Georgy Zhukov Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Jurassic World is definitely going to hit $600 million in the US. Only three other films have achieved this and Titanic has been the sole holder for over 10 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan H. Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 (edited) But I ain't ever gonna be ashamed of American cinema... Because sorry, America makes the best movies.Bold statement right there. I have nothing against American cinema, I love it, I dig it, I buy it but I disagree with what you said.I dunno if I mean 'the best' literally, as in if you rated countries quality to quantity output and somehow made it objective, America would be #1.I was just purposfully exaggerating to retaliate.But we sure do make a lot of good movies, and have a lot of fantastic directors, actors, and producers. Edited July 1, 2015 by Dan H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 “Cinema killed theatre; television killed cinema; and the Internet has killed television,”And video killed the radio star. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 But I ain't ever gonna be ashamed of American cinema... Because sorry, America makes the best movies.Bold statement right there. I have nothing against American cinema, I love it, I dig it, I buy it but I disagree with what you said.I dunno if I mean 'the best' literally, as in if you rated countries quality to quantity output and somehow made it objective, America would be #1.I was just purposfully exaggerating to retaliate.But we sure do make a lot of good movies, and have a lot of fantastic directors, actors, and producers.Today? No way. Not even close. American cinema would not even make a top five list. At various points in history (e.g. 1970s, 1940s) you might argue otherwise but not today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Oh my god, Diesel, just shut up!Hollywood movies that are really good or critically acclaimed in the past 10 years?The Avengers, Spider-Man 2, Toy Story 3, Casino Royal, Skyfall, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Up, Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Trek, The Dark Knight, District 9, Interstellar, Avatar, Inception, Looper, Wreck it Ralph, Wall-E, Gravity, Guardians of the Galaxy... Actually District 9 is a South African film, Casino Royal/Skyfall are British films, Mad Max is technically an Australian film. Just saying!Again, I guess it comes down to what you define as "Hollywood" since all three those movies were produced by American companies in LA.Although yeah, for the most part those movies are shot on location and feature mostly foreign actors and directors.Actually again the Bond films were produced by Eon a British company and Mad Max was by 2 different Australian companies. District 9 technically yes, 1 of the 4 companies credited with producing it was American (QED International). You're confusing local distributors with production.Anyway my point only was that not all of those were American films, most people tend not to differentiate English speaking films by country.I know they are not always the most reliable of sources but both Wikipedia and IMDB have Skyfall's Country of origin listed as both UK and USAhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 It depends on how you look at it. Distributor=American. Producer=British but founded by a couple of yanks. Main character and main actor= British. Director=British. Filmed at=Britain (et al). Anglo-American seems apt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Who Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Fun fact: Harrison Ford was Spielberg's first choice for the role of Alan Grant in the original film but Ford turned it down, not wanting to be typecast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 My all time favorite movies are American. I don't mind stupid movies, I simply don't watch them. Blockbusters are fun from time to time. I'll take a fun blockbuster over any pretentious hipster Iranian movie some bearded iPhone users masturbate to. For example, I knew Teenage Mutant hooray for tolerance! Turtles would piss me off because Michael Bay... So I never watched it and never will. Justin Bieber doesn't annoy me because I have no idea how his songs sound like and so on. And don't blame the big corporations and pop artists for making people more stupid. People in general are naturally stupid and have zero interest in improving.Sorry for the off topic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 I think people are stupider now than many moons ago. William Pitt the Younger knew Latin and Greek by the time he was 7. By 14 he was learning philosophy, classics and history. By 24 he was Prime Minister. I have a theory that the last sixty years in western culture - really since the 1960s 'Americanised' generation of vacuous pop stars and gormless celebrity - dumbness has been advocated as a desirable human trait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 I think people are stupider now than many moons ago. William Pitt the Younger knew Latin and Greek by the time he was 7. By 14 he was learning philosophy, classics and history. By 24 he was Prime Minister. I have a theory that the last sixty years in western culture - really since the 1960s 'Americanised' generation of vacuous pop stars and gormless celebrity - dumbness has been advocated as a desirable human trait.Have you seen the film Idioacracy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 I think people are stupider now than many moons agoYes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlisOld Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Lol "stupider" and "Americanized" in same post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 'Americanized' is itself an Americanism. Americanised old boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlisOld Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 (edited) 'Americanized' is itself an Americanism. Americanised old boy.Still doesn't make you any less of a douche for constantly saying it. Should we apologize for leaving the extraneous "u" out of words like labor, favorite, and color? Tell us more about things that are "so American," but please hurry, it's been almost 9 minutes and I haven't worshipped the Kardashians or shoved McDonalds into my big fat face yet, was too busy cleaning my guns. Edited July 15, 2015 by AxlisOld 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 So about Jurassic World... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlisOld Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 So about Jurassic World...It's so American. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan H. Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Yeah it's American bullshit. Just like Velveeta. Fuck America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 'Americanized' is itself an Americanism. Americanised old boy.Still doesn't make you any less of a douche for constantly saying it. Should we apologize for leaving the extraneous "u" out of words like labor, favorite, and color? Tell us more about things that are "so American," but please hurry, it's been almost 9 minutes and I haven't worshipped the Kardashians or shoved McDonalds into my big fat face yet, was too busy cleaning my guns.Diesel is just being butt hurt in this thread for some reason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron MikeyJ Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Fucking America, making movies people enjoy and go see by the millions. What the fuck?? The nerve... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Fucking America, making movies people enjoy and go see by the millions. What the fuck?? The nerve...You are missing my point. Shite movies created for a population (and I am including countries other than the United States) acclimatised for shite standards. There seems to be a culture of disregarding cinematic derivatives (reboots, remakes, endless sequels), poor acting, badly conceived scripts and terrible CGI as mere, ''popcorn enjoyable entertainment''. There has been a lowering of standards there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Jurassic World has now surpassed The Avengers as the third highest grossing film of all time (not adjusting for inflation).Holy shit, who saw that coming?Can you imagine what The Force Awakens is going to do? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Jurassic World Sequel Coming in 2018 http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/07/23/jurassic-world-sequel-coming-in-2018? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Jurassic World Sequel Coming in 2018 http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/07/23/jurassic-world-sequel-coming-in-2018?Sweet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Fucking America, making movies people enjoy and go see by the millions. What the fuck?? The nerve... You are missing my point. Shite movies created for a population (and I am including countries other than the United States) acclimatised for shite standards. There seems to be a culture of disregarding cinematic derivatives (reboots, remakes, endless sequels), poor acting, badly conceived scripts and terrible CGI as mere, ''popcorn enjoyable entertainment''. There has been a lowering of standards there.There have been bad movies since the beginning of film. We just remember the classics and forget about all the crap. Just like your example above. You hold one guy from hundreds of years ago as the norm. Simply not the case. His neighbor probably had an IQ of 85. At the end of the day the best things about entertainment choices is just that. Choices. If you think something looks dumb - then don't do see it. I'm personally stoked to live in an age where we have such a huge variety of movies to choose from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Jurassic World has now surpassed The Avengers as the third highest grossing film of all time (not adjusting for inflation).Holy shit, who saw that coming?Can you imagine what The Force Awakens is going to do?I do not doubt it. Unless the film turns out to be shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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