Today, in my opinion, motion pictures, aka movie, is dead.
Not dying but dead.
The reason is simple. People do not watch good movies anymore. They prefer garbage over good movies. As a result, our cinema is flooded with tons and tons of garbage and only handful of good movies.
The main reason this phenomenon happens is because of obsession to action for those who watch movie. For some reason, action is the most important element in a movie and they willing to pay their hard earned money to watch anything with action, crappy or not.
They totally ignore other (more) important aspects of movie, such as acting, directing, pace, dialogue, story, character development, detail linking main plot etc.
As a result, nowadays we are flooded with movies like Transformers (1 and 2), green hornet, 2012, clash of the titans, G. I. Joe and other superbly crappy movie that have nothing but action scenes which I personally do not think they manage to excel at.
A good action movie does not have to be flooded with action scenes. Look at some great action movies such as die hard, star wars or Indiana Jones. The action scene in these movies are few and far between which will create suspense and excitement.
Of course in the last 5 years, we do have several great action movies such as Avatar, The Dark Knight, Inception, kick ass etc. but the ratio of bad action movies and good action movies is at amazingly high level.
Nowadays, the only way a movie can make the box office list is either action movie or animated movie. The rest, although they may receive critical acclaimed, will never get anywhere near the top. Movies such as The Way Back, 127 Hours, The King's Speech and social network did not really shine in the ticketing department.
Looking ahead, I do not see anyway this scenario will change. Action movies (no matter how crappy they are) will rule the world of motion pictures. With the release of Transformers 3, X-men first class, pirate of the Caribbean 4, and captain America, let just hope that they will not be that bad!!
1 comment:
It sounds really bad hope its not true.
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