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DEL.ICIO.USAre there any new movies out there merry and bright?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The song may say, “Oh by golly have a holly jolly Christmas this year,” but the main tones at the movies this season seem to be, well, morose and dark.
Just in time for Christmas, we get “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (opening Dec. 21). In Tim Burton’s artistic hands, necks get sliced open and blood sprays with abandon.
“The Savages” is about siblings dealing with their dad’s worsening Alzheimer’s. “The Bucket List” is about Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman sharing one major thing together: cancer.
“Charlie Wilson’s War”? No matter how perky and cute the marketing campaign tries to make Julia Roberts and movie look, it’s still about the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, guns and death.
Another of Hollywood’s idea of fun for Christmas Day is “Alien vs. Predator: Requiem.” Do I really have to spell out what the movie will be about?
Is Hollywood making the kinds of movies you want to see this season?
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By West Cobb Dad
December 7, 2007 8:48 AM | Link to this
Of course they aren’t. They are on the left coast and live in their own little make believe world. For years it has been proven that family movies make more money at the box office than blood and depression, but they just don’t get it. This is why I haven’t seen a movie at the theater in 3 years. I rent one for half the cost of one ticket. I rather spend $4 on a rental, $1 on microwave popcorn, $1 on a 2 liter coke and not have any one talking during the movie about the movie or texting or talking on their cell.
By LydiasDad
December 7, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this
Ditto, WC Dad. Movie producers are out of touch with most of the country. That’s why there’s a gay character in EVERY movie and TV episode. The want to push their lifestyle down everyone’s throats, hoping that it will go mainstream. Unfortunately, it’s gradually working on our kids.
By Old School
December 7, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this
Look at the movies on HBO and all the other premium channels, it’s all drugs, gangs, shoot-em-ups, war, or subjects too intimate to share with your kids (even my grownup ones.)
I enjoyed the Harry Potter films in the theatres but it’s a challenge to hear everything with folks chatting aloud to each other or on cell phones. I’ll just stick to the how-to shows and Netflix. (It’s just not Christmas without “Emmett Otter” and “Muppet Christmas Carol”.)
By FCM
December 7, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this
Alvin and The Chipmonks opens Dec 21. Enchanted was #1 2 weeks in a row. National Treasure 2 also opens Dec 21. The first 2 may not be ‘feel good’ in the way that say White Christmas is but they are all 3 good family flicks…..Unlike Sweeny Todd which has great music but I have a zero desire to see.
By sharon
December 7, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this
This Christmas opened two weeks ago. It’s very good and Merry
By Kat
December 7, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this
Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t wait to see Sweeny Todd…I think I’m going on my day off the day after Christmas :-)
By lawn
December 7, 2007 5:31 PM | Link to this
Movie producers are out of touch with most of the country. That’s why there’s a STRAIGHT character in EVERY movie and TV episode. The want to push their lifestyle down everyone’s throats, hoping that it will go mainstream. Unfortunately, it’s gradually working on our kids.
i know exactly what you mean.