Is 2010 the Worst Movie Year Ever? →
Beautiful movie industry rant by Joe Queenan, on the WSJ.com:
What does it say about the current season that the third installation of “Toy Story” is better than the first installation of anything else? Or that people are actually looking forward to a sequel to the 1982 flop “Tron”? Does this mean that a sequel to “The Rocketeer” will soon be on the way?
He goes a bit overboard. But I agree with the essence: movies don’t blow your mind anymore, while Jurassic Park didn’t need an amazing plot because of the special effects, nowadays those effects are a dime a dozen. However, the plots are staying as stupid as ever.
Every time I leave the movie theater something similar to this pops into my head:
It says an awful lot about the industry that the most intelligent movies being released today are animated films like “Alice in Wonderland” and “Toy Story 3.”
How come Pixar can do movies that are entertaining for children and adults? Yet movies just for adults are so dumb?
