Originality in Movies

[Gattsu347]

As of late it seems that original movies are harder and harder to come by.

It just seems like filmmakers are exploiting old ideas and remaking previous movies inorder just to make an ungodly amount of money. I know its nothing new, its just depressing that money is stifling creativity so much.

Im no movie buff and i dont really stay up on movies all that much, but i saw Terminator and was repulsed. Star Trek was neat, but i was not impressed.

the last moive that i saw that genuinely impressed me with its originality was Brick.

ITT discuss recent {last 10 years} movies lack of originality, inability to targets meaningful themes, and suggest good movies that arent carbon copies or others.

[Meatplow]

I'm inclined to say there have been very few original ideas in film, and even if a production seems original there is probably a series of buried works in the past if borrows from that heavily influenced it the common viewer is simply unaware of.

I used to be hung up on cliches, but I don't care any more. A film can use the same ideas which have been established a thousand times before in a slightly different way and it will still please people. This is how popular cinema works, sure it's formulaic but your common viewer doesn't want to be challenged with unconventional ideas.

Even with the avant-garde, challenging stuff you find in your more obscure, often independent films post-modern approaches to making films have been done to death as much as your standard cliches. Some people say art is dead, and I might be inclined to believe them.

Still, we hack on for the the hell of it.

[thedeadwalk!]

Originality ≠ good

Movies have always predominantly been cheap ploys to appeal to the largest audience (to earn that cheddar). There's no more saturation of bad movies to good (personal tastes aside) than there was fifty years ago. If you're going to get caught up in originality, you're going to miss out on what movies most have to offer.

[Tillius]

I'm inclined to say there have been very few original ideas in film, and even if a production seems original there is probably a series of buried works in the past if borrows from that heavily influenced it the common viewer is simply unaware of.

I used to be hung up on cliches, but I don't care any more. A film can use the same ideas which have been established a thousand times before in a slightly different way and it will still please people. This is how popular cinema works, sure it's formulaic but your common viewer doesn't want to be challenged with unconventional ideas.

Even with the avant-garde, challenging stuff you find in your more obscure, often independent films post-modern approaches to making films have been done to death as much as your standard cliches. Some people say art is dead, and I might be inclined to believe them.

Still, we hack on for the the hell of it.

This. Word for word.

[Moon Flavor]

Meh I would agree they're getting less original but there's still some cool ones that come out every now and then

[JohnXDoe3]

pretty much what has been said already. idk if "art is dead" but it certainly is a bit overrated when it comes to applying it to film / music. which are art forms in and of themselves

there is something to be said of formula. "tried and true." many movies today are fairly transparent....storylines, plot devices, conflict, conflict resolution. we've seen all these things before done every which way. i think the special talent of the filmmaker is to take what has been said before and say it again in a slightly different way. show again what has been shown 1000 times, but do it just as well if not better, and maybe throw in a twist

there are so many components to filmmaking, it can have different elements of originality. i like to think of original as "fresh." or surprising. if you think you know whats coming, maybe you do. but for a couple of hours sitting in that theater seat you dc because the filmmaker has taken care to entertain, enlighten, challenge a little, or just make something that is flat out fun

originality is good.....but i don't want to see David Lynch every time i consider a movie. but take a story like American Beauty and make something great out of the seemingly mundane, and you have a chance at amazing me

and plz remember....entertainment before interesting. you can make the most original film in history....but if you don't entertain me....idc

[smith_]

art is exactly what it's always been throughout history. to say it is dead is ridiculous, we tend to think we're much different from any other generation but we are very much the same

[EightMilesHigh]

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[pigletopeth]

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