5 Hollywood Secrets That Explain Why So Many Movies Suck

[Ducimus]

Not sure if this has been posted before.

Chances are if you're reading this, you are already mad at Hollywood. You've watched helplessly as it bastardized the franchises you loved as a child, or failed to promote -- or even release -- a project you had been excited about for years.

You can write it all off as greed and the terrible taste of the movie-going public, but there are other factors that make Hollywood the soulless blockbuster machine that it is. Some of which you'd never suspect ..

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[nikimcbee]

I blame CGI. More fluff, less substance

[Platapus]

And the fact that the producers seem to feel that every movie has to be 2.5 hours + .

Not every move needs 2 1/2 hours. I would opine that most of the movies I see could be done and done well in about an hour.

[Bilge_Rat]

yes, it's called good old fashioned capitalism, despite that, you still have great films being made including:

..Inglorious Basterds, The Social network, The Hurt Locker, Il Divo, Zodiac, Coco & Chanel, Inception, The Kids are Allright, Red, Shutter Island, Solitary Man, Cemetery Junction, The Ghost Writer, The Limits of Control, The Girlfriend Experience, Public Enemies, The Informant!, Bronson, The Messenger, Young Victoria, The Blind Side, Me and Orson Welles, The Road, Up in the Air, The Lovely Bones, A Single Man, Crazy Heart, Sherlock Holmes, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises..

just to name some recent ones I have seen and liked...

[Weiss Pinguin]

and INCEPTION heeheeheehee

[MaddogK]

Seriously ??? Sherlock Holmes ?


Up in the air was pretty good, as was (surprisingly) Repo men.

[Feuer Frei!]

Pretty spoton list of reasons.

Writers Don't Come Up With the Ideas

This imo should have been No 1, so true.

Everything Is Simplified for the International Market

Dumbing down? Yep, true again.
The substance has gone from movies, look at ****e like Mchete, The Expendables, just to name a few. Oh, and Inglorious Basterds.

Movie Projects Get Killed for Bad Reasons

And sometimes this is for the better.

Gaming the Ratings System

The good 'ole ratings system. Too violent, so it gets binned, or banned from classification, or banned from screening in certain areas.
What about choice? What about freedom of viewing?
As if we haven't seen it all before.

Merchandising Supremacy

Well yea, that's just business sense.
Cater to a broader market. Cash in, milk the cow for what it's worth by doing 50 sequels, or basing a movie on a newly-released game.
Fail!

These factors can all be applied to the gaming industry too.
Perfectly, might i add.
Copy and pasta straight into the What's wrong with games today thread.

Movies these days are void of any sort of attempt to actively challenge a brain cell or two, certainly in my case.
It's either a war movie, where the (surprise surprise) the Germans get bashed and branded evil and get killed in the most violent ways, as if to drive home to the viewer that we can't forget that the Germans were all bad, point in case recently with Inglorious Basterds, that's one reason i haven't watched it, apart from Brad Pitt's lack of acting skills, or the mindless drivel of The Expendables, where you allow wouldbe actors, such as Sly Stallone to direct his own garbage. The plot of the movie? No plot, just a kill em all, how many words can you put together in a sentence type of film. A waste of time for me, time i will never get back.
Machete? Same garbage.
Hollywood needs to look at itself and re-invent itself.
Now!

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

the Germans were all bad, point in case recently with Inglorious Basterds, that's one reason i haven't watched it, apart from Brad Pitt's lack of acting skills,

easily the best movie on my list, you owe to yourself to watch this film and make up your own mind, critics have tried to pigeonhole it in this or that category, but it defies description, brillant writing and film making.

[Oberon]

Sherlock Holmes was a good film, surprisingly enjoyable all things considered. I had my doubts when I went to watch it, but I think that the use of CGI in recreating the scenery of the time instead of wasting it all on massive explosions everywhere was good, and Downey made a good, if unconventional, Sherlock. I will definitely be seeing the sequel.

Now, Robin Hood on the other hand... AUF MICH ZU DIRECKT!!

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

easily the best movie on my list, you owe to yourself to watch this film and make up your own mind, critics have tried to pigeonhole it in this or that category, but it defies description, brillant writing and film making.

Thanks for the suggestion, i mean that, but i'll pass.
Seen too many of these types of movies churned out by Hollywood to even go near it.

[Jimbuna]

Wasn't all that impressed with Inglorious Bastards, thought the ending in particular made little sense but did enjoy Sherlock Holmes.

Avatar anyone?

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Sherlock Holmes was a good film, surprisingly enjoyable all things considered. I had my doubts when I went to watch it, but I think that the use of CGI in recreating the scenery of the time instead of wasting it all on massive explosions everywhere was good, and Downey made a good, if unconventional, Sherlock. I will definitely be seeing the sequel.

I enjoyed Sherlock Holmes too, Downey was ok in the role, i couldn't stomach the not so funny quips or one-liners though.
Apart from that, it was a good movie.
What is it about movies these days, moreso action movies when you have to have a character playing the lead which has to be a smarta** and roll off 1-liners like it was going out of fashion, which might i add are more annoying than funny, imo.
I'm also pointing at you, Star Trek the movie.
Man oh man, Chris Pine as Kirk, Aaaaaaargggggghhhhhh.

[Growler]

My wife's writing for Hollywood at the moment, and actually a part of something rather... large.

All I can say is, things are not always as they appear, and this is both blessing and curse.

[frau kaleun]

Everything Is Simplified for the International Market

Riiiiight. Cuz the US market just loves those artful, complicated, intellectually stimulating films.

[joegrundman]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Thanks for the suggestion, i mean that, but i'll pass.
Seen too many of these types of movies churned out by Hollywood to even go near it.

nah, you'd like it. it's a unique movie.