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[Sep. 26th, 2009|08:24 pm] |
I saw that new apocalyptic CGI movie "9" this week, and I have to say that I'm getting more and more disappointed by the really bad scripts that getting produced these days. A number of movies I've seen this summer, like the new Star Trek and District 9 (no relation) and this 9 all looked absolutely great, with exciting action sequences, special effects, sets, costumes, etc, but absolutely horrendous plots. I mean the ending of 9 made absolutely no thematic sense. Most of the movies I've seen this year have plot holes so big you can drive a truck (or giant alien spaceship) through. I know I know my Mom always says, "It's just a movie, watch it and don't think about it so much." But I'm not thinking about it much at all and yet the script problems are so glaring I can't believe that no one else in the theater notices. Are people paying attention to the movie at all? The same thing happened to video games a number of years ago. They started to have better and better graphics will worse and worse game play. It's like no one cares about substance anymore, they just want pretty flashing things and laser beams. And its not like these script problems are hard to fix, it's just that the writers and directors don't even seem to care. It's just not important to them.
It's like that doofus Joe Wilson "You Lie!" guy. Now I'm all for public dissent, and I don't really care so much about the breech of decorum when a Congressman heckles the President (I wish that happened more during the Bush years), but what gets me is that Wilson was fundamentally wrong in his criticism. No credible news source found anything untrue about the President's statement. But that doesn't seem to matter to any of Wilson's supporters. No one cares that he was wrong, no one cares about the substance of his statement. They only cared about the style. I think this substance over style problem is getting worse, and I don't think that's a good direction to be headed. People need to start paying more attention to things. |
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