Steve M.
07-07-2005, 08:51 PM
American cinema is considered the best in the world, which of course, is a crock. It was the best cinema in the world until the big studios assumed more control ofver the studios to make bigger and more spectacular blockbusters with no artistic value for maximum profits.
The period between the late sixties and the late seventies was consdiered Hollywood's last golden age for movies like Bonnie and Clyde, Midnight Cowboy, Medium Cool, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, M*A*S*H, Chinatown, The God Father, Save the Tiger, The Conversation, Taxi Driver, and others. So which movie ended this era? Here are aome choices:
Jaws, because it kicked off a wave (no pun intended) of summer blockbusters.
Star Wars, because it kicked of f an era of movies with overraliance with special effects.
National Lamppon's Animal House, because it led to the following - scatological teen movies, scatological frat-boy movies, movies starring "Saturday Night Live" alumni, and John Landis flicks.
National Lampoon's Vacation, because it gave the films screenwriter, John Hughes, carte blanche to make all of those self-important suburban Chicago-based upper-middel-class teens angst movies.
Rocky II, because it created the moron movie genre and ensured Sylvester Stallons a place in movie history - and let to awful movies whose titles all end in Roman numerals. (In the orignal Rocky, Rocky Balboa did not defeat Apoolo Creed, but Rocky II allowed him to beat him in a rematch and then beat his opponents in Rocky III and Rocky IV turning him from a lovable South Philly boy into an invincible cartoon.)
What'sa your vote? :D
The period between the late sixties and the late seventies was consdiered Hollywood's last golden age for movies like Bonnie and Clyde, Midnight Cowboy, Medium Cool, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, M*A*S*H, Chinatown, The God Father, Save the Tiger, The Conversation, Taxi Driver, and others. So which movie ended this era? Here are aome choices:
Jaws, because it kicked off a wave (no pun intended) of summer blockbusters.
Star Wars, because it kicked of f an era of movies with overraliance with special effects.
National Lamppon's Animal House, because it led to the following - scatological teen movies, scatological frat-boy movies, movies starring "Saturday Night Live" alumni, and John Landis flicks.
National Lampoon's Vacation, because it gave the films screenwriter, John Hughes, carte blanche to make all of those self-important suburban Chicago-based upper-middel-class teens angst movies.
Rocky II, because it created the moron movie genre and ensured Sylvester Stallons a place in movie history - and let to awful movies whose titles all end in Roman numerals. (In the orignal Rocky, Rocky Balboa did not defeat Apoolo Creed, but Rocky II allowed him to beat him in a rematch and then beat his opponents in Rocky III and Rocky IV turning him from a lovable South Philly boy into an invincible cartoon.)
What'sa your vote? :D