Rant 157 5/6/12 Subject: Bad movies

Rant number 157


Apologies for the relatively short rant yesterday. I may well have had a few (potentially more than I should)

As a result, today is a day of rest with the lovely waff.

The last four days have been tough ones with band and beer, and so now its all about r&r - which means its time to watch some movies.

Being a bit of a (massive) movie buff, I subscribe to LoveFilm - which gives me access to many movies by post and also movies via internet streaming.

Now, I personally think that Internet streaming is one of the best things to happen to film rentals since the home video was released. If you wanted to watch a film 5 years ago and didn't have it in your collection, you had to get in your car, go to the local rental place, find that the film you wanted wasn't in, drive to another rental place and then take it home with you - just to bring it back the following day.

As a system, this was a little flawed, I think you will agree.

Now, if I want to watch a movie - I can pick it from the selection online - which is brilliant.

Except

Now, its a bit too easy to watch a bad movie. I mean, in the past - you had to really think about it before coughing up your £3 and taking home your VHS, now its a bit too easy to pick one.

And god are there a lot of rubbish movies out there, and not in the 'so bad its good' category.

There are endless terrible films on LoveFilm - and there is doubtless an equal amount on Netflix too. That's the problem you see with streaming, the licensing costs a lot - which means that they need to save cash somewhere - which is where many crap films come in.

Cheaper movie making equipment has made it so much easier for people to make films, meaning that the scrupulous checks that took place in the past no longer take place.

Trawl through the list of films and you will find many a film within the categories of:

'High concept' (storyline too complex to follow with no budget)
'Teen Horror' (Remake of Friday the 13th/the Hills have eyes with ugly people and no Budget)
'Sci-fi' (Cost about 10p to make. More Tin foil that a Christmas turkey)

That are simply awful. Why do people think that they can succeed to make a classic by recycling ideas using a cast that have all the acting ability of a pot of shoe polish!

I just don't understand why people keep making these movies and, worse than that - why people keep funding them!

I hate really bad movies!

Rant over.