What movies are you watching?

[Harry Lime]

Interesting, but a little scary.

Steven Spielberg: Film Industry Implosion Lies Ahead

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, two of the biggest filmmakers of all time, expect some massive upheaval in Hollywood as the division between TV and film content disappears. Spielberg even forecast that the film industry would "implode."

Both see changes in the way movies are made, the way content is distributed and to the business itself, they said during a panel discussion at University of Southern California's School for Cinematic Arts, where they are board members.

But Spielberg also said that it's like 2008 in the business again, with the market bottomed and on the way up. There has never been more exciting potential, he added.

Spielberg and Lucas expect consumers to watch more content, including movies and TV shows, on giant screens at home, as the separation between TV and film content disappears and theatrical releases are limited to fewer, big-budget films.

"There's going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen mega-budgeted movies go crashing into the ground, and that's going to change the paradigm again," Spielberg said.

Lucas predicted that the movie-going experience would become more of a luxury.

"You're going to end up with fewer theaters, bigger theaters with a lot of nice things," he said. "Going to the movies will cost 50 bucks or 100 or 150 bucks—like what Broadway costs today, or a football game."

He forecast that the movies that do make it to theaters will stay for a year, similar to the run of a Broadway show.

The two joked that they barely got their films "Lincoln" or "Red Tails" into theaters. Spielberg ribbed his friend that more people saw "Lincoln" than saw Lucas' "Red Tails" but admitted that it was a close call, adding that the presidential biopic almost ended up on Time Warner's HBO.

In the future environment, neither of those films would have made it into theaters but would have been available instead on the big screen in people's living rooms, in a new video-on-demand paradigm, they said.

In a building full of high-tech tools to help the next generation of filmmakers tell stories, Spielberg and Lucas had warnings for students.

First, technology should never be in the driver's seat, because the narrative is always the most important thing, they said.

"There is going to be a day when the experience is going to be the price of admission," Spielberg said. "What I fear about that day coming is that the experience will trump the story or the ability to compel people through a narrative. And it's going to be more of a ride, a theme park, than it is going to be a story, and that's what I hope doesn't happen.
.He doesn't want movies and TV to become too interactive. The best movie experiences are ones "where we lose control, and the movie and the images and the excitement is washing over us," Spielberg said.

But he seemed optimistic about entertainment's potential to be immersive. "We will be literally inside the experience, so the imagery will envelop us," he said. "You won't even sense you are in a chair. ... You'll totally be ... enrapt and drowning in images, and that is going to happen someday."

[VinylGuy]

Babydoll (1955)

Elia Kazan is now one of my top 5 favorite directors.

Yeah, he was great. On the watefront is one of my favorite movies from that era.

Have you seen A Face in the Crowd? Love it. That's what made me check out the rest of his stuff.

Nope..ill look for it later.

Your taste in cinema is superb, i might add.

[Jorge]

So, team what do we know/think about Tarkovsky's Nostalghia?

I don't know. My ass still hasn't seen Andrei Rublev

Is that one supposed to be better?

Apparently. I don't know.

It is, but they're both absolutely beautiful movies. I'd put Andrei Rublev right below The Mirror (Zerkalo) in my ranking of Tarkovsky flicks. Those are two great movies that I haven't revisited in quite some time. Every moment is charged with meaning.

[Harry Lime]

Babydoll (1955)

Elia Kazan is now one of my top 5 favorite directors.

Yeah, he was great. On the watefront is one of my favorite movies from that era.

Have you seen A Face in the Crowd? Love it. That's what made me check out the rest of his stuff.

Nope..ill look for it later.

Your taste in cinema is superb, i might add.

Aw shucks. You too.

So, team what do we know/think about Tarkovsky's Nostalghia?

I don't know. My ass still hasn't seen Andrei Rublev

Is that one supposed to be better?

Apparently. I don't know.

It is, but they're both absolutely beautiful movies. I'd put Andrei Rublev right below The Mirror (Zerkalo) in my ranking of Tarkovsky flicks. Those are two great movies that I haven't revisited in quite some time. Every moment is charged with meaning.

Oh one day, I'll watch both.

[dkfan9]

so i watched cosmopolis. loved it. lots of BS philosophy, but that added to the shallowness of it all, and the film's gravity relied on the omnipresent shallowness and indifference.

thinking about it now, there are some similarities to The Stranger

[Jorge]

Adam Leon's "Gimme the Loot". Pretty good.
Antonina Noyabrova's "Independence Day”. Still processing.

[darth_vedder]

Watched 'Life of Pi' recently. Really enjoyed this one. I didn't know anything about it going in, and the ending was pretty interesting. D_V gives it two thumbs up.

I watched 'Sky Fall' a last month, and it made me want to watch other Bond movies. I've seen like 6 of the 20 some odd films. People / Critics seem to think 'From Russia With Love' is one of the best, so I have that and may watch it this weekend. Has anyone seen it or most of the Bond flicks? What's the best Moore one?

[BurtReynolds]

I'm in a movie theater right now sitting through one God awful trailer after another. I may just leave.

a mustang commercial disguised as a movie, a harry potter/twilight rip, a goddamned adam sandler movie ( worst one yet!)... dark times

[epilogue]

GET OFF YOUR PHONE IN THE THEATER!!!

You're everything that's wrong with everything.

[Jorge]

GET OFF YOUR PHONE IN THE THEATER!!!

You're everything that's wrong with everything.

Why? It's the fucking trailers.

[dkfan9]

GET OFF YOUR PHONE IN THE THEATER!!!

You're everything that's wrong with everything.

Why? It's the fucking trailers.

team jorge

[Harry Lime]

It's toeing the line though. Besides, I like trailers.

[dkfan9]

It's toeing the line though. Besides, I like trailers.

depends on the trailer. Man of Steel trailer before Dark Knight Rises? Phones probably should be away. Jack and Jill or some other Adam Sandler shite? Text away.

[epilogue]

GET OFF YOUR PHONE IN THE THEATER!!!

You're everything that's wrong with everything.

Why? It's the fucking trailers.

team jorge

Fuck a whole lot of that.

Exactly why I loathe going to movie theaters anymore.

[Jorge]

Don't be so precious. It's the trailers. People are allowed to check their phones during the stupid trailers. Some places, the lights are only half-dimmed while the trailers are playing.

[Jorge]

omagaaaawd people are ruining my viewing experience of these commercials i can watch on youtube anytime omagaaaaaaaawd

[epilogue]

Right. But the problem is, that 9 times out of 10, the shitheads on their phones during the trailers, or talking during the trailers, don't stop when the trailers stop. Why do you even need to be on your phone in a movie theater?

omagaaaawd if I don't text and tweet every fucking second I'll explode and I paid my money just like you did why are you being such an asshole I'm entitled to do whatever during commercials omagaaaawed

It works both ways.

[epilogue]

Sorry, team. I got a bit carried away. It's just a real pet peeve, is all. I'm sure the people who bother to post in this thread are ultimately respectful theater goers.

[Jorge]

Sorry, team. I got a bit carried away. It's just a real pet peeve, is all. I'm sure the people who bother to post in this thread are ultimately respectful theater goers.

Once the movie starts, yeah. Put your phones away and shut the fuck up. I can't bring myself to care about what people wanna do during the trailers, though.

[doug rr]

Sorry, team. I got a bit carried away. It's just a real pet peeve, is all. I'm sure the people who bother to post in this thread are ultimately respectful theater goers.

remember though, NY is a horrible city when it comes to theater etiquette..couldnt stand going when I lived there