"Riffing off the "sadistic" thread... Just curious about what genre, topic or themes interest people around here. Yeah, lots of us can say: "Anything that doesn't suck.", etc. But are there specific ideas/stories that you're drawn to? And if it hasn't been done, what would you LIKE to see explored? That's still pretty general... Feel free to expand on the question."
Movies with great soundtracks. Saturday Night Fever, Close Encounters, Godfather, Rocky, even Titanic. Great sounds and spectacular photography. But Im a plex junkie and alot of it has to do with how you see the movie (Screen > TV) We need new directors that see to the horizon and go for it. Its a shame Anthony Mengela died so young. No Country For Old Men had no music, which is basically avante garde and for the Coen Nerds it worked.
I think the Scorsese way is the lazy way. Its cool, no doubt. But it is Lazy and standing on the shoulders of chain smoking rock stars that weigh less than 110lbs is kinda weaksauce. But of course, I'll take all I can get, same for QT. What I dont need, is Deniro and Pacino doing Borscht Belt. Or Indy with a girl that looks like Harrison Fords girlfriends mom. I dont need Eagle Eye but will think about more Disturbia.
As for Saw and Hostel. Well whats next? Snuff is already on cable news. Not for me. I want fake. I couldnt take watching Willis McGahee get taking off the football field again in an Ambulance last sunday. I turned it off. Or any real injury for that matter. I cant watch skateboard out takes of boys slipping and smashing their balls on railings. Or sports injuries like twisted knees. But I do like it if its fake. Like Saw or Hostel or TCM.
I closing, Don't let the DP have the camera on sticks at 5' 10". Find somebody that can make great music, and edit it all together. Lose the credits. That would be GREEN, we all have IMDB now anyway and its way more user friendly than scroll. Save the film. Look it up. Be a nice way for Google or somebody to throw around money. Instead of credits. The movie ends. Fade to black for about 5 seconds, and then Pixar or whoever makes the Geico Gecco could have a character that came out and told everybody to go look the credits up and get a coupon or whatever...
Oranse
"Oh yeah, and lets get Union
Projectionists back!"