On Mar 28, 2005, at 12:16 AM, Gerald Wilson wrote:
Well, true, in it's way.
Yes, there's a vast amount of product out there.
But am I alone in thinking much of it is repetitious, formulaic junk?
Bucketloads of people are enjoying this 'repetitious, formulaic junk'. It may be bad, but it has a ready audience. Tools are not bad or unnecessary just because they let people make crap.
Exactly how many empty special-fx-ridden blockbuster movies can you sit through in a lifetime?
Please. Sturgeon's Law has always held. 90% of everything is crap.
Not everything made with these tools is empty sfx-ridden blockbusters (which, btw, as they ARE blockbusters, certainly seem to have a ready audience to pay for them).
LOTR, for example. I've read the trilogy a dozen times or more. LOTR was a masterful adaptation of the books. Me, I'd rather they'd kept the Scouring of the Shire, but I can see their reasoning for leaving it out.
These tools have also produced a renaissance in small independent film-making. All of a sudden you can make a feature-length film at home.
I'd stand Pixar's work against that of golden age Disney any time.
So, yes, people can produce some amazing stuff now which they couldn't twenty years ago. And, yes, people now can get access to creative tools which twenty years ago where denied them. But I'm thinking Simon sort of means "Are we actually better off now than we were?"
Sigh. I suspect some ancient Sumerians felt the same way about the advent of those new-fangled clay tablets. "Sure we can write so much more than we used to when we had to chisel it out of stone, but is it any better?"
-- Bruce Johnson
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