keirarts | 10th August 2014 06:35 AM | I don't really see modern films being any better or worse than older films.
I think there is a tendency with people to see what came before as in some way superior to whats being released now but i've never bought in to that notion at all.
Lets take films like Sinister, the conjuring and insidious. What I like to call 'ghost train movies' essentially designed to offer jumps and scares to the audience. I re-watched Legend of hell house and the haunting recently and honestly its the same tricks used in all of them, perhaps modern film makers have more to work with but essentially there is little difference.
I think if a film has characters that inspire no passion either way then that is a flaw. I do reject the notion that films should have characters you like. I really like Henry portrait of a serial killer. Frankly non of the characters in that film are remotely sympathetic in any way. Closest is perhaps Otis's sister but even shes not really likable.
Same with You're next. The family is full of self interested creeps and it takes the final girl till near the end to realise this, the killers despite looking fearsome turn out to be idiots and the whole scheme is a poorly realised get rich quick scheme concocted on behalf of the bratty spoiled kids. For me this actually made a nice chage from a lot of slashers that try reeeeeaaal hard to offer up likeable characters and often fail to deliver. |