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Gamer is sadly the future of movies

posted 15 years ago by PlatinumScreen
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my buddy and i are sick over the demise of the movie. as time marches on movies are being reduced to nothing more than fast-moving, shaky camera scenes that don't allow anyone to sit and absorb THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF ALL THAT IS NO LONGER A MUST IN A MOVIE--THE STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as long as our eyes are filled with visually slick effects nothing else matters. movies are frenetic anymore. not all, but it seems a trend. can you even imagine a movie like places in the heart even being brought to the screen in this day and time. it would probably be laughed out of the studio exec's office for being too slow, too story-driven, too character-driven.

gamer was ridiculously bad. horrendously bad. but somehow this dross makes it to the screen when there are so many deserving unknowns out there who have decent, even wonderful, stories to tell.

[–] Rena_Mahone 14 years ago

@ the OP

Gamer has a story. If you can't see it, your problem.

And, if anything, Gamer is sadly OUR future, not the future of movies.

"There are few things as fetching as a bruised ego on a beautiful angel."

[–] Strazdamonas 12 years ago

There were fe good and A LOT of bad movies in any generation. its just that the bad ones get forgotten adn the good ones dont, so we tend to think that movies used to be good back then. but they werent. its just that only the good one survived the test of time. and the same will be with this generation, and then next, and the next, and there is nothing thats going to change.
the only way this can change is if people were homogeneous, controller by some higher power and made to have same likes and priorities. you know, kinda the "Bad" scenario in this movie.

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[–] LTUM (1075) 5 years ago

great thread.