Like 2007, 2017 was deep in very good movies there were a couple dozen films that I would’ve felt good about putting at the end of my top 10 list. The peaks reached by the best movies in 2017 were, in my opinion, the highest since 2007 (a year that saw the release of “There Will Be Blood,” “No Country for Old Men,” “The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford” and “Zodiac,” to name a few). Box office grosses have fallen 4 percent compared to where they were at this point last year.Īll that said, 2017 has, ironically enough, been a terrific year for actual movies. ) Well, Hollywood’s box office problem hasn’t gone away. Remember just a couple months ago when, following the underperformance of the director’s surreal religious/eco allegory “Mother!”, we were debating whether Rotten Tomatoes should be blamed for the demise of cinema ? (And, no, that was not just a hot take from bloggers it was the argument of Martin Scorsese. It’s been a long-coming, necessary reckoning, but one that has been an Aronofskian nightmare for Hollywood nonetheless.Īnd speaking of Darren Aronofsky, the mood in Hollywood wasn’t so much better before the reckoning. In the two months since The New York Times’ initial report on Harvey Weinstein’s years of systematic sexual predation, many of the industry’s biggest stars have been exposed and brought down for their own misbehavior productions have scrapped now-poisonous names from credits, or from the movies themselves, or even, in the case of Louis C.K.’s “I Love You, Daddy,” scrapped a movie’s release altogether. It’s been that kind of year for Tinseltown everything has seemed to go up in flames. At this point, it’s surprising that California’s current spate of wildfires hasn’t engulfed Hollywood.
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