Well the Summer period for movies has come and gone, and this is the period where you get your biggest most bad ass films of the year. Everyone is fighting to be the best, but it didn't feel like that this year. All the mainstream films felt bleak and dull. The three biggest most anticipated movies of the summer. Iron Man 3, Man of Steel and Star Trek Into Darkness and lets throw Kick Ass 2 in there for the laugh.. All of them just...sucked, if you really think about it...Well maybe not Star Trek, that was the best one out of the lot.
The fact that the smaller, independent films are doing better and more worth a watch than the mainstream ones shows what audiences want these days. A good story, with good characters, slight humour with heart. Not over the top effects just for the sake of it, because that will not work. I recently watched an interview with Stephen Moffat. (Head Writer of Doctor Who at the moment) on writing tips, and he said something that just what I'm trying to say perfectly.
Don't do or write what you think people will enjoy. Do and write what you love and feel passionate about, because it will never work.
To me this is what Hollywood has come down to, throwing everything that producers think people will enjoy, Explosion after explosion after explosion. Death after death after death, and they don't care because they get the money for it.
Films at the moment like The Way Way back or You're Next or even The Conjuring should get more recognition than they are getting. Why, because these are films that say. Yeah, we made something that we feel deeply and care about. Not lets make this for the money because people will come and see it.
Speaking of which there's the other side of that coin. Film like Pain and Gain, Grown Ups 2, and not released here yet (and god I hope its not) Getaway. A film that is not to hard to miss how much shit it is if you read reviews. These are films that are made by people who just want money and made by people who create something they think audiences want to see. But they don't care either way.
Adam Sandler and Michael Bay are renowned for this at the moment. Bay all his career, ruining franchises that people cared about.
At what point whilst reading a script did someone say or think, yeah a deer pissing on someone's face is funny, or and I'm going to go back in time here, yeah, a man with balls on his chin is funny, or a couple talking fornicating on each other is funny. It's not. Get a reality check.
Now I'm not claiming to be a better writer, but at least I know when my scripts are going to shit. I can re-read my script and think what the hell was I doing here, or that just doesn't work it needs changing. I've done so many re-writes of scenes and everything just to get to a level that I feel comfortable with, because it wasn't working or it just wasn't good.
I can go on with this but with looking at future movies, we are in for this, for a long, long time. So I might as well enjoy the ride. However for cinemas I hope people will join me, but I will take care in what I go to see from now on., and put my money into something that deserves it more.
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