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Nah, it is not neccessarily US bashing 
It's just that the special kind of movies I mean here is usually US made (I remember some exceptions, though).
I mean those which usually run in two parts a 90 minutes, and are (at least here - no idea how do you call them correctly) advertized as big "event" movies, often with "big" historical or fantasy/mythological stories. To give some examples I have seen in recent years such things like "Merlin", similar movies about Oddyseus, about Joan d'Arc, Caesar and Cleopatra, even Moses etc.
Are you calling these "mini series" in the US (I always thought a mini series is something like "Band of Brothers" which was btw great, but I guess that's nothing new to most)?
While these movies usually sound interesting first they also are disappointing often, and sometimes plain stupid IMO, despite having at least good fx and often even well-known stars as actors. But those who produce those movies usually manage to make them look boring or stupid at some point. They are often also much more different from movies made for cinema, even if about the same topics (BoB is IMO an example which was great also because it could have worked very well in the cinema.) Why is that? Is it a question of money, are TV productions always cheaper? Or what's the reason?
Today they have the first 90 minutes of such a thing about "Hercules", but I don't hold my breath......
It's just that the special kind of movies I mean here is usually US made (I remember some exceptions, though).I mean those which usually run in two parts a 90 minutes, and are (at least here - no idea how do you call them correctly) advertized as big "event" movies, often with "big" historical or fantasy/mythological stories. To give some examples I have seen in recent years such things like "Merlin", similar movies about Oddyseus, about Joan d'Arc, Caesar and Cleopatra, even Moses etc.
Are you calling these "mini series" in the US (I always thought a mini series is something like "Band of Brothers" which was btw great, but I guess that's nothing new to most)?
While these movies usually sound interesting first they also are disappointing often, and sometimes plain stupid IMO, despite having at least good fx and often even well-known stars as actors. But those who produce those movies usually manage to make them look boring or stupid at some point. They are often also much more different from movies made for cinema, even if about the same topics (BoB is IMO an example which was great also because it could have worked very well in the cinema.) Why is that? Is it a question of money, are TV productions always cheaper? Or what's the reason?
Today they have the first 90 minutes of such a thing about "Hercules", but I don't hold my breath......
and (2) studios are lousy with nepotism, it's surprising that Hollywood can turn out any decent movies whatsoever.
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