Why is it, even though the majority of movies and television programmes are incredibly predictable, we still watch them? I also do this, it just seems an odd thing to do really.
Lil, You're assuming that 'we' watch these flicks and TV shows for the story. We don't. For the most part, we're usually much more inclined to enjoy the characters as they pass through their trials and tribulations. Over the past 10 - 15 years this trend has grown. We are impatient; we don't want to spend time trying to grasp with a novel story when we could simply pay attention to an interesting character moving through a story we well know. Thus, the serious lack of new and interesting stories to be found in contemporary entertainment. This also explains the 'rise' of 'reality entertainment' (sic).
It makes us comfortable. It's like having a virtual home, a place we can go where everything is familiar and we know how it all works. Soap operas are the epitome of this. In real life we change jobs, get divorced, our friends die or move away. So we watch "General Hospital" (or "Neighbours", I wish we could still pick it up in the USA) for twenty years and people change jobs, get divorced, die, move away. Hey, wait a minute....
Y E S..Hllywood churnin out multi zillion comic books---latest one being previewed here is 'The Fantastic Four'---hah, used to read that comic as a kid but there is no deep shit anywhere as auch less you belong to a film club maybe, the 1960s was a time for real adult films that made you think radically now its deremworks...same old effects, same old narratives......while the world burns!
"Wings of Desire", "In weiter Ferne, so nah!", "Lesnaya Tsarevna", "Ronja Rovardotter", "Mesto na zemle", "Legenda Suramskoy kreposti", "Kin Dza Dza", "Die Illusion der Verzweiflung", "Tsvet granata", short films by Jan Svankmajer to name just a few.
which show burning world? but i am not on aout FILM showing it, but superofical film being chruned out of propagandawood WHILE REAl world burns!
No-one, I was talking about the real world too. It has always been burning, and it's a rapture, and it's good.
Personally I am sick of "good guy wins and gets chick". I want to see the bad guy win in nearly every film I watch. How can people not get sick of the same thing happening every fucking time? Half the time the bad guy has a really good idea anyway. Educating children that there is even such a thing as "Good guys" and "bad guys" is why George W. Childbomber got elected.
