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The only original movie that came out this year is Sharknado.
So Hollywood is following a basic 3-Act Structure for their Blockbusters. I’m shocked.
Once-Upon-A-Time the formula was:
BOY GETS GIRL
BOY LOSES GIRL
BOY GETS GIRL
Those were the days. It’s just a coincidence that the old style was also 3 acts. At least I think it’s a coincidence.
Hmmmm.
That’s the way David S Goyer writes, but perfected. It’s well-known here in Hollywood the 3 act script is the standard but everyone copied the style of how Goyer wrote the Dark Knight.
Sometimes it takes a little looking, and they disappear quickly, but there are good movies. Case in point...Mudd.
(This is interesting, even though TED can be liberal at times)
Computer-generated special effects has supplanted story-telling. Given today’s technology conservatives should start making their own movies. They can be written and shot cheaply anywhere now. Why not a movie about the corruption of incumbency; or a movie about the stupidity of urban municipal government; a movie about family values; a movie about the godliness of the love between a man and a woman; a movie about the need for the Second Amendment; a movie about individualism and free enterprise—the list is endless. I cannot watch one more Hollywood movie about gays and global warming and the virtues of recycling. I’ve had it. NO MORE.
Importantly, this is the way things are because the movie studios are owned by non-entertainment corporations. For them, movies are just “product”, and they seek a reliable formula to generate a reliable profit.
However, they do not understand that movie goers want some degree of variation, something different from formula, or going to the movies is like eating nothing but hot dogs, day in and day out.
To make matters worse, movies are now thought of in terms of domestic vs. international sales.
This is why the rancid remake of The Alamo was so repugnant; because it was not made for Americans, but for foreign audiences. So it is demeaning to the heroes involved, insulting to Americans, and anachronistic because they figured that foreign audiences would neither know nor care.
Saw “RED 2” this morning. It was okay.
Strangely, the instrumental music played in some scenes was very, very similar to some of the scenes on “Skyfall”...
Oh and I love Malkovich and Mirren!
So....why does anyone still go? Why pay 10 bucks for a ticket and 10 more for popcorn and a coke to see a bad movie? Stay home and watch old movies on Netflix instead.