Edward Norton doesn't think blockbusters killed Hollywood.

Yeah I always thought the '70s were revered as the golden age of Hollywood for a number of reasons, and I agree that it didn't stop at 1975. I guess he was forgetting "Star Wars", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Apocalypse Now", etc. It was a great decade because thanks to films like "Easy Rider", "Midnight Cowboy", and "Bonnie and Clyde" Hollywood reconnected with audiences that were tired of sappy musicals and dramas that dominated the '60s. Also because it opened the doors for experimental filmmaking and filmmakers (namely the big ones of Lucas, Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese, and DePalma) to show that big budget films can be unique and interesting and don't need to be formulaic epics. The '90s are probably the next best decade for Hollywood overall, but that's highly debatable. '70s had tremendous films that were also trailblazers, so that's why it's generally the golden age.

Well that's stupid, who cares where they drew inspiration from as long as the end result is excellent? That just sounds like a bitter perspective on it to me. They revitalized Hollywood, made into what it is today for better or worse. None of those filmmakers should be ashamed that others blatantly ripped off their style, or that Hollywood has used their films as successful models. People try to imitate "The Godfather" all the time, should Coppola be blamed for an influx of similar gangster films after the film's success. Others are just mad they didn't come up these ideas themselves, Bogdanovich is a decent filmmaker with really only one major work (which is another excellent film that lends to the '70s being a golden age of cinema) so to me he's just being petty. And besides, "The Last Picture Show" is a nod to the cinema of the past, a bygone era that Bogdanovich is making an homage/goodbye to.  I really, really like that film, but I'm just saying he's just being petty, petty, petty for criticizing them for essentially doing the same thing.

Great writeup. Really shows that movie execs are fucking morons and David Fincher is the man. Not that we didn't already know that, but it's gotta be awesome for Fincher to look back on all this and say "I told you so."

I was really young when Fight Club came out, but I remember the marketing being awful for it. It was a total shock to me when I was a teenager to watch it and find out what it really was about. So long, Fox, your stupidity over the years has resulted in you being absorbed by Disney. Well deserved.

Dig around for the trailer for it. It looked like, well, a fight club, and that was it.