Member since: July 29, 2009
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@bondgirl
"I'm afraid I have to disagree with jordanr. I think most movies these days are crap. We get a few good movies a year and the rest are not worth the time or money."
gotta reiterate, you're just watching the wrong movies if you think that. It's an understandable point of view if you're only willing to watch whatever the AMC theaters are playing, but anyone knowledgeable about foreign/indie film knows that today's as good as any cinematic era. I'm consistently amazed at the quality of some of the films released these days (including Assayas's SUMMER HOURS, playing recently at the Circle). If your experience of contemporary film is a poor one, dig deeper.
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"The more films I watch, the worse they, as a medium, seem to become."
People say this kind of thing, but whenever I hear it I just think "in that case you're watching the wrong movies." It's true that a lot of great theatrical experiences are inaccessible in Tulsa, despite the Circle's great efforts, but if I really had to choose between wasting money seeing "Year One" in the theater or watching the latest Apichatpong Weerasethakul film on video...well, it wouldn't be a choice at all. No one should limit themselves to the junk that gets mainstream American distribution and then complain about the poor quality of movies these days, when there's tons and tons of good stuff beyond the radar of what's profitable for theaters and distributors.
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