And that all changes with Interstellar!
And that all changes with Interstellar!
I guess I just don't get that. I mean I'm as ordinary middle America dude as anyone. I have 3 young kids, a wife, a job and I've seen all those movies. Those movies seem fairly mainstream to me. I felt like I took a bit of a dive into art house film when we watched Blue Is the Warmest Color.
"I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings."
Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
Mid 50's?
Touch of Evil
Paths of Glory
North By Northwest
Vertigo
Spartacus
The Man with the Golden Arm
Ben Hur was silly?
From the 60's
Bonnie & Clyde
Midnight Cowboy
A Man For All Seasons
Exodus
The Wild Bunch
Psycho
Seconds with Rock Hudson, which Total Recall was stolen from
I agree it is not a great amount but the 60's is not just "Easy Rider" ...but it did lead to a better decade for movies in the 70's.
Yeah, after reading the plot outline there are def some similarities.
Sounds like an interesting movie.
Oy! I thought I covered this.
Maybe it's better to say that the 60's was a transitional decade for Hollywood.
From Wiki:
The 1960s were marked by a spate of corporate takeovers. MCA, under Lew Wasserman, acquired Universal in 1962; Gulf+Western took over Paramount in 1966; and the Transamerica Corporation purchased United Artists in 1967. Warner Bros. underwent large-scale reorganization twice in two years: a 1967 merger with the Seven Arts company preceded a 1969 purchase by Kinney National, under Stephen J. Ross. MGM, in the process of a slow decline, changed ownership twice in the same span as well, winding up in the hands of financier Kirk Kerkorian. The majors almost entirely abandoned low-budget production during this era, bringing the annual average of features released down to 160
The Golden Age was well past and the modern day Hollywood M.O. was emerging:
The early 1970s were difficult years for all the majors. Movie attendance, which had been declining steadily since the Golden Age, hit an all-time low in 1971......By the mid-1970s, the industry had rebounded and a significant philosophical shift was in progress. As the majors focused increasingly on the development of the next hoped-for blockbuster and began routinely opening each new movie in many hundreds of theaters (an approach called "saturation booking"), their collective yearly release average fell to 81 films during 1975–84
As to Ben Hur: no it's not silly but I'm meh on it all the same. (And Doctro Zhivago's a four hour nap.)
When I typed silly, I meant Cleopatra or Taras Bulba
The Cossacks of Eastern Europe join the Poles to rid the Turks from the Steps of Europe. In return for their aid, the Poles agree to give control of the Steps to the Cossacks. After the battle, however, the Poles back out of their agreement and force the Cossacks into the hills. Taras Bulba, a Cossack Colonel, raises his son, Andrei Bulba to learn the ways of the Poles so he can one day defeat them in battle. In his learning process, however, Andrei falls in love with the daughter of a Polish Nobleman. This twist causes Andrei Bulba to choose between the love of the Cossacks, and the love of a woman, and causes Taras Bulba to choose between the love of his son, and the love of the Cossacks.
Ah yes, the legendary struggle of the Poles and Ukrainians.
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Need for Speed is getting terrible reviews. Wonder if Aaron Paul could have waited for something better.
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"I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings."
Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
"I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings."
Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
Just rewatched Adventureland for the first time in a while last night. One of the most underrated gems of the last decade.
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I watched the Veronica Mars movie this weekend. Loved it. Of course I was hooked on the show too, so that certainly could explain it. It was in less than 300 theaters nation wide, so rather than fight with tracking it down somewhere I just bought it online on Friday night (it had a dual video on demand release). If you have never watched the show, a few points were probably missed in the movie for you, but for the most part I think they explained things well enough that you didn't have to watch the series in order to follow along. Also, James Franco is awesome.
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