A captivating story is the biggest difference between a good movie and a bad one. It doesn’t have to be overly complex or even entirely original, as long as it keeps you (the audience) interested throughout its runtime. There is nothing worse than a movie that makes you bored.
From what I understand from his point of view: What makes a great film (or a great novel) is that it has to be both very particular and totally universal. Everyone must be able to identify with the characters while the character is completely different from us. Whether it's a bear (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1988), a Taiwanese widower (Eat Drink Man Woman, 1994), or 3 boys from a village in the deep countryside of France who have to go to war far far away (Bruno Dumont 2006, Flandres).
Reminds me a bit of when I first saw Doctor Zhivago when I was young. My parents wanted to watch a movie together as a family, and I said "OK" just to go along, and they recommended renting Dr. Zhivago. I wasn't looking forward to it, after all it was the kind of 'Oscar' movie that older people liked, and took up TWO VHS tapes (Yes, this was THAT long ago!), so surely it had long, boring stretches in it. Very shortly in, I was hooked, and it's now one of my all-time favorite movies!
It was like that for me in Film 100 class when the teacher had us watch so many boring movies, but one time we were going to watch "The Bicycle Thief" and I ended up really liking it.
Everyone feels the same roller coaster ride and comes away feeling great at the end. You can share that great feeling with your friends and even complete strangers and bond over it.
A great movie makes you do two main things. Makes you appreciate the art of story telling. And despite knowing that it's not real, makes you willing to pretend what if it was real. A bad movie just makes you get simplistic and leads you to say "this is stupid". Because it has no craft to how it tells its story. The beginning and the end of the movie are like sides to a box and the parts of the story are placed in the box as convenience calls for them. Art of story telling example, the ending of Toy Story 3. Despite the expectation of the main characters always surviving, you actually had your doubts if they were going to go through with what felt like a possible ending. And then the way they gave the expected happy ending made you appreciate good story telling for it's own sake. Another example, though not a movie, is when they killed off the character of Will Gardner in The Good Wife. You got attached to a character and felt a small sense of remorse like having something taken away from you. There's also the episode where everyone dropped what they were doing to help out Elsbeth Tascioni. Made you say "I'd do the same thing".
Unwatchable, few. Awful, many. Bad, most. Good, some. Great, few. A great film will change your soul. _American Gunslinger_ (2017) was my most recent "Unwatchable" film.
wrong. bad and good are a matter of opinion to the INDIVIDUAL. I don't think like this dude does. I don't like what this dude will like. Its NEVER makes sense to say something is good or bad because there is no such thing in the medium. Its all art. all of it. no matter what. and its all subjective.
the single most important difference between a bad movie and a great movie: is the absence of 'woke' globalist politics injections. that makes everyone cringe (and regret that they spent inflation dollars watching the cringefest)
As much as I hate woke movies, the same goes for every ideologically preachy movie. I mean, watch Christian cinema.. even if you're a Christian, they're 99% tragic.
"Captivating story" "Grab your attention" "Make you feel something" All vague. Zero specificity. This is what makes movies/stories interesting. Nobody except 0.0000000001% know. Everybody else? lol nah.
A captivating story is the biggest difference between a good movie and a bad one. It doesn’t have to be overly complex or even entirely original, as long as it keeps you (the audience) interested throughout its runtime.
There is nothing worse than a movie that makes you bored.
From what I understand from his point of view:
What makes a great film (or a great novel) is that it has to be both very particular and totally universal.
Everyone must be able to identify with the characters while the character is completely different from us. Whether it's a bear (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1988), a Taiwanese widower (Eat Drink Man Woman, 1994), or 3 boys from a village in the deep countryside of France who have to go to war far far away (Bruno Dumont 2006, Flandres).
Gladiator(2000) - An absolute masterpiece
The Last Airbender(2010) and The Lion King(2019) - Insulting Garbage
How many times have you watched Gladiator?
@@filmcourage About 5 or several
Reminds me a bit of when I first saw Doctor Zhivago when I was young. My parents wanted to watch a movie together as a family, and I said "OK" just to go along, and they recommended renting Dr. Zhivago. I wasn't looking forward to it, after all it was the kind of 'Oscar' movie that older people liked, and took up TWO VHS tapes (Yes, this was THAT long ago!), so surely it had long, boring stretches in it. Very shortly in, I was hooked, and it's now one of my all-time favorite movies!
What's a VHS? 😂
@@wexwuthor1776 Very High Speed
@@georgeofhamilton I was joking that VHS is so old no one remembers it. Oh well, they can't all be winners.
It was like that for me in Film 100 class when the teacher had us watch so many boring movies, but one time we were going to watch "The Bicycle Thief" and I ended up really liking it.
What's the difference between a bad movie and a great movie?
A great movie leaves you with a feeling that you were entertained and left with satisfaction.
A bad movie offers you nothing but misery or boredom
Everyone feels the same roller coaster ride and comes away feeling great at the end. You can share that great feeling with your friends and even complete strangers and bond over it.
A great movie makes you do two main things. Makes you appreciate the art of story telling. And despite knowing that it's not real, makes you willing to pretend what if it was real.
A bad movie just makes you get simplistic and leads you to say "this is stupid". Because it has no craft to how it tells its story. The beginning and the end of the movie are like sides to a box and the parts of the story are placed in the box as convenience calls for them.
Art of story telling example, the ending of Toy Story 3. Despite the expectation of the main characters always surviving, you actually had your doubts if they were going to go through with what felt like a possible ending. And then the way they gave the expected happy ending made you appreciate good story telling for it's own sake.
Another example, though not a movie, is when they killed off the character of Will Gardner in The Good Wife. You got attached to a character and felt a small sense of remorse like having something taken away from you.
There's also the episode where everyone dropped what they were doing to help out Elsbeth Tascioni. Made you say "I'd do the same thing".
The person watching. That's the difference.
Hi,
Can anyone answer how to know who your audience is for a movie?
Can you guys please make a video about this question anyway?
5:20 Trying to be sure to hook the viewer in the first 5 minutes is very bad advice.
Unwatchable, few. Awful, many. Bad, most. Good, some. Great, few.
A great film will change your soul.
_American Gunslinger_ (2017) was my most recent "Unwatchable" film.
wrong. bad and good are a matter of opinion to the INDIVIDUAL. I don't think like this dude does. I don't like what this dude will like. Its NEVER makes sense to say something is good or bad because there is no such thing in the medium. Its all art. all of it. no matter what. and its all subjective.
You can't pay the rent if 5 people enjoy your movie. Sure it's subjective, but it's the opinion of the masses that matters.
@@Lilliathi you can do something else to much make more money.
@@Lilliathi Maybe that's why people in the industry need to learn to humble the heck up and take one for the team once in a while. Who's doing that?
@@sprinter82
What do you mean?
the single most important difference between a bad movie and a great movie: is the absence of 'woke' globalist politics injections. that makes everyone cringe (and regret that they spent inflation dollars watching the cringefest)
Definitely a huge issue in the modern entertainment landscape, but that's a big stretch to say it's the most important difference broski 😂
Some of the best films ever made are "woke". Right wing films are so fucking awful.
As much as I hate woke movies, the same goes for every ideologically preachy movie. I mean, watch Christian cinema.. even if you're a Christian, they're 99% tragic.
"Captivating story" "Grab your attention" "Make you feel something" All vague. Zero specificity. This is what makes movies/stories interesting. Nobody except 0.0000000001% know. Everybody else? lol nah.