Fresh out of ideas?
My thread says it all...
shareExactly. Well said.
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MovieChat Forums > Erased (2012) Discussion > Fresh out of ideas?
Then how about you go and write a movie that's fresh and original instead of complaining about it on here. It seems like a better use of your time.
sharelol, I agree with you Lucas. It the same way with people who have all the complaints and answers of how kids should be raised and yet they have no kids or not even married. People are always gonna find reasons to complain about movies, but no solution to offer!
shareThat's not my job. But I am good at that which is my job.
shareWait, you mean Hollywood ever had a fresh idea?
It's typical, when something is successful they churn out some copies.
Films had been around for 128 years, so yeah, they definitely had fresh ideas at one point. A while back, mind you.
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any creative writing or screenwriting class will tell you, there is a finite number of stories people can tell. It is all about HOW you tell your story. Sometimes you can take a story and keep it exactly the same, but change the setting or main character, and people will enjoy it- just look at The Fast and the Furious. It is almost page for page the same story as Point Break, but they used cars and street racing instead of surfing and now we're on... what, like film 6? There's a book that is required reading in most screenwriting classes called Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations that proposes the idea that there are only 36 actual stories we tell and the only differences are the details. I tend to think there are a few more than that, but not many. Point is, if you sit back and strip any story down to bare skin and bones, you'll see none of the "original" ideas are all that original.
that said, Erased looks like a simple plug-n-play plot. One of those Hollywood big wigs putting together a bland old story in hopes that the people who like those kinds of stories will be enough to make them a nice profit with minimum effort.
As you said, change a setting and it's a different movie but same ol story, and for me it works cause I love international scenery, if this movie was set somewhere like Los Angles, I probably wouldn't like it as much.
shareIf people just quit going to the movies because they're sick of the same thing being done over and over again then Hollywood will never get the clue.
However, if enough people complain, on these boards and elsewhere, then maybe, MAYBE, someone in Hollywood will wake up and go, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't blow $300m on a movie about a drunk Indian with a dead bird on his head. Maybe we should come up with something new."
Nawwwwww
If Hollywood is to be believed, the CIA apparently expends about 95% of its budget and efforts trying to kill current and former employees. If it were worth the bother, I would start a list of films featuring this tired, tired theme.
It all started when Hollywood really started to chug the hog of the overseas buck in earnest. You can't have Muslims be the bad guys, nobody in, say, Indonesia wants to see that. Same for Russians or any overseas audience, really. Pathetic.
in recent memory
COLD LIGHT OF DAY
3 DAYS TO KILL
TAKEN
THE PACKAGE (GENE HACKNAM)
i am sure i left several off
it was pretty good but i FF through every scene with the teenager. ugh she made my stomach turn
good point about overseas markets i hadnt thought of that