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'Hudson Hawk' got a mention the other day. A self basting turkey if ever there was.
There's plenty in the coppola canon that need erasing.
'Space truckers' is as bad as the title suggests.
'The blair witch project' was a one note effort, it capitalised on the new viral advertising the internet allowed, but it was rather ordinary. The sequels are criminal. All of them.
'Jaws: The revenge' was a cash grab abomination that finally dragged the corpse of the original into the depths.
Everything in steven seagal's portfolio except 'under siege'. Acts like he's 99% drowned.

Got me thinking about movie greats, De Niro will go into history as legend, but I'll remember him from 'Rocky and Bullwinkle'. So then I jumped to actors that have never made a turkey, and DDL comes to the fore, but I hated 'gangs of new york', it is nonsense.

To run a parallel, there's some angst (and rightly so) about evening games and how once such a fixture was a rare night game treat... well Bogart never got to lather off dross after crud because the studios didn't operate like that then, whereas now movie stars* can be in multiple films yearly so the chances of being involved in bad rubbish is a lot greater. The recent covid production line of sub standard efforts showed up that any old spite* will do, because the thirst for the new is greater than the thirst for quality.

Pick a film star, find their best and worst work. Suddenly the business shines before the art does. Can only bargain away credibility once.

That's a very Hollywood centric view of things, there is some brilliant non Hollywood films these days which are a lot more accessible than they used to be. Not just foreign language films, but british too with directors such as Lynne Ramsey (who Scorsese says is the best living film maker today) and Andrea Arnold making films with big actors like no one else. A lot of the bigger actors may be a bit more reserved today and that's fine, and a lot of them are British or Irish

You have filmmakers/actors risking their lives just to put a film together in places like Iran. Most of the Iranian director and actors for example, banned from the country or under house arrest so they filming these films in secret and sneaking themselves, the equipment etc in and out of the country

like all art forms, you have to move the slop out the way and there is loads of stuff. You wouldn't judge music on the tiktok charts so no need to judge films on comic book films
 
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Ah gutted, I'd misremembered...
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