Is the genre dying?

[ItsAlive75]

Originally posted by urgeok
i'll be seeing x3 for sure ... but it does mean a 100$ night (including babysitter)

cant do that every weekend

Youch. And you wouldn't even be able to have a relaxing night out with the lil' lady, what with kids being insensitive assholes at theatres now.

...but that's a discussion we've all had in numerous other threads.

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if you go to the theatre ... most of the audience is 12 - 18

I agree with urge 100%. Most part of the audiences today is between 12-25 (at the max) and anyone later then that age group usually goes to spend a weekend night out, have a change from the tough week they had at work or at home, or with curiosity towards a particular movie whose prequel, sequel or original version they had seen in their youth days.

The thinking horror fan's movies have died out. I think the last one on those lines was "What Lies Beneath". They tried to take "Gothika" on those lines too but it sucked...badly...

Its a common problem with most movies these days. If the target audience cant comprehend whats going on, the movie bombs.

I wonder if there will be any more movies for the thinking horror fan. Which was the last one you saw and actually enjoyed it? Left the theater at end and felt "ah now that was a good one!"??

[urgeok]

i think there will be guys who will always carry the tourch ...
we just have to hope that they are inventive and resourceful enough to pull of a quality piece of work on the fraction of the budget these other pieces of shit get.


with pop culture and the heard-like mentality - and fickleness of the people who follow it there is another inevitable trend that drives me nuts.

IF a quality piece of work comes out and does enliven the genre - the trend is that other films will be made to catch a piece of the box office action.

one or 2 might be good but eventually the greedy lazy ass bullshit efforts hit the theatres and start giving the genre a bad name again.

we've seen the cycle repeat over and over. The only genre that hurts because of this worse than horror is it's poor cousin Sci-Fi.
(you can get a gal to see horror - good luck with sci-fi)

i think the bottom line of this whole discussion is :

we're gonna take what we can get .. mostly it's shit - sometimes its good, and occasionally - once in a blue moon its something special.

it is our lot in life as horror fans to wade through miles of shit to find that one gem (its kind of like going garage sailing - typo intentional)

i IS NOT going to change.
best to accept it in dignified silence ... (otherwise there will be no gems to find at all eventually)