I don't really think piracy has anything to do with it, keats, more the colonial mentality most of us never fully outgrew or got cured of - - -and it is a disease, mind, this sense of subservience and false validation to and through the Americans. It's right there, even in the way we gossip- - - Bradgelina is in, Ryan and Juday is baduy. And it's a sad thing.You don't really see the same thing happening with OPM, though. Least I don't think so. So maybe there's hope - - -or maybe that just makes it sadder.
Oggs is right, why should the onus for quality be on Filipino movies alone? But then again we do live in a moviegoing society where how a movie will sound on your DTS Dolby Super THX BlueRay home theater system has actually become an active criterion for what makes a movie good. How pathetic can you get and how can a Filipino movie possibly compete in that universe?
You're actually right, X. We never outgrew that colonial mentality thing, whoever left us that legacy, I spit on his grave. I think piracy still holds a small fraction on what we are experiencing now, the death of Philippine Cinema but Hollywood is there, still thriving and making a profit killing.
That's another sad thing what oggs said, walang DTS or THX ang Pinoy movies that makes us low quality.
I don't know man, but my Tita who resides now in the U.S.
hiyang-hiya lagi if she watch Pinoy movies, lousy, you get colds among the characters, all crying out loud, unsymphatetic characters and all that, blah, blah, blah.
