This past year was a killing priming , but also a provingground . Huge , massively - hyped projects crashed and burned , but there were alsosome surprising hits . And in the midst of this carnage , a few stark truths . Here are 10 lessons we trust the amusement industry learns from 2013 .
Top range of a function : Oblivion .
That ’s almosta direct quote from JossWhedon , and it was never dead on target than in 2013 . So many flick this year hadthird play that fall awfully flat , or felt tacked on . We see so manyendings that seemed to have nothing to do with the rest period of the picture show we ’d justbeen watching , or films that seemed to have been give way pretty well until thefinal reel . So take it from Whedon : The seeds to the movie ’s ending should bein its beginning . [ Update : Various multitude have pointed out Whedon was really quotingBilly Wilder . ]
So much crazy . somewhat much all the crazy . This year , American Horror Story was n’t always theweirdest affair on television . plot ofThrones got even more berserk , and meanwhile there were tons of offshootslike Sleepy Hollow , Witches of East End and Dracula , all competing to see who couldgo the most bonkers . It was a year where water system - ice chest discussions could have included“penis - leeching ” and “ Asgardian witches . ” And these display — along with the two Once Upon a Time andVampire Diaries demonstrate — got awaywith perversity that few shows in other genres could have dared attempt.(Including science fiction . ) There seems to be a certain licence to go right smart , wayover the top in the illusion / horror genre right now — and let ’s hope Lord keep exploiting it .
One thing unites a mess of the twelvemonth ’s boastful movie failures , from Oblivion to Elysium to Ender ’s Game : nondescript pretty images of starship and CG scenery . The thing we heard overand over about a lot of these movies is , “ It looks just like everythingelse . ” It ’s the Tron - ificationof motion-picture show : everything has the same blue - tinged vividness scheme and the same slowepic feel , and there ’s utterly no sense that the film is telling a uniquestory . Let ’s hope in years to hail , flick are still pretty — but distinctive , and with a clearer accent on an original story . Meanwhile , there was a lot oftalk about how “ preview moments ” — like all those cities beingdestroyed in every movie — finger gratuitous and just confound in for the trailer , and maybe need an real story to support them .
Katniss Everdeen scored again this class , but it was also agreat class for Sandra Bullock . And Frozenwas one of the most successful films of the twelvemonth as well , with its direction almostentirely on the two sisters , who hold the write up . Meanwhile , on video , it feel as thoughmore shows were include competent , tough female characters without need tomake them cry every few minutes . We still have a long direction to go , but it’sharder and harder to claim that distaff hero ca n’t bring an audience .
We kind ofgavethis example last year — but it bears repeating . Who thought that The Lone Ranger had a huge followingthat would rush out to see a motion picture interpretation of a decades - old serial ? ( Probablythe same multitude who thought Dark Shadowsstill had a vast fanbase . ) likewise , what made people think The Tomorrow masses , an isolated British seriesfrom the 1970s , had huge name recognition ? We ’re probably never going to beable to stop the flood of remaking and reboots , but it ’s kind of weird whenstudios pick out to make over stuff that absolutely nobody feel nostalgia for . rather of these projects , we could have draw brand new stories that includedsome of the same elements but ditched a lot of the problematic baggage .
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When you look at the TV shows that did well this past declivity , they were broadly speaking the I which sport strong chemistry between a pair ofleads . Particularly thinking of SleepyHollow and Almost Human here — the buddy - cop chemistry in both those appearance is undeniable . These usher featuredconflict and differences between their principal , but also character reference who clickedand form an unconventional friendly relationship from the very first episode . Whereas networkshows where the main character spring no strong friendly relationship , or is at odds witheveryone , seemed to do less well . To some extent , we still watch television tobe with our friends , and to enjoy in the fancy of having a gravid friendship .
We ’ll see if Divergentseems to be the elision to the rule — but base on the performance of Beautiful Creatures , Mortal Instruments , The server and some other pic , I would n’t bet on any YA adaptationsthat are n’t Twilight or Hunger Games — both of which were booksthat span over and became huge with mainstream audiences . Even StephenieMeyer could n’t score a non - Twilighthit this year . The one exception was WarmBodies , which played more like a comedy and had a more modest budget .
This was the year that Netflix really start to smash withits original telly serial , rapidly moving from a substance conduit to a contentcreator and scoring some major honour nods . And meanwhile , you get word less andless about live showing and more and more about “ survive plus same day”or “ live plus seven day ” viewing — because nobody watches TV the oldway any more . People binge - watch , and watch on a delay , and mostly pass over thecommercials . The erstwhile models of television receiver output are going away , fasterthan anybody was prepared for .
The first brace eld that Person of Interest was on tv , multitude kept claiming itwasn’t really science fiction , or quetch that the scientific discipline - fiction elementswere downplayed too much . No longer . This was the class that PoI begin talkinga lot more about stilted intelligence and the entailment of artificialconsciousness , and how a ego - aware reckoner could change everything . And itsaudience did not waver — it ’s still getting upwardly of 12 million viewersevery week , even with a new timeslot , because it hooked us with characters anda potent procedural aspect before slowly ramping up the science fictionelements . Meanwhile , other shows that prove to play up their g - whizpremises too soon on , or underscore fantastic world - build overcharacter - construction , have struggled .
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