Movies Today.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was on TV today. Such an amazing good movie. The music was great, used in the correct scenes and more importantly whenever there was an emotional scene it didn't cut in. Most movies today have strong music to cut in when there is an emotional scene, like we the audience are idiots and can't empathise or understand the situation/characters. Long and good takes. I could go on and on. My point is whatever happened to modern day movies? Seriously! Today we have over the top actors, always clean and perfect looking, even when they been through hell. I know I am ranting, but I think there is something wrong with todays movies, the last good movie I saw was (and when I say good I mean a real master piece) Jackie Brown.

If you haven't seen this movie yet, go do yourself a favour and rent it on dvd the next time you're having a movie night. It's a long movie, but it's well worth every second. Just like you owe yourself to watch these movies.

Bladerunner
Rashomon
Ran
Escape from New York
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
Carlito's Way
Deer Hunter
Once upon a time in the West
Jackie Brown
Das Boot

There are plenty of other movies, but these great movies often get overlooked. It beats the hell out of all the heavy CGI movies today (The modern movies are entertaining no doubt, but great cinema?).
Maybe I am just getting too old, ha ha.

Whenever I read the trivia on movies I like, it's quite often the case that the directors often have to struggle with the companies producing the movies. One good example is Star Wars (even though I don't consider myself a Star Wars fan), imagine if George Lucas couldn't convince the producers. The big movie companies needs to learn that great movies will be watched even if it isn't considered main stream material. A good example was how they screwed up Batman. The first and second Batman movies were ok, they had fantasy feeling to it (typical Tim Burton style), but it worked and both movies were successfull. But then the movie companies screw it over, thinking it's too dark and wants the next Batman to be more kid friendly (I would like to point out that Kids aren't stupid and can tell reality from fantasy and that I think they should watch movies like Kill Bill, Batman (But not dark movies like apocalypse now)). What followed were two awfull movies Batman forever and Batman and Robin.