Dear Hollywood,
If you were in the restauration business you would go bust. Imagine a restaurant where you pay full meal price but all you get is the soup and the check with a small note “Come back for the main course next summer!” Would you go back?
Maybe it is that our standards are a bit too low. Maybe it is that we don’t expect enough from you guys. Maybe it’s both.
The “Was it any good?” question is paramount (pun intended). Perhaps you guys should get back to making some movies where you could earnestly answer “yes” to when asked.
I recommend making more stand alone movies where the end doesn’t seem to leave you feeling cheated. Don’t be afraid to do something else than recycling a TV series or comic book. Also please for the love of God… no more snakes on planes please. That’s got to be the most talked about movie for being ridiculous. Who in their sober minds would go see that movie and leave being proud about their last couple hours?
on August 2nd, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Agreed. I think that the big budget feature films are going to fall while things like YouTube, documentaries, viral and user contributed film and television and well thought out real life adventures (these will take the place of reality TV), will be rise and make it difficult for the large studios to compete. Lean and mean, not multiple moving parts and “meetings about meetings”. Unless these huge corporations get a good web strategy and adopt this new media they will be left behind…likely this would be through aquisitions of smaller agile companies. The entire world of media is no longer a production to be rammed down viewer’s throats, but a dialog that allows for intelligent real life media. People don’t want to be fans, they want to be active players in the things that entertain them.