<story><title>Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/the-fugitive-harrison-ford-25-years-later/566729/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eric4smith</author><text>Unfortunately most movies these days are more about &amp;quot;the message&amp;quot; than a coherent story.&lt;p&gt;But GOOD NEWS!&lt;p&gt;This weekend I actually found a use for Netflix and watched &amp;quot;Hustle&amp;quot;. Adam Sandler&amp;#x27;s latest offering for the platform. It is an astoundingly good movie. Even more so because normally I&amp;#x27;m not really into basketball.&lt;p&gt;But it was WELL written, intelligent and there were plenty of challenges for them to overcome, right down to the very last 30 seconds of the movie. Edge of the seat stuff that keeps you engaged every moment.&lt;p&gt;The thing missing from many movies these days with &amp;quot;the message&amp;quot; is that the protagonists generally have no obstacles. No problems to deal with. No hurdles to cross. No challenges. There is generally no danger to the heroes. There is just a lot of ass kicking without any preliminaries.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s the reason why movies mostly suck these days. It&amp;#x27;s a shame really. It&amp;#x27;s all about politics these days and making sure there is some race&amp;#x2F;gender&amp;#x2F;cultural representation (I&amp;#x27;m saying this as a black guy).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valdiorn</author><text>Someone&amp;#x27;s been watching The Critical Drinker - but I totally agree with him as well :)&lt;p&gt;The lack of obstacles to overcome and the general saint-like presence of protagonists these days is miserable. It&amp;#x27;s the same thing you see in political discourse these days; if you&amp;#x27;re not COMPLETELY with us on every issue, you are a fascist devil. Can&amp;#x27;t have that in your movies so you end up with perfect moral beings with no flaws.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/the-fugitive-harrison-ford-25-years-later/566729/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eric4smith</author><text>Unfortunately most movies these days are more about &amp;quot;the message&amp;quot; than a coherent story.&lt;p&gt;But GOOD NEWS!&lt;p&gt;This weekend I actually found a use for Netflix and watched &amp;quot;Hustle&amp;quot;. Adam Sandler&amp;#x27;s latest offering for the platform. It is an astoundingly good movie. Even more so because normally I&amp;#x27;m not really into basketball.&lt;p&gt;But it was WELL written, intelligent and there were plenty of challenges for them to overcome, right down to the very last 30 seconds of the movie. Edge of the seat stuff that keeps you engaged every moment.&lt;p&gt;The thing missing from many movies these days with &amp;quot;the message&amp;quot; is that the protagonists generally have no obstacles. No problems to deal with. No hurdles to cross. No challenges. There is generally no danger to the heroes. There is just a lot of ass kicking without any preliminaries.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s the reason why movies mostly suck these days. It&amp;#x27;s a shame really. It&amp;#x27;s all about politics these days and making sure there is some race&amp;#x2F;gender&amp;#x2F;cultural representation (I&amp;#x27;m saying this as a black guy).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkingemote</author><text>Dr Who is a good example. There has always been a message in the shows but the story took precedence. Now the message takes precedence and the story and show suffers. It&amp;#x27;s unwatchable even with the audio muted!&lt;p&gt;Terry Pratchett&amp;#x27;s work is a good example of progressive ideas told so well that the story is all that anyone cares about.</text></comment>