“Without even doing a scientific survey of the entertainment predilections of the American public,” Vulture editor Gavin Polone states that “he can still confidently say that there appears to be a preferential shift away from movies and toward television.”
You may have noticed your friends being more excited about a new episode coming out of their favourite television series rather than the release of a new, hyped up movie. The explanation of more TV shows being made are pronounced: There are more networks with the ability produce and broadcast series more than ever before and TV series are more convenient to access from either a streaming service like Netflix or, of course, on television. However, there’s more to it than just convenience and quantity. The most noteworthy reason that television is being favoured is by the recurring excuse that TV shows are better than most movies nowadays. Does this mean cinema is lowering its standards? Or does it just mean television is raising theirs?
You may have noticed your friends being more excited about a new episode coming out of their favourite television series rather than the release of a new, hyped up movie. The explanation of more TV shows being made are pronounced: There are more networks with the ability produce and broadcast series more than ever before and TV series are more convenient to access from either a streaming service like Netflix or, of course, on television. However, there’s more to it than just convenience and quantity. The most noteworthy reason that television is being favoured is by the recurring excuse that TV shows are better than most movies nowadays. Does this mean cinema is lowering its standards? Or does it just mean television is raising theirs?
(please give the video a chance, he actually has some great points!)
The studios hold a notable part of the blame for this downward drift in how they have changed their process of determining which movies they will create and distribute. There have been some successful sequels and remakes in the past few years like The Avengers, The Amazing Spiderman and The Dark Knight Rises. But think about this. When was the last time you went to watch a movie about the same calibre of The Sound of Music, Citizen Kane,The Godfather, or The Wizard of Oz? There have been some independent films that may have risen to that level, but when you’re handling a mass audience, every single one the studio's releases cinema attendances count. Just a single successful film out of possibly numerous releases with the rest being mediocre is just not good enough in the film industry.
The studios just don’t seem to be delivering the goods as they once had. This explains why, as stated by Angie Han of Slashfilms, “2014 is the first time since 2011 that admissions have dipped below 1.3 billion, and the numbers are the lowest since 1.21 billion in 1995. That’s a 6% decline from 2013, when 1.34 billion tickets were sold. It’s also a steep drop from the all-time high in 2002, when admissions hit 1.57 billion”.
The studios hold a notable part of the blame for this downward drift in how they have changed their process of determining which movies they will create and distribute. There have been some successful sequels and remakes in the past few years like The Avengers, The Amazing Spiderman and The Dark Knight Rises. But think about this. When was the last time you went to watch a movie about the same calibre of The Sound of Music, Citizen Kane,The Godfather, or The Wizard of Oz? There have been some independent films that may have risen to that level, but when you’re handling a mass audience, every single one the studio's releases cinema attendances count. Just a single successful film out of possibly numerous releases with the rest being mediocre is just not good enough in the film industry.
The studios just don’t seem to be delivering the goods as they once had. This explains why, as stated by Angie Han of Slashfilms, “2014 is the first time since 2011 that admissions have dipped below 1.3 billion, and the numbers are the lowest since 1.21 billion in 1995. That’s a 6% decline from 2013, when 1.34 billion tickets were sold. It’s also a steep drop from the all-time high in 2002, when admissions hit 1.57 billion”.
On the contrary, television works in a completely different manner. Because there are so many networks currently competing for attention and don’t have the luxurious ability to spend the money that movie studios can, they have no choice but to make shows that are original and stand out from everything else based on their quality and distinctiveness. This is how brilliant TV shows like Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Mad Men, and Game of Thrones were created.
None of them had the expensive CGI, famous actors, or the pretentious ad campaign that movies did; what they did have was marvellous scriptwriting, acting, and an air of originality that attracted a broad fanbase and made audiences want to recommend these series to others.
None of them had the expensive CGI, famous actors, or the pretentious ad campaign that movies did; what they did have was marvellous scriptwriting, acting, and an air of originality that attracted a broad fanbase and made audiences want to recommend these series to others.