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Originally Posted by Type941
t even begin to tell you how much I despise the modern hollywood fekin sh!t that comes outta there, with all their happy endings, their SAME plot and so on. They portray people as how we WANT people to be, not how they REALLY are, and that's rediculous.
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Agreed, I've all but given up watching movies in the theatre and rarely ever even rent these days. It is not only how formulaic they've become, but also the misuse and overuse of Matrix style cinematography and CGI. At the worst end of this spectrum are the ones so bad they remind me of the early "full motion video" games that hit the shelves after the cd-rom and "multi-media" became mainstream on the PC in the mid 90s (ie: no sets, no props, no nothing but actors and blue screen).
And then there is the trend toward putting out endless sequels that get worse and worse and which often even lose the interest of the original cast (or when they do, like in Basic Instinct 2, you
wish they hadn't retained the original cast... or that half of it who had aged way too much to pull of the same role again)
Still, there are maybe 2 or 3 outstanding movies a year that come out which break the mold and whose producers, directors, and cast seem genuinely interested in the project rather than in making box office bucks and a paycheck. Often times some of these gems slip under the radar and never gain the recognition they deserve.