Say what you like about him, his movies work. He keeps getting called in for sequels. You don't have that happen if your movies aren't making money.
Well, that depends, is "making money" the only goal a movie can have? Is all we need when determining which movies are worth watching and/or deserve the best reviews to see their box office gross numbers? (Star Wars prequels outsold the original trilogy in the box office opening weekend by a mile, so clearly, they're the better trilogy!)
There's a reason movies are essentially divided into things that try to get Oscars, and stuff that falls into the "Children's Movie" and "Summer Blockbuster" buckets. Children's movies will make more money than Oscar bait every time, but people keep making Oscar movies year after year.
It's perfectly valid for one to make an indictment of the sort of moviegoer that patronizes loud gibberish with lots of shiny explosions to distract from the lack of plot, and/or one can make an indictment of what sorts of incentives there are in the Oscar selection process that makes Oscar bait movies keep harping on the same themes.
Well, that depends, is "making money" the only goal a movie can have? Is all we need when determining which movies are worth watching and/or deserve the best reviews to see their box office gross numbers? (Star Wars prequels outsold the original trilogy in the box office opening weekend by a mile, so clearly, they're the better trilogy!)
There's a reason movies are essentially divided into things that try to get Oscars, and stuff that falls into the "Children's Movie" and "Summer Blockbuster" buckets. Children's movies will make more money than Oscar bait every time, but people keep making Oscar movies year after year.
It's perfectly valid for one to make an indictment of the sort of moviegoer that patronizes loud gibberish with lots of shiny explosions to distract from the lack of plot, and/or one can make an indictment of what sorts of incentives there are in the Oscar selection process that makes Oscar bait movies keep harping on the same themes.
Or, in a nutshell:
Ben Affleck said: "What do I keep telling you? You gotta do the safe picture, then you do the art picture... and sometimes you gotta do the payback picture because your friend says you owe him."
Well, that depends, is "making money" the only goal a movie can have? Is all we need when determining which movies are worth watching and/or deserve the best reviews to see their box office gross numbers? (Star Wars prequels outsold the original trilogy in the box office opening weekend by a mile, so clearly, they're the better trilogy!)
There's a reason movies are essentially divided into things that try to get Oscars, and stuff that falls into the "Children's Movie" and "Summer Blockbuster" buckets. Children's movies will make more money than Oscar bait every time, but people keep making Oscar movies year after year.
It's perfectly valid for one to make an indictment of the sort of moviegoer that patronizes loud gibberish with lots of shiny explosions to distract from the lack of plot, and/or one can make an indictment of what sorts of incentives there are in the Oscar selection process that makes Oscar bait movies keep harping on the same themes.
Well, he clearly cares more about the making money part; otherwise, the Transformer movies would've stopped after the second one.
On the side note, where did the "explosion = Touhou manga" meme started?
