Quality of the movies (now and then)

[Ken Finch]

I wonder if those endless profanities in films contributed the use of them in so much every day conversation one hears today. The use of the F word completely out of context for example. With regard to my previous post. There has never been the opportunity to be able to watch so many films in our home cinemas as we have today at such low cost. The thing we have lost is the personal involvement in getting the image onto the screen that we had with cine film projection. It is the satisfaction of mastering the skills involved. Ken Finch.😊

[Joerg Polzfusz]

… and Shakespeare used them all….

…not to mention that Shakespeare is also guilty of creating remakes. E.g. his „Romeo and Juliet“ is only a remake (okay: with some adaptations) of Ovid‘s „Pyramus and Thisbe“ (with Ovid also only recycling existing stories/ideas).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramus_and_Thisbe

[Alan Myers]

Joerg, looking at the amount of remakes in the film industry, I dont think it's quite the same

Ken, I agree with you on the profanities, it's ok to use any filthy language you want nowadays, sadly, to here it coming out of a pretty woman's mouth just makes it even worse, and i think those who use it in the everyday use in normal conversation shows how ill educated some people are, especially those who use it in front of their own children in the home. Nothing surprises me anymore, BUT, dare use one certain word, and your the scum of the earth, even in jest.
Another part of the problem with movies today is the over use of CGI, once that was created, so many film makers over used it they just look ridiculous.
Mike summed it up earlier, Hollywood have an agenda to fulfil, the brainwashing has to continue so movies have to have a certain amount of this and that, film makers no longer have the ability to make films THEY want unless it conforms to the BS Hollywood put out. All your going to get now is the trash we see constantly, the days of the big ques around the cinemas are gone, the days when you knew one of your favourites actors films is coming out so you looked forward to going to see it are just about gone, the public are instead fed a banquet of BS for the woke audiences of today to consume and feed the mind with rubbish. You get an occasional decent movie now but they are few and far between. I use to look forward to the James Bond movies, but after the last one I wont be bothering again.
Anyone ever watch those American crime drama's? The ones that go one forever, series 50 episode 40, that type of crap? Every episode has the exact agenda, it's always the perfect shaped well made up woman, (often a single parent) leading the men behind her when they go in to get the villain and save the day, she's usually all made up and looking good while the guys behind her are all kitted up but half of them are still taken down before the foul mouthed lady saves the policeman from the baddie just in the nick of time. The budgets are there but quality is just as lame as todays cinema.

[Brian Fretwell]

…not to mention that Shakespeare is also guilty of creating remakes. E.g. his „Romeo and Juliet“ is only a remake (okay: with some adaptations) of Ovid‘s „Pyramus and Thisbe“ (with Ovid also only recycling existing stories/ideas).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramus_and_Thisbe

ANd, of course, a truncated performance of "The most tragic tale of Pyramus and Thisbe" was a play in a play in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"