[lbo-talk] why movies suck

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 17 12:07:04 PST 2009


At 11:51 AM 11/17/2009, Dwayne Monroe wrote:


>If you stay up long enough and watch enough 20th century fare -- TCM's
>catalog covers every decade of that fiery period -- you begin to
>notice something: a lot of movies weren't very special.

What's special is even the bad ones are grist for the mill. Cindy Sherman watched movies on tv all the time when she was a kid. 20 or 30 years later you get her Film Stills.

Trashy novels, trashy movies, anything's good in a pinch. Who loves reading product labels? Raise your hand!


>What was it RKO execs advertised after kicking Orson out of the
>studio? "Showmanship, not genius"? Yeah, sometimes that's the ticket
>jabrone.

Writers in Old Hollywood used to wax philosophical about creating a new art form. Somehow they forgot people had been writing a long time before the movies. The ones who were really creating a new art form were the execs.



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