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Trends of the 2000s: Was it a good movie time
06-11-12 | 01:40 PM
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Re: Trends of the 2000s: Was it a good movie time
Going back to the original post... other trends:
Found Footage - Blair Witch popularized this trend in 1999, but it really took off in the 2000s with Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, REC, Chronicle, Project X, and so on.
Japanese Horror Remakes - With the success of The Ring, there was a flood of these. The Grudge, The Eye, Dark Water, etc.
Nihilistic Horror - There was a big rise of increasingly bleak and violent horror films aimed at the mainstream, some time after the Japanese trend started to fade out. Saw, Hostel, High Tension, Hills Have Eyes, The Strangers, Funny Games, to name a few. The term 'torture porn' is often used here, but I prefer 'nihilistic horror' to describe this trend as it's a bit broader in scope.
Found Footage - Blair Witch popularized this trend in 1999, but it really took off in the 2000s with Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, REC, Chronicle, Project X, and so on.
Japanese Horror Remakes - With the success of The Ring, there was a flood of these. The Grudge, The Eye, Dark Water, etc.
Nihilistic Horror - There was a big rise of increasingly bleak and violent horror films aimed at the mainstream, some time after the Japanese trend started to fade out. Saw, Hostel, High Tension, Hills Have Eyes, The Strangers, Funny Games, to name a few. The term 'torture porn' is often used here, but I prefer 'nihilistic horror' to describe this trend as it's a bit broader in scope.
06-11-12 | 08:32 PM
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Re: Trends of the 2000s: Was it a good movie time
I think the 2000s were akin to the 90s. There was a lot of good stuff amidst a whole bunch of shit. In many ways the 2000s is a continuation of the 90s in that, unlike the 70s, the directors who debuted in the 90s were not rattling off masterpieces like the big guns in the 70s were (Coppola in the 70s is unmatched).
What made the 70s so special, aside from the fact that the industry was on its head and you had filmmakers running the show, was that there was a A LOT of production from A LOT of quality filmmakers all happening at the same time (Ashby, Scorsese, Coppola, De Palma, Altman, etc). But, by the time the 90s and 00s rolled around, filmmakers were working at a much more deliberate pace. Tarantino released 3 films in the 90s plus his contribution to Four Rooms. PTA released 4, but his best film was released in the 00s.
Another huge difference is that the 90s thru today is still working off the 80s model that was ushered in by the success of Star Wars, Jaws, and to an extent The Godfather (opening films wide). The film industry has always been a business, but after the 70s it turned into a corporation. Small films are no longer allowed to generate a following. It is all smash and grab releasing now anyhow.
The only thing I think the 90s really beats the 00s in is the indie scene. The 90s had a much more fruitful indie scene (yielded all the big names like Tarantino, PTA, etc) whereas the 00s indie scene is basically just another genre unto itself, a bunch of films that are no longer independent in financing, but in aesthetic. Indie has become a genre unfortunately.
And of course, we can probably generate top 10, 20, 50, etc lists for each decade just fine (well, maybe not the higher numbers for the 80s), but I don't think there is a discernible top level quality difference between the 90s and 00s like there is between the 70s and the decades that followed.
What made the 70s so special, aside from the fact that the industry was on its head and you had filmmakers running the show, was that there was a A LOT of production from A LOT of quality filmmakers all happening at the same time (Ashby, Scorsese, Coppola, De Palma, Altman, etc). But, by the time the 90s and 00s rolled around, filmmakers were working at a much more deliberate pace. Tarantino released 3 films in the 90s plus his contribution to Four Rooms. PTA released 4, but his best film was released in the 00s.
Another huge difference is that the 90s thru today is still working off the 80s model that was ushered in by the success of Star Wars, Jaws, and to an extent The Godfather (opening films wide). The film industry has always been a business, but after the 70s it turned into a corporation. Small films are no longer allowed to generate a following. It is all smash and grab releasing now anyhow.
The only thing I think the 90s really beats the 00s in is the indie scene. The 90s had a much more fruitful indie scene (yielded all the big names like Tarantino, PTA, etc) whereas the 00s indie scene is basically just another genre unto itself, a bunch of films that are no longer independent in financing, but in aesthetic. Indie has become a genre unfortunately.
And of course, we can probably generate top 10, 20, 50, etc lists for each decade just fine (well, maybe not the higher numbers for the 80s), but I don't think there is a discernible top level quality difference between the 90s and 00s like there is between the 70s and the decades that followed.
