More movies like this
I miss Hollywood making movies adults (i.e., people over the age of 12) can appreciate. What are some recent movies that deal with real life subject matter in a way adults can appreciate?
shareHow 'recent'? This film is as old as I am. But it is a gem, for sure.
shareWell, my point is studios don't make these sorts of movies anymore. If they do, they call them "independent" and put them out on their boutique labels (Fox Searchlight, etc.).
shareIs it a problem how they market them? People not going to films like this has nothing to do with the branding (and I'd like to think that people who do like films like this also don't care about the branding).
shareI don't think Hollywood cares about movies like this because they don't bring in the big bucks. They'd much rather ejaculate CGI shit all over the screen for 2 and a half hours and sell it to the brain-dead masses all over the world. Much more money in that.
shareAnd they tend to have a more indie tone and feel to them, and are thus less accessible/appealing to 'mainstream' audiences, whereas something like Ordinary People feels like a major studio release, featuring a high-profile cast, and directed by one of the most famous men in Hollywood.
But I find that American film studios, including the indies, don't tend to make many family dramas in general. Such material is usually relegated to pappy and shallow TV movie fare, which lack the artistic integrity, the production values, and the depth of writing and acting, in Ordinary People (even in the wake of the film's Oscar success, it doesn't seem that many similar types of films were being made, apart from, maybe Terms of Endearment, and even that's more of a comedy-drama and somewhat broader than this).
French cinema seems to be more interested in these types of family dramas that anything I've seen in US film of late.