This is where I think you're wrong. You think that just because there is a public outcry against something that it will somehow cease to exist. People have hated on violent video games and suggestive lyrics since the 90s and are games are more violent and our music more explicit. Studios are a money making business and will never forget what makes them money. As long as gory, violent, morally ambiguous movies continue to score big at the box office, they will continue to make them no matter what the public sentiment is. The media can cry havoc all they want, but as long as people still show up at the theater asking for a ticket, violent movies will get made.

I do agree with you on premise, that we are entering a dark age of cinema. However, I do not agree that the demise of cinema will be because there's not enough violent, morally ambiguous films being made. I argue that the decline will be based on a lack of creativity, a lack of willingness by the industry to take risks with innovative ideas, and a continuously shrinking market share as innovation brings direct to viewer movies on a much wider scale.

The truth is, the movie industry is on te verge of hard times. I believe that 2012 will go down as the "pride before the fall", the great long summer that they thought would last forever. Don't be fooled, winter is coming...and zombies, don't forget zombies

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Posted by OMLandshark

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Posted on 2/4/13 at 4:17 pm to kingbob

I do think my premise on China though will happen. The shootings is still in the air and we won't be able to see its effect (if any) for about a year or two. China wants to frick over any major release that doesn't meet their requirements. They're release it if they go through something that makes the MPAA look like a cool stoner parent. R-Rated films generally aren't allowed to be shown in China, although they made an exception for Prometheus on the grounds that they edit out all the good parts.

China wants the American film system to be more or less ruled by China. No over-the-top violence, minimal use of guns, no cursing, only have movies with a very clear good and bad guy, make the governments into the good guys, the hero easy to relate to instead of a complex individual that may not translate over cultures very well, and always have the good guy win with a Happily Ever After bullshite. That's the direction we are about to head my friends with big studio releases.

If they don't do that, China will still let the film be released (if its edited and butchered to hell for their release), but they'll also pit it against another Blockbuster. The Dark Knight Rises for instance was released on the same week as Spider-Man, Prometheus, and The Expendables 2, which needless to greatly hurt all their potential box office gross. The Hobbit and Skyfall will be released in February in the same week, right when everyone has already seen it and got good bootlegged copies of it already in their living room.

They're sending a message to Hollywood in telling them that in order to get as much money as they deserve, they'll have to have the government in on the film in the beginning. Chinese officials were supervising the Avengers and Looper (which mind you is completely different overseas), and they had a good month to themselves and thus grossed a shite-ton of money. Didn't you notice all the stuff said about China in the film, despite the fact that I don't know why China has anything to do with this?

This post was edited on 2/4/13 at 4:18 pm

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