Movies, entertainment or not?

The state of films/movies/flicks or whatever you wish to call it, is sadly going down in a rapid state in my opinion.

We go from trends where movies are being made from heist movies, about zombies or vampires, superheroes or disaster movies, which is all fine of course, the companies need to make money and they go by what the people like.

What is missing though, is some “new” scripts that are not plagiarizing other movies or concepts and that make us understand how good a script can actually be.

Do not get me wrong here, I am not claiming to be a movie savant or huge enthusiast compared to some of the people out there, no I am more a huge fan of entertainment in general and tv/movies in particular.

With this said I also admit that I am not a big fan of movies like Hotel Rwanda, 12 Years a Slave, or The Pianist, and do not get me wrong here, I admit that these are great movies and the kind of movies that still should be done.

My own preference for a movie or tv-show is to be entertained and the best is if I could leave the cinema with a smile on my face and keep laughing or talking about the movie with my friends over the coming days, like people did after they saw Deadpool for example.

Deadpool, yes it is still the same superhero genre, however it do take a step out of the regular frame, then breaks the frame and uses it as firewood, and this was welcomed by a lot of fans and general movie goers.

A tv-show that has the same affect but times a billion is Game of Thrones, a show that has the same frame as so many other fantasy movies and shows, however it is done with a huge budget and people behind it with a vision of not dropping the fucking ball (even though they did rush through season 7..)

And this is a show that is talked about everywhere, in schools, at team practice, in the office, and by all ages, and unless they totally shit the bed like the people behind Lost did with the ending there, Game of Thrones will be going down as one of the most talked about shows in history one would think, and the most important thing with shows and movies like this is that it gives people an escape from their regular dull lives.

This is once again why I like entertainment movies (yes cheap movies for you that shall recall the mistakes in dress design in “Victoria and Abdul” with Judy Dench), because they do give you 90+ minutes to step out of the regular routine with seeing on tv or online or in papers about all the misery in the world today.

Seeing the state of the world, I do not feel like locking myself in and watch 2.5 hours of misery on how badly the times where when there was slaves and how they were treated, and then leave the cinema feeling bad about it, no I want to get a coke, some popcorn and get entertained for a while and reboot my batteries a bit before I get back to the misery of our world.

When I started this I was thinking of doing a short review of some movies over the year 2017, but now I see that it just became a bit of a rant with a lot of text, so I may have to throw in a few images here and there to keep you here until the end.

Thanks for reading and go watch a movie.