Genre conforms to many conventions like in romantic comedies, romantic movies, comedy's, and even horrors. I know for most romantic movies theirs always a girl meets boy or a boy meets girl and they fall in love in the summer and there's conflict with the family or any other serious conflict in regrades to any of them. Or an action film were there at least two partners or more have to find a killer or assassin or any other mystery that has explosions and fire that is produced my Michael Bay. Or even horror films where a women is in a big house and she hears a loud thump upstairs and she simply says "Hello" OR she simply falls on the floor when a killer with a mask is chasing her with a knife. There are many conventions in a genre of a movie that I can't even name that don't even surprise me anymore, like for most romantic movies I don't even care about anymore cause they are sometimes so cheesy or so predictable. I know the only romantic movies that I like are real and special to me like Love Jones and The Notebook but nowadays its ALWAYS THE SAME THING. It doesn't really get to me anymore like it should. I don't know why genres are always the same, maybe its because they always sell tickets no matter what..what do you think?? Here's a link for you guys to enjoy so you know exactly what i' m talking about
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I honestly can't watch romance movies anymore. There all so predictable that you can immediately tell how the story is going to go. I'm not much of a horror fan, but why do you think the conventions of horror movie rarely ever change?
ReplyDeleteI'm not into horror movies at all and I rarely watch romantic but i'll watch just because. But I honestly I think conventions of horror movies rarely ever change because people might think there maybe a twist and they might like jump scares and yelling at the screen at movie theaters..honestly I don't know.
DeleteI think that the very conventional genre films (especially with star power) often get a lot of advertising and publicity in part because, as you said, tickets will always sell for that familiar storyline. That's the great thing about smaller budget productions and outlets like Netflix. You can find some amazing films that bend or break genre conventions; horror films like you've never seen before; romantic comedies that aren't predictable; films featuring different types of actors; etc.
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