How the Myspace-Generation is killing movies.life
It’s just a simple exercise in Freakanomics. X happens, makes Y happen, and then makes Z happen, and results in A.
Myspace users, famous for their focus on networking horribly designed user profiles with other horribly designed user profiles, is killing creativity in cinema, and killing movie theatres.
Myspace, a social networking site, allows users to easily create web content and network with other users for the goal of becoming connected to the most people. Some people have used myspace to connect to old friends but for the most part, myspace users are teens who ooze towards a path of least resistance.
These Myspace users, the Myspace Generation, is so focused on finding a way to get in on the action of networking, that it has given up good design, functionality, and usefullness, for an easy way to create a blog without any effort.
So these thousands of users connect, and through a domino effect of sorts, Emo music ( a derivitive of punk), finds it’s audience. Thousands of Emo bands get on myspace, and with the style’s popularity, a fashion style arises.
The look, of this style: 
Perpetuates a blasé, uninterested, stupid is cool attitude. Embrace technology like a drug, sap every last bit out of it to attain mediocrity with-as-less-work-as-possible, and blame your overabundance of emotion on society.
But, in defense of Emo, at least there’s not as much E being passed around.
But at least the Candy Kids would come to the theatre to watch cult-followed films like Star Wars, and give the movie theatre experience the proper respect and manners that could make any parent proud.
Now I see kids that think that they won’t miss anything in the plot of the movie if they walk in and out of the theatre 20 times . (A result of the blase attitude, they actually believe that nothing will happen in the next 20 minutes).
They also open their Razr phones 20 times and it shines in my face so bright it breaks the 4th wall and I remmember that I’m sitting in a theatre. (Thier way of embracing technology)
Giggling incessantly after every scary part (showing their emotions. Yes, I understand that some people giggle when they are scared, but not for 15 whole minutes after.)
Ok. So this kills the theatre experience for everyone else. But how does that destroy the creativity of the movie?
Hollywood has started to become more focused on creating films that will rake in the dough through DVD release. Movie-goers are becomeing so fed up with bad experiences that they spend the bulk of their entertainment money on a home theatre experience. Hollywood is shifting to compensate.
As of late, films are being edited for a society with A.D.D. Story Arcs are so flat they look like…well…an electrocardiogram flatline, and characters that are so two sided that the standees should have been hired to play the part.
I’ve just recently seen 3 onesheets (film posters) that listed their main websites as MySpace pages. But, I can promise you, it is not just the advertising that is being tailored to MySpace, it is also the film itself.
So the next time you hear an Emo kid claim that “Hollywood Sucks, they just re-use old ideas, and just do remakes”. Point your finger at them and say, “well that’s your fault.”
Posted on : July 21, 2006
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It’s just a simple exercise in Freakanomics. X happens, makes Y happen, and then makes Z happen, and results in A.
Myspace users, famous for their focus on networking horribly designed user profiles with other horribly designed user profiles, is killing creativity in cinema, and killing movie theatres.
Myspace, a social networking site, allows users to easily create web content and network with other users for the goal of becoming connected to the most people. Some people have used myspace to connect to old friends but for the most part, myspace users are teens who ooze towards a path of least resistance.
These Myspace users, the Myspace Generation, is so focused on finding a way to get in on the action of networking, that it has given up good design, functionality, and usefullness, for an easy way to create a blog without any effort.
So these thousands of users connect, and through a domino effect of sorts, Emo music ( a derivitive of punk), finds it’s audience. Thousands of Emo bands get on myspace, and with the style’s popularity, a fashion style arises.
The look, of this style:
Perpetuates a blasé, uninterested, stupid is cool attitude. Embrace technology like a drug, sap every last bit out of it to attain mediocrity with-as-less-work-as-possible, and blame your overabundance of emotion on society.
But, in defense of Emo, at least there’s not as much E being passed around.
But at least the Candy Kids would come to the theatre to watch cult-followed films like Star Wars, and give the movie theatre experience the proper respect and manners that could make any parent proud.
Now I see kids that think that they won’t miss anything in the plot of the movie if they walk in and out of the theatre 20 times . (A result of the blase attitude, they actually believe that nothing will happen in the next 20 minutes).
They also open their Razr phones 20 times and it shines in my face so bright it breaks the 4th wall and I remmember that I’m sitting in a theatre. (Thier way of embracing technology)
Giggling incessantly after every scary part (showing their emotions. Yes, I understand that some people giggle when they are scared, but not for 15 whole minutes after.)
Ok. So this kills the theatre experience for everyone else. But how does that destroy the creativity of the movie?
Hollywood has started to become more focused on creating films that will rake in the dough through DVD release. Movie-goers are becomeing so fed up with bad experiences that they spend the bulk of their entertainment money on a home theatre experience. Hollywood is shifting to compensate.
As of late, films are being edited for a society with A.D.D. Story Arcs are so flat they look like…well…an electrocardiogram flatline, and characters that are so two sided that the standees should have been hired to play the part.
I’ve just recently seen 3 onesheets (film posters) that listed their main websites as MySpace pages. But, I can promise you, it is not just the advertising that is being tailored to MySpace, it is also the film itself.
So the next time you hear an Emo kid claim that “Hollywood Sucks, they just re-use old ideas, and just do remakes”. Point your finger at them and say, “well that’s your fault.”
Posted on : July 21, 2006
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Stranded »