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Where is the fun?
Where is the fun? This is the question that rang loud and clear in my head as I walked out of the theater after seeing Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. Now, that movie was flawed in more than one way. (Like why the fuck would you choose to tell a Robin Hood story where we don't even see him being Robin hood?) But what really dragged it down for me was the overall tone of bleakness and boredom. It's gotten to the point where for a movie to be considered "good" it needs to be gritty realistic hard-hitting drama which gets slightly boring after awhile. I miss the days where the movies that were considered "good" were colorful and energetic. Now they all seem to involve endless amounts of talking seriously in hushed tones for half the movie.
Now I am not saying I would like every WWII movie to star the A-team. But there's nothing that says you can't have a fun energetic movie that doesn’t belittle the subject matter at hand. For an example of this look no further than the Great Escape.
The Great Escape is an amazingly fun energetic movie that is dealing with some serious subjects. (As demonstrated by the execution sequence towards the end) . This goes to show you that you can deal with serious subjects but at the same time create a fun cinematic experience.
I don’t really know where I’m going with this but I guess the point I’m trying to make is that modern Hollywood almost doesn’t allow for serious movies to be fun. In order to be taken seriously these days it seems that movies need to be made less cinematic. I mean there are exceptions. (Tarantino, Coen Bros. etc) but, I those exceptions are few and far between. I don't know, I just wish that more movies would have the bravery to be fun.
(Unless of course those movies are directed by Michael Bay)
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Comment by lil hagi on May 19, 2010 at 10:35am -
Yeah Callu.m,that death scene....I was shocked how serious the movie got there
And yeah Panini,you're very right...Them are waggonist!!
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Comment by Callum Luscott on May 18, 2010 at 5:22pm -
@ J Rod I completely agree. Kick Ass was the funnest film i had seen since Zombieland. i expected this but i didn't expect how serious the film got in the middle act with, in my opinion, one of the best death scenes in many years.
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Comment by Don Panini on May 18, 2010 at 3:28pm -
It´s what I call the "Studio Bandwagon Effect".
When a movie with a rather different structure comes out and surprises studio-heads with its sucess, said studios go forward to use the same structure in hopes of getting some of that sucess.
Avatar and The Dark Knight are the great examples of this. Avatar was a 3D event-film, and The Dark Knight took a darker and grittier route from its predecesors, both were greatly sucessful, and both caused this current bandwagon effect.
I´m guessing that if Iron Man2 continues to ride this wave of great sucess, more movies will be "fun" again
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Comment by Gift of the Magi on May 18, 2010 at 1:34pm -
It's the writting, pure and simple. You CAN make a serious AND fun film, IF YOU TAKE YOUR TIME AND CRAFT A GOOD SCRIPT.
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Comment by BeatingTakeshi on May 18, 2010 at 10:13am -
Awwww man, WWII starring the A-Team? I'm there.
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Comment by J Rod on May 17, 2010 at 9:15pm -
"Kick-Ass." Fun. Good. See it.
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Comment by The Chaz on May 17, 2010 at 7:17am -
I completely agree. Lately I've noticed that when filmmakers do attempt to place humor into these serious movies it feels out of place and forced. For example, as Jean mentioned Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the movie was crippled by all of the attempted humor. Another example is King John, in the aforementioned Robin Hood film, becomes a vessel of comic relief in the final battle of the film, and then immediately returns to being a selfish, narcissistic, bitter child of a king at the end. It is a completely unnecessary interlude of comedy that would have been fine had it applied more to the character (i.e. Inglourious Basterds). That being said, I did find a handful of genuine comedic moments in the film.
I, too, am tiring of the dark, gritty take on everything lately. Entirely ridiculous is the attempt to make a "darker, grittier, and more realistic" take on the Spider-Man franchise. In my opinion, it is most likely people attempting to milk the Dark Knight cow; the same way people are milking the Avatar cow with all of this unnecessary 3D being forced fed to the movie going public. These studio heads don't realize that these elements worked with said Avatar and Dark Knight because they were relevant to the films themselves. James Cameron created this entire world to be experienced, and the 3D was intended -from day one- to expand that experience. The Dark Knight, and Batman Begins before that, were dark and gritty because that is the character of Batman. The source material itself is dark, not Spider-Man's. Christopher Nolan's "new take" on Batman was actually truer to the source material than the previous films; granted it wasn't as comic-book-like, but then again, Nolan had this notion of making a darker comic book film before the trend was really set.
In short, Hollywood, stop leeching off of these successful films; attempting to make duplications original, thought born, films. We could all have a much more diverse and fantastic slew of films were they to all be original material, and original stories, rather than rehashes and remakes of that small basketful of worthwhile films.
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Comment by lil hagi on May 17, 2010 at 7:05am
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Yeah,its sad
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Comment by NotTheWhosTommy on May 16, 2010 at 8:43pm -
True, true I know what you're saying. I'd say the best dude for fun movies at this point is JJ Abrams. Star Trek wasn't the most "accurate" depiction of space travel and the plot wasn't totally coherent, but it did what any good action/sci-fi movie should do; set up some fun likable characters and put them in a lively, thrilling romp so that we care about them when they're in peril. It's great to have a message or deep subtext thrown in, but don't let that sidetrack the most important thing; the entertainment quality.
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