An enormous amount of movies are released each year filling the top spots in people’s hit list to watch causing the growth in the film industry to be even bigger each year, one topping the other each year. People watch these movies because of hype but in doing so, many greater movies are ignored and hardly watched; many movies don’t even have a worldwide release. Movies have too much hype set before them, usually after books, are called “overrated” How overrated are some movies? Many movies are very overrated and it dies down after the release when you watch that the movie isn’t as good as it was hyped. Finding Dory, Cars 2, and Monsters Universities are some examples, even if they are decent films; a lot of movies don’t live up to the hype and they aren’t on par with it causing a lot of harsh criticism but it’s mainly due to the audiences overdoing it. As I said before, Cars 2, Monsters Universities and Finding Dory will not live up to the hype and are easy targets to this. The first cars was released, it was considered a good film but not as good as the other ones that have came; nowadays, Walmarts and other stores have toys of cars from the movie from which they were inspired and they get a lot of buys especially around Christmas and birthdays. Cars got high ratings by critics which hyped a sequel to the film, Cars 2. Cars 2 had a misnomer with McQueen being the main character as advertised by posters for having him in the middle of them but it disappointed everyone who had watched the first cars as it had pretty much nothing to do with the first; it was considered a disgrace and people went full throttle to call it Pixar’s worst movie sequel. Pixar announced Monsters Universities was announced as a prequel to Monsters Inc as... ... middle of paper ... ...e about the movie with the Green Goblin and the Rhino- it’s not like those haven’t been done already, they’ve seen this all before but in a different ending this time. The same issue goes with the new Godzilla movie which only gave us a literal glimpse of his spine; the same situation with hype is occurring and all of the older Godzilla movies never turned out good. The issue in franchises grows after each movie while just one film (whether first or second) occurs when announcements or pictures occur. Just the talk of an upcoming movie such as Avengers 2 will hype the movie; it even happens on television but for each season. (The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Lost, et cetera) In conclusion, it occurs mostly in movies but the amount of movies released are having too much hype disappointing many and will continue to do so while the better ones are being overshadowed.
What components make a movie successful in cinema? Filmmakers have crafted a formula to successfully deliver the hero narrative. This formula consists of the hero’s journey and archetypes. Hero films typically follow a ten-step sequence to properly set up and execute the hero’s journey. These movies range from stories of transformations, searches, or a journey back home. Archetypes are used to employ character profile as well as add variety and depth to these stories. Ridley Scott directed Alien, in which Ellen Ripley embarks on a journey where she must survive an alien who is out on a murderous rampage and return back to Earth. Alien adds originality to its storyline by choosing a female lead instead of a male, but the film still incorporates the same heroic attributes that make a story successful. In this “going home journey” film, Scott is able to incorporate the hero’s journey and the official hero archetype towards the heroine Ellen Ripley.
Movies are a huge part of many Americans’ lives. Everyone has a particular genre that they like the most or a particular actor. There are many genres to choose from such as action, romance, drama, musical, documentary, horror, comedy, and children’s movies. This is always attached with the cliché ‘Everyone’s a critic.’ Movies will only want to be seen if someone else says that the movie is good. They trust that advice so that they will spend anywhere from an hour and a half to three hours watching a motion picture. This form of entertainment is driven by the viewer. Horror movies however, are designed by the same chronology: introduction, conflict climax, resolution. Horror movies also have many actors that do not show up in the sequel. The actors also are very unrecognizable because of the possibility that these actors are killed off in the movie as it progresses. Horror movies cause people to do many things no other type of movie can deliver. Horror movies make viewers jump, they make them scream, and they make the viewers want to cover their eyes. All of these aspects make horror movies a heart-pounding and enjoyable form of entertainment.
...er apparently created successful persuasive appeals for the crowd to be attracted and enjoy a movie that will be funny, colorful, and full of adventures that eventually will teach a life experience to the public.
The saga has had a profitable history at movie theaters, bringing in over four billion dollars and ranking fifth in top grossing movie series. The Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith are the only two movies that are still high enough to be in top 50 of the highest grossing movies ever. Inflation of American money does have to be taken into account though when dealing with movies dating back to the 1980’s. After considering
The incredible popularity of the Star Wars universe was surprising to Lucas when he first made it. In fact, every producer he proposed the idea to rejected it, except for one: Twentieth Century Fox. At this time, science fiction (also called sci-fi) was not in any respects a profitable movie idea, but Lucas was determined to make his film. The executives of Twentieth Century Fox had seen Lucas’s previous film, American Graffiti, and vowed to produce Lucas’s next movie. Lucas made a deal with Fox that would end up making Lucas a multi-millionaire. The deal seemed so ridiculous to Fox that they thought they were ripping him off. In 1977, the first film of the second trilogy, Star Wars: A New Hope, was released, smashing box offices across the country and soon becoming the most successful film in North American history.
This was a huge problem for Lego with its licensed products such as Lego Star Wars and Lego Harry Potter. The problem with this was that Lego was unable to see that their licensed products were its new bread and butter especially after they had evolved their standard Lego lineup into a hemorrhaging problem. The main issue with the licensed products was the fact that Lego in conjunction with their lack of accountability was unable to document their toy profits, and when those toys were most popular. With a little help Lego could have identified that their licensed toys, while producing huge profits, were only truly profitable for a short period following the movies for which they were licensed after. Had Lego been able to identify this trend and shifted production to its next licensed product, it would have had a much better shot at sustaining an ongoing growth pattern. When analysis finally was done it was found that 28% of Lego’s top line growth was primarily due to its licensed products for Star Wars and Harry
With all of these great influences, how is it that a formerly great series turned so terribly wrong? Well, this is where I think they went wrong. The original writers of the first two movies were obviously nowhere to be found in this attack on recent flicks. Instead, this movie was passed on to Pat Proft, writer of Police Academy, Hot Shots, and Naked Gun, and David Zucker, writer and director of the Airplane and naked gun Movies. Granted, all of these movies are extremely funny, but they were made for a different generation.
In her piece, “Fear of a Black Cinema,” Amy Taubin discusses how difficult it can be to write a top-ten list. She feels that in doing so, one is simultaneously excluding films that deserve to be featured just as much as those ten do. The problem lies in the fact that the world of cinema today is so vast, as it is now growing at an ever-increasing rate. With so many options, it can be extremely problematic to try and pick only ten. Why do we, as a society, limit ourselves to only ten of the “best” movies? Can a biased author ever truly pick the top-ten that would apply to everyone?
The result of LucasArts being a subsidiary company of LucasFilm has meant, for LucasArts, the exclusive rights to the most successful franchise of all time, the Star Wars series. According to Anita Frazier, industry analyst for toys and games at NPD Group, "Star Wars games generally sell very well, and the Star Wars franchise is one of the top 10 video-game franchises of all time."( Lane F, 2008) Another franchise of LucasArts the hugely popular ‘Indiana Jones’ series has an eagerly anticipated game in production.
Today the entertainment industry overpowers society, millions of people spend their time watching shows, movies and soap operas. How can the industry keep all the people satisfied? Many people get reeled in by the supernatural, so majority of todays industry revolves around the supernatural such as vampires, werewolves etc. . Taking vampires for example, vampires have become a huge part of teenage fictional literature and the entertainment business takes advantage of it and creates film adaptations of books such as “Twilight”. Since individuals are so hooked they rush to buy movie tickets to see the film, according to Del Toro and Hogan, “ In a society that moves as fast as ours, where every week a new “blockbuster” must be enthroned at the box office…” (323). In the end the entertainment industry uses the supernatural theme to make a great amount of profit and they keep making sequels and new movies rap...
Though the storyline often takes back seat to the special effects and fight sequences, it...
Moviemaking is a risky business, for it is not always profitable. Only one in ten films ever recovers its initial investment from theatrical exhibition. In fact, four out of ten movies never recoup the original investment. In 2000, the average studio film cost had a total cost of over $80 million per film. No other industry in the world risks that much capital to make, finance, produce ...
film can make or break a movie. Marketing a film takes up a great deal of the money that is
With a good cast, this will attract and push audiences away just based off of the cast. For example, reviews on the movie “Ride Alone.”, this is a terrible movie as far as comedy goes but since the stars in the movie are really famous for being funny, the movie is selling well just based off of that. This is unfair. But movies that are actual funny but aren’t as popular because the actors and actresses have an unfair ...
First of all, I would like to go over my expectations of movies in the future: