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November 7, 2008 • written by Brittney Crisp

 The movies that are out today are the most grim, striking and funniest movies there has been in a long time, but there’s something that I figured out by asking family and friends; why don’t we go and see movies in theaters anymore?

            We find a movie and we see it, and we all just say “that was the same thing as that one movie we saw last week.”  Yes that is true, teenagers, adults, and other audiences are getting annoyed with how similar movies are getting these days; like when one comedy comes out, and then another comedy with the same kind of feeling, or the same twist, and it would come out not to long after.

Movies are all suppose to be thrilling, something different each time you go, not something that you see and then automatically think, “Hey I know what’s going to happen next,” no, that’s not how it’s suppose to be.  Also the only movies that people are most likely to go see and the movies with practically the best reviews are the ones that are based off of books.  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Golden Compass, and the more recent Horton Hears a Who, Inkheart, Iron Man, Chronicles’ of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Incredible Hulk, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, were all were turned into movies, all because good sellers as books, so they would assume they would be good sellers at the box office, but everyone knew what was coming next in theses movies, because most have read the books.  Now people are waiting the arrival of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, to come out on November, 4 of this year, also the long awaited Twilight Movie, coming out December 12, 2008.  These two are going to be highlights of the year’s movie sellers list, and will probably bring in more money that most of the other movies that are out there right now 

       But why spend all the time that we have in theaters watching movies that we already know the plot, and ending too?  Because nothing else strikes our attention, like the kids, yeah maybe incredible movies have came out like The Happening, but young audiences’ can’t see them, and what else can they resort to for entertainment that to something they know, like the Harry Potter series, maybe not as kid-friendly as other movies, but they know what’s all going on.  People resort to the things that they know best, it helps when I put into an example like this:

Lights-Camera-Action?

Brittney Crisp

The movies that are out today are the most grim, striking and funniest movies there has been in a long time, but there’s something that I figured out by asking family and friends; why don’t we go and see movies in theaters anymore?

            We find a movie and we see it, and we all just say “that was the same thing as that one movie we saw last week.”  Yes that is true, teenagers, adults, and other audiences are getting annoyed with how similar movies are getting these days; like when one comedy comes out, and then another comedy with the same kind of feeling, or the same twist, and it would come out not to long after.

Movies are all suppose to be thrilling, something different each time you go, not something that you see and then automatically think, “Hey I know what’s going to happen next,” no, that’s not how it’s suppose to be.  Also the only movies that people are most likely to go see and the movies with practically the best reviews are the ones that are based off of books.  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Golden Compass, and the more recent Horton Hears a Who, Inkheart, Iron Man, Chronicles’ of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Incredible Hulk, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, were all were turned into movies, all because good sellers as books, so they would assume they would be good sellers at the box office, but everyone knew what was coming next in theses movies, because most have read the books.  Now people are waiting the arrival of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, to come out on November, 4 of this year, also the long awaited Twilight Movie, coming out December 12, 2008.  These two are going to be highlights of the year’s movie sellers list, and will probably bring in more money that most of the other movies that are out there right now

            But why spend all the time that we have in theaters watching movies that we already know the plot, and ending too?  Because nothing else strikes our attention, like the kids, yeah maybe incredible movies have came out like The Happening, but young audiences’ can’t see them, and what else can they resort to for entertainment that to something they know, like the Harry Potter series, maybe not as kid-friendly as other movies, but they know what’s all going on.  People resort to the things that they know best, it helps when I put into an example like this:

If you had to pick a party to go to what one would you choose?  The friends that you have known for a long time; or the new friends that you made just that week?  Majority of the people would say ‘my friend that I trust, which, in translation is, is the one that you’ve known the longest.

            This is just the beginning, you never know what else could be coming out, maybe next years movies will be better for the kids, maybe they will be worse than this year, maybe it could all just get better, we all don’t know, but we still go and see things based on what they show us in trailers, and what’s most flashy, intriguing, and loud; we want to see.   We can’t help that, because you know; we’re only humans.

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