We all want to watch good movies , no one wants to waste 2-2.5 hrs of their precious time in causes they dont identify with ... How do we know a movie is a good , decent / watchable movie before watching it ???
Word of mouth from People Like Us , who would possibly share similar tastes is more or less accurate way .. but how easily is this information available , how will we ever get recco from friends for all movies we want to watch ... so what are the other indicators of how good a movie is ?
One friend of mine goes by the logic of Box Office verdict .. he and several others like him watch movies which are success at BO ... "If a movie has grossed so much that means people have enjoyed it and movie watching public are no fools , if millions have watched the movie then it SHOULD be good" , that is their formula.
A lot of people follow this simple rule of equating how good the movie is with its Box-Office collection ... im not saying its necessarily a wrong thing , they could be right on lots of occasions and this is a pretty simple and infact a very easy rule to judge whether to watch a movie or not.
But on the flipside this has more to do with the tendency of 'herd mentality' and this is not really connected to what the movie really is ... its more to do with what majority 'think' the movie is ... my guess is that majority of these people go to these because others are going !!! Newspapers these days are full of huge Ads declaring the biggest opening ever ... But does that necessarily mean a good movie ... if a movie has made huge amount in the opening day its because of advance booking made by people who have no clue about the actual content / quality of the movie ... the movie could well be a very badly made one but if it has enough 'star power' and is publicized well it will be declared a hit based on its revenues from first couple of days.
So in effect lots of people watch the movie because they think it might be good and lots more follow because the first lot went to see it ... whether the movie is really good or not doesn't matter much here ... its merely the numbers that matter !!!
These days its been a trend for movies to be declared super hit or mega hit after opening weekend , every movie seems to make 50-60 crores in a matter of couple of days ... no one really knows what happens truly , but i guess no producer will admit that his movie tanked big time ! what follows during the weekend after some big budget movies are released would be that well known critics give it a proper appraisal and give it a rating it deserves. But who is deciding things after reading reviews in newspaper on Sunday ?! by Sunday the same movie would have been declared ultra mega hit with some mind boggling figures also quoted and public gets really confused and ends up watching it and also bad mouthing it later while at the same time contributing to it becoming a hit all the same !!!
This is exactly why i believe movie viewing is more personal experience and when we watch a movie we should be watching the movie to enjoy the movie , not simply because it made $ 300 mn world wide ! We are not getting any money for watching something which had record opening .. so how does the money it makes really matter ? I believe in going by what is in the movie and trying to understand why the movie should be watched and why it could be a good experience for me ...
How to exactly identify and come up with what movies to watch n avoid is obviously not easy at all , will explore some of the options i use in the next post
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I guess movies are for money...unless you are doing it for art sake in which case it would be labeled an art movie :p
that is a very general statement .. there are lots of 'well made' movies which are interesting , entertaining and stimulating intellectually and yet make money also !
ok more on the subject in subsequent posts ...
I have this theory that really BIG hits, on most occasions, does not suit my taste. And on the other hand, movies which hang around for a couple of weeks after having gotten a decent review (read 3.5 - 4.5) from 'so called well known critics' are generally movies I really enjoy.
Anyway, more to follow your posts.
Well, well made or not, the objective is money. They make it interesting stimulating and all that so that more people watch and hence more money...
You make a dumb boring movie, no matter how much commercialized/whatever we call it now and you don't make money there...
bottomline - underlying objective is money, else it is for art sake like the ones Girish Karnad etc make - low budget, more story, actors are mostly less known except when they want to try out stuff, which sometimes they do at a low price mainly for the director's name and also to get a good actor tag attached, and the money it earns from film festivals and stuffs is just about enough for it.
Google blogger is so dumb!
Doesn't show what dates the comments were made, doesn't allow replies to comments, you add another comment to the post instead of replying to one!
@ Vaidya
what you are talking about is how we have allowed the film culture to collapse in our country ! We are now having 'commercial' movies and Art movies for film festivals .. thts all
Good movies no one cares ...
Im not saying there arent any ... but its slim pickings when quality of movies made is concerned .. movies like 'Gulaal' doesnt get the kind of screening it deserves.
Will try to articulate it somewhere down the line in further posts
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