Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.
What frustrates me a lot about some aspects of filmmaking is people thinking everyone is really dumb and that we have to make everything really obvious.
It's actually smarter to make a dumb film.
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.
A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!