I haven’t been to the movies in months, and that bothers me. There just hasn’t been anything that I’ve wanted to spend money on, which is why I haven’t added a new movie review in a long time and my month-end lists are filled with flicks I’ve already seen before. Perhaps I’m too picky in what genres and stories I like. Perhaps my standards are too high. Unfortunately, spring is usually the dead zone on the calendar for releasing interesting films. Fall and winter have their award bait and summer has its blockbusters. Spring sucks.
So will the approaching summer cure my movie withdrawal woes? I’m not betting on it. I refuse to see the recently released Avengers installment, and many other films set to arrive in the coming months all seem to be following a similar style about which I cannot bring myself to care. This is not new; it has been going on for some time. And I don’t believe there is an end in sight.
To demonstrate how nearly all big releases are really just the same movie, the latest video from the smart guys over at RedLetterMedia—their brilliant trailer of all trailers—effectively demonstrates how Hollywood regurgitates the same motion sickness-inducing camerawork, heavy-handed background sounds, ridiculous action sequences, and cartoonish characters. And audience’s keep falling for them.
The end of 2014 was one of the best periods of film in a number of years. Someone out there, please make more of those kinds of movies, I beg you. Or, if you insist on making Fast and Furious: The Elderly Years, or Iron Man 7: Yes, RDJ is Still Snarky, or The Avengers: Age of Some Other Made Up Word, at least make a more interesting trailer.
So will the approaching summer cure my movie withdrawal woes? I’m not betting on it. I refuse to see the recently released Avengers installment, and many other films set to arrive in the coming months all seem to be following a similar style about which I cannot bring myself to care. This is not new; it has been going on for some time. And I don’t believe there is an end in sight.
To demonstrate how nearly all big releases are really just the same movie, the latest video from the smart guys over at RedLetterMedia—their brilliant trailer of all trailers—effectively demonstrates how Hollywood regurgitates the same motion sickness-inducing camerawork, heavy-handed background sounds, ridiculous action sequences, and cartoonish characters. And audience’s keep falling for them.
The end of 2014 was one of the best periods of film in a number of years. Someone out there, please make more of those kinds of movies, I beg you. Or, if you insist on making Fast and Furious: The Elderly Years, or Iron Man 7: Yes, RDJ is Still Snarky, or The Avengers: Age of Some Other Made Up Word, at least make a more interesting trailer.