Actually...that's not ENTIRELY accurate.
Remember that most of these studios are owned by corporations that
have little to do with entertainment. As I write this, "At The
Movies" just showed a clip of a Roger Ebert review from 1987 where
he goes OFF on "Leonard Part 6" because at the time, Columbia was
owned by Coca Cola, so Bill Cosby is holding a can up to his face
randomly in the picture. THIS is where it all went left.
Corporations "getting into the movie business". Disney's one of the
only pure-play entertainment companies making movies right now.
This is one of the factors that went into selling off Miramax.
As for the audience not going anywhere...that's not entirely
accurate either. They're slowly leaving, as evidenced by the rise in
ticket prices. Check the match. You're paying an additional 2
dollars in some markets. 5 extra dollars for IMAX. That's
somebody's seat. The audience isn't JUST leaving for the internet.
People are starting to watch smaller movies, even movies that LOOK
smaller. The "French new wave" of the 21st Century is made up of
movies from Asia. Bollywood, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese films
take risks that American pictures don't. And they pack houses they
way a movie during a recession is supposed to - 300 at a time.
But on to the point of the article. Comic book movies are SUPPOSED to
kill Hollywood. Comics are supposed to be counter culture. The movie
business cycle is at a point now just like is was in the early 60s.
The pictures are too big. The stars are too boring. The money's just
not there in some (MGM) cases. There's a collapse coming of
"Cleopatra" proportions. When that happens, it's not gonna be about
Superman or Green Lantern movies to save the business. It'll be
pictures like Scott Pilgrim. Popular comics with stories you can
tell a number of ways, but more importantly, cost effective
pictures that relate to the audience.
Comic Book movies are killing contemporary Hollywood. Long Live the
next Hollywood.
On Aug 1, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:
No one puts a gun to H'Wood's head and forces them to churn out
such crap. If they want to do movies based on comics, they can take
their time and do it right. The audience isn't going anywhere.
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://news.premiere.com/blog/2010/07/comic-con-is-killing-
hollywood-.html
Super hero movies might save the box office, but they fail fans of
good movies.
That's because movies based on comic book super heroes are the
worst of Hollywood's modern genres. These flashy passion plays that
celebrate the redeeming powers of violence are more loathsome than
torture porn, fratboy fart operas, or mopey boomer spawn
tearjerkers. The brooding, misunderstood heroes are boring. The
erotic, computer generated fisticuffs between demigods is boring.
The secret identities, costume fetishes, and the super powers – the
grappling-hook bazookas, and lightening sneezes and berserker
gorilla rages – are boring. The genre is exhausted. And this is
coming from a dude who is currently plowing through three comic
book series (Ex Machina, The Walking Dead, and Top Ten.)
http://news.premiere.com/blog/2010/07/comic-con-is-killing-
hollywood-.html
--
"If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the
bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
