Very Small Array charts a steady 50-year decline in the quality of films moviegoers want to see most. Steepest nosedive occurs at the end of the 1970’s when the American New Wave suffered a backlash, studios pulled the plug on rebel directors, a decade of film-schooled artistry was ending, and the era of the modern marketing blockbuster began. If this graph looks like the EKG of a sick patient in critical condition, last night’s premiere episode of “FilmPulse” is another troubling symptom:
If you actually watch some of the movies from the ’70’s that are considered classics like Bullitt and The French Connection, they’re incredibly boring to people our age because we saw The Matrix when we were 10.
I keep hoping to hear this thing is an elaborate parody.