“You need a great team of writers, directors, production people and actors to make great movies.”
Unfortunately there are none left anymore, they have all gone the way of the Dinosaurs. Hollywood reminds me of the movie “Sunset Boulevard” where the movie industry as a whole is doing their best Norma Desmond imitation and the corpse in the pool represents everything that made motion pictures great under the old studio system-great stories, talented actors, superb directors, wonderful cinematographers and studio owners that understood that it was not their job to deliver messages but to entertain and make some cash.
I would rather watch paint dry then watch anything that comes out of Hollywood anymore, in fact I think watching the paint dry would be much more entertaining. The last movie I saw was that last Indiana Jones movie and I only went to be polite to my sister and her husband because they wanted to go see it and wanted me to come with. That was an hour and a half I will never get back-it was sheer crap. I could not tell you what any of the movies are currently at the theaters and I can only name two that have come out this year but I can tell you that do love a good movie and I am really looking forward to watching a movie this weekend. I finally bought a copy of a movie called “Kaidan” (or Kwaidan as it is called in the US) which once you have seen it you will never forget it. It is an anthology of Japanese “ghost stories” that is one of the most beautiful and haunting movies you will ever see.
