Archived Weblog Entry - 11/24/2002: "*makes a sign saying "the End is Near! Play more Playstation!" and steps on soap box*"

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11/24/2002 Archived Entry: "*makes a sign saying "the End is Near! Play more Playstation!" and steps on soap box*"

I finally sat down and finished FF9. ^___^ Woo!

Oh! here we go. rant time. When I was a little kid my gifted teachers would ask us cute little questions about the future. It sort of runs along the same line as "what do you want to be when you grow up" cept it's about something other than that. Stretch our imaginations or something (*cackles* like mine needs to be stretched anymore) "What do you think movies will be like in the future?" And an overwelming majority as well as I, thought that movies would be interactive. You choose what the characters do, where they go, etc etc. Our impression would be something like....let's say a slasher movie. The audience each has a key pad on the side of their chair. As one would watch the movie of a girl waking up in her bed because she heard some noise, it pauses and says "Should she A. Get up. B. Go back to sleep. C. Wait" and in 30 seconds the audience votes. 31% A, 22% B, 47% C. The movie plays again with the girl pulling the blanket over her head straining to hear any sound. Lighting sturs. She hears a loud bump then silence. the lightning flashes again. she hears her bedroom door squeek open *pause* "Should she A. Run away B. Stay quiet C. Try and attack" etc etc

I realized that it isn't the future of movies. Video games are! Final Fantasy games might as well be marked as movies. AMVs certainly. The ending of FF9 might as well have been the end of a movie. Not to mention it took forever @___@;; But either way. It's my belief that the question posed to me in elementary school was answered with RPG Video Games =D It has plot, character development, special effects, the works. Not to mention it's interactive. (duh) Video games are the future! *cheers!!*

Monday, November 25, 2002
Don't agree. Sorry. Due to the fact that games, or movies, like that would take too much time, and thought...you'd lose half the audience. Remember, people go to movies not only because they're good movies, but because they don't have to think (or they aren't supposed to in a really good movie) about their lives. Look at ET: The Extraterrestrial (can't spell). The reason why that is considered such a good movie is because despite everything, it can suck in the viewer into the plot and you can completely forget about all of your problems for those few hours.* With an RPG movie, or interactive movie, people would get into fights because they wouldn't agree with how the plot went in the movie. See fanfiction for those people. Plus, RPG games are still not liked by the majority of people. They, despite Squaresoft and Sony's best efforts, are still seen as the haven of the nerds. Remeber "only nerds play video games"...see the movie Mallrats for more. Or the Comic Book guy from the Simpsons. Supposedly we're all doomed to a life like that. Which is pure horse hockey, but still...the perception is out there. Just ask my roommates...the supposed normal people of the world.
As a side note, if I hear the words "Oh my gawd!" or something to that effect again, please shoot me.

*Although for 99% of the audience was wrapped up in the story, the Midshipman infront of me (the supposed 3 most many type of man besides the Marines and the Army) was crying. Though, to give him the benefit of the doubt, the very little kids were crying as well. ET had just died....

09:33 PM: Liz

Tuesday, November 26, 2002
does that mean the thing that defines a movie is that it has to mindless and be popular with everyone?

And not only nerds play video games. Only nerds OBSESS over video games. That's like saying everyone who's ever seen a Star Wars movie is a nerd.

I can understand that the length of the game can lose a large portion of the population...but does that mean that really abstract french films aren't movies anymore? Or maybe 3 hour long Magnolia? Maybe that's still concidered a movie because it has Tom Cruise jumping around in his undies =p *giggles* ^ ^

11:28 AM: Me site!

Sunday, December 01, 2002
No, they don't have to be mindless, but they do have to have the ability to have you be drawn into the film so that you do forget what is going on in your life. Et is not mindless...Battlefield Earth is, and it sucks as a movie. Still, they need to have a certain ability to draw you deeply into the plot to get you to watch it. Think of Lord of the Rings. It's an awesome movie, but it doesn't have you come up with other plots, because Tolkien wanted it to be played out in a certain way.

The movie loses something when many ideas about how the plot should go are put in. If you have a mass of people who chose various endings, you will never have a suprise ending. Amelie could never have happened. Neither could Signs or The Sixth Sense. The element of a suprise ending, or various twists, would not have happened. You would end up with a bunch of Bond movies. While Bond movies are good, they all have the exact same plot. All of them. Remeber watching The sixth sense the first time, how you kept coming up with various ideas as to what was supposed to happen next? And then proven wrong later? Well, that wouldn't happen. With a mass audience making the film, in essence, they would chose the most obvious continuation of the movie, stripping away the more clever ideas.

Big key point, half of the country is Below Average in intelligence. They don't enjoy reading, finding out what's going on in their government, voting, or "them damn foreigners". Parts of the country are still stuck in the 60's. The bad, I hate women's rights and immigrants and we need to go to war, part.

Therefore, you would end up with the most blatant plot possible (Titanic, Bond, Battlefield earth) or just the worst plot. Granted their first type of movie to try that would be a comic book movie (probably spiderman like ) but it wouldn't turn out like spiderman. It would turn out like, if they're lucky, X-men. Which wasn't as good. :-)

04:33 PM: liz again