Has Hollywood become too Dependent On Blockbuster films?

What we need is a movie with well-acted, believable characters. Drama without the hoopla or CGI.

Oh, how I long for the old fashioned movies!
 
Films like The Grand Budapest Hotel, Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and Ex Machina give me hope that not every film is put through the blockbuster formula.
 
The China market's importance will probably make Hollywood more dependent on the Tentpole Blockbuster.
 
Ghostbuster has been the hit they'd hoped it would be.
 
Vince W said:
Yeah, I've given it a wide berth too.
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I would have preferred a film with the remaining original cast members. In the film, I would have had them had the mantle of tho a new generation. That would have been cool.:)
 
There was an article in the Sunday Times today, in which the writer was effectively saying that there were now two types of films: art house and comic book. The argument was that the middle ground of adult entertainment films like Fatal Attraction or L.A. Confidential, had basically disappeared.
 
They've had more then a few box office flops this year. :unsure:
 
BAYLOR said:
The China market's importance will probably make Hollywood more dependent on the Tentpole Blockbuster.
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True, sadly. I live in Asia and my friends flock to the dumbed down, bright lights and pretty colours blockbusters. It's just too large a market to ignore, and it's too difficult to sell complex plotlines and dense dialogue to non-English speakers who just want to see awesome explosions :(
 
Keith Taylor said:
True, sadly. I live in Asia and my friends flock to the dumbed down, bright lights and pretty colours blockbusters. It's just too large a market to ignore, and it's too difficult to sell complex plotlines and dense dialogue to non-English speakers who just want to see awesome explosions :(
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Which means more crappy special effects driven films. :(
 
Unfortunately, yes. Well, I say unfortunately. I actually *like* crappy special effects driven films every so often, but I'd also like something intelligent and low key. I don't mind at all if the pie expands as the Asian market grows, but I'd be annoyed if big budgets special effects driven movies take an ever larger slice at the cost of good cinema.
 
Keith Taylor said:
Unfortunately, yes. Well, I say unfortunately. I actually *like* crappy special effects driven films every so often, but I'd also like something intelligent and low key. I don't mind at all if the pie expands as the Asian market grows, but I'd be annoyed if big budgets special effects driven movies take an ever larger slice at the cost of good cinema.
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Movie executives like profits so very likely , we will see more and more big dumbed down special effects movies and fewer quality films.
 
Perhaps the Blockuster bust will make them rethink things a bit?
 
imagine Hollywood today making a mash or the candidate film, I dont think Hollywood today has it them to do such a film.I wish they would get back to basics of good film making.
 
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