US cinema suffers year of slump

[LostSymphonies]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4796020.stm

Do you think it could be the lack of creativy and the overload of remakes?

[Robb]

It's not so much the overload of remakes as it was the unending avalanche of horrible, horrible releases.

[Adeniz19]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4796020.stm

Do you think it could be the lack of creativy and the overload of remakes?yep. all of the huge blockbuster films last year were remakes. (King Kong, War Of the Worlds)

[gilatron5000]

yep. all of the huge blockbuster films last year were remakes. (King Kong, War Of the Worlds)or sequels.

With the exception of like...Fantastic Four.

[romantic rights]

honestly, yesterday i said to my girl "lets go see a movie tomorrow"
then we looked at what was playing and realized that there was really nothing that we wanted to pay 10 bucks to see.
and its benn like that for a while for me.

[Broken Parachute]

Damn bootleggers.

Actually, most movies just aren't interesting anymore. When you look at the movie list, do you honestly go "oh wow, I wanna see that!"

[lanolynn]

i don't even know when the last time i went to a theatre was

[JunkBondTrader]

i think there were a handful of great movies......(pretty much the moveis that were nominated for Oscars were, well obvioulsy, the best films of the year) there really snt much else. Jarhead, Walk The Line, Capote, Brokeback Mountain, Crash, Munich, Sin City, Wedding Crashers, King Kong, War of the Worlds, Charlie and the Chocolate Factories, Harry Potter, and the Chornicles of Narnia were all great films....though some were just enjoyable.

[emoishardcore]

i dont blame it on hollywood. i just think were running into a slump where everytings been done that were being forced to "take" existing ideas from either older movies, books, sequels or prequels. i ahve nothing against someone attepting to recreate an old idea as long as its done correctly.

what i do not like is the many directiors who are remaking horror movies that used to be decent and giving the general audience (who knows nothing of the origional) the idea that the origional was as bad as the remake.

same thing applies to comic book or anime movies cept the problem seems to be with the origional writter trying to take the whole movie into their hands.

i think the ne of the only few true, honest forms of cinema are documentaires or low end independent films, which i beleive will be equally exploited int he years to come.

[xPerryx]

I agree that last year was quite bad for original movies but this year looks pretty good with the releases of Saw 3, X3, Undead, MI:3 etc but again its mostly sequels and just people trying to squeeze more money out of dead ideas.

[emoishardcore]

I agree that last year was quite bad for original movies but this year looks pretty good with the releases of Saw 3, X3, Undead, MI:3 etc but again its mostly sequels and just people trying to squeeze more money out of dead ideas.

i dont know i dont want to see another MI or another saw......i think dequels need to stay with the original director and group of writters to have the same fluid story line instead of just creating a sequel to use the name and having no link inbetween movies

[xPerryx]

i see your point but i really liked how in Saw 2 it connected in minor ways like at the end but the full story didnt connect. To be honest, im not really looking forward to mission impossible 3 either.

[emoishardcore]

i see your point but i really liked how in Saw 2 it connected in minor ways like at the end but the full story didnt connect. To be honest, im not really looking forward to mission impossible 3 either.

yeah i agree that i liked how saw 2 did that but i always like it when movies stick to a true timeline f events, even if the money isent great....like underworld 2....alone the movie sucked but ebcause it truely stayed within the sequence of events and characters, it only half sucked.

i dont know about MI3 though. i mean this is mainly because of MI2, evenhtough im a john woo fan, i think the movie completely ruined the first and the franchise. i am though hoping that jj abrams can bring a little of what he has done with alias and lost (eventhough i dislike lost (i know i said it!)) to a similair film such as MI3

[emoishardcore]

I agree that last year was quite bad for original movies but this year looks pretty good with the releases of Saw 3, X3, Undead, MI:3 etc but again its mostly sequels and just people trying to squeeze more money out of dead ideas.

ok i will give you the undead movie "the evil dead" but i think tahts different because you ahve the origional director and writter of the origionals recapturing a new view on his movies. i just hope he does not hurt his undead legacy with this new one.

i do though, have to say that i am not 100% thrilled to hear hes doing the new grudge movie again. i somehwat enjoyed the first one but didnt think there was enogh for him to continue again. but rove me wrong RAIMI!!! pease