I like movies. Mainly scifi, but I'm not averse to other genre.
I've noticed that over the last few years, movies are being produced that insult the audiences intelligence.
Maybe it's me, or maybe they believe members of the viewing public are just dumb. Or they are lazy.
Most movies are now scripted by a multitude of writers. In some cases, in the movie, you can actually determine where one writer stops,and another takes up the story.
Dear reader, let me illustrate my point.
2010 : the last act shows the valiant heroes battling to get abroad the huge ark ship, jamming the door as it embarks and risking the flooding and imminent death of hundreds of thousands of people.
What does the captain do ?
He whoops with joy as they get aboard, yeah, way to go, blindly discarding the fact that they nearly got them all killed.
The audience is expected to do the same. I sat there alone with my normal bemused expression "Now hang on a minute.... Why are they cheering these dopes ?"
What also irritates me is the latest trend to blindly dismiss the death of hundreds of thousands of people.
Examples are ....
1. The Avengers : alien craft tear though new York, ripping through buildings and crashing through them.
Do they share a thought for the thousands of people at work in those buildings ? Or down below getting pelted with masonry ?
2. Pacific Rim : similar to above. What are members of the public in these situations ?
Fair Game?
Life in the big city ?
Man of steel : Heavy duty city destruction. Skyscrapers levelled etc. Planetary terra forming.
What the hell, it's only people.
Don't even get me started on the Transformer movies.
Even schwartznegger movies have more humanity and conscience than these.
No. Little or no remorse is rendered in these situations.
Yes, it is comic book, but it still rattles me that little attempt is made to illustrate the immense loss of life in these situations. Or remorse.
I do recall with fondness, the original Superman and Superman II, with Chris Reeve, bless him.
After battling zod around metropolis, he surveys the devastation around him, and buggers off, which is misinterpreted as cowardice, in an effort to prevent further destruction and loss of life.
In order to repair the effects of a devastating earthquake, he performs his reverse planetary roadrunner routine, which fixes things and restores those dead millions back to life.
At least the filmmaker tried in those days.
I've noticed that over the last few years, movies are being produced that insult the audiences intelligence.
Maybe it's me, or maybe they believe members of the viewing public are just dumb. Or they are lazy.
Most movies are now scripted by a multitude of writers. In some cases, in the movie, you can actually determine where one writer stops,and another takes up the story.
Dear reader, let me illustrate my point.
2010 : the last act shows the valiant heroes battling to get abroad the huge ark ship, jamming the door as it embarks and risking the flooding and imminent death of hundreds of thousands of people.
What does the captain do ?
He whoops with joy as they get aboard, yeah, way to go, blindly discarding the fact that they nearly got them all killed.
The audience is expected to do the same. I sat there alone with my normal bemused expression "Now hang on a minute.... Why are they cheering these dopes ?"
What also irritates me is the latest trend to blindly dismiss the death of hundreds of thousands of people.
Examples are ....
1. The Avengers : alien craft tear though new York, ripping through buildings and crashing through them.
Do they share a thought for the thousands of people at work in those buildings ? Or down below getting pelted with masonry ?
2. Pacific Rim : similar to above. What are members of the public in these situations ?
Fair Game?
Life in the big city ?
Man of steel : Heavy duty city destruction. Skyscrapers levelled etc. Planetary terra forming.
What the hell, it's only people.
Don't even get me started on the Transformer movies.
Even schwartznegger movies have more humanity and conscience than these.
No. Little or no remorse is rendered in these situations.
Yes, it is comic book, but it still rattles me that little attempt is made to illustrate the immense loss of life in these situations. Or remorse.
I do recall with fondness, the original Superman and Superman II, with Chris Reeve, bless him.
After battling zod around metropolis, he surveys the devastation around him, and buggers off, which is misinterpreted as cowardice, in an effort to prevent further destruction and loss of life.
In order to repair the effects of a devastating earthquake, he performs his reverse planetary roadrunner routine, which fixes things and restores those dead millions back to life.
At least the filmmaker tried in those days.
