Is anyone else bored with current movies right now?

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I'm bored wth movies.
I can't even remember the last movie I saw in the theater was. Maybe have been PotC2 or Devil Wears Prada?? I honestly can't remember. I'd have to look at my ticket stubs.
I am very picky with what I decide to spend $10 on. Mostly I have come out the theater not feeling like I wasted the money.
Otherwise I wait till cable or dvd.

And then as to what I am looking forward to.
I have been waiting for Awake (with Hayden Christensen/Jessica Alba/Terrance Howard) to be released. It got delayed :rolleyes:
That is the only movie I am looking foward to with much anticipation.

I like read all the posts. Great topic and some good points were said.
 
It has been a little boring lately...Jackass 2 had my tail laughing, and I'm hoping Employee of the Month, Chainsaw Massacre-The Beginning and Saw 3 will liven things up a bit!
 
One of the problem's is Hollywood is just not making "smart" movies anymore, regardless of the genre.

I think the 1990s were one of the best decades for truly original and "smart" movies in all genres be it action, romance and others.

We had films like "Twister", "Pulp Fiction", "Jurrasic Park", "Clueless", "Independence Day", etc. Sure. Not all of them were 100% original -- some where Shakespere adaptations like "Clueless" and based on novels... But the way they were executed was original and this is what I think Hollywood needs to start getting back to in my opinion.

There is an old saying that says there are only eight stories that are ever told in the history of mankind and everything else is just a variation on those eight stories.

Fine.

It is the execution of those eight stories why we go to the movies... Or used to, rather.

These days the execution is just plain bad, boring or dumbed-down for the teeny-boppers in a vein attempt to get a supposedly bigger audience.

It is the oldest Catch-22, in the book because by making something "more accessible" this inevitably means making it less sophisticated and more sanitized so it doesn't offend anyone... Or, rather, this is what Hollywood and mainstream entertainment keeps on thinking with regards to not just movies, but music, video games and other forms of entertainment.

Also, I know most of you girls are going to hate me for saying this... But going to films like "Pirates of the Caribbean" sends mixed signals to Hollywood because it means you DO approve of movies like this... Movies that are shallow and nothing but spectacle... Yet you wonder why they keep cranking out similar movies then?

I don't want to go completely OT... But Pirates is "Titanic" all over again because it is a female-friendly movie. There is nothing wrong with this, but I think for some of you to say you will go see this, but then wonder why movies like "Jackass 2" make money is a bit hypocritical if you guys truly are "film snobs" like some of you claim.

I never claimed I was a film snob which is why I bring this up and I think it is relevant to this discussion because you can all berate Hollywood for producing bad movies, but then if you support multi-million dollar "bad movies" like Pirates then you have only yourselves to blame in my opinion.

On the same note, however, I've seen just as many bad, smaller budget indie movies that were pretentious and just as poorly executed as their mainstream counter-parts like "The Blair Witch Project", so it is not just " big, bad Hollywood" that is at fault here as well.

What needs to happen for people to go back to the movies is a balance needs to be reached between having good story and it not taking $300 million dollars to tell said story (because the indirect cost of these multi-million dollar movies is what is driving up the cost at the box office aside from greed).

This is what I have been saying for five years on this board every time we talk about Hollywood and its spend, spend, spend attitude... Which IS coming to a close because this line of thinking just is not working anymore and I suppose it is a blessing in disguise IF they respond to it the appropriate way like TV is by at least trying to produce better films which will lure people back to the theaters.
 
:yay: You and I are on the same page!! :yay: Anything after Scream was just not there anymore.
 
The original The Ring is called Ringu and I think it was a Japanese movie. Ringu is definately scarier than The Ring. I had to cover my eyes up a lot when I watched Ringu. The Grudge was somewhat scary in the movie theater but on DVD it's not that scary.

I am a little bored with current movies right now because there aren't enough action movies. Jason Statham is the best action movie star right now. I really hope he does Transporter 3.
 
I too am a film snob; sorry to say but three years on a film course made me that way sorry!

Hollywood, it seems to me has ran out of ideas but yet there are still thousands of stories yet to be told and they just can't seem to think of them. I can't stand remakes, ever year now there seems to be a dozen of them and they are so poorly done, what is the point of them? The only remake I have ever liked was Oceans 11 and that was only because the original was poor.

Actually my favorite genre out of all is horror and always has been because its so undervalued and yet there is so many complex stories/theories behind them but the utter crap Hollywood has been producing lately makes me long for the days when the horror genre was actually scary. The last decent horror movie was Scream imo, and that was nearly 10 years ago! Now that is scary! But the longer Hollywood continues to remake horror movies the more this genre is going down the pan, they are wrecking it.

I love films, I love any kind of films, any genre and any language but at this moment there isn't any films I can say I am really looking forward to from Hollywood with maybe the exception of Spiderman III because I believe that’s a really well made series. Until Hollywood starts producing films which are original again and stop this ridiculous cycle of remakes just because they make money the numbers of cinema attendance will continue to decline I think.
 
I don't really go to theatre anymore to watch current movies. Not only because of the overpriced tickets but the movies just doesn't seem appealing anymore. Horror movies have been dumbed down to PG-13. Michael Myers must be in his grave rolling. :D

Movies these days are either remakes, sequels, or based on books or plays.
 
This links up well with the issue of hype. Take any big-budget film (which inevitably will have a combination of well-known actors going through the motions and with the requisite love story/scenes, mediocre scriptwriting, lots of hype etc) - the fact is that if you see enough advertising, you might be swayed into wanting to see the film, unless it is that incredibly bad, which normally it isn't (it's just substandard). And in fact for some people, they might want to go see something so bad, but that's neither here nor there. Anyway, the point is that people will probably end up watching it. And who is more susceptible to this peddling than the teenage crowd, who are less picky and more enamoured by what the studios can drum up? (Did that make sense?)

So the point is that Hollywood comes up with these big movies because the teenage crowd goes for it, they're the biggest audience for movies. And the rest of us bemoan the lack of good films until the Ocar period.
 
:lol: Not suprised with that one, alot of people like to see weird sick crap so.
 
I think the remake of "The Posiedon Adventure" aka Poseidon, which came out in May, isn't that bad of a pop-corn, disaster flick... Which is the whole point. When I go see a movie like this I am not expecting it to change the world or effect me in any other way than to entertain me for a 90 minutes to two hours... And it did just that.



X-Men three is HORRIBLE. It is mostly because of the writers -- Who wrote "Catwoman" if this is any indication -- And the director, Brett Ratner who is a Michael Bay wannabe in he purposefuly makes dumbed-down movies and he gets jobs mainly because he can make these big action flicks and come in under budget.

This is a sad side-effect of Hollywood having to tighten their belts and another Catch-22 because the future will now be who(m)ever can bring a movie in under budget regardless if they are a good director/actor/producer/writer which is sometimes worse than overpaying truly talented people... Yet this very thing is what got Hollywood in this big financial mess in the first place. Oy vey! ;)



As we have been discussing... The biggest problem for U.S. cinema/Hollywood is they cater too much to the under-age and teen market because they percieve them to have more disposable income... Which is actually a FALSE perception for a lot of reasons I won't go into here. Suffice to say, this is why most films are dumbed down PG-13 crapfests written with the mentality of a 14-year old in mind because this is EXACTLY who they catering to, unfortunately.

Again contrast to TV who used to do this as well... Be completely youth-oriented and obsessed... But it changed very quickly over the past couple of years when networks like CBS started to out-do networks like FOX, The WB and NBC who prided themselves on being "hip and cool" when CBS put shows on the air that ANYONE of any age could potentially like CSI, Criminal Minds, NCIS, etc.

Like I said above, I don't have problem with films that are meant to entertain and nothing more... Like "Poseidon"... But again, there just aren't enough movies like this coming out and the rest consists of what we've been discussing and that is films whose sole purpose is to be a loss-leader for the few truly good and adult-oriented films... Usually, the Oscar nominated films... That only come out during the fall and early Winter before Oscars.
 
i heard the other week was the lowest week for the box office this year or something. it was good for the covenant.
 
:look: Trust me on this one, Grudge 2 is not as different as Grudge 1. I own both originals :nod:
 
:lmao: This just cracked me up.

As with the rest of you - you know, I'm kind of surprised everyone's in agreement! I thought someone would say we were just missing the good films! :lol:

carcrashes - welcome to the boards! I hope you enjoy posting here!
 
I haven't been to the movies since July, and that was for Pirates. Which was one of the best movies I've ever seen. But other than that and X3 and V for Vendetta, I haven't seen anything this year worth the money. Everything's just been sucking so much. I have no idea when the next time I'll go to the theater...
 
It's not just you. A lot of movies I've seen advertised haven't really caught my attention much lately.
 
One thing I wanted to bring up right now regarding TV... Because we are in the midst of the Fall 200-07 season premiere week... Is all you have to do is log onto the internet to see the genuine effort the TV industry is making in comparison to the movie side of the business because this is the first time in recent memory where I have watched two (2) world/season premieres on the web BEFORE they aired on network TV.

The producers of both "Heroes" (NBC) and "Veronica Mars" (CW) allowed their premiere episodes to be downloaded and watched legally online weeks and months before they aired.

This is a smart move because it shows TV producers realize there is a problem with people not watching TV as much as they used to and they are addressing this problem by using the very competition which is taking viewers away from TV... The internet... And turning it around and using it as an interest-arousing device to get people back to watching TV.

The reason I bring this up is because the TV industry doesn't whine about piracy, or actors being overpaid -- Which would be a lie as far as TV vs. film salaries go -- And instead is trying a pro-active approach to solving the problem... Which is a Hell of a lot more than what the studio executives are doing and that is blame everyone under the sun except themselves as to why people aren't going to the movies anymore.

I just feel it was an interesting contrast to note and unlike most abstract discussions, this is something we can all experience if we are inclined and more importantly, I feel this model will probably be carried into the future as more and more of Hollywood learns to not fear alternative technologies and instead embraces them because all of this talk about piracy and trying to crack down on peer to peer sharing networks -- Which is how most first-run movies and TV shows are shared across the world -- Is just another smoke screen to shift the blame off of themselves for continuing to crank out mindless crap (point blank) for the 12-18-year olds...

When they could do what the TV industry is doing and that is embrace the internet and other alternative distribution networks and start to capitalize on it instead of condeming it.

For example, how many of you would be willing to download an entire movie, in widescreen format with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound for around $5.99?

I would because even if the movie sucks, the cost is still equivalent to a weekly rental (Hollywood video is around $4.25 for 5 days) and it is far less than actually going to the theater if we include gas, tickets and concessions.

I know there will always be thieves who will find a way to get it for free, but I truly believe Hollywood would make more profit this way based on volume alone as long as other factors were adjusted to compensate such as actors, directrors and writers salries being lowered, along with other production (pre-and-post) costs as well.

Unfortuntaely, this kind of forward thinking is not what Hollywood is about and they will continue to fight for "intellectual property rights" and "Digital Media Rights" to the point we will have to pay fees to unlock a DVD even after we buy it like they tried with the original Divx discs in the early '90s -- Which failed because mass amounts of consumers were smarter than Hollywood gave them credit for and refused to be bullied into such a system. However, somebody, somewhere WILL eventually realize this and whomever this person is will proably be the most financially successful CEO/CFO in Hollywood if they succeed... And it is based on doing something different and thinking in a progressive, forward way and taking responsiblity for the products you produce and not blaming your (the industry's) shortcomings on others.
 
One of the main problems is that most people believes that a movie is good or bad according to how many people goes to see it. Some movies aren't box office hits and the media starts saying they are failure. Sometimes these "failures" are better than the huge hits. Some hits are really bad

For example, X-Men 3. I love X-Men since I was kid and I enjoy the first two movies but the third one was awful. When I went out of the cinema I wanted my money back. I can't believe I paid to see that. The movie isn't about X-Men, it's a cheap storyline about love triangles and it was completly made to sell.

I'm really tired of movies only made to sell. Sometimes they have good actors and a good storyline but they screw up everything when they start changing stuff so it's more 'appealing' to most people.
 
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