Sunday, August 16, 2009

Twitter the Cause of Tanking Films?

Recently movie corporations have found something new to blame for bad news at the box office and no it isnt the lack of creativity or acting its....a social networking site. Twitter provides every average joe out there the opportunity to follow friends or celebrities people who to them lead way more interesting lives, in short facebook status type updates. Now word of mouth has been around ever since there have been movies. That is the one thing that can make or break a movies success. Twitter is basically an internet form of word of mouth the only difference is the easy access and short to the point statements. So someone who sees the movies and rushes home to their computer and types something like "OMG that movie was god awful not worth my ten bucks" and all of their followers see it that is ruining movies or so they say. However I disagree and raise an angry fist to movie corporations...if you want to earn bigger bucks with movies turn up the creativity and originality.
A few of the movies in question are Year One with Jack Black and Bruno with Sacha Baron Cohen. Believe it or not i didnt hear much negative word of mouth with Year One I did the individual thing by seeing the preview and determining that movie isnt worth my time. Which even though reviews and word of mouth play key roles in movie success people listen mostly to themselves and make their own determinations (we are a very individualized society afterall).
With Bruno which I do truly want to see everyone and I mean everyone who saw that movie said the same thing "There was too much in your face graphic nudity" Sacha Baron should know that you can make a point without doing all of that. That is the reason that Bruno didnt do as well. The corporations making these accusations are telling me that if people didnt discuss (on the internet or by mouth) movie content more people would be tricked into going to that movie. Well I guess to all the big cheeses of the movie world Im telling you to step up your game and quit making excuses for lousy or absurdly profane movies.

3 comments:

  1. Great points Kaylea. Yeah for empowering moviegoers to make their own decisions and for making the moviemakers more accountable for creating great films.

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  2. K, I was having a terrible dream the other nite, at one point I lifted my head to see a very tall, very thin, very old man with saggy skin and a red shirt on, he was very scary looking. At the very second I saw him, he disappeared. After he disappeared, I fell peacably to sleep totally forgetting the bad dream...What is the meaning of that guy? Buttah

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  3. K,,we are testin to make sure we are signed on as followers
    buttah

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