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No one likes someone talking over the fireworks on the 4th of July or narrating a rollercoaster ride, so why would people need much dialog in event films? We g

No one likes someone talking over the fireworks on the 4th of July or narrating a rollercoaster ride, so why would people need much dialog in event films? We go for the bigger than TV spectacle. We don't need the theater to get adult, dialog driven movies since we have great adult, dialog driven television which have the long length to give the dialog some effect. Movies are not the place to think anymore. If they can slide in great dialog than cool, but it doesn't seem to be a requirement. Heck, I'm more mad that Honest Trailers[1], CinemaSins[2] (Everything wrong with X in Y minutes), and HISHE[3] have so much damn material because of spectacle over plot. Plots that make us wince[4] is the greater tragedy. or... its hard for a screaming kid to screw up an action scene, but the little whippersnapper can certainly screw up a drama 1) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL86F4D497FD3CACCE https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL86F4D497FD3CACCE 2) https://www.youtube.com/user/CinemaSins https://www.youtube.com/user/CinemaSins 3) https://www.youtube.com/user/HISHEdotcom https://www.youtube.com/user/HISHEdotcom 4) https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/ https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/

Houshalter 10y ago
Movies are about telling stories. It's hard to do that without dialogue or "thinking". There was a time when people were wowed solely by special effects. But CGI is so routine now long sequences of eye candy are just boring.
- protomyth 10y ago
  I don't think its hard to tell a story without much dialogue. I don't think "thinking" and "dialogue" are linked as I've seen some really un-thinking dialogue and some visual thinking without dialogue. Given the box office, I don't think CGI is boring, just poorly done CGI without a point. I think a good plot and structure is more important for movies today than just the dialogue.

Houshalter 10y ago

Movies are about telling stories. It's hard to do that without dialogue or "thinking". There was a time when people were wowed solely by special effects. But CGI is so routine now long sequences of eye candy are just boring.

protomyth 10y ago
I don't think its hard to tell a story without much dialogue. I don't think "thinking" and "dialogue" are linked as I've seen some really un-thinking dialogue and some visual thinking without dialogue. Given the box office, I don't think CGI is boring, just poorly done CGI without a point. I think a good plot and structure is more important for movies today than just the dialogue.