Originally posted by nerbot
reply to post by blupblup
I think the thing people must remember about hollywood is the fact that they cater to the maximum amount of consumers as possible. Their result is
manipulated with market research, screenings and a need to sell the movie in as many ways as possible after the initial release.
I said it before......Mediocrity.
Definitely mate.
Middle of the road...non-offensive rubbish sells.
Mass appeal.... that is the key.
Mass appeal= mass profits
A book is different and allows the reader to use their own imagination and thoughts a lot more. A book can inspire a hell of a lot more than a movie
most of the time.
I wholeheartedly agree
It's not often a film can even come close to the book.
It's such a cliché to say "the book is always better" but it's so true.
You don't have to accept the scene or the alien or the lead character you're presented with....you just imagine your own... it's amazing.
The trouble with hollywood is that they don't give people the credit or opportunity to use their grey stuff. They need their financial guarantees to
pay for the cheesy CGI, rediculous actor wages and to pat themselves constantly on the back believing that money is the sign of success.
I don't blame them to be fair.
look at what sells and what is popular at the movies.... look at what makes the most money?
Middle of the road, SFX-laden, crap films.
Any decent and thought provoking films are usually the "indy" movies, low budget but with great acting and fantastic story.
It's a shame that these films are not pushed more.... but because they require emotion and some thought from the viewer... the majority of people
can't be bothered.
Same with "foreign/subtitled" movies.
I always hear comments like "I don't want to read a film" or "i wonder if they'll remake it"....sad really.... and they usually do remake it.
Look at all the remakes recently
Quarantine- remake of spanish movie Rec (almost shot for shot)
Funny games - again a shot for shot remake of the original German movie of the same name.
The eye - remake of the chines movie Gin gwai (the eye)
the uninvited - a remake of Korean movie ATOTS (a tale of two sisters) a great movie too.(the original obviously
)
I could go on and on....but it makes me sad
I just don't get it??
Are they (hollywood) running out of original ideas.... good movies a thing of the past?
People too blinkered to watch decent independent movies or too lazy to "read" foreign or subtitled movies?
Personally I would like to have more of the "open-ended" movies that teach us to question the big questions, not ones like this that presume they
must provide the answers for us.
Why do you think 2001 was such a profound and successful classic?
Perhaps because the book was the seed and it posed so many unanswered questions that relate to who we are, where we're going and a whole bunch of
"whys, ifs, and coulds".
R.I.P. Stanley Kubrick. R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke....they don't make 'em like they used to.
Me too.... i like to think either "wow, that was so profound" or "WTF did i just watch"
and be thinking about the movie for days after.
I totally agree with you on 2001....it was almost a like a book/film.... so open and so full of imagery and ultimately up to the viewer to take from
it what they will.
And yep....R.I.P. ACC and SK and R.I.P. original movies methinks..
Oh and R.I.P. one of the greatest SF writers ever (if not the best) PKD. (Philip K. Dick)
[edit on 26/3/09 by blupblup]
and some people got freaked out! 
