Wednesday, October 29, 2008

What Is up with the Movies Nowadays?

So talk about the movie theater business was be prospering right now but what exactly is up with the type of movies that are coming out at this time of the year, or better yet this decade. For some reason there are new forms of movies coming out that have been proven to be quite exciting and maybe new graphics that show enough action that let us view not the much of a movie but feel like we have.
Some of these new techniques I mean are stuff like first person camera shooting or sometimes the all graphics, 3D animation, movies that shock and awe the people around with the world with what technology has come about in the present time. Comparing this to the media, even old fashion ways of shooting stuff has become popular again. Like musicals were a blast in the past and then for some reason people decided that they were really dumb to watch and now we have at least one or two movies in the past two to three years that have been musicals of some sort. Technology has become such a major part of the ordinary lives nowadays, especially for creating movies that attract and control the audiences.
Me personally, I love how these new types of movies are attracting giant groups of people into the new age of action packed thrillers and how musicals have for some reason come back into fashion. Just from watching the old musicals though and comparing them to the new, also the thrillers, there is still one major difference you just cannot get over. This is the camera angles and how they are used for the movies. If you have ever noticed, the angle changes like every two to three seconds, yet older movies the camera change I is like ten to twelve seconds and can lengthen up to a minute or so.
Only reason I notice this though is because I took a filming class. So there is only one giant downfall when comparing the new actor and actresses to the older ones. That is that the talent of the newer ones has been decreased greatly because it sounds like they are too lazy to memorize their lines and to keep the camera rolling. It seems like they just shoot them looking away at something, and then switch the view so that they have time to break. This is probably the reason why people still like the older movies compared to the action packed, mind boggling films shot in this new millennia, because talent really does show in movies.
So these new ways to keep the audience attentive may work but to some it is really the knowledge and experience of the actors and actresses that keep people watching the old compared to the news. I wish this would be brought to the media but for some reason ideas from the singular public are looked down upon. If only this was understood, maybe we can create a new source of theater, like stage play, that brings action and experience both into play and make both sides of the spectrum as equal as possible…

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