- Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:13 pm
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During a recent convo with some friends I said that the 90s was maybe the last great era for movies. I’m not saying that we haven’t had good movies since, but more that since the late 90s the cookie cutter format of movies has been getting more and more apparent. I’ve loved plenty of films in the last 20 years, and we’ve had some truly great bright spots especially in indie genre movies, but from the 50’s through the 90s there were so many different KINDS of movies to sample, things could get weird and wild and bizarre and unique and it there was literally something for everyone. This run of indies in the US in the early 90s is a great example. So many weird little movies that today wouldn’t even get green lit. It’s not even that the movies were necessarily better, but they were braver, if I can be a little bold here. I don’t want to dump too hard on today because I think there’s still great stuff and we’ve had incredible film and television since, but there really was an embarrassment of riches up to like 1998 or so, especially the oddities of the 80s/90s independent scene. Imagine a movie like say, Wild at heart coming out today.
I have been in this business a long time. Now if I don't want to do a show, it's not because I got stage fright. It's because some creature from beyond doesn't want me to do the show. Now gangway.