The best writers and directors are dead, e.g. Arthur Penn, Claude Chabrol and Blake Edwards died last year - 3 completely different directors who created completely different classics. A few days after Blake Edwards' death I watched The Pink Panther and The Party again and they're still brilliant today. Same goes for Penn's completely different Bonnie & Clyde and Alice's Restaurant.
Only a few of the best are still alive: Scorsese, Allen (legendary directors and Allen once was also a brilliant screenwriter, but both made their last excellent movies about 20 years ago). Maybe Lynch, but it seems he's completely nuts now.
That's why people have to hype all the mediocrity in movies out there. I watched the Oscar show last night, it was the most boring one I've ever seen. Uninteresting movies, bored and boring people. Lifeless and overhyped James Franco co-hosted with this pretty boring girl, who desperatley tried to be funny... No wonder 94 year-old Kirk Douglas easily stole the show and the audience sighed in relief when wax-face Billy Crystal appeared on stage for a few minutes.
My only personal highlight of the show was Randy Newman. Randy forever!
Christian Bale and all those skinny women starve their way to the oscar show.
If you're British and don't want to starve for an oscar like Bale or the other crazy one with the mad look in his eyes, Daniel Day-Lewis, just play a queen or a king and you will win the oscar by default and be called Dame or Sir at one of the next shows (Dench/Mirren/Firth next).
The directors, the writers? Make movies about Facebook guys, trapped climbers, wrestlers, boxers, lesbian couples. Theoretically you can make outstanding movies out of any topic, but how many of these movies will be called classics some day?
Even guys like the once original and brilliant Coen Brothers (I love Fargo, Miller's Crossing and The Big Lebowski) seem to be bored by their own "let's make another one about outsiders" trademark. I bet that most people who saw True Grit did not go to the cinema because they wanted to see this movie, but because they wanted to see Jeff Bridges in this role.
People in today's movie industry are not without talent, not at all, but most of them serve you the results with all their excellent technical routine, not with their heart.
This is the age of lack of blood. Vampires create movies about Vampires.
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