Quick, what do the following movies have in common? The cheesy middle-aged rom-com “Ticket to Paradise,” the curmudgeon-finds-his-heart-of-gold drama “A Man Called Otto,” an…
I, too, am desperate to see more movies like that, but what we also need are the movies that grease the wheels of the theatrical experience: the friendly bread-and-butter formula films for adults that audiences can depend on, that can keep them hooked on the act of moviegoing.
Because really, it has always been that way. What we imagine as “film history” is, in fact, the crème de la crème. During the heyday of classic Hollywood, people went out to the movies and saw the studio programmer of the week — thousands upon thousands of Westerns and comedies and romances and thrillers that are now long forgotten. And the 1970s, that fabled age of cinematic adventure, had a whole lot of cereal mixed in with the cutting-edge art.
You could say, and you’d be right, that our era outdoes that one in the sheer profusion of fantasy escapist pulp. But I’m talking about moviesadults that adults still want to see. Those movies run on a separate track from the Marvelization of Hollywood, and we need them — in a more modest way — to be commercially successful too. Imagine that there were 30 movies a year like “Ticket to Paradise” and “A Man Called Otto”; not so long ago, there were.
It’s easy to mock mediocrity, but actually it’s the great uniter. Just look at all the television that’s mediocre that people relax into for that very reason. If there were more movies like “Ticket to Paradise” or “A Man Called Otto,” audiences would show up for them, and the whole spirit of going out to a movie theater would shift.
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