2011 - the year Hollywood runs out of ideas...

[acroyear]

Sony Announces 'Men in Black 3'! - Cinematical:

Are you excited for a new Men in Black movie? Did you dig the first two? Which project are you looking forward to the most: Ghostbusters 3, Men in Black 3, Spider-Man 4 or Where Have All The Original Ideas Gone?

The one exception in all this? Pixar with The Bear and the Bow. But even Pixar wonn't dodge the sequel bandwagon forever (Toy Story 2 I almost don't consider a sequel in that most of the plot was written for Toy Story 1), as we know of Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, and a Monsters 2 may be on the storyboards...

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[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

now match that against the top-20 grossing movies of 2008 and you'll discover something terribly wrong with our culture today...

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

Here's the list (from this random website, and yes, there are very few "originals" in there. What's really sad is that only 2 of the best pic noms made it -- people simply don't want to see quality, they want to see pretty colors and things going "boom!"

The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Hancock
WALL-E
Kung Fu Panda
Twilight
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Quantum of Solace
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
Sex and the City
Gran Torino
Mamma Mia!
Marley and Me
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Slumdog Millionaire
The Incredible Hulk
Wanted
Get Smart
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

The problem with a bunch of the best picture nominations is that they don't get the publicity push that Momma Mia! got AND they don't get the number of screens. There have been several times when we've wanted to go to the movies and all that was offered at the theatres we go to are either 'popular' movies that we are not interested in or movies we have already seen. I did see most of the ones on your list but some were fairly late into the game (Button, Slumdog). I think that Slumdog was shown on more screens after the Oscars than at any point prior (no I don't have data to back this up).

For example I understand "Every Little Step" is a good movie but it played 1 week in Annapolis and I couldn't easily make it that 1 week. The week before or after and I would have.

We really should try to see more of the non-mega-blockbusters that seem to come through the one theatre. Just to support the small films.

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

If I got out to the theaters more often, I'd probably support the local art house theater more, that is if they carry what I want to see.

Personally, I think a lot of the pictures that are Oscar fodder aren't nessicarily the "best pictures" but are the type that would get nominated for those awards. There seems to be a artistic prerequisite for some of these pictures. Some are rightly passed over as the critics figure out that a particular film isn't really that great despite fitting the formula, but a lot get through. There are plenty which might have been considered great for the moment, but doesn't have long-term staying power.

I also expect that pop fare will be at the top of the list, and I don't have a problem with that. Fact is, even the best of the "art house" films won't attract a large audience because of their nature. I expect the films above to attract the LCD and that's fine. Most of the above were pretty decent flicks that probably deserved the box office that they got.

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

Speaking of "art house" movies, I love that Fox has a division (Searchlight) that focuses on distribution of smaller films. I've never seen a Searchlight film that I didn't really like.