Today, I was at the McDonalds drive-thru getting my morning coffee, when some guy slammed into the back of my car. I'm so happy I was holding the cup between my legs at that very moment, because now I have 2nd degree burns on my lady parts. FML
Has anyone actually had this happen to them? I have yet to spill something that hot on anything important, but it must really suck.
I know, it's terribly sad. Who can fight against nature?
Seriously, I have no idea how anyone can be bulimic. I hate throwing up. Who would want to do that all the time? I mean at least with anorexia you don't have to end up in a bathroom every day.
6. Titanic - 1997 7. Jaws - 1975 9. The Exorcist - 1973 10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 1937
These may be good films... but great. No sir.
And moving pictures didn't start as an art form they started as a novelty that some over time turned into an art form, but films are still driven by novelty.
These are all movies that pushed the envelope by doing something new. Titanic with CGI crowds, Jaws with animatronics, the Exorcist in a thousand different ways for the horror genre, and Snow White with the combination of animation and miniatures (not to mention being the first full-length animated movie ever).
Point being, these aren't films that are playing it safe. They're doing things that haven't been done before for film. So they're actively going out and often inventing new things to make it happen. Even if the film as a whole isn't exceptional, people still went out in droves to see something genuinely new.
I mean, what point are we trying to make here? That we should accept how many shitty films get churned out every year? That there's nothing wrong with spending millions to please the lowest common denominator?
That there's nothing wrong with spending millions to please the lowest common denominator?
A necessary evil is what I'm saying.
There wouldn't be a film industry without these films being released every year, and when something is truly exceptional, it pushes the medium as a whole forward but without that bankroll behind it it would have been abandoned and dismissed as a fad long ago. The great films legitimized it, the stream of profit building mindless entertainment sustained it. out of the thousands of films made every year, and the hundreds that get wide release, maybe 5 out of an entire decade film making can be considered leaps forward.
Ok, this particular film made a billion dollars one year and pushes the medium forward... toward an industry that makes 65 billion every year.
Saw that before South Park.....and goddamn was that a good South Park. It was one angle I've personally wondered if they'd ever cover, considering that I myself have never used the word 'fag' towards a gay person, but instead towards douchebags.
Jaws was good because of the dialogue... and not much else. The pacing and tension did not age well in my opinion. Still a very good film, not great though.
Especially if they bomb and cause an even bigger problem.
