One in five films released this year will be a sequel
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Films that appear to be associated with a particular canon of films, in the eyes of those that fund the production of these movies, always sell better than those of an original disposition. This is also the rationale behind the recent rise in the production of films based on established brands, Battleship for example, which sounds like just an awful movie concept. Of course this is nothing new, but it is becoming far more apparent as time goes on.
The bottom line is, it is safer in the eyes of the financial wing of the movie industry to put money into something they know is already established in the minds of their consumer, rather than making the effort to take a chance on something original.
The bottom line is, it is safer in the eyes of the financial wing of the movie industry to put money into something they know is already established in the minds of their consumer, rather than making the effort to take a chance on something original.
anotheruser
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At least there's tons of older films that I haven't seen yet.
vodkazvictim
Why save the world, when you can rule it?
And they have the nerve to complain that we download their bullshit for free.
That will never happen. There will always be original screenplays, music, art etc. You just have to look for it and quit accepting the garbage that's shoved down our throats and assuming that's all there is.
It will happen, its a mathematical certainty!
Wrong.
HE1FiNEARTiST
Banned
sequel? whats that?
meesterperfect
Hiliary 2020
sequals can be good but theyre usually not.
Its the re-makes that are almost always terrible and that really angers and saddens me.
For example i just watched the re-make of the Charles Bronson movie The Mechanic, well at least about a half hour of it before I turned it of and deleted it.
For one thing in the original Bronson had hair, so Did Jan Michael, not some bald generic head, concentration camp looking guys.
No personality characters.
2- Bronson didn't need to jump off a 100+ foot bridge and grab the back off a boat and ride to safety and survive unscathed
Urealistic.
3- we didnt have to see Bronson in a 30 second fake sex montage to keep our interest in the film.
Stupid gratuitous sex scene.
Oh shit I'm rambling.......remakes suck. they are only made to take our money and run, not only stealing our money but our time, our hopes and possibly even help ruin a good date.
I hate the makers of bad remakes and hope they die, go to hell and are forced to watch their terrible movie for the same amount of people they ripped off, meaning millions of times.
Its the re-makes that are almost always terrible and that really angers and saddens me.
For example i just watched the re-make of the Charles Bronson movie The Mechanic, well at least about a half hour of it before I turned it of and deleted it.
For one thing in the original Bronson had hair, so Did Jan Michael, not some bald generic head, concentration camp looking guys.
No personality characters.
2- Bronson didn't need to jump off a 100+ foot bridge and grab the back off a boat and ride to safety and survive unscathed
Urealistic.
3- we didnt have to see Bronson in a 30 second fake sex montage to keep our interest in the film.
Stupid gratuitous sex scene.
Oh shit I'm rambling.......remakes suck. they are only made to take our money and run, not only stealing our money but our time, our hopes and possibly even help ruin a good date.
I hate the makers of bad remakes and hope they die, go to hell and are forced to watch their terrible movie for the same amount of people they ripped off, meaning millions of times.
Well, most populist narratives tend to follow a pretty similar set of key themes (See: Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces). The originality, comes in attempting to replicate a seemingly simple plot that has been a staple of Western myth for thousands of years in a variety of new and hopefully exciting ways.
That of course isn't to say there are no original ideas. It's just that to say that there has always been a streak of complete originality running through our media, is a little wide of the mark.
