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What mediocre movies have you seen lately? You know, not classics, not blockbuster hits, not serious Oscar contenders. Just regular, average-at-best movies that nobody would ever dream of touting.
I have recently watched The Perfect Score and Transformers. I recognize these movies as perhaps the very definition of Hollywood mediocrity, but I was still entertained. It's certainly not for the same reasons as good movies; the climaxes are rarely emotionally moving, the storytelling is sometimes incoherent, and the characters are always flat.
But these movies make it up to you in other ways. There are little, humorous scenes that don't really add anything except a good laugh. There are beautiful women. (If you can't find a good actress, and your script isn't really very impressive anyway, why not just go for a really good-looking one?) There are moments where enjoy the movie's sheer absurdity. Sometimes, it throws your suspension of disbelief down a plothole, buries it alive, and writes stilted dialogue for its epitaph.
Really, most movies are telling somewhat similar stories to one another. There are the good versus evil stories, the "various different people get to know each other better through a shared experience" stories, the love stories, etc. We've all seen all of them a million times. Maybe it's actually more fun to see a mediocre telling of one of those stories sometimes.
So here's to you, mediocre movies. Cheers, all.
I have recently watched The Perfect Score and Transformers. I recognize these movies as perhaps the very definition of Hollywood mediocrity, but I was still entertained. It's certainly not for the same reasons as good movies; the climaxes are rarely emotionally moving, the storytelling is sometimes incoherent, and the characters are always flat.
But these movies make it up to you in other ways. There are little, humorous scenes that don't really add anything except a good laugh. There are beautiful women. (If you can't find a good actress, and your script isn't really very impressive anyway, why not just go for a really good-looking one?) There are moments where enjoy the movie's sheer absurdity. Sometimes, it throws your suspension of disbelief down a plothole, buries it alive, and writes stilted dialogue for its epitaph.
Really, most movies are telling somewhat similar stories to one another. There are the good versus evil stories, the "various different people get to know each other better through a shared experience" stories, the love stories, etc. We've all seen all of them a million times. Maybe it's actually more fun to see a mediocre telling of one of those stories sometimes.
So here's to you, mediocre movies. Cheers, all.
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