Make Movies Great Again!
The one thing that will bring our good old movies back into the theaters
According to Box Office Mojo, the movie box office tracking website, 9 movies grossed over 1 billion dollars in 2019, while in 2023 this number was only 2!
Pandemic and streaming services certainly have contributed to declining box offices, but one thing performed a fatality:
The quality of the movies.
Do you also ask yourself: where have all the good movies gone?
I’m a movie geek. I love movies. And who doesn’t?
You can escape the wild and cruel reality for a couple of hours, derive valuable lessons or new philosophy out of it, or spend some time in the good company of friends or loved ones.
There was always something magical about movies, something that has been making millions of people fill cinema halls in anticipation of a great story told onscreen. (Yeah, the movies weren’t always good, but at least they brought cash)
Until recently…
What is ruining today’s movies?
Any decent movie costs a fortune to produce.
But first and foremost, it’s art, and no amount of money will make a great movie out of an awful one.
Cinematography is considered to be one of the most complicated art forms, expressing the unique point of view of its author.
But nowadays, it’s only expressing the unique point of view of its owner company with a single purpose — to increase product revenue.
That’s all.
Movies are products, viewers are buyers and filmmakers are tools. You’re nothing but a consumer.
End of the story.
When the culture of consumerism crawls into any area of life — the outcome is always the same.
The ultimate strategy of modern movie studios — is to diminish risks and attract the largest possible audience. They play safe, but safe in art equals boring.
Trying to please everyone, they please nobody.
Do you wonder why nobody produces original movies and ideas anymore?
The whole industry runs on a risk-based model, and there’s no guarantee the release of a new movie will make your money back. That’s why the studios rely on so-called pre-sold franchises, those with already existing audiences such as books, video games, or comics.
Sequels, prequels, triquels and other bullshit only to milk the most out of your pockets and beloved franchises.
The creators do not care that the value of such stories and their universes decreases with each poor-adapted movie, besides not all of them have the potential for endless production. (Sequels, prequels, etc. But who cares?)
The movie business is like a casino. And you can’t defeat a casino by constantly betting on a zero.
But it’s exactly what our eyes are witnessing now.
Who makes these movies?
Ok, we’ve figured out the economic part behind the movie-making.
But what about the creative side?
You see, the main part of any movie is the script. No script — no movie.
The job of a good writer (in our case, a scriptwriter) is to make the audience enjoy, care, and sympathize with everything happening onscreen.
Am I right? Haha…
While the Writer Guild has been striking for restricting AI, modern movies seem to be written by AI rather than humans.
No jokes, the studios launch multi-trillion-dollar projects (instead of launching original medium-budget movies) on a script, that violates every written or unwritten rule of screenwriting, taking advice from every scriptwriting book and doing exactly the opposite.
Listen to the dialogue in any generic modern movie or series. What the hell? Who is even talking like that? (creators of the show…)
Dull and invasive sense of humor, making you cringe every few seconds, pointless exchange of even more pointless information, and finally chaos and incomprehension of characters' actions. The writing of these characters requires another article to analyze and make fun of. (generally, make fun of)
To tell a story, a person has to live. Not just tweet and exist like a dumb animal, but feel and strive like a real human being.
How on Earth some writers are planning (and fucking succeeding) in adapting the source material without reading the source material in the first place?????????????????????????
The question requires much more question marks.
They’re like creatures from another universe. Or multiverse.
The tyranny of the filmmakers must be stopped. I can’t witness the destruction of my favorite franchises anymore ;(
The light at the end of the tunnel
Here’s the only thing, capable of saving our once-beloved movie industry.
Time.
Nothing cures better than time.
The light at the end of the tunnel — it’s when movie studios finally run out of money to ruin popular franchises, hopefully with the greediest ones disappearing.
The studios will have no other option but to take risks with tighter budgets and create something unique and appealing to the audience.
All we can do is wait.
Just don’t give money to the ones, who see you only as a consumer, instead of a viewer, fan, or connoisseur.
The client is always right, and those who think otherwise face bankruptcy.
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