What Do you think is more important in a movie?

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Permalink Reply by Brock on July 9, 2009 at 12:15pm

its a mixture that matters....however if I'd have to put an order of most important to least important..

1) Story - Pixar's motto is "Story is king" and I can't agree with them more, a wonderful story can make up for anything. A story that is both engaging and fun to watch can make up for shitty special effects, or bad character development.

2) Characters - You need characters that an audience can relate to and feel for, a character that an audience can watch and understand what they are going through, without those characters then the audience will be bored watching them.

3) Actors - A good actor can make any movie look good, We've all at one time have said "That movie sucked, but _____ was pretty good in it". Actors bring the characters to life.

4) Visual Effects - back in the old days special effects didn't mean anything, we could watch movies with good stories but sucky special effects and not care. Special effects now mean a lot because a large majority of the audience come to movies looking for eye candy and not brain food.

5) Good Dialouge - If a movie has only one memorable quote, then chances are it will be successful. How many famous quotes can you remember and then how many of those quotes come from great movies?

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Permalink Reply by MdU on July 9, 2009 at 3:59pm

Story?! Characters?! ACTORS?!!!?

Bullshit.

What a movie needs is FUCKING EXPLOSIONS, BITCH!!!

I'M GONNA GO WATCH BAD BOYS 2!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Brock on July 9, 2009 at 4:45pm

I hope this guy isn't serious...

Because if he is, then this is the audience of today that I'm talking about, the ones who only want eye candy and not brain food.

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Permalink Reply by Alvaro Corro on July 9, 2009 at 7:05pm

Tell me about it.

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Permalink Reply by sol aka "Cap'n Hates-A-Lot!" on July 9, 2009 at 4:49pm

Character Development. I want to care about the people I'm watch'n. It helps to draw me into that reality.

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Chevante on July 9, 2009 at 8:02pm

Only characters and story, the rest need not apply.
Visual effects?
Sling Blade would've sucked if Carl would've had a lightsaber.
It'd be funny, but it'd still suck.
As far as drawing me in hopes of fun, I've seen lots of movies I thought would blow, then didn't.
It's the writing and execution that make it happen. That and explosions...
Kidding.

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Permalink Reply by Rupert-P-Gilligan on July 13, 2009 at 4:45pm

it all depends on the type of movie, rambo- visual effects/explosions
Atonement- characters/story

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