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snotboogie
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Australia3550 Posts
August 19 2010 11:36 GMT
#1
It was cool while it lasted but American entertainment is getting painfully stale. I would like to see what kind of shit other countries can come up with if they are given the same budget. I wanna see like a $500,000,000 budget Uzbeki action film. Shit blowing up Asia Minor style with hardcore Persian lute music compositions or something... fuck violins in the soundtrack. I wanna see expensive rugs and exotic architecture as the norm in every scene, and different social norms and morals and shit playing themselves out, and bellydancing clubs as opposed to shopping malls. Or maybe a Mongolian sci fi movie featuring the wild beauty of the Great Steppe juxtaposed with massive Space Yurts as a backdrop, and the characters all own mechanical transforming eagles and shit.

Who's with me?!

Also American popular music sucks.

****
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66155 Posts
August 19 2010 11:38 GMT
#2
Mongolian sci fi movie featuring the wild beauty of the Great Steppe juxtaposed with massive Space Yurts as a backdrop, and the characters all own mechanical transforming eagles and shit.

holy fuck
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green.at
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Austria1459 Posts
August 19 2010 11:50 GMT
#3
Also American popular music sucks


most popular music does atm. mostly because the rest of the world copies american pop?
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SleepSheep
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada344 Posts
August 19 2010 11:56 GMT
#4
welcome to the culture industry
it won't change, the only thing we can do is support the indie artists
hp.Shell
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2527 Posts
August 19 2010 11:56 GMT
#5
I agree about the American entertainment, but once you realize a lot of it is subliminal brainwashing, you end up shutting your mouth, getting over it, and not caring about who we're bombing / picking fights with / stealing from, and then you watch your god**** movie. ;_;
Please PM me with any songs you like that you think I haven't heard before!
fredd
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Estonia256 Posts
August 19 2010 12:14 GMT
#6
it's really not just american entertainment, it's all entertainment once the novely wears off.
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LG)Sabbath
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Argentina3022 Posts
August 19 2010 12:20 GMT
#7
incidentally, 3 of my favorite movies that came out after 2000 are not american: "pan's labyrinth", "the lives of others" and "tropa de elite"
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stroggos
Profile Joined February 2009
New Zealand1543 Posts
August 19 2010 12:20 GMT
#8
some of the most mindblowing, and abstract movies have come out of america, you just have to steer really far from mainstream american stuff. David lynch for example.
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aqui
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Germany1023 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 12:57:23
August 19 2010 12:30 GMT
#9
On August 19 2010 20:36 snotboogie wrote:
Or maybe a Mongolian sci fi movie featuring the wild beauty of the Great Steppe juxtaposed with massive Space Yurts as a backdrop, and the characters all own mechanical transforming eagles and shit.

Who's with me?!

Also American popular music sucks.

This is beyond awesome, you deserve an oscar for the idea alone.
As for the topic, i'd say american entertainment is like teamliquid, it produces great stuff that gets drowend by a lot of crap but in the end it's still the best you get.

Money is not that important, there needs to be a developed industry with many people involved who all profit from the large experience that the industry as a whole has. Tradition is the word i guess^^.
I also dont think even an developed entertainment industry that isn't used to all the money could use it very well. A good idea has to come first, money probably broadens the possibilities but it would take some time for people getting used to naturally think of their ideas in this broadend space.
In that sense i agree that it would really be interesting to see what the entertainment industries of some countries would produce that would have had access to american amounts of money for 20 years.
riptide
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
5673 Posts
August 19 2010 12:33 GMT
#10
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Try some British entertainment. Some of the best writing I've seen on TV in a while.
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Vinnesta
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Singapore285 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 13:10:25
August 19 2010 12:47 GMT
#11
Yeah, I'd love to see a good movie production about some country which guess less air-time, like say, India. They should also have scenes depicting the slums of the country, and the lives of those who live there, crossed over with references to their special culture, heritage and language.

Of course there can still be the typical storyline of lost loves whom you meet again 10 years later, and the good guy disposing of the bad guy and takes the girl away. In fact, it'll be best if this all happens while the protagonist is about to answer the Million Dollar Question on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire".....

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Slumdog Millionaire, if you haven't figured out already :p Maybe there is demand from people like the OP, who want something set in a different culture/country, which can be attributed to the success of the movie.
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SubtleArt
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
2710 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 12:50:35
August 19 2010 12:49 GMT
#12
Yes, American popular music right now is absolutely atrocious but I still quite enjoy some of the recent movies. My main problem though is that they rely so heavily on cheap, immature laughs now.
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pettter
Profile Joined December 2009
Sweden1032 Posts
August 19 2010 13:48 GMT
#13
You, sir, win a free coupon, redeemable for three (3) internets at the bar.

Please get up on the stage and accept your prize.

I'd definitely watch that Mongolian sci-fi. No doubt about that.
snotboogie
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Australia3550 Posts
August 19 2010 13:54 GMT
#14
Damn, maybe I should start writing a short story on that idea or something. I've been meaning to do some creative writing anyway
Emon_
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
3925 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 14:44:50
August 19 2010 14:42 GMT
#15
They have been repeating themselves forever. Karate kid remake, a fourth pirates movie, another nobody releases an album. You should read No Logo by Naomi Klein, it deals a lot with the mindset behind the consumer culture. Once you know whats up it frees your mind to care about other things.

Check out "Departures" (2008), its an awesome Japanese movie dealing with the distant relationship modern people have with death. Its top100 on IMDB. Funny too. Check out Rotten tomatoes from time to time as well to see what new foreign film is out and give it a look. There are amazing movies out, but you have to search a bit to find them. The same with music. They don't bring in the money, but they are fantastic works of art. And when you find something nice, blog about it here so we can enjoy it as well.
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Golden Ghost
Profile Joined February 2003
Netherlands1041 Posts
August 19 2010 14:44 GMT
#16
On August 19 2010 20:36 snotboogie wrote:
Or maybe a Mongolian sci fi movie featuring the wild beauty of the Great Steppe juxtaposed with massive Space Yurts as a backdrop, and the characters all own mechanical transforming eagles and shit.


That would be Cowboys versus Aliens right? Only then with the cast of Mongol.
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JohannesH
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1364 Posts
August 19 2010 14:47 GMT
#17
Theres american entertainment outside hollywood too you know
If you have to ask, you don't know.
Catch]22
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden2683 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 14:54:06
August 19 2010 14:50 GMT
#18
You rang?

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Srsly, Gaga and Katy Perry are good, but you cant love whats mainstream, right ? (Edit: the rest is shit tho', altho I can't say I have ever actually LISTENED to Bieber)

I DO agree with movies tho', but there are alot of great movies made recently that were really awesome, most notably The Amazing Mr Fox
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66155 Posts
August 19 2010 15:13 GMT
#19
On August 19 2010 23:42 Emon_ wrote:
They have been repeating themselves forever. Karate kid remake, a fourth pirates movie, another nobody releases an album. You should read No Logo by Naomi Klein, it deals a lot with the mindset behind the consumer culture. Once you know whats up it frees your mind to care about other things.

Check out "Departures" (2008), its an awesome Japanese movie dealing with the distant relationship modern people have with death. Its top100 on IMDB. Funny too. Check out Rotten tomatoes from time to time as well to see what new foreign film is out and give it a look. There are amazing movies out, but you have to search a bit to find them. The same with music. They don't bring in the money, but they are fantastic works of art. And when you find something nice, blog about it here so we can enjoy it as well.

Okuribito was such an amazing movie. Instant recommend.
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Thereisnosaurus
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Australia1822 Posts
August 19 2010 15:45 GMT
#20
maybe a Mongolian sci fi movie featuring the wild beauty of the Great Steppe juxtaposed with massive Space Yurts as a backdrop, and the characters all own mechanical transforming eagles and shit.


So warhammer 40k right? because it's got pretty much all of those, though I'm not sure the eagles transform
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