Saddened by the current state of mainstream cinema? Yeah, me too. Crap, isn’t it? Shit ‘parody’ movies, stale, soulless action movies and Twilight. That’s Hollywood at the moment. I miss the days when it was awesome.
Well Golden Globe nominee Billy Bob Thornton has offered up one possible explanation. It’s not a drying up of creative talent. It’s not the money-driven industry’s need to rely on cookie cutter safe bets in an age of spiralling budgets and falling cinema attendance. It’s not even plain old fashioned corporate interference.
No, films are crap because they’re trying to be like video games. And video game narrative is just about men shooting shit up, right? Follow me over the jump, where I’ll take issue with his comments. …