If You Owned a Movie Studio…

01.06.12 | George D. Allen and Irv Slifkin | Movie Buzz, Movie Buzz PodcastPrint this Post

...what movies would you make? Would they be like The Matrix...or like Martha Marcy May Marlene? It was time to Ask Movie Irv this classic question, and he has a pretty clear answer:

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Now it's your turn. You've just been handed the keys to a major motion picture studio. Those of you always bemoaning the quality of today's films: have at it! Let's hear your pitches. What kinds of movies would you make?

 
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  • Larry

    I would make more movies like "Fantasia" or "42nd Street" or "Ziegfield Follies". Good music with positive imagination. No hard violence shoot-m-ups or negative films like that, and no violent language either. Why not leave people in a good mood rather than a negative mood?

  • Anne Billingsley

    A movie of the star crossed lives of Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy.

  • Steve in Sacramento

    Hey Movie Irv, enjoy your posts, and sounds like we have similar tastes as well! But have to call you out on your "Martha Marcy May Marlene" "botch" above! Actually, was kind of funny, but I was also wondering if you've seen the movie? I saw it, and even though it is quite "slow" and kind of depressing, liked it quite a lot. Anyway, my main point is that - after seeing the movie - I, at least, have no problem whatsoever remembering the title: It's quite remarkably rendered in the movie itself. And now I think what seemed like a slightly goofy title is actually one of the best and most memorable titles of recent memory.

  • http://www.moviesunlimited.com George D. Allen

    Steve in Sacramento -- you can find Irv's review of MMMM at the bottom of his interview with director Sean Durkin:
    http://www.moviefanfare.com/movie-buzz/martha_marcy_may_marlene/

  • goarmy

    A return to the musical-comedy and detective-comedy movies that entertained.

  • Steven

    Some Thin Man series.

  • Blair Kramer

    A lot of critics lambasted the most recent "Transformers" movie. But was it successful? Yes it WAS. In fact, it made a TON of money. So the question is... Would you run your studio as a business with the hope and expectation of making it a going concern, or would you run it as an aesthetic ego trip with no interest in earning a profit? Keep in mind the fact that you really don't have to watch ANY of the films that your SUCCESSFUL studio churns out!

  • JIM RICK

    MORE JANE POWELL MOVIES...IT WOULD BE A HOOT TO SEE JANIE TODAY AT 82, PLAYING IN SOME MUSICALS....SHE WAS AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL LAST SEASON AND RECEIVED A THUNDEROUS RECEPTION...AND "SANG" AMONG OTHER SONGS, "IT'S A MOST INUSUAL DAY"...HOW ABOUT IT JANIE? I AM 73, AND HAVE LOVED YOU ALMOST MY WHOLE LIFE...A DEDICATED FAN FOREVER....

  • Steve in Sacramento

    @ George D. Allen: Thanks for the heads-up, and glad to see Irv liked the movie as much as I did.

  • Hank Zangara

    I would guarantee that 5% of every dollar of admission would go to restoration and preservation of our entire back catalog of films. After all our vintage films were done, that same money would go to other preservation/restoration efforts, like UCLA, AFI and MOMA.

    • Tim

      Here, here!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1063274681 Irv Slifkin

    Hank:
    Wonderful idea. So many studios have neglected their history!

  • Tim

    Hmmmm...guessing Movie Irv is an Alexander Payne fan, referencing more than one of his films. Me too!

  • http://www.facebook.com/JeffHeise Jeff Heise

    First off, I would ban Michael Bay, Uwe Boll, Brett Ratner and Tom Six from the lot...

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