And the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay goes to… no one??!
Having recently seen two supposed promising titles, “I’m legend” and “American Gangster”, I’m certain of the sad reality that the writers’ strike has caused. I don’t blame any of them, they claim what should be theirs, but, without a doubt, this is the worst Hollywood we have seen in decades, and all because movie scripts are pathetic or non existing. We can really notice how much value is the writer to good quality film entertainment.
Both movies lack proper management of dramatic tension. There isn’t a well achieved climax, dénouement simply comes and goes totally unnoticed. The credits appear and you take sometime before realizing that the movie has actually ended. It’s like bad sex, or even worse, because cinema is experienced individually, it would be like “bad masturbation”… something to be worried about.
Also, none of those movies has character development, not even bad character development, NONE AT ALL. Since the beginning of the movie till the end we do not find out anything about the characters, doing a documentary would have been more interesting. It really seems that Hollywood, lacking movie writers, when to look for game writers, because these movies actually look like the pathetic excuses for narratives we have to suffer to play a videogame (although there are exceptions, but is a general rule that game stories suck).
As a matter of fact, the most interesting movie I saw in 2007, turn out to be interesting because of the bizarre mixture of elements of videogames and Hollywood movies. The movie in question was called “Shoot ‘em up”, which is also the name of a genre of games that’s very similar to what the movie depicts. Beyond that interesting mixture of languages, the movie is nothing more than a B movie. The fact that this is the movie that caught my attention in the last year, says much about the poor quality of the contents displayed by Hollywood. Too much Tolkien-like fantasies, stupid horror movies, and second parts of already bad movies (and which is worst: second parts of already bad stupid horror movies).
To top it all, most people seems to not notice the difference. They come out of the cinema talking about how good such actor did his part, well… ¿did you actually come to see some poor devil play a mediocre part? ¿or did you come to enjoy some good fiction and drama? Sad as it is, there’s too much reality tv these days… maybe we forgot what makes good drama more entertaining than pseudo-realism.
PS: yeap, it’s actually saturday night and I’m spitting fire on a blog… you must understand that the spot of most importance, that’s usually occupied by an individual of the opposite sex, isn’t occupied at this particular moment, and trivial things such as “what a shitty movie!” makes its way to the top. *sighs*
