Ben Hur trailer

Nah. Hollywood is still making good films. It's all to do with the fact that they don't respect biblical material ( or even mythical material like Greek or Egyptian mythology).

 

I haven't watched this but I heard it has one of the worst endings in recent movie history. I spoiled it immediately and if what I read is true, it is gutter material.

 

Moneymaking have always been the prime objective of Hollywood studios, but back in the day they KNEW that to get people to buy tickets they needed to make the best quality films they could produce thus great effort was made to get the best screenplays married to the best directors with the most supporting producers to deliver memorable films. Today the studio ACCOUNTANTS with zero film knowledge are the decision makers for EVERYTHING which is what is ruining films.

 

The clash of the Titans remake was another utter abomination. To this day I maintain that the screenwriter must have either been a flaming homosexual or a transgender. Only someone that twisted would make the decisions that were made in altering that story.

 

My point above seems to be irrelevant in the context of faith based films but actually it isn't. Sure Greek mythology is generally accepted as myth and fables, but the point is Hollywood seems to be scared to deal with even myths exactly as it was written. They seem to be wary of anything that involves gods of any sort.

 

Nah. Hollywood is still making good films. It's all to do with the fact that they don't respect biblical material ( or even mythical material like Greek or Egyptian mythology)Of course they're still making good films, but it's getting harder and harder to find the actual good ones.

And people do respect biblical material. Biblical films like God's Not Dead or Miracles From Heaven are cheap to make and easily make back their budget and then some. In fact these films have been around forever and are going to keep getting made because they have big followings mostly from the Christian community. Now big time Biblical action films is another issue and to be honest films like Noah, Ben-Hur and Exodus were just badly made films that even their trailers couldn't hide. It's not that they were Biblical films that made them fail, it's that they were badly written Biblical films. The reason they were badly written is based on a lot of issues but the root cause boils right down to greed.

 

When did I say greed was a new concept? Obviously there was always greed, but greed unchecked and at the top is the reason things have gotten out of hand. Making Ben-Hur in the 50's isn't the same as making it today, and obviously movies were done for prophet. The difference is, back in the day actual effort went into making a good product and then reaping the benefits. Today the effort isn't in making a good product but rather trying to trick people into going to see films through CGI, high octane trailers and 3D. It seems like they don't know how to make good movies anymore but the fact is the greed at the top keeps sticking it's nose in the product because it doesn't trust it's on employees to deliver them a profit.

 

In the past big budgeted productions were handed to seasoned highly respected directors. Today studios want to go cheap and hire the director of an indie film that cost less than $1 million to tackle a $175 million epic. Why? because they don't want to pay the seasoned director the fee he will ask for such a colossal project, plus they don't want to deal with that director's demands for a quality product. They just want a cheap WORKER to put the film together by their designated release deadline (which is usually announced even BEFORE the film is made).