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Originally Posted by Sean
Michael Bay's latest steaming pile of garbage, "Transformers 2", has made $200 million in 5 days. That's on track to demolish recent movies like "Star Trek" and "Up", and put it in the company of classics like "Star Wars", "E.T." and "Spider Man".
Now I work in the film industry, and the success of this trash along with many other similar stories has really been making me question what the point of staying in this industry might be. Is the disconnect between quality films and what the public wants to see really that bad? And worse yet, how do I argue with executives for good story decisions to be made when clearly, shitty story decisions can net them hundreds of millions of dollars?
The public whines out of one side of their mouths that Hollywood is only pumping out crappy movies, but doesn't that same public realize that when they gobble that crap up with the other side of their mouths, they have very literally made it that much harder for us to make any quality films? There are tons of us working in this industry that are very capable of making great films, but there's no way we can do it when "creative" executives with backgrounds in accounting and marketing have successes like this that they can point at in defense of their idiotic demands.
Thanks a lot, jerk-wads. You deserve every shitty movie you get.  |
its tough because a lot of people, esp right now, need escapism. and they'll watch anything that remotely promises escapism, even so far as going into it with cash in hand already knowing they'll feel dirty about themselves afterwords.
The movie has a 20% rotten rating at rottentomatoes.com. Of course the nay-sayers include the snobs, but the majority of movie reviewers are every day people who like movies, meaning they are *generally speaking* a close sample space of the population at large. 80% think it sucks. Which means at least 50% of the american ticket purchasers also think it sucks, rounding down for the rubes and the great unwashed. But nothing sucks worse than being unemployed, north korea, global warming, and the fact that there probably is no god afterall. So the warm afterglow of comfort we all felt as a kid watching transformers as a cartoon kicks in and everyone gets in line.
So half of all ticket purchasers are actually enjoying it. 30% of those are basically comic and sci fi whores who would watch whatever bilge comes out of lucas studios. and the other 20% are in love with megan fox. There's actually a sizable interestion on this venn diagram but we're just talking shit so who cares.
so basically my point is that yes: marketing/demographics is perfectly suitable for creating successful movies, financially speaking.