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Mid-budget Thrillers - A Lost Art

posted 3 years ago by Drooch (5333)
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I love these actor-led thrillers. This one was gripping but didn’t go anywhere particularly special, either in terms of action or character, but everyone did their job and it worked.

So tragic that these modest but effective thrillers are a thing of the past. I think Fincher’s Gone Girl was the last one I saw in the cinema and that was nearly a decade ago - and it did really well!

There’s clearly a market for them, but Hollywood insists on squatting out endless special effects superhero flicks, unwelcome sequels and reboots, and cramming all of it with deranged political propaganda.

Just watching something mediocre like Double Jeopardy makes me pine for that lost era when there was some semblance of a cohesive culture, movie makers wanted to entertain as best they could and filmgoers wanted to be entertained.

Surely Netflix could pump out a series of these kinds of films?

[–] degray9 (1126) 3 years ago

Well in 1999 movies were movies, you watched tv on the tv, there was none of this streaming crap except for TiVo. Streaming has killed the quality of all our entertainment.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17745) 3 years ago

I think they tried to do it with The Woman in the Window. Except it was garbage. While I think DJ is one of the lesser ones, I do kind of miss these types of thrillers from the nineties though.