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Why Have Movies Been So Bad Lately?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hollywood-is-bankrupt-of-original-ideas dept.

mikesd81 asks: "Why have movies and shows been so bad lately? I find myself looking on my Video on Demand service from my cable company or flipping channels and just nothing seems to have any depth any more. But on the other hand, I happened to watch Stargate Atlantis and there was an incredible scene that just caught the emotion and emergency. So is it the directing? The writing? The acting? It seems more and more movies just aren't worth anything. Let alone paying $20 to go to a movie." Let's not forget the recent number of Hollywood remakes and the amount of "reality TV" being pumped out by the networks.

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  1. Why Have Movies Been So Bad Lately? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Because you touch yourself at night.

  2. Re:Movies are NOT getting worse by EvilIdler · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Sure there are plenty of good movies, but IMDb can't tell us what to like!
    I didn't like half the top 50 movies on their list, for example.

  3. Re:Hollywood is out of ideas by dan828 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He's an American-- he was born in New York and moved to Austrailia when he was 12.

  4. Re:Hollywood is out of ideas by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Hey, yeah, and why did the Australian Mel Gibson play an American cop all those times, too?

    He was born and lived in the USA until he was 12. So, as an Australian, I can cheerfully disown him, at least all the movies he made after he left Australia.

    But there have always been lots of real Australians working in Hollywood, going back to Errol Flynn. They just tnd to be good at doing accents.

  5. Re:Hollywood is out of ideas by Neckel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mel Gibson is Australian