I saw the trailer for Kong @ MirrorMask, and it looks great.
It is a Hollywood Christmas blockbuster, but it's made by a man who knows a thing or two about filmmaking...
The war for your dollars when Santa flies in is between
Narnia and Kong.
I saw the new DVD release for Oz, and like you cinemabon I'm very happy. (I didn't buy it but a friend of mine who goes to VFS did- we watched the whole thing in a 7-hour night).
The Wizard of Oz ranks very high in film history and it always will.
Movies like that just don't get made anymore.
Victor Fleming was an old master, a studio godhead in the 30's.
Spielberg worships him.
It's kinda hard to get cinephiles to give it up for films like Oz, GWTW or The Quiet Man.
Not manly enough?
Not cool enough?
Park it Chachi.
If you know cinema, if you REALLY claim to know, then you know that films like that (including Titanic) don't hold box-office records for nothing.
They tap into the collective psyche, and I understand the natural desire to mock or snicker at them. Those filmmakers "took the easy BIG way out". So many other films and filmmakers deserve the attention...
It's easy to dismiss them-I'm prone to doing it all the time- but when the dust settles, people like Cameron and Victor Fleming have achieved something quite substantial.
James Cameron is far from my favorite filmmaker, but he's done it all, like Oliver Stone. Oscars, world-renowned fame- I just talked to a guy from the Phillpines at the Amsterdam cafe who's favorite film is Scarface. But not for Brian DePalma- for OLIVER STONE. He knew that Stone wrote that script! We talked about how great a director Stone is and how he loves van- his first time in this city. That's what it's all about.
Cinema speaks to people all over the globe.
People respond to big movies, no matter how empty they are.
Star Wars, LOTR, Spy Kids, Harry Potter. Even Scooby-Doo.
These types of movies will always have a wide audience and will always make scads of money.While people like Larry Kent, Stan Brakhage and Chris Marker remain known only to serious film students.
If I only had a brain
"Set the controls for the heart of the Sun" - Pink Floyd
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