What's interesting about Ebert's response to the AFI top 100 film selection are two things 1) he is also using his blog as his website (Note Rosie O'Donnell post below)versus a traditional website and 2) he hates teen slasher movies as much as I do ..once upon a time about a dozen years ago I realized there were no films out there for teens...and I started pitching some ideas to production companies-- a couple of those were optioned...but alas never made...reason-- probably many-- but mostly because they were not SLASHER films....by joyce schwarz, blogging at www.hollywood2020.blogs.com .
Here's an excerpt of what Roger Ebert has to say about the new top 100 list from AFI:
New films become old films so fast. "Raging Bull" came out 27 years ago. It's older than "Casablanca" (No. 3) was when I became a film critic. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, more than 50 percent of moviegoers are under 27. They are going to find movies on this list that were made before their grandparents were born -- and, if judging by the kids I saw Buster Keaton's "The General" (No. 18) with, they might love them.
Ah, but there's the problem: Will they find out about them? Too many younger moviegoers are wasting their precious adolescence frying their brains with vomitoriums posing as slasher movies. Read the full text HERE
What started this post on Hollywood2020 was an invite from AFI to it's AFI insider pages...and then a quick surf over to the AFI blog... -- AFI's blog is open for comments. Hmm my opinion -- I haven't even surfed through the top 100 yet...but then...it doesn't matter anyway to me-- I have my own favorites and I'm sure you do too!
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