Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Tuesday, September 06, 2005


MR. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH of TOENAIL.COM TYPES AGAIN:

[A]re "better movies" a realistic alternative for the New Hollywood? The most prolonged decline in Hollywood's history, from 1963 to 1973, in which the weekly audience dropped from 43.5 million to 16 million, was not stemmed by such critically acclaimed films as Mike Nichols' The Graduate, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, George Lucas' American Graffiti, George Cukor's My Fair Lady, and Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. More than $1.4 billion in theater admissions a year were lost. Nor would such quality movies bring in the popcorn consumers on whom the multiplexes now depend.

Given the RANK STUPIDITY of the moviegoing crowd we have no doubt that last sentence is true. Shrewdly MR. MOVIE ECONOMICS does not QUITE emptily echo the arrant idiot PETER BISKIND by citing a box-office decline despite GENIUS and including movies like My Fair Lady and Doctor Zhivago in his list from this particular PLATINUM AGE -- perhaps the real insiders have come to realize how much BISKIND'S TOTAL CW STINKS -- but in the sixties and early seventies there were surely far more BAD movies than in previous decades, owing to the growth of cheapie B-movie factories like American International. Today, the whole BIZ is B movies.

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