Tuesday, December 09, 2008

I'm Worried About the Future of Movies

A cartoon and a comic book are the "best" movies this year
. Doesn't bode well for adults who like movies.

I'm a curmudgeon.

4 comments:

robyn said...

If you are then I am too. Wall.e: cute but the most cynical movie I've seen in a very long time. Dark Knight: great crash/action scenes but only the most tentative forays into actual, non-cartoon humanity. Kids these days.

Greg said...

dark knight has great elements, but the whole is less than the sum.

is it too much to expect to see human faces in good dramas? i know i'm just being grumpy and there are counterexamples...

singhx said...

Let's not forget that the third goddamn Lord of the Rings movie swept -- SWEPT! -- the Oscars back in 2004. Unfortunately, this trend is neither recent nor on the verge of regressing...

robyn said...

Yeah, but the Lord of the Rings movies have strong and well developed humanity in them. Sure there is some stuff that is a little schmaltzy, but on the whole the character stories are Shakespeare instead of Marvel.