Lack of originality in movies.

[arnold layne]

Is anyone tired of movies nowadays?

I heard they already announced a new Batman. Well fuck Batman. Whatever happened to writing an original plot and story with an original character? Now it's The Smurfs 3.5 and Spider-Man feat. Daniel Radcliffe.

Hollywood has gotten lazy as hell.

[Guest Len B'stard]

People don't want originality...or art...they want to be entertained. Original movies exist they just aren't mainstream Hollywood. People want to be entertained, to relax in front of something, they don't want to be challenged. Hollywood is first and foremost a commercial enterprise, their priority is turning over profit, not being in the red. In the formative stages of Hollywood there was originality because a lot of ground was new, once genre conventions and archetypes were established and it can be ascertained what the people want, you give em it over and over and over and over and over...until such time as you become capable of manipulating what people want by way of weaning people on certain things, assigning identities to things i.e. action = for fellas, rom com = chick flick.

People want to be soothed not challenged.

[MEXzilla]

Yup nowadays even the dramas suck like Lincoln talk about a borefest.

[AxlisOld]

Looper was pretty original.

[Black Sabbath]

complaints complaints complaints

[Lithium]

I agree to an extent, Arnold. Few things are better than getting knocked on your ass by a film, and that is best achieved through originality, or at least something that sets it apart from everything else. My friends started bitching and crying because I didn't want to come see World War Z with them this summer. All I said was that I didn't want to pay to see a plot I have seen hundreds of times before unfold. Instead, I watched a Danish Dogme film, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself doing so.

[Powerage5]

I agree. Everything's been done to death. And that's what makes the unique and original films that come along so much better. But I rarely go see a film in theaters because I'll probably be bored.

[wasted]

If you want reasons not to get up in the morning tgeres always french cinema.

I do miss the Weinsteins taking some art house movie putting boobies on the dvd cover and youd end up watching something good.

[dalsh327]

We don't know the direction films are going to take, no one ever does.

We're at a time when books that would have been impossible and too expensive to do years ago, are possible now. One of the most difficult things they're all saying is trying to find a good screenplay to green light.

ANYONE can write a screenplay, but few can write one and pitch it to where people are going to write you a 6 figure check. The guy who's doing the Star Wars movies right now was rejected 40 times before he wrote "Little Miss Sunshine", but now he has an Oscar and a stockpile of ideas he can pull out, go through, revise, and try to develop. The way "Clerks" and "El Mariachi" was made, if digital video had existed at the time, probably would have saved a lot of time and wreaking havoc on credit card loans. I think Rodriguez was donating plasma to get some of his money... he has awesome "10 minute film school" on all his DVDs, even "Spy Kids".

Edited August 24, 2013 by dalsh327

[magisme]

People don't want originality...or art...they want to be entertained. Original movies exist they just aren't mainstream Hollywood. People want to be entertained, to relax in front of something, they don't want to be challenged. Hollywood is first and foremost a commercial enterprise, their priority is turning over profit, not being in the red. In the formative stages of Hollywood there was originality because a lot of ground was new, once genre conventions and archetypes were established and it can be ascertained what the people want, you give em it over and over and over and over and over...until such time as you become capable of manipulating what people want by way of weaning people on certain things, assigning identities to things i.e. action = for fellas, rom com = chick flick.

People want to be soothed not challenged.

I know film studies professors who couldn't have put is so well.

[DieselDaisy]

There are tons of original films if you pull your head out of Hollywood's arse and look to the rest of the world.

[GivenToFly]

If you want reasons not to get up in the morning tgeres always french cinema.

I do miss the Weinsteins taking some art house movie putting boobies on the dvd cover and youd end up watching something good.

I'd rather watch wheat grow than watch a french movie.

[wasted]

wheat grow, everything, we die like wheat.

Im sure i thought the cook, the thief, the lovef was a porn.