Open Question: What if they did make 'em like they used to?
What type of movie are you missing these days?
Yesterday, Scott reviewed Crime 101, a new thriller starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and many, many others. Scott described as inspired by Heat. It's less ambitious but pretty satisfying anyway. If I were to paraphrase his review it would be something like "It's meat and potatoes, but what meat, and what potatoes!" That we're not in a movie environment rich in meat-and-potatoes crime movies probably made it look even better. It's the type of movie that doesn't get made that often anymore, at least for theatrical release. So, to follow up on that thought, what sort of movie are you missing these days? It's a familiar lament, sure, but while I was watching Is This Thing On? I found myself wishing there were more adult dramas being made. (And that they were better than the extremely OK Is This Thing On?) It feels like we might someday look back on this time as a moment when our best actors only rarely got to appear in movies that used them to their fullest potential. Watching Shoot the Moon recently only drove this point home for me. Here are Diane Keaton and Albert Finney just mixing it up in one complex scene after another. There just aren't many contemporary equivalents, particularly between the months of January and September. What sort of movie are you missing these days?
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