Cinema is Art ( Despite what Others Might Say)

      People tends to forget that cinema is an art form. There was something that James Cameron say about smaller movies that rub me the wrong way. What he say was smaller movies get forgotten and the movies he makes are for audience and for entertainment and will basically be remembered. Smaller movies do sometimes get forgotten but if the movie is great it is not forgotten. Avatar is suppose to be the future of cinema on how movies are made. Before Avatar was made and at least in the past 35+ years ago cinema still was an art. Those movies made money then Spielberg and Lucas decides to make these popcorn films which don't get me wrong are good movies. It is just that every big blockbuster take something from those movies and copy them. It is hard for an original movie to get made because they don't rip off Star Wars and any Spielberg movie. If it don't have those elements in those movies it don't get made. All I want is originality. The smaller movie tends to be original to say the least or told a different way.

         I don't want people to think I hate mainstream movies or special effects ladden films. I love them. It is just that there is more to film than just that. People forget that film need story and complex characters. A lot of movies these days don't have story or characters that you don't care about. like horror movies for example, there is your five basic charcters, the slut, the nerd, the jerk, the virgin girl, and the one guy who is believes to know what they are talking about. They are mostly one dimesional characters. The characters in horror movies should be more complex and the there should be more character development before they are killed off. Why do the killer have to be one dimensional? Why do they just have be drones without a solid purpose? Jason is what a retarded kid who drown? Freddy is a pedopilewho get killed by angry parents? Didn't he derserve that? That was just justice coming from the parents instead of the justice system that fail from time to time. I would probably do the same if I had a kid. I take that back I don't have to have a kid to kill a child killer. Anybody that kill a child is a piece of shit that don"t derserve to be walking on this planet. I know i got a little sidetracked there. Micheal Myers is just a psycho. Chucky is just a joke to me. I like those movies, but they have many flaws. I love the kills in those movies,but I tend to have an issue with the story.
      I think that all movie with special effects of mainstream movies should have story and character development in it. That would make a great film. Maybe the Academy would nominate more movie beside dramas if there was movie with story and complex characters. It is not like the Academy matters anyway since the nexWhat made Lord of the Rings work was character development and patience. Most of the main characters had a backstory or at least you had a sense of there is more to the characters what is on the surface. I like the slow moving horror movies that the first 45 minutes there is no kills or scares just yet. They sort of just happen to comes to a place or someone that just happens to be extraordinary than they are expected to come across. The characters would just have to deal with the situation. From Dusk til Dawn did this and it was good even if it did just turn into tits and guns fest fest. It added depth to the characters. That is all I am trying to trying to say. Cinema is going to continue to died if we do nothing about it.
       
  I know my taste in film might be different then most people. I am into more into foreign films than almost any other genre. I love drama. I love art house films. Federico Fellini is like one of my favorite director. My favorite directors are: Martin Scorsese, Christopther Nolan, Steven Soderbergh, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini. That list is in no particular order.  I love Zhang Yimou's movies they are so touching and moving unlike any movie that is made in America. America tend to have short attention spans so it wouldn't appeal to most movie goers. Americans tends to go for guns, nudity, explosions and no story like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I know I have mention that I hate Avatar. iI would I don't hate it, but it is not a great movie like people like to give credit to. The main reason is because it is a story that been told hundreds of times. It just happen to be in space. Avatar is the combination of Dances with Wolves and Ferngully. I don't mind movies that take ideas from other movie,but don't make it out to an original idea. Its not. People are saying that it is original must never seen those movies I have mention before. Cinema is art that people tend to not appreciate. I hope nobody take this wrong way by reading  this blog and think I am bashing mainstream Hollywood movies. I love most of them except remakes and Michael Bay movies.

Terrell's Favorite Movies of All Time.

Here is a list of movies that are favorite movies of all time. If you were wondering what type of movies Terrell like. I love quite a few different movies. Here is the list:

1. Ace in the Hole ( Billy Wilder)
2. Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( John Huston )
3. Citizen Kane (  Orson Welles )
4. Raging Bull ( Martin Scorsese )
5. Lord of the Rings Trilogy ( Peter Jackson )
6. 8 1/2 ( Fernando Fellini )
7. The Godfather Part II ( Francis Ford Coppola )
8. Taxi Driver ( Martin Scorsese ) 
9. Casablanca ( Michael Curtiz )
10. Before Sunrise/Before Sunset (tie) (Richard Linklater )

Your Favorite Movie Suck ( But it doesn't Matters)

This has been a long time since I wrote a blog. Everytime I say I will try to keep it more updated. I would guess maybe I don"t have nothing to say. Maybe if I got pay writing I would make sure I will keep updated. I have seen a lot of movies since the last time I wrote in this blog. I think I have a new favorite movie of all time. I will get back to that in a second.

       

          When someone normally asks me what is my favorite movie of all time. iI normally give out a stock answer depending who. If an average  movie watcher asks me, I would say "Lord of the Rings trilogy". Why do you ask? Mostly because it is an easy answer and those people know what it is and is fine when. When a cinepile ask me what is my favorite movie of all time, I would say "Citizen Kane". I know it is so cliche'. I have always thought it was a movie tht every person should see. It shows an American with a lot of ambition and how they change as they get more successful. Now I am going between two movies that is fighting for the top spot: John Huston's "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole". These movies show what men are willing to do to get or keep what they want. "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is about three men mining for gold and someone get greedy. The usual plot points that you see in these type of movie. This movie is the best that deal with all of those plot points"Ace in the Hole" was not well received when it was first released critically or commercially. Maybe it hit too close to home for a lot of people. The original title was "The Big Carnival".  It is about a cynical, disgraced reporter who stops at nothing to try to regain a job on a major newspaper. It is a biting examination of the seedy relationship between the press, the news it reports and the manner in which it is reported. It is still relevent in today society.

        When i say it was "Citizen Kane" as my favorite movie of all time, people would argued against my choice. Why get in an arguement about it? What is that going to solve? I will tell you what it will solve. Nothing. Movies speaks to the individual differently than the next person. If somebody sy their favorite movie is "Donnie Darko" for example, it didn't speak to me on any level. I think it is a terrible movie with some moments of good. It was just not the movie for me. It seems like there are people who want to be the one who is right. they normally think that everybody else is wrong with their choices. They are the same ones who hate things that everybody else loves. They think that they would be like everybody else if they like the same things. The truth is that you can like those same things for different reasons. Those people just want to feel superior. It is ridiculous if you asks me. When people are praising the movie, they just bash the movie. The reasoning on why the movie didn't work for them doesn't even make sense. I know this just turned into a rant. Sorry. Forgive me please.

The movie that you normally sticks with you are the ones that is important to you. My point is that no matter what your favorite movies are, it really just matters to yourself. Can we just let that person like that particular film. I don't see why we need to persuade that person to have a different opinion about that movie. We can have different opinions in this world. I know I love movies that a lot of people doesn't like. Maybe we should just keep it to ourselves for now on. Why do cinepiles make list for everything anyway? Maybe it is just to show people a list of things that we like.