MOVIES: THE END OF THE DOCUMENTARY ERA.
Newsweek Article. Appropriated Title. Personal Opinion.
What is a documentary?
The best example, is the Al Gore movie called An Incovenient Truth.
What are most movies today?
You have super heroes in abundance.
You have comedies, dramas, horror, romance, and several other genres that appear to be exhausted of ideas.
Where to get new ideas?
There's that FLDS group in Texas. We know what the media reports, but not anything directly related to that story.
We know what we see in Iraq 2 on the news, but we do not have any movies on it.
I wonder if a movie miniseries might be in order along the lines of Shogun, The Thorn Birds, or one of those mega television productions of the 1980s.
Not those particular miniseries, but movies that do not have to reintroduce a concept in each movies.
Star Trek did this from 2-5.
I think movie companies are having to reinvent the wheel every time they put something on the screen.
I go through Barnes and Noble every week. I see a number of science fiction books, fantasy, history, current affairs, biographies, philosophy books, and a number of other books that could serve as the basis for movies.
I am not a master of movie making, but the mega hit movies appear to me not to be there.
I know movies that are based on books do not allows follow the same plotline.
In essence, movie makers appear to be spinning their wheels on material that does not appeal to the general public.
Too much of the same thing lead's to frustration in the public.