a Block Buster shelf, then people are not getting the “art” you are supposedly selling.
Daniel Day Louis is another great non-American actor who I do not think spews any liberal crap.
I know I'll get killed for this: The French make the best films...for adults.
Case in point: Laurent Cantet's TIME OUT.
And yes, most movies do end with "The End".
Aren’t we all? All women who wear pants are cross-dressers too.
What is it about? I will have to check it out. Thanks. I avoid all of it unless it is a U.S. film with all Brits/Aussies/NZ involved who do not spew lib garbage.
When the Brits took over Batman with Brit director, Bale, Oldman, Caine and a few others it became interesting. All the prior Batman’s were garbage.
Hopefully Crowe will never work with libtard Opie again. I always thought Clint Howard was the retarded one. It was Opie.
how would Francis know? Hollywood proper hasn’t given him a movie contract since his Frankenstein atrocity in 94. Meanwhile Hollywood is on a pace to beat 10 BILLION in domestic dollars for the year.
There is one really big reason that film is tanking: It is no longer “the tale and the telling of it” but PC that drives their story-telling. Add in directors who can’t keep the ‘hey look at me’ factor out of their technical direction and films are damn near un-sit-through-able.
What I want to see at a movie is a story that does not assault my intelligence or morals by plots filled with politically correct nonsense, sexual subversion or gratuitous violence.
Favorite movies: Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, North by Northwest, Toy Story, The Incredibles and Cars.
“Cinema is losing the public’s interest,” says Coppola, “because there is so much it has to compete with to get people’s time.”
.....or maybe it’s because they are so bad, you can’t even remember seeing them and then you go to the video store and rent them again, and watch 1/4 of the movie before you realize it was the same one you lost interest in at the theatres because it SUCKED!!!
I doubt Francis has too many worries these days. The guy is a bit of a lib but he did 3 very very good movies.
1. Conversation. A bit lib but Gene Hackman could read a pjone book and it would be good. John Cazale is also good. Great movie.
2. Godfather.
3. Apoc Now.
Coppola has nothing to prove. I have read other stories where business in Hollywood is bad. The local 15 seat theater is pretty empty since the Hussein Depression started.
**Wake of the Red Witch. Yes.***
“Wow! It ends EXACTLY like BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS or REAP THE WILD WIND!”
***And yes, most movies do end with “The End”. ***
In each of these movies John Wayne dies exactly the same way, while diving, the ship slides off an underwater cliff taking Wayne with it.
Different story lines, same ending.
Hey, it could be worse. Ever see Rio Bravo?
El Dorado? Rio Lobo? Exactly the same plot staring John Wayne in all of them.
If I didn’t get Turner Movie Classics through my cable provider, there would be no movies in my life.
Last of the Mohicans was great. I’ve got to get it on dvd. My Left Foot was good.
parsy
They still beat what they are putting out today though. I’ve gone back to watching the old classics because Hollywood just isn’t getting the job done anymore. IMHO.
He’s done great movies but by all accounts the money is gone. A few too many movies he couldn’t get financing for and it turned out the studios were right (ie they tanked). Coppola might not have anything to prove, but he gots bills to pay.
Business in Hollywood is actually pretty good. They’re on a pace to beat last year in both sales and revenue. Some movies that analysts thought would do well have tanked, and of course anybody that’s ever gotten points on net knows nobody knows how to cry poverty like the studios. But the real numbers are actually pretty good, it’s had a weird chart with a lot of weekends running below last year (mostly from the surprise flops), but the overall year is up.
After you’ve seen original cable shows like The Sopranos, Deadwood, Dexter, and True Blood, you realize that Hollywood cinema is lifeless dreck. I’ve finally given up on going to the theater. Should one or two good movies get made, I’ll just rent them from NetFlix. Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ve rented a good new movie in two years.
I went just once to a movie house to see Transformers, I passed up everything else to wait for the video release.
Its just not worth it anymore.
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