Fads and Obsessions

[Sgt Floyd]

I wanna see more dark and disturbing fairy tale movies

 

[Drtooth]

What's with this current trend of making movies of dark and disturbing adult versions of fairy tales? Just more proof that Hollywood is out of original ideas?

No. The fad of goofy, pop culture infused, parody fairy tales dried the heck up.

Also, again, I hate "Hollywood is out of ideas." They have plenty of ideas... they just hide those and trudge out tried and true and similar things because that's what makes money. Producers REFUSE to make movies that aren't following trends because those won't make the same money. And of course, Producers buy up rights to certain franchises BECAUSE they're bound to make money and just hire writers to clumsily rush a script.

So basically, saying "Hollywood is out of ideas" is a compliment and giving them too much credit. What's happening is much much worse.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

You could argue the same thing about the video game industry. There's an over saturation of shooters and companies either stick to well known franchises or make copy and paste clones of other games in hopes that someone's grandmother will pick it up instead. Major publishers as scared to take risks. Sure, there's plenty of unique indy games on PSN, Steam, and XBLA, but you still have to sift through all the shovelware crap.

I wish Tim Schafer would make more retail games. Brutal Legend and Psychonauts were great games with great humor, but both bombed. Psychonauts is doing better now that its on Steam, but it failed at launch. Both games are just so unique. Psychonauts is a platformer where you go into people's minds and basically fix whatever is tormenting them. One level is a huge maze of twisty sidewalks that loop around and curve like a roller coaster and another is set inside a board game similar to those capture the flag type board games. One level is a MEAT CIRCUS. Brutal Legend is an adventure/RTS hybrid taking place in a world of heavy metal that was doomed from the start. But thats the kind of creativity that is just lacking in the game industry these days.

Ok, I saw my window to rant...I'm done

 

[Hubert]

No. The fad of goofy, pop culture infused, parody fairy tales dried the heck up.

Also, again, I hate "Hollywood is out of ideas." They have plenty of ideas... they just hide those and trudge out tried and true and similar things because that's what makes money. Producers REFUSE to make movies that aren't following trends because those won't make the same money. And of course, Producers buy up rights to certain franchises BECAUSE they're bound to make money and just hire writers to clumsily rush a script.

So basically, saying "Hollywood is out of ideas" is a compliment and giving them too much credit. What's happening is much much worse.

I think I said this somewhere else on the forum recently, but I read a very smart article recently: they say the problem with Hollywood is that they have become too wrapped up in buying people. Instead of buying something because it is a good idea, they buy some terrible one because some award-winning person is developing it.

 

[Vincent L]

I read an article in the Discovery magazine, with something like "Fairy tales seems innocent, or is it…". It says the feet and slippers is a reference to [adult only stuff].

 

[D'Snowth]

I think I said this somewhere else on the forum recently, but I read a very smart article recently: they say the problem with Hollywood is that they have become too wrapped up in buying people. Instead of buying something because it is a good idea, they buy some terrible one because some award-winning person is developing it.

That's probably the only reason Ted was made in the first place.

 

[newsmanfan]

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I thought the whole Betty White thing started with her hilarious bit in "Lake Placid" -- did we see a cussing granny archetype much before that? Crotchety, sure, but foulmouthed and obsessed with cute lil killer gator beebies? But although I liked that bit, she's oversaturated herself.

I know Drtooth will disagree with me here, but I have never ever understood the appeal of anime and still regard it as a senseless fad. It's not just the animation style, which seems so jerky and unfinished to me in most cases; I really dislike the archetypes of the characters, the plots which seem to have very little logic infused in them, and especially the "female character suddenly transformed into a screaming yelling caricature of herself for comic effect" moments. If anyone can recommend to me an anime film which does NOT have any of that, I'll watch it, give it a fair shake.
Maybe it's just a cultural-differences thing I'll never comprehend...

I also absolutely HATE the current obsession with badly written fanfic porn pretending to be stories worth reading. The fact that many of these become bestsellers (yeah, I'm lookin' at you, Breaking Prawn and 50 Shades of Tedium) only speaks to the vast-ranging level of poor education in this country. I suppose, for the authors, it all comes down to money; if they actually think they're good writers, I pity them.
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I thought the whole Betty White thing started with her hilarious bit in "Lake Placid" -- did we see a cussing granny archetype much before that? Crotchety, sure, but foulmouthed and obsessed with cute lil killer gator beebies? But although I liked that bit, she's oversaturated herself.

It's harsh but I'm extremely disappointed in her as an actor. She's embarrassed herself, set women back centuries, and ruined her legacy for me.

 

[D'Snowth]

It's harsh but I'm extremely disappointed in her as an actor. She's embarrassed herself, set women back centuries, and ruined her legacy for me.

And you wonder why I consider you a modern-day feminist.

 

[CensoredAlso]

And you wonder why I consider you a modern-day feminist.

Thanks. Believe it or not you're one of the few.