http://filmnerds.com/blog/2009/11/05/hey-eckhart-think-about-the-future/ The Official Blog of FilmNerds.com Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:40:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://filmnerds.com/blog/2009/11/05/hey-eckhart-think-about-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Matt Scalici Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:48:25 +0000 http://filmnerds.com/blog/?p=45#comment-23 Wish I could share your optimism Stark but I think Hollywood's thinking on this seems to be that they'd rather make fewer movies but maintain full-on budgets than make the same amount of movies they are making now on smaller budgets. Their impression of the public seems to be that we won't accept moving "backwards" when we've already seen the limits big budget filmmaking can be pushed to. Obviously, I don't agree with this and I think if there's any correlation at all between budget and quality, it's that higher budgeted films are safer and less interesting. There will be unique artistic voices that emerge from this time because of their ability to tell a story in an interesting and economical way but when it comes to studio flagpole films, I doubt we see any shift back towards quality in favor of spectacle. Wish I could share your optimism Stark but I think Hollywood’s thinking on this seems to be that they’d rather make fewer movies but maintain full-on budgets than make the same amount of movies they are making now on smaller budgets. Their impression of the public seems to be that we won’t accept moving “backwards” when we’ve already seen the limits big budget filmmaking can be pushed to. Obviously, I don’t agree with this and I think if there’s any correlation at all between budget and quality, it’s that higher budgeted films are safer and less interesting. There will be unique artistic voices that emerge from this time because of their ability to tell a story in an interesting and economical way but when it comes to studio flagpole films, I doubt we see any shift back towards quality in favor of spectacle.

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