Evonisia said:Sometimes I try to draw parallels between people who constantly go on the internet (especially places of public opinion) and John and Jane Q. Average.
Go onto internet forums and expect non stop hate on Transformers, or Call of Duty or Twilight, relish in it in fact. It's not like the public will care about this backlash to Michael Bay, or anyone who does anything the critics see as wrong, because they probably won't even know. They enjoy their dumb and crappy film just fine. Is there anything wrong with somebody enjoying Transformers, TASM 2 or that new Robocop?
Someone has to budge. Either audiences need to stop going to see the slop or Hollywood needs to stop churning it out. And that's the problem right there. Neither are willing to budge. The average audience probably either thinks Transformers is alright and decent enough for just a way to kill time on a Friday night with some friends, or they think there isn't anything better and that they might as well go see what they can rather than wait for the next big thing. Hollywood won't budge because these movies make money. The critic bait that people say they want made, rarely does. You get lucky if the good movies make the money they deserve, but you know the lowest common denominator films will make some amount of money. It's a pay check. They aren't making this stuff because they think it's necessary to make such a film, but because they want to get paid. It's a vicious cycle, and there are fewer people in Hollywood, so it makes more sense to yell at them than at the general masses that basically write the critic's check.WarpZone said:Okay, fair enough.
So how do we fix the problem?
Yeah. I think things would be a bit better if the internet attitude was "I enjoyed it, or I disliked it, and it has these flaws" rather than deny or exaggerate your reaction to the product. Of course some people will genuinely be honest about their opinions and more power to 'em.youji itami said:Evonisia said:Sometimes I try to draw parallels between people who constantly go on the internet (especially places of public opinion) and John and Jane Q. Average.
Go onto internet forums and expect non stop hate on Transformers, or Call of Duty or Twilight, relish in it in fact. It's not like the public will care about this backlash to Michael Bay, or anyone who does anything the critics see as wrong, because they probably won't even know. They enjoy their dumb and crappy film just fine. Is there anything wrong with somebody enjoying Transformers, TASM 2 or that new Robocop?
That's because most of those people on internet forums are either liar's (in regards to Transformers and Call of Duty) or the wrong demographic (in regards to Twilight).
Just look at the Left for Dead 2 'boycott', forum after forum of those saying they will boycott then in reality buying it.
I think all three fit into the "wrong demographic" category. The world is a huge place, and the people who are actually regular users of any Internet community aside from Facebook or Twitter probably count for less than a tenth of the population. It's just like how "everyone" hated reality TV around ten years ago. "Everyone" just turned out to mean "everyone you know, plus everyone who writes comedy for a living".youji itami said:That's because most of those people on internet forums are either liar's (in regards to Transformers and Call of Duty) or the wrong demographic (in regards to Twilight).