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Originally posted by mrsMxyzptlk:
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Originally posted by LNCroxmysox:
[b]... the suspect circumstances with him being gone for 5 years, which they failed to explain properly (but it DOES get better explained in the novelization) ...
I've been wondering whether the movie makers are getting lazy with their plots because of novelizations. Do they think, "it doesn't matter whether we explain it well in the movie because the novel explains it"? Do they leave out important details thinking that they're not really lost because they're still available in book form? I understand that a book has much more room available to flesh out characters and plot details than a movie does, but a movie needs to be complete on its own.

I think part of the problem is that plot-driven scenes seem to get cut for time in favor of action scenes. There's a cut scene in Revenge of the Sith, for example, that shows the formation of the Rebel Alliance. I'd rather have that in the movie and cut down the length of that weird lava lightsaber fight between Vader and Obi-Wan. Action is fun and all, but I like it to have some purpose as part of a plot that makes sense. [/b]
I agree, except I doubt novelizations are taken into account, since most people don't read them. I believe that the more detail in the novelization is more of the writer (author of the novelizations) trying to fill in the plot holes from the script.

Hollywood gears all "action" movies to teenage to mid-twenties young men. I read a review of why Hollywood was so shocked that Pacific Rim did so horribly at the box office, and it said it was because the only hype was in the "fan-boy" group and they thought everyone else would follow. I saw the preview and it looked a) boring, b) no likeable characters, and c) action-driven without intelligence. Stars and non-stop action don't draw the audiences they used to and Hollywood hasn't yet realized that it has to stop downplaying the intelligence of its audience, who knows that in 3 months they can rent the same movie for a fraction of the cost or buy it for the same amount of money (it would cost for a couple to go the cinema) and get all the extra bonus features and see the movie as often as they want. The in-theater experience has to be worth it or the audience is once burned, twice as shy, especially in this economy.


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