15th June 2005, 12:32 AM
Because we, like idiots, keep watching them.
Never mind that those who watch it conclude the movie sucks. At this point, a movie can survive so long as they can get enough people to buy a ticket. Whether or not they walk away satisfied is incidental. Unless a movie REALLY interests us, we need to just stop going....
Huh... but maybe this one won't suck... These two...
Um... yeah sorry...
Anyway, the only movie I have high hopes for in the "video game based movie" department right now is Silent Hill. That movie can be SO good, but it can also be so bad... They can either try and truly capture the mood of the scariness in the game, or just Japanese horror in general, or they can toss it all in the trash and just have the scene where the camera zooms in on the mother when she stands still because she saw something, do a slow motion "her spinning around", and then play dramatic music as she runs away in slow motion. Now THAT would be aweful...
Never mind that those who watch it conclude the movie sucks. At this point, a movie can survive so long as they can get enough people to buy a ticket. Whether or not they walk away satisfied is incidental. Unless a movie REALLY interests us, we need to just stop going....
Huh... but maybe this one won't suck... These two...
Um... yeah sorry...
Anyway, the only movie I have high hopes for in the "video game based movie" department right now is Silent Hill. That movie can be SO good, but it can also be so bad... They can either try and truly capture the mood of the scariness in the game, or just Japanese horror in general, or they can toss it all in the trash and just have the scene where the camera zooms in on the mother when she stands still because she saw something, do a slow motion "her spinning around", and then play dramatic music as she runs away in slow motion. Now THAT would be aweful...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)