What makes a good movie?

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Permalink Reply by Tyler from Georgia on April 5, 2008 at 12:06am

I was wondering how long it would take before that was mentioned.

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Permalink Reply by jarlabrelk on April 5, 2008 at 3:02pm

A good movie should polarise opinion on itself, thats not to excuse some of the box office drivel thats been touted as films.

I think a good example of this was vanilla sky, half the people i talked to hated it and the other half loved it but that didn't mean it was a bad film because 51% didn't like it. At the end of the day i guess its all subjective, the first hurdle you have to cross is making sure your idea is original, if its not then make sure you steer clear of any stereotypes

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Permalink Reply by The Eyeball Kid on April 5, 2008 at 3:38pm

As always, depends on the movie.

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Permalink Reply by Tyler from Georgia on April 5, 2008 at 3:54pm

Do you think wardrobe and sets are all that important? Absurdism has been used in movies before; a lot of German Expressionistic movies used unrealistic sets, costume, and make-up. By the way, is make-up important?

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Permalink Reply by Tyler from Georgia on April 5, 2008 at 5:02pm

Just curious, did you ever see Citizen Kane? "Greatest Movie Ever", and yet it has serious make-up issues. (AFI ranked it Number 1, as well as many other lists)

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Permalink Reply by Rusty Shackelford on April 5, 2008 at 9:05pm

Timelessness
Bad guys get killed in horrible ways
Great story
Thrills, shocks, laughter in every minute
Great Visuals
Gret Music
Ending must satisfy and worthy to applaude at
Great Acting
Likable Characters
Must be fun, not be all mopey, depressing, and boring

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Permalink Reply by Tyler from Georgia on April 5, 2008 at 10:11pm

does it really have to be fun? some people would argue that there are excellent "mopey" movies out there.

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Permalink Reply by Antonio on April 5, 2008 at 11:24pm

Congrats Tyler, your post was more successful than mine on the same topic. I have to say that after reading the argument on Cyrus's blog about the Dragonball movie, there is no such thing as a good movie, just a successful one. Godzilla is by far and away a piece of junk movie (yes I said it) and yet the cult following it has is astounding, When Holly wood remade the film, people were upset that the new one didn't follow the cheesiness of the originals and said the the film was ruined. Goes to show that anything can and will be a good movie.

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Permalink Reply by JudyIsabel on April 6, 2008 at 1:18am

Good plot and twisted ending and lots of blood and gore..I'm a horror fan so what can I really say..Oh..and some sex too.

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