WHAT’s WRONG w/Modern Hollywood??

Like, why can't they make good movies as well as crap??  And who makes those dumb decisions like remaking BEWITCHED and PINK PANTHER??  Ideas anyone...

Speaking of big-budget, small-minded "comic book" movies, it's just been announced that Steven Spielberg will executive produce, and that Master of Mindless Movie Making Michael Bay will direct, a big screen version of TRANSFORMERS ("Less than meets the eyes!") for release in 2007...

I think that studios know when a film will bomb, they have to have some sense of the crap they are making. Ever wonder why no one in Hollywood is ever surprised when a movie tanks? They knew while editingthe garbage that is was bad. However, like a steaming locomotive, they simply can't stop once it's been started. I don't understand why because it will take them years to make the money back in DVD/Video rentals and sales, so money can't be that motivating a factor. But you must also remember that we live in a society where if a product is crap, its perfectly legal to not refund your money. Thus when a film is bad, too f*cking late! YOUR MONEY IS OURS! The same thing happens in video games, remember Enter the Matrix, the worst video game in existence possibly, made like 50 million on its opening day because people believed that it would be good, sadly then they got home and played it.

HAHAHAHHA! I agree, it seems hard for some reason for them to cancel a film that has been given the greenlight. There may be a flaw (gasp) in the industry that prevents them from stopping halfway through and calling a movie crap and then going home.

These superhero flicks need to calm down, they aren't even good anymore. Come to think of it, Spider-Man 1 and 2 and X-men 1 and 2 were rathr lackluster in my book. Has anyone been talking about them afterwards? Nope, didn't think so. Blade started strong and then they decided to kill the brand with an ill-conceived trilogy (Ryan Reynolds in anyone's movie spells doom). Fantastic Four is cursed, the movie, no matter how many times they make it, will always bomb. It is cinematically impossible to ever make F4 plausible onscreen. Daredevil wasn't even a movie, I don't know what the hell that was. And Ang Lee couldn't save the Hulk (great looking film, but my God does it drag on). They are simply manufacturing these hero films and with such high output you lose quality. Sadly filmmaking is no longer an artform; like music, web design and video games -- its all gone the way of the quick-buck marketing teams.

I agree, they replace story with special effects and expect to wow the audience instead of providing meaningful content. The computer just gets raped by movie studios, they are more in love with flashy pixels than a memorable film.

If anything, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was truly an indicator of the direction CGI would take in motion pictures.

Originally posted by Frigidus If anything, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was truly an indicator of the direction CGI would take in motion pictures.

I agree with deadguy, Square really screwed up the storyline and introduced characters that no one really liked. Can you remember the name of any character beyond Cid? And only he because of the reference to the game. This movie was exploitative; and only used the FF name to generate sales -- it hadn't a damn thing to do with the FF-style that we have come to know and love from the video games (which have no continuation in and of themselves).