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AcGold · 02-08-2014, 09:05 PM

What happened in the music industry 20 years ago is what has been happening in movies for the past 4-5 years and a year and a half for gaming. Production and publication companies are hesitant to invest in anything but definite profits because artistic integrity means nothing when a flop means the bankruptcy of a studio.

The best thing to happen would be for the entire industry to tank and for independent developers to create innovations that make it possible to produce high quality movies much cheaper, people like Freddie Wong that have passion for creativity in their area of interest will hopefully take over the industry. 100 million dollar movies are almost guaranteed to suck because they must pander to the common denominator, take Terminator 1 vs. Terminator 4. Minimum budget, cheesy effects vs. huge budget and constant overstimulation and the movie from 30 years ago is drastically better because the big budget garbage had to attempt to appeal to everyone to make as much money. Anything clever, genuine or even remotely thought provoking was replaced with the most-mindnumbingly bad twist and pointless action scenes.

Just like with the new Star Wars movies, there's no way it can be good, there will be no genuine moments with charismatic characters. It will be fast-paced nonsense to sell toys to kids. The very fact it performs well at the box office is nearly guaranteed to make it awful because when you try to appeal to as broad an audience as possible you have to remove anything out of the ordinary or possibly thought provoking, it's so obvious when it happens too, just look at Iron Man 3; terrible villain, terrible plot, beyond moronic ending, even worse premise but it was to be expected, maybe there was a good script in the beginning but a bunch of analysts in a boardroom streamlined it as much as possible essentially destroying his character entirely. Just like Hulk's I'm always angry, these people don't give a crap about story or characters, they care about $$$ only. Just like any industry though, you invest 100 million into anything and you want to make damn sure it's not going to fail.

02-08-2014, 09:05 PM	#13
AcGold Self-Suspension Join Date: Dec 2013 Exp:	What happened in the music industry 20 years ago is what has been happening in movies for the past 4-5 years and a year and a half for gaming. Production and publication companies are hesitant to invest in anything but definite profits because artistic integrity means nothing when a flop means the bankruptcy of a studio. The best thing to happen would be for the entire industry to tank and for independent developers to create innovations that make it possible to produce high quality movies much cheaper, people like Freddie Wong that have passion for creativity in their area of interest will hopefully take over the industry. 100 million dollar movies are almost guaranteed to suck because they must pander to the common denominator, take Terminator 1 vs. Terminator 4. Minimum budget, cheesy effects vs. huge budget and constant overstimulation and the movie from 30 years ago is drastically better because the big budget garbage had to attempt to appeal to everyone to make as much money. Anything clever, genuine or even remotely thought provoking was replaced with the most-mindnumbingly bad twist and pointless action scenes. Just like with the new Star Wars movies, there's no way it can be good, there will be no genuine moments with charismatic characters. It will be fast-paced nonsense to sell toys to kids. The very fact it performs well at the box office is nearly guaranteed to make it awful because when you try to appeal to as broad an audience as possible you have to remove anything out of the ordinary or possibly thought provoking, it's so obvious when it happens too, just look at Iron Man 3; terrible villain, terrible plot, beyond moronic ending, even worse premise but it was to be expected, maybe there was a good script in the beginning but a bunch of analysts in a boardroom streamlined it as much as possible essentially destroying his character entirely. Just like Hulk's I'm always angry, these people don't give a crap about story or characters, they care about $$$ only. Just like any industry though, you invest 100 million into anything and you want to make damn sure it's not going to fail. Last edited by AcGold; 02-08-2014 at 09:18 PM.