must reads: “6 Things the Film Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know About” at Film School Rejects
Ashe Cantrell at Film School Rejects is angry…
Hollywood hates moviegoers
question of the day: How do we fix the problem of spoiler-laden trailers?
How many times have you known what was going to happen next in a film because you’d seen the resolutiuon in a trailer? How do we make Hollywood stop doing this?
say good-bye to grownup horror movies…
Guillermo del Toro refuses to make a PG-13 horror movie, and Universal freaks out…
wtf: ‘Clash of the Titans 2’ will be converted to 3D
Our Hollywood overlords hate us.
wtf: Harvey Weinstein doesn’t want you to see the version of ‘The King’s Speech’ that just won Best Picture
If you despair of the lack of smart, mature movies for adults now, just wait till The King’s Speech, reedited for knee-jerk prudes afraid of their own shadows and unable to competently parent their children to explain how words work, makes $100 million at the box office.
maybe it’s time to just give the fuck up on movies
Warner Bros. to remake The Bodyguard. You don’t even need to know anything beyond that.
question of the day: How big a problem is it that Hollywood no longer makes movies about blue-collar, working-class people?
Leah Rozen in The New York Times, writing about the new British film Made in Dagenham, about women in the late 1960s who struck the Ford plant where they worked, makes a cogent point that hadn’t occurred to me until I read her words, though it’s clearly so head-smackingly obvious that it almost doesn’t need to be said: Hollywood doesn’t make movies about working-class Americans anymore.
question of the day: Has Hollywood made us so jaded that we no longer “give movies a chance,” and is that a bad thing?
It sounds like Hall is saying, however, that we should all have run out opening weekend to see Skyline — or any movie we suspect will be garbage — because we owe something to Hollywood! Which is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.
Skyline (review)
This isn’t a movie: it’s an FX demo reel. It’s not about anything: it doesn’t reflect any contemporary fears that afflict individual people or anxieties that grip our entire culture. It has nothing to say beyond: “Don’t alien ships in the skies over Los Angeles look sorta interesting, and perhaps you would like to hire us to create the FX for your next sci-fi action film?”
Flipped (review)
Everything that is wrong with The Movies today in America is beautifully encapsulated in how this lovely little movie cannot find an audience in the current movie environment.
