Has anyone noticed the noticeably lack of creativity in Hollywood these days? TV shows seem to all reality (whole stations are dedicated to them, TLC) and they get trashier and trashier as they go along. Can we NOT see that DC Cupcakes is totally scripted?
Movies are sparingly innovative or original, and most are now adaptations of books or sequels that never die (can we say Die Hard). Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the books I love being made into movies and seeing the story come to life, IF they do it right that is lol and since whenever do book readers ever feel the movie does the book justice. This is not a new concept, some of the best movies are from books (Anne of Green Gables, Pride and Prejudice) but now that seems ALL they are doing.
That being said.....COME ON! Use your imaginations again. Bring us movies like the Brat pack movies that live on forever in stardom, movies like Inception that make you think, Signs and The Others that have such twists you can't help but talk about it for years to come (and give you such classic one-liners). ET, Star Wars, Raising Arizona, Thelma and Louise, Pulp Fiction, Never Been Kissed, The Never Ending Story, North Shore (I didn't say they had to be great movies. *innocent smile*), etc etc...I could go on but I am not at home at the moment to look at my array of DVD's to get more examples lol.
Anyway, I look forward to the few and far between movies that are not based on another person's all ready published imagination
PS, Admission? I will be first in line when they make Wicked into a movie, doubt it not! *GRIN*
I was talking to a friend about the fact that you just don't have quotable movies anymore. There might be a catchphrase "Ka-chow!" but you don't hear people quoting much of anything in the past 20 years.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the reason you're seeing less creativity is that it doesn't draw the crowds like predictability does. Cabin in the Woods was really, really interesting, but didn't do well at the box office.
I guess I can't really talk. I don't see that many movies. I'm thinking Les Mis for Valentine's Day, what do you think?
I was NOT a Les Mis fan, would have walked out if I had really thought about it... but that is just me; was never a Les Mis fan in the first place, don't like the songs, the story....pretty much all of it. lol
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