Universally agreed terrible film(s)

[craner]

This sounds like 'a take'. Go on then, give it to us.

And so it happened...there was no 'take'.

Everybody sat back in their seats and exhaled.

 

[IdleRich]

This is precisely the reason French cinema is so bad, and is definitely not the reason British cinema is so average.

The best British films came out of commercial studios, piratical producers, independant mavericks and an influx of immigrants (particularly Hungarians). All European cinema suffers when it tries to copy the "protectionist" French tradition rather than the dynamic, mercernary American system.

Russian cinema is successfully protectionist, though I assume that that grew naturally out of Russian society rather than from copying the French.