So I've noticed more and more complaints about movies lacking plot and characters and replacing them with high tech action scenes and effects. And we're talking big movies.
While, I know some people want to presume they're critics. I usually ignore them but fan reviews/critics are chiming in on this. That's where I fall in and it concerns me.
For example, I saw a movie with Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones about suicide and they never left a dining room but was a great movie of course both are great actors but still. Or The Hateful Eight. Not a lot of action but great characters and dialogue as always expect form Tarantino.
Do you think the advancement in technology will only create more of the same repeats movies that continue to let us down or are right people not connecting?
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Untrue. Technology is another tool for storytelling. Like from B& W to color to digital to IMAX to computer animation.
By the way there were plenty of Shit movies in every era.
Correct Dan, plenty of shit movies in every era, but we tend to comment on what's current.
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Agree with Dan. And just thinking off the top of my head of films that pioneered various elements of CGI - Avatar, Titanic, Final Fantasy, Fight Club, Toy Story, Lords of the Ring, Tron, even Westworld - there is a lot of story/plot/character development in those films.
People who complain and think otherwise should go see Logan, Wonder Woman, Transformers, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and the upcoming Planet of the Apes installment, but I kinda guess that they really don't get out to the local theaters much, and probably really don't get out much anywhere else, either.
I think the problem right now is an over-reliance on pre-existing intellectual properties, that studios think have such a built in audience that story development isn't being given much thought. The reason that big dollar FX may seem to be the culprit is that much of this IP right now seems to be in the sci-fi/fantasy area and studios are just focusing on the FX and the spectacle, rather than digging into the story and finding about what made the property popular to begin with.