> First of all, FernGully is an excellent movie.

Painfully transparent piece of political propaganda masked as an unentertaining subpar animated movie with cardboard characters who have bad hair.


> Second of all, there are plenty of great movies
> being made today

I know. My post was somewhat of a joke. There -are- plenty of great movies being made today. Just not nearly as many as there used to be.

> it's just that the hollywood studios aren't
> making the great movies anymore.

Yes they are.


> I don't know anything about the business, but
> the only movies I've enjoyed in my young adult
> life were made by independent studios.

You've never enjoyed a "studio" movie? Ever?


> Anywho, the main problem is that no one goes
> out to see those movies because they don't have
> big advertising campaigns.

That may be part of it, but I think that a bigger reason would be that not a lot of people like movies like that that are out of the ordinary. I know that most of my friends would think the kinds of movies I really like are stupid. There isn't a lot of advertising for them because there isn't all that big of a market for them.


> So, I suppose good movies are doomed to be
> unpopular for now. Alas.

There are good movies that are popular, you know.


> So here's my little chart:
> circa 2000: American Pie. American Movie.

Are these good movies or bad?

-Eric Sleator
Sat 5 Jan A.D. 2001