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Post by mortsahlfan on Oct 17, 2019 21:59:36 GMT
I think a few classic greats will always throw in a few current names, but I think its because they don't wanna sound "old" ("get off my lawn" is such an annoying comment), or someone with sour grapes, or directors who must not be "open-minded".. Maybe, they are waiting for a possible collaboration with someone young to make money. Maybe they think criticism will cost them cash and/or legacy.
But better than just saying how they don't like anyone, the various reasons why would be neat to read.
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Post by ck100 on Oct 17, 2019 22:33:09 GMT
John Landis has been critical of modern movies. www.ifc.com/2011/09/john-landis-bashes-hollywood“I was very pissed off by what Universal did to me on ‘Blues Brothers 2000’ and that was my first experience with the new corporate Hollywood. It’s very different. Everything is by committee now, and they destroyed that movie, though the music is still good. This happens to filmmakers all the time, where producers and studios fuck with their picture, and when you’re promoting the movie you can’t say that. [Laughs.] The directors get blamed for things that are clearly not their fault. But the bottom line is, I enjoy filmmaking, I really like it and it’s a pleasure and I certainly don’t want to take some principled stand against the majors. I would be delighted to make a studio picture, but the truth is, if you look at the films they’re making, they are not the movies I want to make. I don’t want to make ‘Thor.’ [Laughs.] …It’s a combination of economics and we live in a very conservative and reactionary and frightened time. People are scared shitless in terms of taking risks on movies. Would the studios ever make a movie like ‘Into The Night’ now? Or even ‘Animal House?’ |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 17, 2019 22:44:49 GMT
John Landis has been critical of modern movies. www.ifc.com/2011/09/john-landis-bashes-hollywood“I was very pissed off by what Universal did to me on ‘Blues Brothers 2000’ and that was my first experience with the new corporate Hollywood. It’s very different. Everything is by committee now, and they destroyed that movie, though the music is still good. This happens to filmmakers all the time, where producers and studios fuck with their picture, and when you’re promoting the movie you can’t say that. [Laughs.] The directors get blamed for things that are clearly not their fault. But the bottom line is, I enjoy filmmaking, I really like it and it’s a pleasure and I certainly don’t want to take some principled stand against the majors. I would be delighted to make a studio picture, but the truth is, if you look at the films they’re making, they are not the movies I want to make. I don’t want to make ‘Thor.’ [Laughs.] …It’s a combination of economics and we live in a very conservative and reactionary and frightened time. People are scared shitless in terms of taking risks on movies. Would the studios ever make a movie like ‘Into The Night’ now? Or even ‘Animal House?’ "The directors get blamed for things that are clearly not their fault." - At least modern movies aren't dropping helicopters on kids.
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Post by Archelaus on Oct 17, 2019 23:15:04 GMT
Jodie Foster:
Simon Pegg:
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Post by hi224 on Oct 17, 2019 23:17:55 GMT
wasn't Rick Moranis someone who retired not just because of his wife but state of cinema.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 18, 2019 0:26:49 GMT
Gene Wilder called modern movies 'dirty' or something similar.
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Post by ck100 on Oct 18, 2019 1:28:27 GMT
Jennifer Aniston: people.com/movies/jennifer-aniston-marvel-is-diminishing-movie-industry/amp/
Jennifer Aniston on 'Big Marvel Movies': 'I'm Not Interested in Living in a Green Screen' Jennifer Aniston is feeling a bit nostalgic. In a new interview with Variety, the actress, 50, opens up about focusing her acting in television over film — and admits she misses an industry free of Marvel movies. “It wasn’t until the last couple of years when these streaming services were just sort of exploding with this amount of quality that I actually started to think, ‘Wow, that’s better than what I just did,’ ” she said of acting on the small screen. “And then you’re seeing what’s available out there and it’s just diminishing and diminishing in terms of, it’s big Marvel movies,” Aniston added. “Or things that I’m not just asked to do or really that interested in living in a green screen.” In the last two years, Marvel has put out seven movies, with six more already announced through 2021. The Morning Show star reminisced on some of her favorite movies from the ’70s and ’80s, telling the outlet that there should be a “resurgence” of those types of films. “It’s changed so much. I think we would so love to have the era of Meg Ryan come back,” Aniston said of the movie industry. “I just think it would be nice to go into a movie theater, sit cozy. I think we should have a resurgence. Let’s get the Terms of Endearment back out there. You know, Heaven Can Wait, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Goodbye Girl.” And although streaming services have helped create new opportunities for the actress, such as her new upcoming series The Morning Show, she remembers being taken aback by the concept of them. "I remember not understanding. ‘What the hell does streaming mean?’ They’re like, ‘It’s there all the time,'” she recalled. “So tuning in on Thursday nights at eight o’clock is not a thing anymore? Or you’re not going to the bathroom on a commercial break and someone yells, ‘It’s back on!’ That doesn’t happen anymore? It’s kind of sad.” In addition to her new show, it seems Aniston will be once again working with Netflix, who recently announced the sequel to her an Adam Sandler’s popular comedy, Murder Mystery, according to The Hollywood Reporter. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 18, 2019 1:33:42 GMT
James Caan
‘I’ve become very negative about the films of today, and that’s why I leapt at the chance to do a film of the `70s with talent like this....I was very fortunate in the `70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers....And [the films] had a beginning, a middle and an end, which was something very odd....it seems like most of the films they’re doing, in Hollywood anyway, are these franchise films.’
My favorite:
Quentin Tarantino:
"New Italian cinema is just depressing. Recent films I've seen are all the same. They talk about boys growing up, or girls growing up, or couples having a crisis, or vacations of the mentally impaired."
Sophia Loren's response: "How dare he talk about Italian cinema when he doesn't know anything about American cinema?"
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Post by ck100 on Oct 18, 2019 1:39:30 GMT
Adam Driver: www.digitalspy.com/movies/a835498/star-wars-adam-driver-isnt-a-big-fan-of-generic-hollywood-films/Star Wars' Adam Driver isn't a big fan of "generic" Hollywood films
"They are a lot of money"Adam Driver might have starred in one of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters of this decade, but the Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor actually has some issues with Hollywood movies. Speaking to The Sunday Times Magazine, Adam reflected on his role as Kylo Ren, the son of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), and why he chose to take the part. "I mean, I was against — and still am to a large extent — Hollywood movies," he said. "They are generic, a lot of money." He's got a point: Star Wars: The Force Awakens cost over $300 million to produce. Generic and expensive though they may be, Adam made the decision to star in Star Wars: The Force Awakens regardless: "JJ [Abrams, who directed] described it as a family drama. It was an opportunity to work in something that was big, but felt personal to him and myself." Adam, who got his break appearing as Lena Dunham's boyfriend in her TV series Girls, usually signs on for more independent films. |
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 18, 2019 1:40:09 GMT
John Landis has been critical of modern movies. www.ifc.com/2011/09/john-landis-bashes-hollywood“I was very pissed off by what Universal did to me on ‘Blues Brothers 2000’ and that was my first experience with the new corporate Hollywood. It’s very different. Everything is by committee now, and they destroyed that movie, though the music is still good. This happens to filmmakers all the time, where producers and studios fuck with their picture, and when you’re promoting the movie you can’t say that. [Laughs.] The directors get blamed for things that are clearly not their fault. But the bottom line is, I enjoy filmmaking, I really like it and it’s a pleasure and I certainly don’t want to take some principled stand against the majors. I would be delighted to make a studio picture, but the truth is, if you look at the films they’re making, they are not the movies I want to make. I don’t want to make ‘Thor.’ [Laughs.] …It’s a combination of economics and we live in a very conservative and reactionary and frightened time. People are scared shitless in terms of taking risks on movies. Would the studios ever make a movie like ‘Into The Night’ now? Or even ‘Animal House?’ "The directors get blamed for things that are clearly not their fault." - At least modern movies aren't dropping helicopters on kids. Ouch!
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Post by mortsahlfan on Oct 18, 2019 12:37:51 GMT
James Caan ‘I’ve become very negative about the films of today, and that’s why I leapt at the chance to do a film of the `70s with talent like this....I was very fortunate in the `70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers....And [the films] had a beginning, a middle and an end, which was something very odd....it seems like most of the films they’re doing, in Hollywood anyway, are these franchise films.’ My favorite: Quentin Tarantino: "New Italian cinema is just depressing. Recent films I've seen are all the same. They talk about boys growing up, or girls growing up, or couples having a crisis, or vacations of the mentally impaired." Sophia Loren's response: "How dare he talk about Italian cinema when he doesn't know anything about American cinema?" Good for Jimmy Caan. The 70s was the last decade for me.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 19, 2019 20:45:53 GMT
theplaylist.net/paul-verhoeven-wants-less-superheroes-bit-normality-movies-20160521/“I’m not positive about the further development of all [this] science-fiction stuff,” Verhoeven said. “I have a feeling that everything has been said and done and I think we should go back to a bit more normality. All these big superheroes and whatever, I don’t know what dream this is of the United States, but I feel that we lost contact completely with normal people, and that the story of us is more interesting than that of a superhero.”
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 19, 2019 20:57:16 GMT
collider.com/captain-america-john-mctiernan-criticism-die-hard/“All they’re making are comic book adaptations. There’s action but no human beings, they’re films made by fascists. They’re making all the kids in the world think that they’ll never be important enough to have a film made about their life. And it’s a unique moment in the history of cinema, it didn’t used to be like this. A kid used to be able to learn how a man or a woman should act by watching films. Morals. Comics make heroes for businesses”.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 19, 2019 21:13:17 GMT
collider.com/captain-america-john-mctiernan-criticism-die-hard/“All they’re making are comic book adaptations. There’s action but no human beings, they’re films made by fascists. They’re making all the kids in the world think that they’ll never be important enough to have a film made about their life. And it’s a unique moment in the history of cinema, it didn’t used to be like this. A kid used to be able to learn how a man or a woman should act by watching films. Morals. Comics make heroes for businesses”. Does McTiernan know what fascism actually is?
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 19, 2019 21:39:33 GMT
Does McTiernan know what fascism actually is? What's funny is he says Captain America promoted hyper-masculinity...um what about the arm wrestle scene in Predator?
"What's the matta? CIA got you pushing too many pencils?"
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 19, 2019 21:48:51 GMT
Does McTiernan know what fascism actually is? What's funny is he says Captain America promoted hyper-masculinity...um what about the arm wrestle scene in Predator?
"What's the matta? CIA got you pushing too many pencils?" Yeah, Predator is among the most macho movies ever. What a hypocrite.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Oct 19, 2019 22:15:16 GMT
Those quotes are full of hypocrisy, half-truths, and negative spin.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 19, 2019 23:19:42 GMT
Yeah, Predator is among the most macho movies ever. What a hypocrite. To be fair though-Predator ends with all the macho guys dead and Dutch looking really fucked up in da choppa.
He doesn't have the confident smirk on his face like he does at the beginning.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Oct 20, 2019 15:06:03 GMT
Those quotes are full of hypocrisy, half-truths, and negative spin. Which quotes?
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Oct 20, 2019 21:40:13 GMT
Those quotes are full of hypocrisy, half-truths, and negative spin. Which quotes? The film maker quotes in this thread. |
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