PARKER .... I agree with you 100% that most Indie and foreign films are a lot better quality than the Hollywood films and I am a big movie fan but most Hollywood films are stuck in the same damn Hollywood-movie- making formula.
Exmachina was not too damn bad but the only part of that movie that perked it up a bit was the dance scene. I found the rest pretty damn boring but I never leave a movie until the final credits roll.
Family members are heavily involved within the production of a lot of theae super blockbusters so I usually go and see every one that comes out but I never leave the theater too impressed by what I've seen.
EXCEPT!!... I am impressed by what these visual effect technicians are able to accomplish on screen these days and I do have to give them a lot of credit but watching robots and super-heros punching each other for 20 minutes tends to get a bit boring and gives me some time to go out and get that $10 bag of popcorn I refused to purchase on the way inside.
I know this California earthquake one will be produced with the same Hollywood formula but I will go and watch The ROCK beat the shit out of San Andreas just to see what the visual techs come up with this time.
PARKER ... I do my best to see some of the better foreign films but they are somewhat limited here in LV. But one of my favorite in the past couple of years has been DHOOM 3 (a Bollywood production worth looking for ).
I liked it so damn much that I sent a copy to my Hollywood crew. It was good enough to get me searching for DHOOM 1 and 2 (Now offered on Amazon for less than nine-bucks each).
I rarely buy DVD's but I figure that this $18 will be well spent.
Any great foreign films you want to recommend will be appreciated.
