Is it me, or is Hollywood tanking?

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May 20 2008, 4:09 pm
It seems like Hollywood is cranking out one of the types of movies in a way that makes the Capcom-Megaman Limitless Sequel Engine seem sane:
1 - TV show movies
2 - Bloodfests (Saw IV??? The Visitors, Hostel, Turistas; those kinds)
3 - Book/comic book movies

What really has me irked is #2; it all seems like the same derivative blood-spilling tripe over and over again. And yet they seem to sell. It has passed 'horror' and has kind of become a slideshow of 'look how I can kill people'.
May 20 2008, 4:22 pm
The Forbidden Kingdom was pretty good.
May 20 2008, 4:26 pm
I think you forgot about:

4 - Americanization of Japanese movie/concept (The Grudge, One Missed Call)

5 - Lame teenage "Scary" movies (Pulse, One Missed Call, Prom Night)
May 20 2008, 4:50 pm (Edited on May 21 2008, 8:31 am)
In response to Mecha Destroyer JD
Mecha Destroyer JD wrote:
I think you forgot about:

4 - Americanization of Japanese movie/concept (The Grudge, One Missed Call)
5 - Lame teenage "Scary" movies (Pulse, One Missed Call, Prom Night)

Those are just horror, though. Hollywood has dropped the ball in plenty of other areas. Notably, they've had a taste for creating big-budget America-is-evil polemics with A-list casts that "mysteriously" tank at the box office.

Lummox JR
May 20 2008, 4:52 pm
In response to Lummox JR
Eep, I saw Moderator Red and wondered what trouble Mecha was getting into.
May 20 2008, 4:53 pm
In response to SuperAntx
I still haven't seen it. But I will, along with Sweeney Todd and No Country for Old Men.
May 20 2008, 4:55 pm
In response to Mecha Destroyer JD
6 - Uwe Boll movies.
May 20 2008, 4:59 pm
In response to SuperAntx
SuperAntx wrote:
6 - Uwe Boll movies.
Postal... </scoff>
May 20 2008, 5:01 pm
In response to Lummox JR
Lummox JR wrote:

Those are just horror, though. Hollywood has dropped the ball in plenty of other areas. Notably, they've had a taste for creating big-budget America-is-evil polemics with A-list casts that "mysteriously" tank at the box office.

Lummox JR

Oh yeah, like the movie War and uh Dungeon Siege; both with uh Jason Stantham..
May 20 2008, 5:06 pm
Studios seem like their too wimpy to come up with original material much anymore. Even when it is original, it's the same cliched, boring, been-here-done-that stuff as usual. Even No Country For Old Men, while it recieved much praise, was based off a novel. Studios need to start coming up with stuff that actually is original, not the same old stuff with a new title.
May 20 2008, 5:47 pm
In response to EGUY
He probably just forgot to turn off his moderator tag. It's easy to forget it is on, I do it all the time on BYOND Help, I just normally catch it.
May 20 2008, 6:58 pm
I can agree with 1 and 2, but I kind of like the comic book movies, well some of them at least.
May 21 2008, 12:33 pm
In response to Mecha Destroyer JD
In related news: Crank...
May 21 2008, 12:59 pm
In response to Popisfizzy
And I'm tired of my psychic ability to know when a movie is going to become trilogy always going off in my mind. X-(
May 21 2008, 6:44 pm
In response to EGUY
Is amazing?
May 21 2008, 7:22 pm
In response to Repiv
Repiv wrote:
Is amazing?

Sucks..BADLY in comparison to Transporter.
May 21 2008, 7:33 pm
In response to Mecha Destroyer JD
Apples and oranges
May 23 2008, 12:12 pm
In response to Popisfizzy
In Hollywood's defence:

1) All movies are prepared as written scripts, which are vaguely like novels but somewhat less descriptive.

2) Some of the greatest movies were based off of novels -- for instance, Clancy's books (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears), King's books (It, The Stand (made for TV), Cujo) and Crichton's books (Jurassic Park, The Lost World)*. I can also bring up The Lord of the Rings, a resounding success also based off of a novel. Admittedly, all of these had one thing in common: the books themselves were also very good.


* An interesting point to bring up here is that the movie adaptations in the Jurassic Park series departed further and further from the novels and there was also a considerable death spiral in quality. Also, Téa Leoni: what were they thinking?