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I felt like ranting about this today so here are just a few of mine...
1.) The PG-13 rating and how every studio's desire to hit that magical rating has completely diluted the waters of grittiness in film!
2.) How the Comic Book genre has all but killed the action hero genre!
3.) The running time in films have gotten way out of hand. I miss the days when you could go see a great action film that was over in under 2 hours. Seriously is editing even a part of the movie making process anymore?
4.) How it seems that EVERY film is now made to set up a sequel or trilogy! Can't we just have stand alone films anymore?
5.) Too many damn remakes!
6.) Too many "perfect" looking actors and actresses. I realize that Hollywood has always embraced physical beauty, however the thing I love the most with a movie like Jaws is how all the actors in that film look like regular, everyday people. I wish we could see more films like that. If Jaws were made today, Chris Hemsworth would play Matt Hooper, Hugh Jackman would play Quint, Officer Brody would be played by Chris Pratt , Scarlett Johansen would play his wife, and the mayor would be played by George Clooney!
7.) I'm so tired of "complex" villains! Sometimes I just like the morality in film to be cut and dry. Bad guys are bad guys because they're simply evil mother****ers! I don't want to hear about some long complex back story that tries to explain an antagonist's psyche. Just show me they're evil. That's really all I need to know sometimes.
8.) The use of specific color palettes in movies have gotten way out of hand. What happened to just making films with a true to life color pallette? Why did Hollywood become so in love with teal and orange?
9.) Adventure films have all but gone extinct! Spielberg is still putting out amazing stuff but sometimes I kind of miss his days of making films like The Goonies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., etc. His work with the animated movie Tin Tin was probably the last solid adventure movie I remember watching.
10.) M. Night Shyamalan. The fact that Hollywood studios continue to financially support this hack blows my mind! Can someone please take this guy's crayons away from him!
11.) Director's insistence to work with the same actors over and over, regardless of whether they're right for the part or not. Hey Spielberg and Ron Howard, I know Tom Hanks is a great actor but does he HAVE to be in everything you guys direct? Hey Tim Burton, there ARE other actors out there besides Johnny Depp ya' know!
12.) Not enough 'in between' films. It seems everything is either a 200m blockbuster or a tiny oscar bait talkie. Instead of giving the Wachowski's 200m for Jupiter Ascending, they should have given 50m to four separate promising directors and writers - and let them create four original movies. There only needs to be 4-5 200m films a year, not 10+.
1.) The PG-13 rating and how every studio's desire to hit that magical rating has completely diluted the waters of grittiness in film!
2.) How the Comic Book genre has all but killed the action hero genre!
3.) The running time in films have gotten way out of hand. I miss the days when you could go see a great action film that was over in under 2 hours. Seriously is editing even a part of the movie making process anymore?
4.) How it seems that EVERY film is now made to set up a sequel or trilogy! Can't we just have stand alone films anymore?
5.) Too many damn remakes!
6.) Too many "perfect" looking actors and actresses. I realize that Hollywood has always embraced physical beauty, however the thing I love the most with a movie like Jaws is how all the actors in that film look like regular, everyday people. I wish we could see more films like that. If Jaws were made today, Chris Hemsworth would play Matt Hooper, Hugh Jackman would play Quint, Officer Brody would be played by Chris Pratt , Scarlett Johansen would play his wife, and the mayor would be played by George Clooney!
7.) I'm so tired of "complex" villains! Sometimes I just like the morality in film to be cut and dry. Bad guys are bad guys because they're simply evil mother****ers! I don't want to hear about some long complex back story that tries to explain an antagonist's psyche. Just show me they're evil. That's really all I need to know sometimes.
8.) The use of specific color palettes in movies have gotten way out of hand. What happened to just making films with a true to life color pallette? Why did Hollywood become so in love with teal and orange?
9.) Adventure films have all but gone extinct! Spielberg is still putting out amazing stuff but sometimes I kind of miss his days of making films like The Goonies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., etc. His work with the animated movie Tin Tin was probably the last solid adventure movie I remember watching.
10.) M. Night Shyamalan. The fact that Hollywood studios continue to financially support this hack blows my mind! Can someone please take this guy's crayons away from him!
11.) Director's insistence to work with the same actors over and over, regardless of whether they're right for the part or not. Hey Spielberg and Ron Howard, I know Tom Hanks is a great actor but does he HAVE to be in everything you guys direct? Hey Tim Burton, there ARE other actors out there besides Johnny Depp ya' know!
12.) Not enough 'in between' films. It seems everything is either a 200m blockbuster or a tiny oscar bait talkie. Instead of giving the Wachowski's 200m for Jupiter Ascending, they should have given 50m to four separate promising directors and writers - and let them create four original movies. There only needs to be 4-5 200m films a year, not 10+.
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