Do you think it is the Age of Mediocrity in BW?

First Previous

Page

Frequent Posters

Remus.Lupin4

@Remus.Lupin4

Dazzler

Posted: 9 years ago

#31

mediocre for movies because before movie release there is a lot of hype about the movie... we get reviews on teaser, trailer, songs etc etc... twitter in particular is filled with OTT praise before audience gets first look of any teaser, trailer or actual movie... promotions are overblown... movies tend to present this grand image by opting for famous actors or foreign locations.. but when you go to watch the movie there is no proper plot nor pacing and its so so disappointing when you have waited so long for the movie to release... to give an example at the start of 2015 i couldn't wait to watch tamasha but after i watched the movie i found it the worse movie of the year... every year i start off with wanting to watch 6-7 movies which i expect to be very good, but by the end of the year only 1 or 2 movies end up actually live up to the expectations.. the rest turn out to be strictly okay, could have been better or bad...usually i find the small scale movies with no hype turn out to be much better than the major films i am looking forward to.. i am in support of small scale movies with low budget and good actors.. now that major studios are shutting down i am hoping for more low budget movies...

Quote

shubha

@GetbusyLiving

Inactive

+ 2

Posted: 9 years ago

#32

i think lot of bad movies were made even before..and there were some timeless gems too..the difference now is a lot of money is spent on promoting a mediocre movie...the hype and all is just so much even before the movie releases..that the actual experience of watching it is underwhelming comparatively...

the flying jatt for instance...initially when the title track came..the kiddos in our family were all going gaga over tiger..even the adults were like we will take the kids to watch the movie..but then everyday since the newspapers were full of tiger shroff...his dancing movies..his martial arts skill and even his alleged affair..and the novelty wore off...

my point is the current lot of actors incl star kids are not that bad infact they are more prepared ..focussed and trained but they are promoted as the next big thing after just two releases and when u actually see them act...u realise they are nothing worth the hype...its not that they can't get better but the hype around them is just too much..and consequently they are also written off too soon...

previously it was not so..even amitabh bachchan had a huge list of failures but never was he written off prematurely nor was he hyped as the big star initially as he turned out to be later...film making has become too commercial than before thats why mediocrity has set in..

also i feel the number of female oriented movies have again dwindled down...i find very few really good performers among women comparatively than before

however the good part is there are still good low budget movies made..like nil battey sannata which was an amazing movie and was a hit too...they have their own audience thanks to twitter and other social media...plus actors like nawazuddin and rajkumar rao , swara bhaskar are getting movies as leads which was not possible before..

so its not all bad...its also what kind of movies u are watching..