What Is Hollywood Smoking?
by Stephen Simon | January 4th, 2008 | Comments (4)
topic: Inspirational Films | tags: best-film, critics, movies, violence
I have a message for both the mainstream film industry and its film critics: You have both lost all connection with film audiences.
Hollywood has seemingly decided that “quality” now equates with dark, violent and depressing; consequently, 2007 was one of the bleakest years ever for film distribution. To make matters worse, and to illustrate anew the fable of the emperor’s new clothes, film critics have fallen into lockstep with film distributors.
