Why were there no great films between
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franzkabuki — 13 years ago(July 28, 2012 02:26 AM)
Well, yeah, the decline experienced by some of the 70s big directors cannot really be blamed on lack of opportunity or finances - look at Roegs Eureka, for instance, which was a fairly lavish, extravagant production featuring big stars like Gene Hackman yet is a terrible mess. Coppola or that same Ashby werent operating on a shoestring budget, exactly, either.
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DreTam2000 — 13 years ago(February 17, 2013 05:08 AM)
Ooh, so
that
's what happened. That must be why Coppola's films also took quite a dive and never recovered after the 70s. His post-70s movies never really saw a return to his crisply shot and flawlessly edited films from before.
If what you say is true, then I am newly educated as to why so many directors seem to have had issue with films after a certain point. Studios interfered in ways that are not so apparent to us viewers who do not research the situations well enough.
It seems to me that the last twelve years or so have had their own switch which has caused directors who began around the 80s to really have issue with making new movies as crisply as they did befor111ce (namely due to CGI and green-screen reasons).
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SimplemindedSociety — 13 years ago(February 19, 2013 05:10 AM)
well, I don't know about "crisp",but maybe he did what they call semi-tasking:
If things went right, Altman took the credit,if it was a bomb,others took the blame
I think when you put 30 characters on the screen with 12 plots, some are bound to stick. It's like taking a roll of film as an amatuer, and via the law averages,at least one will turn out great. -
SimplemindedSociety — 13 years ago(February 19, 2013 08:05 AM)
what did Altman say: 'people don't get me", or "audiences don't relate to my art"?
NO, it's because the films are boring and uninteresting.(Carol Burnett sure had her bubble burst after dying to work with him)
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SimplemindedSociety — 13 years ago(February 19, 2013 04:08 PM)
I don't know,sounds like you need a remote understanding of your very bargain-basement use of thoughts and vocabulary(etc.)
In other words,how shall I say this on your level.. "get off the weed,man"
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SimplemindedSociety — 13 years ago(February 22, 2013 01:10 AM)
'Your moronic babbling would be funny if it wasnt so sadly symptomatic of larger tendencies of IMDb discourse'
oh my..
Now franzkabuki is turning all 'professional' and verbose on me;changing tracks.