No, I won't harken back to the days when men were men, and women were women, and movies were movies. I'm just stunned by the lack of creativity in film. We have cartoons brought to life; X-men, Spiderman, Transformers. All fun, but they are, after all, cartoons. Then Hollywood gets a movie people like, and they spawn like giant fleas. Star Trek and lots of sequels, Night at the Museum and sequel, the anti-Christian Da Vinci stuff, then back to cartoons with the "Ice Age" franchise, followed by remakes of the "Land of the Lost", and "The Taking of Pelam 1 2 3". The remakes are of 'B' movies, so I guess maybe there's room for improvement, but the plots are so lame I don't really think so.
I read much, and there's some great stuff out there. Hollywood needs to learn how to read. I remember a discussion with my brother about records, about if anyone puts together a concept album anymore (like The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull and The Who did, to name some). No, not going to happen, because the hit is the thing, the sound that will put money in the pockets of the execs. It's not about the music. The movies, it now appears, is all about the execs and income. It was why United Artists was formed; to put the art back in film and curtail the execs. It lasted a little while. Sure I enjoy this new generation of flicks. They're fun. It's just been a lot of years since I've walked out of a movie awed by the story. I've been touched, moved, emotionally engaged, but it's been awhile since I've walked out at the end surprised and enthralled.
The last two movies that totally captured me was "Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner" (2002)and "Mongol" (2007).
