Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: ja1484
Originally posted by: sjwaste
America, for the most part, does not love critically-acclaimed films. We like entertainment. Some studios and directors are starting to say it publicly, too, screw the critics, we can sell tickets making people laugh/sit on the edge of their seats.
I realize it might be a bad example among the ATOT "sophisticated" but when Eddie Murphy made Norbit, he basically laughed at the critics, who universally slammed the movie, and ended up making $30+M in the opening weekend.
Same with Michael Bay. The reason he still has work is because people like his movies and continue to see them, whether or not anyone here wants to admit that. Anyone who wants to criticize that is kidding themselves. Congratulations on your taste in films, but it proves you have no idea what makes money. Last I checked, that's what matters. Want art? Fine, but most people don't care.
I'll agree with you there, America does not want to be intellectually engaged in the movie theater, that is for sure.
In the movie theater I don't... but at home I do. I love thinking movies just as much as I love mindless action or horror movies. I just like movies, except for musicals. Can't stand them. lol
But in a theater, there tends to be a certain style that I want to watch. Generally always action or drama with action. Although, I never get around to seeing most of those critically acclaimed Sundance movies. Don't know why.
Hmm. Now I'm trying to figure out what movie I need to see in the drive in this summer. Quite a few big movies for the summer, but not sure how well they'll translate to drive in. Watching from my truck bed is awesome, but sometimes the darks just don't fare so well from the projection. I think The Dark Knight, as awesome as it would be, won't be one I see at the drive in. Hmm.
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Well, I think it works better like that anyway. In the theater, the audio bleed from the explosion/fighting giant robot/asteroid impact/etc. drowns out the goddam mexican children who will not shut the hell up and were for some reason brought to the theater.
However, in an "artful" film, if you watch it in the theater, that 14 year old two rows back from you *will* make a farting noise as soon as any scene comes up which he is remotely uncomfortable with (sexual situations, emotional situations, big words, etc.), and you *will* hear it, and all his obnoxious friends laughing at it. Beseeching the staff for help will do you no good, because they all go to high school with him. You will also, briefly, wonder what the hell he and his friends are doing at this movie, because it is not
for them.
There are two possible answers:
2) Their parents are tired of dealing with their shit because they are spineless suburban helicopter-parent wimps who don't know how to smack a teenager around effective-like, and thus offered to pay for a movie, any movie, just to get a few hours away from their kid for a peaceful dinner (PF Chang's or Cheesecake Factory).
1) Their staff friend got them free tickets, because he is that nerdy/gothic kid who is into movies, and is stupid enough to think that weird is the same thing as artistic. He has instant movie-rating cred with his teen buddies because he was the first person in their group to find out about Donnie Darko and can quote every Tyler Durden line from Fight Club.
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