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Amazing stuff someone just pointed out to me. Look at this year's crop of Oscar nominees for Best Film:

Crash
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich

I saw four of these. They are entertaining movies, but I just don't see them being movies we'll talk about decades from now. Now look back 30 years, these were the nominees:

Rocky - Oscar Winner
All The President's Men
Bound for Glory
Network
Taxi Driver

These five are all-time classics! Hollywood is seriously letting us down, this is embarassing to compare the five this year to those in 1976.
 

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WildBill said:
Amazing stuff someone just pointed out to me. Look at this year's crop of Oscar nominees for Best Film:

Crash
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich

I saw four of these. They are entertaining movies, but I just don't see them being movies we'll talk about decades from now. Now look back 30 years, these were the nominees:

Rocky - Oscar Winner
All The President's Men
Bound for Glory
Network
Taxi Driver

These five are all-time classics! Hollywood is seriously letting us down, this is embarassing to compare the five this year to those in 1976.

I think Crash proved an important part about society and how people still look at other people outside their ethnic background sadly. Really did deserve to be movie of the year.
 

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rocky is the only movie i remember....i see every new movie that comes out and is worth watching....as in the top 2-3 movies of the week.

crash was real good and munich was ok but thats about it.....
 

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I kept waiting for something to happen in Crash.
I'm still waiting.

That movie sucked.
 

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The Falls said:
I kept waiting for something to happen in Crash.
I'm still waiting.

That movie sucked.

you don't get the point of the movie then.
 

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thought Crash was a great movie. People said it was too cliche and obvious, but again, the point was to be over-the-top and cliche in a certain regard.

Don Cheadles was tremendous in that movie.
 

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There was no point.
No plot.
People have been aware of racial tensions for many years now.
Acting was decent all around.
Good movies create tension or drama or bring out some kind of emotion.
Lackluster is a perfect word for this movie.
 

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There was no point.
No plot.
People have been aware of racial tensions for many years now.
Acting was decent all around.
Good movies create tension or drama or bring out some kind of emotion.
Lackluster is a perfect word for this movie.

You didn't feel any emotion when Matt Dillon was feeling up that guy's wife? How about when that Middle Eastern Man shot the gun almost killing the girl? At least my heart was pounding.

I agree that the quality of films is going down, but there are always 1-3 great hits a year.
 

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What is pathetic was Rocky winning a best picture over those other flicks. Down year for movies this year. Happens.
 

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You didn't feel any emotion when Matt Dillon was feeling up that guy's wife? How about when that Middle Eastern Man shot the gun almost killing the girl? At least my heart was pounding.

I agree that the quality of films is going down, but there are always 1-3 great hits a year.

Those 2 scenes and the one where the young cop shoots the country singing carjacker was emotional too.

I enjoyed Crash a lot as well Munich. Watching The Constant Gardener tonight. May have seemed cliche to some, but any movie that makes me see a bit of myself in more than one character is a winner to me.

Plenty of good movies out there - people are just too lazy to look for them since the promotional budgets for an Adam Sandler movie is 20-30x the cost of production (so therefore it must be best!)
 

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I'm trying to forget I saw the movie.
I love movies and I have seen almost every single one.
Off the top of my head-Kung Fu Hustle was much better than Crash.:missingte


I guess my expectations were too high.

Cinderella Man was movie of the year 2005.
 

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wildemu said:
You didn't feel any emotion when Matt Dillon was feeling up that guy's wife? How about when that Middle Eastern Man shot the gun almost killing the girl? At least my heart was pounding.

I agree that the quality of films is going down, but there are always 1-3 great hits a year.

I agree, those were good moments in the film. However, I feel the whole film was so scripted. It felt as though the scenes were put there to make a point were just so obvious and there were so many coincidences. Like when Matt Dillon came upon that car it was the lady he felt up before. And the other cop that killed the hitchhiker who turned out to be another cop's brother. Too many coincidences.

The movie was rather contrived and simplistic and put there to get a reaction out of you. I give it a thumbs down.
 

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Those 2 scenes and the one where the young cop shoots the country singing carjacker was emotional too.

I enjoyed Crash a lot as well Munich. Watching The Constant Gardener tonight. May have seemed cliche to some, but any movie that makes me see a bit of myself in more than one character is a winner to me.

Plenty of good movies out there - people are just too lazy to look for them since the promotional budgets for an Adam Sandler movie is 20-30x the cost of production (so therefore it must be best!)

Constant Gardener is equally unimpressive/overhyped.
Try Lord of War.
 

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The Falls said:
I kept waiting for something to happen in Crash.
I'm still waiting.

That movie sucked.

If it would have had a car chase and explosions and gun fire it wouldnt have won, and it wouldnt have been nominated. It showed to be a movie about the message rather than the action.
 

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Lord of War was pretty good, but nothin special...just entertaining. takes alot omre than a movie about arms race and supplying to get nominated
 

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My first movie ever my dad took me to a drive in double feature - Rocky / Convoy

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brokeback mountain is the gayest effing movie ive ever heard about, anyone that would watch that movie is definately taking it up the ole poop shoot
 

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brokeback mountain is the gayest effing movie ive ever heard about, anyone that would watch that movie is definately taking it up the ole poop shoot

This is a little bit off-topic but your comment above reminded me of an Australian sports commentator named Reg Reagan. Here are his thoughts in that area-

1. If you are over 30 and you have a washboard stomach, you're gay. It means you haven't
sucked back enough beer with the boys and rather you've been sucking-off the boys and
have spent the rest of your free time doing sit-ups, aerobics, and doing the Oprah diet.

2. If you have a cat, you are a Flaaaayming ***. A cat is like a dog, but Gay: it grooms itself
constantly but never scratches itself, has a delicate touch except when it uses its nails, and
whines to be fed. And just think about how you call a dog..."Killer, come here! I said get your
ass over here!" Now think about how you call a cat..."Bun-bun,come to daddy, snookums!"
Jeeezus, you're the poster boy for GAY.

3. If you suck on lollipops, Ring-Pops, baby-dummies, or any such nonsense, rest assured,
you are a Gaylord. A straight man only sucks bar-b-q ribs, crab-claws, raw oysters, craw-fish
guts, pickled pigs feet, or titties. Anything else and you are in training to suck El-Dicko and
undeniably a ***.

4. If you refuse to have a shit in a public toilet or piss in a parking lot, you're in a deep
homosexual relationship. A man's world is his toilet; he defecates and urinates where he
pleases.

5. If you drink decaf coffee with skim milk, you like a high hard one in the poop-chute. Coffee
is to be had strong, black (or with thick, wholesome milk) and full-aroma. A *****-eating man
will never be heard ordering a "Decaf Cafe Latte with Skim" and he will never, ever know what
artificial sweetener tastes like. If you've had NutraSweet in your mouth, you've had a dick in
there too.

6. If you know more than six names of colours or four different types of dessert, you might as
well be handing out a free pass to your arse. A real man doesn't have memory space in his
brain to remember all of that crap as well as all the names of all the players in the NRL, Super
12 Rugby, Cricket, PGA, NBL, and Supercar series. If you can pick out chartreuse or you
know what a "fresier" is, you're gay. And if you can name ANY type of textile other than
denim, you are faggadocious!

7. If you drive with both hands on the wheel, forget it...you're hungry for man sausage. A man
only puts both hands on the wheel to honk at slow-arse Volvo drivers or to cut the
mother***ker off. The rest of the time he needs that hand to change the radio station, eat his
hamburger, hold his beer, or, if he's a wog, talk on his mobile phone.

8. If you enjoy romantic comedies or French films, mon-frere, vous sonnez le Gay, oui? The
only time it is acceptable to watch one of those is with a woman who knows how to reward
her man. Watching any of the above films by yourself or with another man is likely to result in
SHC (spontaneous homosexual combustion), which is what happens to fags when they flame
out too quickly. So follow the rules and beware. Or keep that sh*t to yourself, you flaming
******!

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fucking hilarious, guilty of 2, 5 and 8 (without the saugage bits, he, he...)
 

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Last "real" movie (Toy Story doesn't count) I saw in a movie theater was Uncle Buck in 1989. Can't think of a bigger waste of time other than going to a movie.
 

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