"I paid for this?": The decline in movie making
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Unfortunatly... I love Avatar. It was a better version of Pocahontas, without historical inacurracy or stupid songs.
I do agree with some of your points. There are many movies now that suck, but do not forget that there were many movies 70 years ago that sucked. All of the B Horror movies and what not were fairly bad.
I think that by supporting crappy directors, we'll get crappy movies (I'm looking at you Micheal Bay/Transformers).
Sadly, even if all of the escapist boycotted the new crappy movies, there would still be millions of people who blindly go to the theature.
I really liked your original post! ^^
I do agree with some of your points. There are many movies now that suck, but do not forget that there were many movies 70 years ago that sucked. All of the B Horror movies and what not were fairly bad.
I think that by supporting crappy directors, we'll get crappy movies (I'm looking at you Micheal Bay/Transformers).
Sadly, even if all of the escapist boycotted the new crappy movies, there would still be millions of people who blindly go to the theature.
I really liked your original post! ^^
My roommate has a theory about this. His idea is that technology advances in such a way as to stagger advances in capacity and quality. This phenomenon is particularly advanced in film. When films got sound, the general quality of movies decreased dramatically until filmmakers figured out what works and what doesn't with sound. The same thing happened to a lesser extent with colour; there were a lot of movies that had a lot of bright and gaudy colours to show off the new capabilities, and the movies that used colour well were still a few years behind.
I suspect that the same thing is happening here. I would say that a movie like District 9 is to computer animation what M was to the talkie; it uses its special effects sparingly and precisely so that the effects are always in the service of the entertainment rather than being the driving force behind it. Hopefully other filmmakers will catch on soon.
I suspect that the same thing is happening here. I would say that a movie like District 9 is to computer animation what M was to the talkie; it uses its special effects sparingly and precisely so that the effects are always in the service of the entertainment rather than being the driving force behind it. Hopefully other filmmakers will catch on soon.
While I think some of it does have to do with the establishment of the advanced CGI we're looking at now I really think most of it just has to do with the economy. We're also looking at a lot of movies that are not inherently bad- Transformers 2, 300, Ironman 2, ect- only because there's so little capacity there in. They're popcorn movies that rely more on the spectacle than anything else to draw in viewers. More importantly though, they draw in easy sales.
Really the only properly good movie I've seen this year has been, "How to Train your Dragon."
Really the only properly good movie I've seen this year has been, "How to Train your Dragon."
I'm about to go to bed, but did the whole...
'Movies, games, and most media entertainment seem to be running into this problem. The fact that the producer only has to make a net profit on the large sum of people who buy it before there are any credible reviews or a social stigma that is attached to it later on results in an inferior product being made. When a game or movie simply has to not suck so much that it is immediately apparent to be a commercial success we are bound to see nothing but an endless stream of mediocre entertainment.'
... point get brought up already?
'Movies, games, and most media entertainment seem to be running into this problem. The fact that the producer only has to make a net profit on the large sum of people who buy it before there are any credible reviews or a social stigma that is attached to it later on results in an inferior product being made. When a game or movie simply has to not suck so much that it is immediately apparent to be a commercial success we are bound to see nothing but an endless stream of mediocre entertainment.'
... point get brought up already?
Shit movies were made back then too, we just have that entire decade of good movies to choose from. There were lots of great movies that came out 2000-2010. Just a lot of cgi-actionny ones too.
Albeit I do agree with some points that many people go to see the cgi, but I believe this makes cinema bad in the way that it allows the user to see everypart of the story from the directors perspective, there is no space for the viewer to fill in gaps with their imagination and go OMFG that sounds epic!
Last Point, crummy effects aside, Logans Run is an EPIC MOVIE
Albeit I do agree with some points that many people go to see the cgi, but I believe this makes cinema bad in the way that it allows the user to see everypart of the story from the directors perspective, there is no space for the viewer to fill in gaps with their imagination and go OMFG that sounds epic!
Last Point, crummy effects aside, Logans Run is an EPIC MOVIE