Do they make 'em like this anymore ?
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the_departed94 — 11 years ago(April 20, 2014 11:57 PM)
nope but atleast there a 100s of great movies in the 70s that are just as dark, gritty and surreal as sorcerer. Friedkin got like another 3 masterpieces alone. French connection, exorcist and to live and die in la
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independent-tek — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 05:17 PM)
The mechanics of film making has changed from the days of a director pitching an idea to the studios, having a budget, gathering cast and crew and then trying to make the film to today's process of researching demographics, studio execs having total control and trying to make the next multi-movie blockbuster. I'm leaving out quite a bit from both processes but the main point is that revenue is driving the production of movies today. Indie films don't have the budget or the years of experience in the crew and the results are usually kind of 2 dimensional.
Movies today are pointed to the audience they are made for: TV watchers, people who think a low res version seen on an ipad with crappy sound is an experience. It is just conversation fodder.
Not to say all films today are bad, just mostly not entertaining. I watch tons of movies but of those movies I watch a lot of older films. -
leishayoung — 11 years ago(March 24, 2015 01:16 AM)
In a word 'NO'.
This film has so much going on. Half of the film is just establishing characters. Add to that that the explosions are all real as are the live action scenes with the trucks.
It was inspiring stuff.
What do we have now? A bunch of geeks behind computers making films with all the resonance of a bad romance novel.