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Why aren't modern movies made suspenseful like this


? Movies from this area & even from the 50s and 70s really built tension & were scary. It's like since then American film makers deliberately try NOT to be suspenseful! Why don't modern directors study old films? Pisses me off man.

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Indeeeed, I seldom bother paying to see new movies but I'll pay ticket price to see an old one if it's good. And the older horror/suspense movies were definitely better than the newer ones are.

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Modern films, despite their mastery of physicality, have no real sense of sadness or atmosphere. And without those things, there can be no suspense or scariness.

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When Alfred Hitchcock died, it seems like he took an entire genre of suspenseful movies with him. After that, movie makers just used blood and gore to "scare" you, but to anyone with more than half a brain, all it does is gross you out. It SHOULD piss you off because now the only reason they make movies is to make money and they figure since most of the American movie-going public have the IQ of a hammer, movies that are intelligently suspenseful won't make any money and thus aren't made anymore. They seem to think that to make money now, they have to hack bodies to bits, blow things up, have vampires fight werewolves, and remake old comic book characters or 40 year-old sitcoms. You're right---if modern movie-makers would study the old classics, they would definitely have a better idea on how to make an intriguing, suspenseful movie that truly draws the viewer into it.

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The emphasis today is not on suspense, or even a good story. The focus is on whiz-bang special effects. Between space opera (Star Wars), super heroes (Batman, Superman, Captain America), fantasy fables (Harry Potter; Avatar), and dinosaurs (Jurassic Park), the current emphasis is on visual spectacle to engage a generally juvenile audience. Small fry and small fry-like minds are generally not interested in being engaged intellectually, only having their eyes dazzled with the latest computer-generated wizardry. Therefore, Hollywood caters to where the multiple millions of dollars in box office receipts are most generated, and that's with the juvenile audiences today.

It will probably be a long long time before Hollywood again begins making movies for adults...most adults have already told Hollywood to shove it and don't even pay attention to television ads or newspaper timetables anymore. Once you've poisoned your well, it's awfully hard to purify it again, so you can expect juvenile eye-candy at the expense of quality film making as the standard for decades to come.

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What about these?

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Ex Machina (2015)
Gone Girl (2014)
Shutter Island (2010)
Children of Men (2006)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Memento (2000)
The Descent (2005)
Zodiac (2007)
Se7en (1995)
The Shining (1980)
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are all of these movies thrillers?

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