For me, I love confusing, ground breaking films that smash the barrier between what we know and what we don’t. Even though I don’t mind the Hollywood "fast buck" films, I have always found them corny, predictable and somehow childish. I agree that when you just want to sit down and switch of for two hours a Hollywood film is the perfect vent but if you want a mind bending piece of art then its not going to fulfil your needs. How many films in the last year have been so unimaginative that you could guess what was going to happen 5 minuets into it?
Despite this disapointment I have for Hollywood producers who seem to think of me as a dumb chimpanzee, watching something a child could have written and finding it mentally stimulating, I understand why most enjoy this kind of film.
Its because it is safe. It takes the consumer to a place where they know what’s next, they pay for what they are about to see because they feel it is the safe choice and they know they are going to like it. Unfortunately it means that films are becoming more and more stagnant. Sure there are films like inception that are made that are interesting and intense but because people are now used to the repetition of modern cinema they don't understand what is actually a relatively simple plot. This Film then in turn wins Oscars, gains accreditation from the major players in the industry and makes a shed load of money in the process for being more intellegent than the dribble that comes out of the Hollywood studios.
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