Alien 5

  On 2/22/2015 at 4:06 PM, fenton said:

 

  On 2/21/2015 at 11:32 PM, trananhhung said:

 

 

  On 2/19/2015 at 12:00 PM, phling said:

 

 

So much truth in this post that it hurts. Guys, Hollywood is dead. You can't expect anything good coming out of it. It's filled with people with no taste and the few that have it are totally controlled by system. They want to appeal to everyone and make the most insipid products. It's not cinema anymore. We have an entire generation who grew up with videogame narratives writing films. Games aren't turning cinematic, films are turning into videogames.

Sweeping generalisation that has been valid since Hollywoods conception and is no more valid or correct now.

can only assume you know nothing.

And I'm just talking about technical details. During the 40s you had William Faulkner, Raymond chandler and Hemingway writing scripts for Hollywood. Who do you have now? Sorry for being the angel of doom but if you can't understand that Hollywood hasn't changed then there's nothing I can do about it.

  On 2/22/2015 at 7:15 PM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/22/2015 at 4:06 PM, fenton said:

 

  On 2/21/2015 at 11:32 PM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/19/2015 at 12:00 PM, phling said:

 

So much truth in this post that it hurts. Guys, Hollywood is dead. You can't expect anything good coming out of it. It's filled with people with no taste and the few that have it are totally controlled by system. They want to appeal to everyone and make the most insipid products. It's not cinema anymore. We have an entire generation who grew up with videogame narratives writing films. Games aren't turning cinematic, films are turning into videogames.

Sweeping generalisation that has been valid since Hollywoods conception and is no more valid or correct now.

You know absolutely zero about film history, don't you? I'm talking about how the language of film has changed into something that isn't cinema anymore and that is highly influenced by videogame style narratives and exposition. Compare the original Robocop with the recent remake. Or see the last Tolkien films. I'm taking about editing and visual composition and framing. If you can't see how that's changed in Hollywood i

can only assume you know nothing.

 

And I'm just talking about technical details. During the 40s you had William Faulkner, Raymond chandler and Hemingway writing scripts for Hollywood. Who do you have now? Sorry for being the angel of doom but if you can't understand that Hollywood hasn't changed then there's nothing I can do about it.

 

yeah i've noticed this too, can provide any links to articles about this?

I recommend checking out Redlettermedia.com, they are fun and cool hollywood movies critics.

  On 2/22/2015 at 7:15 PM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/22/2015 at 4:06 PM, fenton said:

 

  On 2/21/2015 at 11:32 PM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/19/2015 at 12:00 PM, phling said:

 

So much truth in this post that it hurts. Guys, Hollywood is dead. You can't expect anything good coming out of it. It's filled with people with no taste and the few that have it are totally controlled by system. They want to appeal to everyone and make the most insipid products. It's not cinema anymore. We have an entire generation who grew up with videogame narratives writing films. Games aren't turning cinematic, films are turning into videogames.

Sweeping generalisation that has been valid since Hollywoods conception and is no more valid or correct now.

You know absolutely zero about film history, don't you? I'm talking about how the language of film has changed into something that isn't cinema anymore and that is highly influenced by videogame style narratives and exposition. Compare the original Robocop with the recent remake. Or see the last Tolkien films. I'm taking about editing and visual composition and framing. If you can't see how that's changed in Hollywood i

can only assume you know nothing.

 

And I'm just talking about technical details. During the 40s you had William Faulkner, Raymond chandler and Hemingway writing scripts for Hollywood. Who do you have now? Sorry for being the angel of doom but if you can't understand that Hollywood hasn't changed then there's nothing I can do about it.

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart

  On 2/22/2015 at 7:15 PM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/22/2015 at 4:06 PM, fenton said:

 

  On 2/21/2015 at 11:32 PM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/19/2015 at 12:00 PM, phling said:

 

So much truth in this post that it hurts. Guys, Hollywood is dead. You can't expect anything good coming out of it. It's filled with people with no taste and the few that have it are totally controlled by system. They want to appeal to everyone and make the most insipid products. It's not cinema anymore. We have an entire generation who grew up with videogame narratives writing films. Games aren't turning cinematic, films are turning into videogames.

Sweeping generalisation that has been valid since Hollywoods conception and is no more valid or correct now.

You know absolutely zero about film history, don't you? I'm talking about how the language of film has changed into something that isn't cinema anymore and that is highly influenced by videogame style narratives and exposition. Compare the original Robocop with the recent remake. Or see the last Tolkien films. I'm taking about editing and visual composition and framing. If you can't see how that's changed in Hollywood i

can only assume you know nothing.

 

And I'm just talking about technical details. During the 40s you had William Faulkner, Raymond chandler and Hemingway writing scripts for Hollywood. Who do you have now? Sorry for being the angel of doom but if you can't understand that Hollywood hasn't changed then there's nothing I can do about it.

 

I'm not into debating who knows most with someone who knows nothing about me, but are you trying to say that the ratio of famous novelists writing screenplays was higher then? Is that an undisputed fact that someone has bothered to prove or are you just biased towards novelists from the 40s and assume that every script they wrote was gold?

And have you sat down and watched every film from 1940 and made unbiased notes and then done this with those from 2014 [even an equal sized random selection].

Cos all I'm saying is that your rose tinted view of film history is probably just that, and unless you were around then to see it with your own eyes and not through academia delivered in a world Criteron DVD reissues and retro film festivals then I can only assume you know nothing.

Lol wow I'm learning so much about film history just by casually reading a WATMM thread about the potential Alien 5 that might be directed by the weak-ass Neil Blomkap. Amazing how great the internet is.

  On 2/22/2015 at 9:05 PM, auxien said:

Lol wow I'm learning so much about film history just by casually reading a WATMM thread about the potential Alien 5 that might be directed by the weak-ass Neil Blomkap. Amazing how great the internet is.

I just recently learned that nothing means anything at all even slightly nada and I've been viewing movies completely different since although my lecturer says what I am saying doesn't make any sense but who the fuck is he washed up failure fuck off.

  On 2/22/2015 at 8:10 PM, gaarg said:

I recommend checking out Redlettermedia.com, they are fun and cool hollywood movies critics.

oh yeah, love there reviews

  On 2/22/2015 at 8:42 PM, fenton said:

 

  On 2/22/2015 at 7:15 PM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/22/2015 at 4:06 PM, fenton said:

 

  On 2/21/2015 at 11:32 PM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/19/2015 at 12:00 PM, phling said:

 

So much truth in this post that it hurts. Guys, Hollywood is dead. You can't expect anything good coming out of it. It's filled with people with no taste and the few that have it are totally controlled by system. They want to appeal to everyone and make the most insipid products. It's not cinema anymore. We have an entire generation who grew up with videogame narratives writing films. Games aren't turning cinematic, films are turning into videogames.

Sweeping generalisation that has been valid since Hollywoods conception and is no more valid or correct now.

You know absolutely zero about film history, don't you? I'm talking about how the language of film has changed into something that isn't cinema anymore and that is highly influenced by videogame style narratives and exposition. Compare the original Robocop with the recent remake. Or see the last Tolkien films. I'm taking about editing and visual composition and framing. If you can't see how that's changed in Hollywood i

can only assume you know nothing.

 

And I'm just talking about technical details. During the 40s you had William Faulkner, Raymond chandler and Hemingway writing scripts for Hollywood. Who do you have now? Sorry for being the angel of doom but if you can't understand that Hollywood hasn't changed then there's nothing I can do about it.

 

 

I'm not into debating who knows most with someone who knows nothing about me, but are you trying to say that the ratio of famous novelists writing screenplays was higher then? Is that an undisputed fact that someone has bothered to prove or are you just biased towards novelists from the 40s and assume that every script they wrote was gold?

 

And have you sat down and watched every film from 1940 and made unbiased notes and then done this with those from 2014 [even an equal sized random selection].

 

Cos all I'm saying is that your rose tinted view of film history is probably just that, and unless you were around then to see it with your own eyes and not through academia delivered in a world Criteron DVD reissues and retro film festivals then I can only assume you know nothing.

 

oh look some guy on the internet has an opinion, i better take it as gospel.

Well it's not exactly a secret that Hollywood has reached a new low. You dont have to be a naive millennial or a lame dad to state the obvious.

More sequels/reboots than ever, etc. shit everywhere, etc.

Birdman was somewhat refreshing and the awards it took last night kinda sorta show that maybe there's some breath left in Hollywood...

but that's different, there's defo nothing left for the Alien "franchise", it's been molested way too much already..

Unrelated, but I wish they had handed it to Cuarón instead, I don't think Blomkamp is the right guy for this franchise at all.

yeah Elysium was pretty shit

  On 2/23/2015 at 7:34 PM, BCM said:

yeah Elysium was pretty shit

i like it

  On 2/23/2015 at 7:34 PM, BCM said:

yeah Elysium was pretty shit

i really liked district 9, just thought elysium was yeah, bit cheesy really.

planeian 5 - a bunch of planes bursting out of trains

How does Alien poop look like. How does it smell.

  On 2/24/2015 at 8:51 PM, phling said:

How does Alien poop look like. How does it smell.

Hey, Alien poop. Man, you look and smell just like I feel.

this would be a worthwhile theme for the film, at last..

btw I'm reading that Gibson Alien 3 script and it's bollcoks

  On 2/22/2015 at 7:15 PM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/22/2015 at 4:06 PM, fenton said:

 

  On 2/21/2015 at 11:32 PM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/19/2015 at 12:00 PM, phling said:

 

So much truth in this post that it hurts. Guys, Hollywood is dead. You can't expect anything good coming out of it. It's filled with people with no taste and the few that have it are totally controlled by system. They want to appeal to everyone and make the most insipid products. It's not cinema anymore. We have an entire generation who grew up with videogame narratives writing films. Games aren't turning cinematic, films are turning into videogames.

Sweeping generalisation that has been valid since Hollywoods conception and is no more valid or correct now.

You know absolutely zero about film history, don't you? I'm talking about how the language of film has changed into something that isn't cinema anymore and that is highly influenced by videogame style narratives and exposition. Compare the original Robocop with the recent remake. Or see the last Tolkien films. I'm taking about editing and visual composition and framing. If you can't see how that's changed in Hollywood i

can only assume you know nothing.

 

And I'm just talking about technical details. During the 40s you had William Faulkner, Raymond chandler and Hemingway writing scripts for Hollywood. Who do you have now? Sorry for being the angel of doom but if you can't understand that Hollywood hasn't changed then there's nothing I can do about it.

 

Unfortunately, although H-Wood has always been a self-serving business, now more than ever its productions are lowest common denominator trash. The sheer fact that Birdman AND Whiplash got released this year is a miracle in itself. And of all people didnt Will Ferrell come out with summat about jack of all trades/hard time to make decent movies recently too (and b4 any1 judges that statement i properly lol @ some of his buffoonery).

Alien FIVE doe? As Colonel Walter Kurtz once explained,,,,,,,"the horror,,,,,,,the horror,,,,,,,,,"

  On 2/24/2015 at 9:31 PM, cwmbrancity said:

 

 

Alien FIVE doe? As Colonel Walter Kurtz once explained,,,,,,,"the horror,,,,,,,the horror,,,,,,,,,"

 

I think it's perfect time for Hollywood to start working on "Apocalypse Now Again"

I love the smell of sequels in the morning

  On 2/25/2015 at 1:56 PM, IrisAndTheLens said:

lol

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