Imagine yourself in front of a crowd of 100 randomly selected people from all kinds of age, social, and culture backgrounds.
You ask, "Who here has watched The Last Jedi?"
A sea of hands shoots up and an excited chatter about the latest Star Wars movie erupts throughout the room.
You then ask "How about Thor Ragnarok? Who has seen that?"
A few hands drop, but the excited whispers and sea of hands remain.
"Has anyone watched Baby Driver?" is your 3rd question.
You see a significant number of hands fall. You still have about half of your audience's hands raised, but a trend is starting to become apparent.
Finally, you propose the question, "Has anyone seen Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri?"
And all but a few of your
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IMDb has two, but we largely come to the same conclusion. The highest rated movies amongst audiences and film critics tend to be standalone movies. Personally, my favorite films this past decade: Wreck It Ralph, Wall-E, Lady Bird, La La Land, and Dunkirk have all been standalone films. Film series have the potential to outdo standalone films in story as spanning across multiple installments allows for deeper character growth and worldbuilding, but we have yet to see many films accomplish that. From an audience point of view, the overabundance of sequels creates subjectively worse films overall, but how about from the producer stand point? Producers should also be concerned because when the big studios own all the big-name series, it makes it difficult for independent films to make a name for themselves at the box office. I consider myself well informed in terms of film news, but I didn't even know what Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea were until I saw them start to pop up at the Oscars. The monopoly created by these large franchises caused a lack of innovation and creativity for original films.
Now the obvious solution would be to make more standalone films, right? They have higher ratings, so they should attract more movie goers and create more interest in independent movies. However, as we have seen, movies with higher ratings are not necessarily more popular
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Each of these movies had to attract as many audiences as possible from all demographics. There could no longer be dozens of movies that could fulfill everyone's niches. Each movie started to become more generic and cliché to appeal to the general demographic.
With rising viewership in alternate platforms such as Amazon and Netflix, inflation of movie ticket prices, and more and more dumping of money into the budget of each film, Hollywood is backed against a wall. In the 1990's, if one out of the thirty movies that a studio released failed, there were twenty-nine others to make up for it. Now there is no wiggle room for even one film to perform poorly at the
Movies today are extremely expensive to make and are typically financed through either film studio contracts or from investors willing to take a risk. In order to be successful, movies need to be marketed and distributed either under contract by the film studios or by companies that specialize in such services. The aspects of financing, marketing and distribution of films have changed between the studio and independent systems over the years as the evolution of the film industry took place.
With the loss of its centralized structure, the film industry produced filmmakers with radical new ideas. The unique nature of these films was a product of the loss of unified identity.
In partial agreement of Medved’s claims, I too see that the overall quality of American films is continuously dropping. I have seen many recent films in which the only element that could possibly keep the viewer interested are the constant actions of violence. One particular film that falls into this category is the 1999 release, The Matrix. This science fiction/action film is about a group of technologically advanced pioneers who venture into a parallel world to stop an unnamed enemy from doing some unnamed bad thing. The film was a series of chasing and fighting scenes in which they just kept coming up with new ways for the good guys to escape or shoot the enemy and new ways for the enemies to die. The climax of the story was at the end when the main good guy, Neo, had one last fight with the main bad guy. The fight ends when Neo is finally killed but then he is suddenly resurrected and he kills the bad guy; the world is safe again. The plot was nothing more than the overdone myth of "good verses evil," in which after a long struggle, good wins.
Motion Pictures have always had a strong influence in today’s culture, but maybe none as prevalent as Star Wars. Originating with Episode 4 A New Hope, the series boomed from 1977 to 2005 with yet another addition coming in 2015. The strongest of the series was the original trilogy episodes 4, 5, and 6, all generally released in the 1980s. As one of the strongest film francaises still today, it’s impact within the 1980s was only the tip of the iceberg. Children and adults alike still anticipate the new edition of this seemingly endless journey. If any singular film series still holds prevalence in its future decades it is Star Wars: Original Trilogy.
It is for this reason why they are influential films with a strong cast, plots and messages behind them.
These and other developments have led some to a common criticism that they are all special effects without the ability to tell a compelling story. Many newspaper reviews of the latest blockbusters are filled with statements that they contain impressive special effects but the film fails to tell a good story or unfortunately there are no interesting characters. Critics claim that digital special effects caused story telling standards to fall rapidly, mainly in big-budget blockbusters.
Largely influenced by the French New Wave and other international film movements, many American filmmakers in the late 1960s to 1970s sought to revolutionize Hollywood cinema in a similar way. The New Hollywood movement, also referred to as the “American New Wave” and the “Hollywood Renaissance,” defied traditional Hollywood standards and practices in countless ways, creating a more innovative and artistic style of filmmaking. Due to the advent and popularity of television, significant decrease in movie theater attendance, rising production costs, and changing tastes of American audiences, particularly in the younger generation, Hollywood studios were in a state of financial disaster. Many studios thus hired a host of young filmmakers to revitalize the business, and let them experiment and have almost complete creative control over their films. In addition, the abandonment of the restrictive Motion Picture Production Code in 1967 and the subsequent adoption of the MPAA’s rating system in 1968 opened the door to an era of increased artistic freedom and expression.
From the discussion above, it can be established there is a correlation between traditional and current films. For instance, the roles of the main characters in the film are developed throughout the film, just as in the films today. Additionally, the use of animation complements the humorous part of a film. From the love story of Miles and Marylin, it can be deduced that true love overcomes love-for-money. Finally, the protagonist achieves a happy ending whilst the antagonist suffers for his inhumane actions.
In the history of movies, there are great movies that come out. Then, filmmakers try to recreate the brilliance of that movie with a sequel, sometimes many sequels. All to make more money with something that is familiar to everyone. It very rarely works as well a second or third time around. Because the films usually completely dumb down the first movie 's premise and drop the important parts, in favor of something a lot simpler. In some cases, there are some exceptions; sometimes the sequel is better than the original. This is my list of the top ten great movies with bad sequels. I hope you enjoy reading this list.
Millions of people around the world attend the movie theatre and among those millions of people they all share the same thing; the love for movies. There are movies of all genres that appeal to each person in this world, and yet many people find themselves sharing the same love for classic original movies; such movies in particular may include: Carrie, Godzilla, Footloose, and Psycho. Once someone has seen a movie and is en-captured by what the film means, how it was able to tug at their heart strings, the way a horror film was able to give them the chills, and the connection they made to the main character; people do not want anything about the film to change. For many remaking a classic film takes away the quality from the original film
"A sequel is such a daunting thing because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one" (Sandra Bullock). We all have those classic movies that we enjoy until people in Hollywood create too many sequels. Honestly, the more sequels that are made ruins the origin storyline or plot from the first film. For example, the movie Ice Age was a remarkable movie. Ice Age was about this mammoth, sloth, and saber-tooth tiger protecting a human baby in an attempt to return the baby to its tribe.
film can make or break a movie. Marketing a film takes up a great deal of the money that is
Big studio films have the power to hire major actors and directors but the advantage independent films have is the low cost. If an independent film produced at a lower budget gets critical acclaim in festivals it could reap the benefits of a larger profit margin. A great example of this is “The Blair Witch Project”; the movie was produced at $22,500 and grossed $250 million. “The Blair Witch Project” is a rare case, but proves that content and production can garner bigger profits if a film is produced well. While big studios have an advantage in buying airtime for film trailers, tours of leading actors and the cost of film festivals circuits; independent film makers have the advantage of artistic merit and lower production costs.
Film was meant to show the traditions and customs of specific cultures to the rest of the world. However, because of Hollywood's need for a large market to sell a movie ...
First of all, I would like to go over my expectations of movies in the future: