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Originally Posted by Moejoe
You're right about that, it's too much to watch more than one, for fear of doing permanent injury. The wordplay and the anarchy in the Marx Brothers films is something approaching warp speed. You blink and you'll miss a joke or a funny little quip.
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...or eleven.
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Dialogue and story. That's all they had, they couldn't rely on whizbang effects or CGI to get that across. I'm not saying there haven't been great movies made since then, there have, but to me that period of film-making (I'd say up to the 70's) across the globe produced some of the finest talents.
What we seem to have now is endless comic-book movies with bigger and bigger explosions, tired serial-killer thrillers, torture-pornography horror, and unfunny comedies. There's been very little on release in the last five years that has drawn me to the cinema. And if I see one more remake I think I might give up altogether.  |
that's all they had, true, yet they managed to do so much with it !! i agree, cinema recently has seemed to become and more
stupid (and i mean that literally). we have amazing technology now but it can't hold a candle to a really well-crafted screenplay. and i think most of it is down to the writers. the screenwriters of course, but also they were often adapting books which were brilliant in their own right ; the thin man by dashiell hammett is a true gem, and chandler's the big sleep (well, everything he wrote !) is genius as well ! funny story about the big sleep ; during filming, at one point (i think it's when they fish the car out of the water) they called chandler because they realised they had no idea who had done it ; he said "it was the chauffeur" (or something), and they said "no, it can't be, he was dead" (again, details fuzzy... you get the idea). to which chandler replied, "well then i have no idea either." but the occasional hole in the plot didn't even matter.