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The Moviepocalypse
What is the moviepocalypse you ask? According to a famed webshow host, the Movie Preview Critic, it is considered to be the end of good movies and creative spirit. It's basically the sole reason why we hear dozens of people on the internet community, from youtube to 4chan, complaining about movies/summer blockbusters based on already-existing source material (books, TV shows, cartoons, etc.) and remakes/reboots/sequels and demand Hollywood to make pure original films/summer blockbusters like Inception. More information about the moviepocalypse can also be found from this link: http://themoviepreviewcritic.com/html/the_moviepocalypse.html
Do you think the Movie Preview Critic has a point? Is this the end of cinema as we know it? Keep in mind that he's been warning about this event for more than 5 years now, so does this suppose moviepocalypse is all a false alarm? |
There's a large difference between wanting original movies and wanting summer blockbusters and that's what the movie industry recognizes. Making an original movie is risky because there's no guarantee that people will even want to see it, and even then there's a lot less money to be made since there are little to no tie-ins that can be marketed alongside the movie. With a reboot you can often get a special re-release of the original and tons of people will buy the book if there's an adaptation, and in the end it's all about what rakes in the most money.
That being said, I blame movie-goers just as much as the industry. Everybody whines about how originality is dying and whine whine whine but when there's an original movie out these people are nowhere near it. Will there be a Moviepocalypse? There won't be if people close their mouths and open their wallets. |
So? Movies are almost always based on another source of media. Totally original films are really few and far between. Anyways, there's a pretty good lineup of movies coming out this summer that I'm very anxious to see - Great Gatsby, After Earth, Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, Elysium, etc. Let 4Chan complain.
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All I'm really looking forward to is Star Trek 2 and to a lesser extent, the next Hobbit.
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Don't forget A LOT of movies were based on novels. For example, in the 1920's, it was the monster era where they made monsters from different novels like Dracula, Frankenstein & The Werewolf into movies and now they're cult classics. Today we still have a load of of books that are yet to be made into motion pictures. Probably because of all the remakes and huge commercials of bad movies are always on TV and the good ones are left in the dark since they're not getting enough commercials.
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No movie is intentionally made badly for the sake of it being bad. Not even slapstick movies such as the Scary Movie franchise or the 'non-scary' parallels of such, such as Date Movie. I'm confident that the purpose said movies are terrible are because they're supposed to be chocked full of dry and, often times, sexually fueled humor. It's not supposed to be a good movie, it's supposed to wring a quick chuckle out of the audience every few scenes.
Original movies are few and far between for the very reason someone stated already - they're a huge risk because the demographic for a movie based on nothing as opposed to an adapted alternative is going to be much smaller in almost every case. Of course, holes like that are covered by substituting an original plot with well-known actors, as is apparent with Inception's Leonardo DiCaprio. 'I've never heard of this, but such and such is in it, so it might be worth the $4 matinee!' |
I guess one could look at this way, but one could also look at is as people are taking their good, original ideas and making them into books, comics, television shows, and other media first. I mean, you don't need a who studio backing you up with producers, directors, writers, and so on if you're writing a book and working on a comic. Movies are in a lot of ways the slowest vessels for getting a story told to an audience even if the final product is fairly short and easy to digest.
So I think there are still original ideas, but people are just not rushing to the movies with them. I'm sure if the process of making movies was easier you'd see more people experimenting with them. |
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Anyway, here's yet another webshow host who believes originality is dying in cinema (in the first couple of minutes of course): http://blip.tv/animation-lookback/top-10-worst-films-based-on-a-cartoon-1-2-6250012 |
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Like Scarf, I don't think that originality is dying, I just believe that the originality is being crafted into other media. Logistically, it does make sense. Rather than channeling untold amounts of money into a film that might not even get it's money back, the cost of hiring famous actors to support the movie being a huge drain on finances itself, rather than trying to deal with the impossibly slow movie-making business, it is easier to either turn your originality into a book or a TV show. I would certainly consider the option of turning my magnum opus into a televison starring the likes of Jessica Lange and what not, as opposed to a movie. |
There are still really great movies being made; it's just a case of doing a bit of digging to find them out. So while there's no moviepocalypse any time soon on the horizon, there might be a movie-shortage if Hollywood's current business model of tent pole pictures continues for the foreseeable future.
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