Do You Like Movies? Are You Often Disappointed With the Quality of Movies?
What Do You Prefer to Experience When Watching Movies?
Tell Us. Tell Us What You Want!
Rate the movies you've seen at RottenTomatoes.com, Flixster.com, MetaCritic.com, and IndieWire.com, but tell US what your movie-viewing preferences are - i.e. TELL US WHAT YOU WANT.
We'll inform filmmakers and producers to YOUR wishes. Our QUESTIONS are on the very next page, as is a list of GENRES.
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WHY WAS THIS SITE CREATED?
Many in the motion picture industry have the same lament you and I have about the content of modern films: The stories told are in general, a basic rehashing of themes we've all seen too many times before, whether it be on the silver screen, or television. Although there have been films made in recent years whose story-lines would never have been considered to be made into films in years past, a basic analysis of many films will almost assuredly reveal a familiar formula.
The record for most films relesed in one year in the US is 634 films in 2008. In 1998, 383 films were released, while in 1988, the figure was only 206! There are more "good" films out there as well as "average" ones, but our decision on what to see has become more complicated. We almost go to the movies reluctantly as we expect "the same old stuff."
The industry has become genre-driven as opposed to story-driven. Producers have relied more heavily on "star factor" (casting well-known, familiar actors or those who have had recent successes) which forces us, the viewing public, to see the same actors in what are increasingly - the same stories.
Do you agree with me? Did you know that the six major studios utilize "creative committees" when determining which films to produce? The demographic group American studios target most? Males, aged 14 to 23.
