I find that almost every movie out today is totally unoriginal. I will support this from the analysis of ten different movies, and movie types, today.
1. Paranormal Activity: a blatant ripoff of Amityville. Haunted houses are nothing new.
2. 2012: apocalyptic disaster movie #2317852
3. Amelia: The Aviator style biopic about a pilot, this time a woman
4. Disney's A Christmas Carol: This isnt even a variation on the story done countless times, this IS the story done countless times.
5. Anything based on a book: This has been done ever since there have been movies. Try something else. (See: Harry Potter, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, Angels and Demons, and on and on and on)
6. Sequels: Trying to soak up more money from a franchise that shouldve ended after one (See: Transformers) or never existed at all (see Twilight)
7. Reboots: It is in no way original to reinvent a franchise by throwing everything previously established away and starting again (See Star Trek and The Dark Knight)
8. Pixar movies: These need to disappear. Every Pixar movie ever: something cute learns a valuable lesson.
9. Anything with Seth Rogen: Get over him. He, and his movies, SUCK. Make an original comedy and leave his fat ass out of it.
10. Anything based on a video game/cartoon/comic: This is filmifying a story (often with horrendous results) into a movie. With a few exceptions (See Spider-Man, Dark Knight) these movies are met with a thundering 'meh' at best (See: Superman Returns, Resident Evil, Dragonball)
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Star Trek and the reboot of the Batman series are all great examples of taking a franchise that was worn down and a joke, and turning them into films for a whole new generation of fans.
ReplyDeletePixar isn't a formulaic studio. I'm sorry, but a robot at the end of the world? An old man who misses his deceased wife? When's the last time a so-called children's studio dared to make a film for both adults and kids?
Book-based films can do well. I suppose you've seen Lord of the Rings?
And comic book films are wonderful escapism. Not every film needs to be Best Picture worthy, some can just be fun. Though, I will agree with you on Transformers.
The reason they are turned at all is for the money, not for fans. WALL-E and Up: both movies where something cute (ie the robot and the old man) learn a valuable lesson, which is exactly my point. It's not for kids and adults. It's for kids and tolerable by the parents that are dragged to it. Yes, but the exceptions vastly outnumber the true successes. True,but so are the comics they came from, which begs the question why the movies need to be made at all if the same story and escapism exist already.
ReplyDeleteI have to disagree. Star Trek is the joke of the world. Trek fans were dwindling in numbers, not to mention the butt of every joke. Then JJ Abrams makes the franchise accessible, and all of a sudden it's cool to be a Trekkie. Batman was the frakking joke of the superhero world following "Batman and Robin", and then Christopher Nolan reinvents it as a gritty, semi-realistic story, and now we're getting superhero films that makes us think! These studios attached big-name directors and actors to it in hopes of making ANY money, because they were laughingstocks.
ReplyDeleteWow, Up is just tolerable for all the adults? Goodness, I suppose that's why it got nominated for Best Picture. You wanna look at a bad film, check out The Blind Side.
I'm sorry, but Harry Potter kicks ass no matter what. Lord of the Rings redefined filmmaking on an epic scale and brought Tolkein to a wider audience. Films based on books will always draw money from their fanbase, and it's fun to see someone else's interpretation of the book.
What do you have against escapism? I adore films like The Hurt Locker and other serious films, but their are times I want to go see Spiderman kick bad guy ass rather than sob over some heavy thematic material. And comics normally, with the exception of graphic novels that are stand alones, require purchasing or finding multiple copies of comics and various editions, which does tax ones wallet.
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