{"id":39,"date":"2003-10-06T13:46:57","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T13:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdragon.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-03-30T02:54:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T08:54:07","slug":"movie-quality-seems-to-be-deteriorating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/2003\/10\/movie-quality-seems-to-be-deteriorating\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Quality Seems To Be Deteriorating&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Apparently, the overall quality of films has been going downhill for two decades&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The quality of films seems to have deteriorated in the last 20 years, a panel of producers and directors said during a salute to American filmmaking in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8221;It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn&#8217;t have to make as much money,&#8221; director and producer Sydney Pollack said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But&#8230; it&#8217;s the American public&#8217;s fault of course!  Pollack claims that due to &#8220;short attention spans&#8221; you have to get the &#8220;clothes off&#8221; or the &#8220;gun out&#8221; fast or you lose that audience interest.<\/p>\n<p>Is this sort of like the way that the Recording Industry&#8217;s decrease in revenues is due to file-sharing and not to a poor economy or output of crummy cookie-cutter music?<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--\n&raquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trib.com\/AP\/wire_detail.php?wire_num=252858\">The Casper Star-Tribune: Public's demands for films changing, Pollack says<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the overall quality of films has been going downhill for two decades&#8230;. The quality of films seems to have deteriorated in the last 20 years, a panel of producers and directors said during a salute to American filmmaking in the 1970s. &#8221;It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn&#8217;t have to make &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"class_list":{"0":"post-39","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-hollywood","8":"anons"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peSL2o-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}