Brit Movies

[goldenmeadow]

Whats happening to Brit Movies these days ?
Is it just me who is thinking.... B---- all ?

Compared to the 70s say when the Carry Ons were going strong, when Hammer were
still going .........
when all kinds of TV spin offs were being converted into big screen movies,
.... the Pythons, Bless this House, On the Buses... Please Sir.... a whole list of them.

In the 80s there was Absolute Beginners

Compared to the 60s and 70s its all looking a bit bleak today ... OK there are the Harry Potter
movies full of British Actors, James Bond of course keeps rolling on, but those two are "International"...............big money type........ glossy movies .
Im talking about the low budget.... Confessions ... type movies ... movies where you would
see familiar faces from the telly....
Carol White, Olly Reid, Carol Hawkins... there were endless young actors and actresses making it to
the big screen , if only in cameo roles.
It seems back then there was a lot of opportunity for young actors and actresses coming up
to break thru.

It feels like today its all telly.... and the ever burgening No of TV channels and of course
the TV soaps that young actors all aim for and often stay there for life.
There seems to have been a lot more going on back in the 60s and 70s movie wise... ok a lot of
it was soft porn... but at least it kept the cameras rolling !

I feel sure that if Denise Van Outen had been around in the 60s she would have been in
lots of movies, ditto Amanda Holden but the opportunity does nt seem to be there in the same way today.

What are studios like Pinewood doing these days ? There cant be a fraction of the movie work that was
in production during the 60s and 70s.......... or am I missing something ?

[DB7]

I feel sure that if Denise Van Outen had been around in the 60s she would have been in
lots of movies, ditto Amanda Holden but the opportunity does nt seem to be there in the same way today.

Thank God for small mercies.

[Freddy]

I'm getting a bit fed up of watching Brit films set in London which all seem to be about petty criminals, gangsters and violence. BBC featured 'The Lives of the Saints' a ghastly film which put violence, mostly gratuitous, over a good script. Thankfully the scene where a kitten is dropped into the fat fryer was not shown.

[goldenmeadow]

If you take Pinewood as an example... it all started in 1936,
it did the Bond movies, the Carry On movies and a whole lot more.

Today it seems a lot of the work is TV shows.. promotions, advertising...
Probably with the advent of the video player in the late 70s killed things off a bit,
maybe the 60s and the 70s were the last great age for the cinema ?

But anyway, Pinewood is still surviving with a variety of different things, lets hope
they make it to their centenary ....2036 ...
(which really is nt that far away !)

[Timmy_Lea]

I'm sorry, but I don't want B grade telly actors cluttering up the big screen in cheap shoddy features. I'll stick to films by Shane Meadows, Andrea Arnold & for mainstream genre thrills Neil Marshall.

[Elaine]

This is why I mostly watch old movies. Plus the TV's full of reality programmes, and cops and robbers, and if there is another series of Casualty, I'll scream. But wait a moment, there is some good stuff coming up. Alice Roberts and Neil Oliver, and I just noticed in the Radio Times, Operation Jerico on Sunday night BBC 2. Light at the end of the tunnel.

[batman]

The British film 'industry' is alive and well .... except these days it's called television. There are some decent feature films being made, but most them are just TV programmes that happen to be shown in cinemas.