modern movies suck today because Hollywood stopped telling stories and started selling fantasies.
take for example two movies that are somewhat similar, Falling Down (1993) and Law Abiding Citizen (2009).
In FD the audience spends 75% of the movie following a guy around who is clearly not well. he’s the antihero that we all sometimes wish we could be, but we also acknowledge it’s moralistically unjust to just go around blowing shit up and shooting at people. towards the end of the movie you understand the real cause of why he was acting the way he was which made his character even more relatable. it made you question our society and the cruel realities that everyday people survive. it makes you think that maybe that “pocket protecting pencil pusher” has more in common with you than you’d like to admit.
In LAC the audience is immediately jarred by a violent sexual event that charges you with a desire for revenge. The rest of the movie is about a guy taking that revenge and getting some sadistic pleasure from it. you aren’t supposed to relate to the main character, or any character in the entire movie. everyone is shitty except for his dead wife and kid. The premise of the entire movie is to make the audience feel good that “justice” is being administered and sugar coats it in a high fructose action syrup. by the end of the movie you’re filled with rage of the injustices within our own world and feel as if you have been wronged like the main character. you spend the rest of the night imagining your own revenge if you were the main character.
FD tells the story of how far a broken man will go if he has everything taken from him.
LAC sells the fantasy that revenge is action packed and you will always win if your cause is righteous and just.
that said, don’t get me wrong. I liked both movies, but I’m not going to lie to myself and say that LAC isn’t just revenge porn.
modern movies are flat and simple because audiences lack the mental capacity they used to have. this is because we no longer watch them for entertainment, we watch to escape our own realities.
edit: oh yeah and sound engineers can suck fucking dick if they can’t understand how to level out the foreground, background, and vocals for a regular not action movie. I’m tired of reading subtitles.
modern movies suck today because Hollywood stopped telling stories and started selling fantasies.
take for example two movies that are somewhat similar, Falling Down (1993) and Law Abiding Citizen (2009).
In FD the audience spends 75% of the movie following a guy around who is clearly not well. he’s the antihero that we all sometimes wish we could be, but we also acknowledge it’s moralistically unjust to just go around blowing shit up and shooting at people. towards the end of the movie you understand the real cause of why he was acting the way he was which made his character even more relatable. it made you question our society and the cruel realities that everyday people survive. it makes you think that maybe that “pocket protecting pencil pusher” has more in common with you than you’d like to admit.
In LAC the audience is immediately jarred by a violent sexual event that charges you with a desire for revenge. The rest of the movie is about a guy taking that revenge and getting some sadistic pleasure from it. you aren’t supposed to relate to the main character, or any character in the entire movie. everyone is shitty except for his dead wife and kid. The premise of the entire movie is to make the audience feel good that “justice” is being administered and sugar coats it in a high fructose action syrup. by the end of the movie you’re filled with rage of the injustices within our own world and feel as if you have been wronged like the main character. you spend the rest of the night imagining your own revenge if you were the main character.
FD tells the story of how far a broken man will go if he has everything taken from him.
LAC sells the fantasy that revenge is action packed and you will always win if your cause is righteous and just.
that said, don’t get me wrong. I liked both movies, but I’m not going to lie to myself and say that LAC isn’t just revenge porn.
modern movies are flat and simple because audiences lack the mental capacity they used to have. this is because we no longer watch them for entertainment, we watch to escape our own realities.
edit: oh yeah and sound engineers can suck fucking dick if they can’t understand how to level out the foreground, background, and vocals for a regular not action movie. I’m tired of reading subtitles.