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The Retirement Home of Genre, or are there types of films you believe are worn out?
It's a fact that both television and movies are more than willing to jump all over a type or genre when someone makes one massive hit with it. A few cases in point.
For television:ER, CSI, Survivor, West Wing, Judge Judy, 90210
For Movies: Spiderman, Brom Stoker's Dracula, Star Wars, "blank" Movie
One big hit and the studios can't seem to help but make several copies regradless of success or quality. Slow-Mo actions scenes are still TOO damned popular thanks to the Matrix...
But my question to you folks is, has a genre finally run you a little thin? Are you sick and tired of a certain type of film, to the point that you'd rather see anything else rather than another one, regardless of how good it is? I'm almost to that point myself with superhero films, and well past it with vampires and zombies. Zombieland, even though it looks funny, I feel I'm going to skip simply do to overload and lack of interest in the genre now.
For television:ER, CSI, Survivor, West Wing, Judge Judy, 90210
For Movies: Spiderman, Brom Stoker's Dracula, Star Wars, "blank" Movie
One big hit and the studios can't seem to help but make several copies regradless of success or quality. Slow-Mo actions scenes are still TOO damned popular thanks to the Matrix...
But my question to you folks is, has a genre finally run you a little thin? Are you sick and tired of a certain type of film, to the point that you'd rather see anything else rather than another one, regardless of how good it is? I'm almost to that point myself with superhero films, and well past it with vampires and zombies. Zombieland, even though it looks funny, I feel I'm going to skip simply do to overload and lack of interest in the genre now.
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Permalink Reply by Boatloads1017 on -
While I haven't become sick of any particular genre, YET, I agree with you that everyone doing a movie or TV show because that's "what's in" is annoying. Especially the Disney/Dreamworks movies. Dreamworks releases Madagascar, Disney comes out with The Wild. Disney releases Pixar's Finding Nemo, Dreamworks gives us Shark Tale. Not to mention those Penguin movies that came out after March of the Penguins became a hit. It gets stale quick, but people just seem to want those same things over and over again, or else Hollywood would be trying harder.
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Permalink Reply by pookie bear on -
the spoof movie genre
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Permalink Reply by Brock on -
I think the horror genre is slowly dieing off, along with B-movie action films.
The horror genre is dieing off because people have become so desensitized and are harder to scare. The only horror film that has come out that has scared a lot of people is REC and even then that wasn't made in Hollywood.
The B-Movie Action Films are dieing off because people have been desensitized by violence, we've practically seen everything that could happen in a action film, happen and that causes a typical fun action movie to suffer. A perfect example is Terminator Salvation, that movie is nothing more but a fun action movie and people dislike like it because they compared it to the previous ones or were expecting more from it.
I believe James Rolfe said it best by saying that today's audiences are far more critical and often are turned off when the hero survives something that in real life is ridiculous. Indiana Jones 4 was a fun action movie like the originals (Indiana Jones did some ridiculous things and survived in those) but people hate that film because of one thing that happens. I don't go to a movie to criticize wither or not that could happen in real life, I go to a movie to escape real life.
whoa sorry for the rant.
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Permalink Reply by Alter_Ego on -
Nobody has really tried adapting any Lovecraft. That could bring something new to the horror genre.
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Permalink Reply by D Dubya on -
Dreamwork's cookie-cutter CGI flicks have been worn out to death. YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE ANOTHER SHREK! GIVE IT UP! And quit making sequels for it while you're at it...
"Horror" films don't do it anymore, because either its the lame ass PG-13 horrors or the ludacris, stupid, asinine cashcow sellout Saw series.
And the fault with a lot of action films is that they try WAY too hard to be funny with fratboy humor and it drags down the seriousness of the movie. Just buckle down and give me some crazy, wild, in-your-face action sequences and stop auditioning for Def Comedy Jam. Some directors these days try to combine genres together and most the time it just doesn't work.
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Permalink Reply by Alter_Ego on
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I think the main reason audiences lose interest with certain film/TV genres is because the material becomes too derivitive. One film or TV series becomes popular, and then the studios/networks try to cash in by imitating it. Gift of the Magi cites the zombie genre as one example. The zombie genre was dead, for a while, until Resident Evil and 28 Days Later came around. Resident Evil did not really introduce anything new to the genre, but 28 Days Later (and the Dawn of the Dead remake) introduced the concept of zombies that can RUN after you, destroying the old notions that they were just slow, stupid boogiemen. Even though Dawn of the Dead was a remake, it wasn't so derivitive from all other zombie movies. But now, that's gotten so played out that they are starting to fall into self-parody, which I think is why we're getting treated to Zombieland.
Now that movies have gotten more expensive to make, the studios aren't as eager to take chances on original material that hasn't proven itself to audiences, which is why, now, we're getting treated to a seemingly endless onslought of formulaeic superhero movies, remakes, sequels, adaptations of old TV shows, adaptations of toys, and adaptations of video games, and of course they need to get ten-year-old kids to go see them because that's the strongest demographic and ten-year-old kids actually seem to prefer material that is derivitive and don't seem to care about the story, characters, the acting or the directing, just as long as it has cool special effects. This is why this last decade of film seems to be lacking in much originality.
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Permalink Reply by PvtSnafu on -
This vampire genre is starting to wear thin. Only reason we so much vampire film and TV shows is because of Twilight.
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Permalink Reply by Stanley Kubrick on -
Hannibal The Cannibal movies have been worn out more than Kitty Foxx's panties.
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