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David Denby, Has Hollywood Murdered the Movies?
This article from Reading Pop Culture showed how Hollywood is endorsing these low budget films and make it into these highly gross weighing films. They used the Avengers as an example. When I saw the movie, I personally did not see it as a great movie that everyone praised. I felt like it only caught a good amount of attention because of the familiar names of all the superheroes that the audience grew up with. There were big names like the hulk, captain America, iron man, and all the Marvel favorites. The film probably did not cost that much to produce but it did gain a lot of profit because of just the fact that it had all the heroes in one movie. That is one of the examples that showed how Hollywood is able to endorse these low budget films and make them bigger than they really are. Some other movies series that follow this are the story line ones where the last book always ends with "part 1 and part 2". Reason for that is, they know people who followed the story line will watch the movie no matter what and by separating and elongating the movie into two, they make more profit knowing full well the fans are gonna watch it. I think of movies like The Hunger Games series, Twilight, Harry Potter because all of the last movies ended in part one and part two. This RPC essay also talks about movies and the kind of "false praise" that movies have. Those also tie in with story line series based movies and the movies with familiar characters.