Hollywood Sucks Because of Video Games
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Straight from the mouth of Bad Santa: Hollywood is making “the worst movies ever” because of video games, and those of us who like them. Commence simmering hatred.
In an article in the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph, Billy Bob Thornton had this to say about movies and video games:
“We’re living in a time when we’re making – in my humble opinion – the worst movies in history.
“They’re geared toward the videogame-playing generation. And these videogames, which I’m on my son about constantly, these games are people killing for fun, and I think traditionally in movies, there’s always been some kind of lesson in the violent movies.”
Oh.
Apparently, his new movie Faster, featuring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is a complicated revenge tale in which a murderer gets out of prison and goes on a killing spree. Supposedly, it’s a lot deeper than a video game.
He also said this:
“Most movies are about vampires and 3-D or fantasy movies and war eagles and all these kinds of things, or whatever they are.”
Sounds like Mr. Thornton (star of such beloved gems as Mr. Woodcock, the aforementioned black comedy Bad Santa, in which he has sex with overweight women in changing rooms of department stores, and the cinematic national treasure Armageddon) has never played a video game — nor, for that matter, been exposed to a movie outside of TV commercials for the last decade.
Nobody tell him about the World of Warcraft movie. Or the (maybe) Halo movie. Or the Uncharted movie.
http://news.filefront.com/billy-bob-thornton-hollywood-sucks-because-of-video-games/
In an article in the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph, Billy Bob Thornton had this to say about movies and video games:
“We’re living in a time when we’re making – in my humble opinion – the worst movies in history.
“They’re geared toward the videogame-playing generation. And these videogames, which I’m on my son about constantly, these games are people killing for fun, and I think traditionally in movies, there’s always been some kind of lesson in the violent movies.”
Oh.
Apparently, his new movie Faster, featuring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is a complicated revenge tale in which a murderer gets out of prison and goes on a killing spree. Supposedly, it’s a lot deeper than a video game.
He also said this:
“Most movies are about vampires and 3-D or fantasy movies and war eagles and all these kinds of things, or whatever they are.”
Sounds like Mr. Thornton (star of such beloved gems as Mr. Woodcock, the aforementioned black comedy Bad Santa, in which he has sex with overweight women in changing rooms of department stores, and the cinematic national treasure Armageddon) has never played a video game — nor, for that matter, been exposed to a movie outside of TV commercials for the last decade.
Nobody tell him about the World of Warcraft movie. Or the (maybe) Halo movie. Or the Uncharted movie.
http://news.filefront.com/billy-bob-thornton-hollywood-sucks-because-of-video-games/
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No, it's the suits and cash that have ruined film, specially when studios would rather produce constant remakes or utter ? like Bad Santa instead of pushing more creativity, talent and better ideas. No wonder his son would rather play a video game instead of watch his own dad star in another shitfest of a film, this time staring The Rock
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The story lines and story telling in most games IE Uncharted, Bioshock, Black ops, are better than most movies
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The story lines and story telling in most games IE Uncharted, Bioshock, Black ops, are better than most movies
word...hollywood writers are running out of ideas. thats why the movies suck and thats why the mask everything with 3d now a days. -
He's just made he's making movies with The Rock now.
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His new film makes The Expendables look like an introspective character study. He needs to shut the ? up. Money says dude stars in a ? video game flick within the next 5 years.
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all the fuvkin remakes,sequels, and adaptations are killing hollywood. think of the last truly original movie you saw.
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i play vids and think 95% of the movies that come out today are ? .
suck a ? billy bob. -
The story lines and story telling in most games IE Uncharted, Bioshock, Black ops, are better than most movies
Metal gear solid is the best movie franchise since lord of the rings -
i play vids and think 95% of the movies that come out today are ? .
suck a ? billy bob.
LOL @ the Avi. but yeah my grandma calls him bill joe bob -
you could flip it around and say hollywood is killing videogames.
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lol, Thornton is reaching really far with this statement. Plenty of good movies are being released. It’s really up to the creativity of the developers of the movies. Also, Hollywood is not really taking chances on unknown or ambitious films like they used to. They’re relying on the same directors to do movies.
