Don't you think it's time this thread was put to rest? Oooh, Dario Argento is a master filmmaker. Uhh, he's also a master monster maker -- his daughter Asia. I suggest you read a newspaper about what she's been up to. Her father should have spent less time making movies and more time raising a daughter to be a human being. He certainly failed in that department.
First of all, just above your post a remake of one of argentos movies was announced, so you can say that argento is still "in" and alone by that fact the thread has his right of existenz. not to mention argentos influence on other artist.
secondly, your moral attitude seems a bit overstretched, but if you really mean it then stop watching any movie harvey weinstein had produced or directed. such as:
- smoke
- blue in the face
- true romance
- pulp fiction
- pret-a-porter
- jackie brown
- good will hunting
- the cidre house rules
- lord of the rings-fellowship of the ring
and hundreds more...
stop watching any hitchcock movie. he was known to be a sadist and women torturer. any movie by or with kevin spacey, mel gibson, charlie chaplin...the list would go on. any art inspired by the catholic church, or visit a church itself as a building, because it's known that they have grown a bunch of insane men in stupid uniforms calling themselves priests and molesting childs. the buildings were build by slaves.
in fact applying your morals you cannot watch any hollywood movie ever, because hollywood was build upon child-star exploitation, drugging, murder, cover ups...you can read about it in kenneth angers - hollywood babylon.
so i hope you think again about your standards and if you can logically apply them on art.
And believe me, I LOVED Woody Allen and his films. But how can one possibly watch one after we know what we know of him?
just because it's still the same movie. you don't know woody allen, you only know his movie.
and it's really totally not fair to say a woody allen movie was made alone by woody allen. by not watching it you discredit all the persons who worked on it too.
and you logic would also mean that you know about every person behind the art, that they are sin-free, because how can you watch or listen to art, music when you don't know yet, that the artist has done something bad?
and what about woddy allens movies he did before he commited a crime? can you watch them?
see where this is going?
