'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.
Films should be for everybody.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.
If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic.
The best movies are rooted in reality.
Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.
I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.
I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.