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Jul 20, 2017 - 5:04 PM
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Solium
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And this is exactly the problem. Their directed by "fans" who get to live out they're fantasy of doing fan fics as adults. Lucas took inspiration from classic literature and serials and created something new and original. Today's directors have nothing new to offer and only put they're personal stamp on someone else's creation.
Uh, how the hell is this any different from Lucas smashing together bits and pieces of Flash Gordon, John Carter, John Ford Westerns and Kurosawa samurai flicks? Star Wars is a great film, but it's nothing but fanboy pastiche, and those who grouse about modern-day filmmakers doing the same thing are hypocrites.
Wow, never looked at it that way before and you have an EXCELLENT point. What this boils down to is this: as in previous generations before us and those after us, the "current state of" whatever is not as good as the one preceding it, for one reason or another. Either the current generation of artists are dumb, uninspired, or hacks, stealers of other peoples work.
In other words: if you say it or feel it, just admit it: you're getting old and are starting to sound like or become like you dad/mother. 
It's not just a generational thing. That's a cop out. I like good films regardless of the decade they were produced. The art of film-making has been in a decline for decades and that's objectively speaking. And it's not just films, its music and books as well. I think the bottom line is, most people don't care about the "art", only that they are monumentally amused. Studio's discovered they just have to hit the right beats, and the majority of the audience will eat it up. What we have nowadays is junk food cinema. That's fine if you love eating Big Macs everyday!
While I agree with you, solium, I am afraid to say that, by its very nature and definition, the ART of film making is entirely SUBJECTIVE in its decline, not OBJECTIVE. There is no empirical, physical evidence that shows art is in decline. It is simply opinion. Granted, that is opinion I agree with, but it is still opinion.
Art has rules believe it or not. Would you shoot a film where you only showed people from the knees down? Or is that subjective? There's a right way and wrong way of setting up a shot. Then again we have the new Star Wars promo posters! LOL
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Jul 20, 2017 - 10:18 PM
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Khan
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And this is exactly the problem. Their directed by "fans" who get to live out they're fantasy of doing fan fics as adults. Lucas took inspiration from classic literature and serials and created something new and original. Today's directors have nothing new to offer and only put they're personal stamp on someone else's creation.
Uh, how the hell is this any different from Lucas smashing together bits and pieces of Flash Gordon, John Carter, John Ford Westerns and Kurosawa samurai flicks? Star Wars is a great film, but it's nothing but fanboy pastiche, and those who grouse about modern-day filmmakers doing the same thing are hypocrites.
What LeHah said. Today's directors don't create, they only copy.
Ok. Since you're so fond of hyperbole, solium, back it up.
Who does Terence Malick copy? Who does Edgar Wright copy? Who does Guillermo Del Toro copy? Who does Kathryn Bigelow copy? Who does Wes Anderson copy? What about David Lynch or Spike Lee or David Fincher or Werner Herzog or Steven Soderberg?
You're saying ALL these directors never create, they just copy? Good luck with that.
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Terrible news a remake of 1st blood.. its the only solid film in the franchise, why don't they direct a very similar film with a different name, to many directors R feasting like vampires. Bomb-out @ cinemas please.
They already did ! 'The Hunted'
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I love it how FSMers are able to "pick and choose" which women they'll "have."
As if! 
Hope springs eternal.
I'll take long hair, please.
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I think all men, if they still have their hair, should also grow flowing locks and enjoy shampooing those locks constantly, and then styling them day after day after day. I kind of think they would chop off those locks rather quickly.
Hey, long hair didn't bother Jerry Goldsmith, Kevin Sorbo, Fabio, and Sylvester Stallone.
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so cute.
