When a film is remade, the public who has already seen the ‘old’ one will want to watch the recent one and this audience is usually disappointed. Indeed, new films offer nothing more than the old ones, only new actors and more modern ‘better’ SFX, which often are not well finished because not enough time is spent on them so the film can cost less to be produced. Before the last decade, Hollywood’s industry’s main audience was a 40 years old public, but the spectators’s age has dropped to teenagers who are more attracted by quick cuts, deafening noise, whiz-bang special effects and super-heroes. There is definitely less time allocated to the script development. Moreover, the overall story telling is sacrificed, because the commercial aspect makes it unnecessary. 

 Indeed, we, as spectators, see drastically the film quantity increasing and the global quality decreasing. In fact, between the 90s and the early 2000s, Hollywood made about 400 movies per year. Last year, the studios produced 729.

The audience is still waiting for something new, a new genre of film that would change from the usual routine and make the Hollywood film industry get better. Is it because film producers rely entirely on the commercialisation of their films, with the actors and the trailer that guarantee good revenues? A good example for this is the recent movie Suicide Squad, which was commercialised so much that everyone thought it was going to be a new genre of superhero movie, and a great one. But the majority of the public was disappointed because it offered nothing new. The same thing happened to the new Star Wars The Force Awakens.

I am not saying that films were better before than films today and there are still some good films produced by big studios. But representing a younger public, I have the clear impression to see the same movies over and over again. So, if Hollywood is not providing us the entertainment we need anymore, where should we turn ourselves?

Reading this article, you might ask yourselves why I am complaining without giving any solutions or alternatives, but there are plenty of other studios, less known than Hollywood, which create films even when they know they are not going to make a lot of money. These are less commercialised a lot and are unknown to the public. Do not be scared to look somewhere you are not sure of. Moreover, diversify! If you are disappointed by the usual genre of films you watch (action movies or superhero movies for example), maybe try new genres. You will find artworks!

 

J. Leistner