Thursday, June 11

Recent Movies Have Declined

It may just be my cynical view on the world, but it seems that recent movies are cinematic remakes of books nobody read, comics we all read and therefore have no use of a movie telling us the same exact thing, or remakes of older and classic movies. Is our culture so downing, so depressive as to restrict the creative flow of ideas for new pictures? It's true that we have recently been blessed with the gems of Juno, Nick + Norah's Infinite playlist, Superbad, Yes Man and several other recent comedies, but three of the four listed above are teen dramedies and undoubtedly directed at a younger audience. Is it then, that we are reduced to mindnumbing teenage drama every time we go to the theater? I don't know about the rest of you, but high school was definitely not the best four years of my life, and I really don't care to repeat it often and fully through the assumingly pleasurable cinematic experience.
So Hollywood do us a favor and either produce movies that are semi-intelligent and intellectually stimulating, or kindly take advantage of the seismic plate you're resting on and drift away into the ocean.

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