Why do most movies suck?

[Dr. Abram]

It's the truth; these days most movies suck. Todays audiance is fed more formula than a dehydrated three-day-old baby. Which makes reviewing pictures so much more fun for us.

http://www.mostmoviessuck.com

[Gerry]

Why do most movies suck?  That's like ask why do birds fly? or why is the sky blue?  It's just the nature of things.  It always has been and always will be.  Just as there will always be people like us who appreciate bad movies despite their lack of virtues.

[Chris]

In my mind I think why there are so many  bad movies around is that Hollywood got not so many talented people working there to make good ones to look at.

[Quu]

I agree, there hasn't been a creative, original or entertaining movie since 1994.

Now wer get bulls**t like Dude wheres my Car? and American Pie. Ugh.

[Sacred Cow]

Marketing, inside jokes, a quick buck and test screenings for a start.

"If you're in advertiseing, kill yourself. No. No. I know I'm a comedian, but this is not a joke. Go home. Put a loaded gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. Look! Look! Bill is going for that anti-marketing demographic. He's using reverse psychology. No! No! No!! I hate you! You're scum! You represent everything that's wrong with entertainment today! Go home and paint your wall red with the blood from the back of your head! This is not a joke. If you're in advertising, KILL YOURSELF." - - - Bill Hicks

[Squishy]

...because suck makes buck.

Try something different, and nine out of ten times, it will come out of Hollywood's butthole processed into pure Vanilla crap. If it doesn't, nine out of ten of THOSE  times, audiences will say, "Ooh!  This doesn't taste like Vanilla crap! Yucky!" and stay away in droves.

...and for that one time in ten when something original is actually successful, it is immediately Xeroxed and sequelized until it becomes the new Vanilla, to the point that the original has lost a lot of its flavor.

Repeat ad nauseum.

[Reed Rothchild]

Nice analogy, Squishy.

               Then again, some cool t.v shows are being created ( Sopranos, West Wing,Sex in the City ), so all creativity isn't quite dead yet, even on the idiot box.

[Guitarwolf]

You're 100% correct Squishy. But to reply to your post Mr. Rothchild,, consider the fact that one of those shows will probably turn into a hollywood movie. Thus proving Squishy's point. In fact, it's this very reason that Matt Groening has  stated he will wait until the final season of the Simpsons to do the Simpsons movie. Let's just hope the movie doesn't destroy the shows legacy.

[Chris K.]

As an avid film critic, I always believe a film needs a good portion of creativity to make it look good. Mario Bava is an example of a creative artist. His films are colorful with lush photography combined with the usual twists and atmospheric action that happens in most of his films. Andy Milligan used reality as his creative angle in which he shows the world as it is and shows that it is always not in "black-and-white" as most people seem to think. But creativity is NOW LACKING in films.

AMERICAN PIE relys on some moron sticking his dick in a pie! DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? is about unintelligent stones who you wish would be shot! PEARL HARBOR is a inaccurate film that has a boring 3 hour long love story and bad Japanese stereotypes that is in a "black-and-white" fashion! SCARY MOVIE uses pornographic humor that does not work! THE GRINCH is a bad 104 minute variation of a 25 minute book and cartoon! FREDDY GOT FINGERED is a film made by some jackass from Canada who thinks he is funny but is really some fruit with a wacko look so he can be "charming"! These are not creative movies but movies that are made to make a quick buck even though THEY REALLY SUCK! But the producers and distributors don't care! They just want that $7.50 so bad that they will make a film that will pull in the dumbest teen or adult who is quickly enthraled by the overproduced trailers! So yeah, most movies suck. But that is how Hollywood works and they don't care at all. Hell, they act like they know what the audience wants but they don't even have a clue. In fact, nobody knows what the audience wants and if so the audience's wants and needs cannot be fulfilled because the audience themselves have no idea what they want either!

But thank God we have directors like Herschell Gordon Lewis, Andy Milligan, George A. Romero, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, etc. who knew how to deliver entertainment.

But Hollywood is just in it for the "Argent" (French for "money"). What are you gona' do?

[Paul West]

They suck because "Cloverfield" That joke of a movie was bad enough for it will be definitely added to Hollywood's lowest list of those ever growing make a-fast-buck blockbuster garbage flicks.  I Robot and the equally discussing sequel I am legend has turned off this moviegoer for keeps now.  Speaking indirectly to all those big bad rich Hollywood producers out there, who no longer have an edge for making real audience pleasing science-fiction?
Where are you guys getting these lousy scripts from a class of kindergartners?  Who writes these neanderthal brained scripts, and how many millions do these jerks make for purposely distorting our sense of real theater.  Is it possible that today's movie scripts were rescued from trash heaps?  It's now time for me to challenge Hollywood with this real science-fiction masterpiece of a manuscript.  Unfortunately for all those incredibly cheap minded producers out there today, bringing this science-fiction story to a large theatrical screen will require something they no longer possess" the true interpretation of science-fiction" for that you must have some intelligence. 

In conclusion, I won't be so low to just rent a few cameras and higher a special effects computer whiz, to do the movie cheaply.  No, I believe that the American audience deserves better than what those Hollywood producers  can deliver, to make that fast buck.  Therefore I shall wait until Hollywood goes bust, and when those big-name producers are standing in long unemployment lines, my movie Deniability the alien element will continue drawing those movie crowds, who have already seen it twice.

From the author of the unpublished manuscript "Deniability, the alien element"

[The Burgomaster]

Movies suck because we allow them to suck . . . in fact, we ENCOURAGE them to suck by paying to see them in theaters, renting or buying DVDs, or watching them on pay cable channels.  Here is one example of why movies suck:

I was working in a video rental store in the 1980s.  A woman who appeared to be in her early 20s came in and wanted to rent MANNEQUIN.  It was a fairly new release and none of our copies were in stock.  I told her we had none in stock, but it was a bad movie anyway and maybe she could find something better.  She asked about a couple of other (equally crappy) new releases, but they were all rented out, too.  So I started suggesting good, older movies (and when I say "older," I believe some of them were only a couple of years old).  She admitted she had not seen any of my suggested titles, but was not interested in renting them.  She kept saying, "Do you have anything new?"

Finally, I said, "So, you'd rather rent a new, terrible movie than an older decent movie that you've never seen before?"

She paused for a moment, then said, "Yeah."

And that, my children, is why movies suck.

[Oldskool138]

Too much CGI.  Not enough plot.

And, Hollywood has ran out of ideas.

[Captain Tars Tarkas]

Seven years on, and movies still suck.  We are losing the fight, people!

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Too much CGI.  Not enough plot.

YES...Gimmicks have replaced actual content!
-Ed

[BixDugan]

Its funny (and sad) that I got all the way up to the reply that mentioned Sex & The City as a "new, current" TV show until I noticed the age of this thread. Nice.
Simpsons Movie foretold.
Irony that the Sex & The City   movie is now released, showing Hollywood relying on old TV shows for scripts, still.
What was released in 1994 that was so impressive? Just curious.

I did like The Devil's Rejects, though.
And Clerks II is a real treat.


edit:
That's the 2nd Bill Hick's quote I've run across on the net in as many days. Spooky!