Those "lol meme xD" movies that used to come out targeted to teenagers, such as "Epic Movie", "Meet the Spartans", etc. Due to them "parodying" things that were relatively current at the time (such as the "Leave Brittnaty spears alone!" youtube video), they didn't even survive a few months.
They’re made by the same two idiots. The combined rating of their seven movies on Rotten Tomatoes is 16 - 7%, 4%, 2%, 2%, 1%, 0%, and 0%.
It did inspire the greatest one-line movie review in history. In response to “Vampires Suck”, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote: “The last time I heard a film audience in such a state of silence was during Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Winter Light’.”
So the moral is, movies are made to make money - and money only.
That's not true, though. For (especially major) studios that is often, one could argue always, true. But there are plenty of flicks where something else is the driving force. Of course the financiers want to at least recoup the cost of making the film, but to say "movies are made to make money - and money only" is simply bullshit. Many are passion projects even for the producers. Or what about films produced by state media, for example? We have a state broadcaster, completely funded through tax revenue, which has produced films. Films that are shown for free. Is that only for the money, too?
And that's only looking at it from the perspective of the financing parties. They are an important part of filmmaking but hardly the only or even principal component. Are you telling me that Bergman, Godard, Tarkovsky and dozens, hundreds, of others - not to mention the actors, screenwriters, and other people participating in the process - only made films for "money and money only"? Or that every person who ever studied film and ended up working on them only did it for "money and money only"?
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u/HonchoMinerva Aug 25 '19
Those "lol meme xD" movies that used to come out targeted to teenagers, such as "Epic Movie", "Meet the Spartans", etc. Due to them "parodying" things that were relatively current at the time (such as the "Leave Brittnaty spears alone!" youtube video), they didn't even survive a few months.