Anu-ano ang mga dahilan kung bakit bumaba ang kalidad ng mga pelikula sa MMFF?
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The discussion started in this thread, pero off-topic na, so I created a separate thread.
In my opinion, the quality of MMFF films 10-15 years ago, on average, were higher than they are today. I noticed that around 10 years ago, the films started their dramatic drop in quality, and that it coincided with the movie franchises of Vic Sotto and Bong Revilla.
Star Cinema and GMA Films reversed their strategy and started to bankroll films starring the likes of Kris Aquino and Vice Ganda with very light plots. However, heavy promotions in their respective TV channels have turned these films into box office hits.
I don't know if it has always been the case that foreign films are banned for one to two weeks during the Christmas season. On the surface, this protectionist measure is beneficial to the local film studios, since they'll surely be assured of high ticket sales with foreign competition gone from the theatres.
My theory is that this strict 'foreign movie ban' during the two-week MMFF is the primary cause of the deterioration in the quality of our local MMFF films. Gone are the incentives of producing the likes of Muro Ami to compete with Hollywood box-office hits. Gone are the incentives of producing the thought-provoking and imaginative dramas that target movie-goers who had just watched the Hollywood box-office hit. The most rationale move for a film studio such as Star Cinema is to produce a sure-hit movie featuring Vice Ganda with a light script and tiring comedy, and promote it intensively on TV. And since these Vice Ganda movies turn into top grossers year-on-year, it's no wonder that we'll see another Vice Ganda comedy come Christmas time a year from today.
Do you think that we should keep the 'foreign movie ban' this time of the year? Do you agree/disagree that the absence of foreign competition is the main cause of our local films' deterioration come MMFF season?
Or are you of the opinion that there is no deterioration in the quality of our MMFF films for the past 10-15 years?
:moviebuff:
Walang problema sa light type of movies kahit anong genre pa yan comedy, romance, drama etc.
Ang problema sa mga pelikula ni Wenn Deramas, basura. Hindi dahil maganda ang pelikula at marami nanunuod kungdi andun si Vice Ganda at pilit na ginamit ang Jadine para maraming manuod.
Pinapanuod ko isa't isa ang movies ngayon para tignan kung anong level ba ang inangat kumpara a decade ago. May maganda at meron talagang sobrang basura na kumikita. Panuorin mo ang Beauty and Bestie at baka masuka ka sa kakornihan.
Sabi nga ni Direk Matti, mas malalim pa ang problema sa loob ng industriya. Yung ibang pelikula tig-isang araw lang ipalabas tas pinu-pull out agad. Malamang may kalokohan sa loob. Ayaw ba nilang malamangan sa kita? Tangena nila.
Read: http://www.rappler.com/entertainment/news/117204-mmff-2015-nilalang-honor-thy-father-pulled-out-cinemas
At oo, masakit isipin pero uto-uto talaga ang karamihan sa mga Pinoy dahil sa pagtangkilik sa mga basurang pelikula.
In my opinion, the quality of MMFF films 10-15 years ago, on average, were higher than they are today. I noticed that around 10 years ago, the films started their dramatic drop in quality, and that it coincided with the movie franchises of Vic Sotto and Bong Revilla.
Star Cinema and GMA Films reversed their strategy and started to bankroll films starring the likes of Kris Aquino and Vice Ganda with very light plots. However, heavy promotions in their respective TV channels have turned these films into box office hits.
I don't know if it has always been the case that foreign films are banned for one to two weeks during the Christmas season. On the surface, this protectionist measure is beneficial to the local film studios, since they'll surely be assured of high ticket sales with foreign competition gone from the theatres.
My theory is that this strict 'foreign movie ban' during the two-week MMFF is the primary cause of the deterioration in the quality of our local MMFF films. Gone are the incentives of producing the likes of Muro Ami to compete with Hollywood box-office hits. Gone are the incentives of producing the thought-provoking and imaginative dramas that target movie-goers who had just watched the Hollywood box-office hit. The most rationale move for a film studio such as Star Cinema is to produce a sure-hit movie featuring Vice Ganda with a light script and tiring comedy, and promote it intensively on TV. And since these Vice Ganda movies turn into top grossers year-on-year, it's no wonder that we'll see another Vice Ganda comedy come Christmas time a year from today.
Do you think that we should keep the 'foreign movie ban' this time of the year? Do you agree/disagree that the absence of foreign competition is the main cause of our local films' deterioration come MMFF season?
Or are you of the opinion that there is no deterioration in the quality of our MMFF films for the past 10-15 years?
:moviebuff:
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:glee:
And yes, dapat alisin yang ban sa foreign movies. Sa miski anong bagay, hindi ka gagaling, hindi ka matututo kung ang kalaban mo ay pulpol. Maglelevel up ka lang kapag magagaling sa iyo ang kakalabanin mo. Oo, palagi kang matatalo, pero marami kang matututunan at yun ang magpapagaling sa iyo.
"Bakit pa ako gagawa ng quality movie kung mas kikita naman ako ng limpak limpak sa paggawa ng puchu puchu movie?" - that's the mindset of the producers, directors. Bakit nga naman nila gagawing target market ang mga nasa upper class kung mas susuportahan sila ng mga nasa lower.
"Eh bakit ang Heneral Luna, A second chance mga quality films pero pumalo pa din sa takilya?" - my theory is they don't have rivals that time. Pero if both would have been an entry to MMFF I don't think they wouldn't have grossed the way they used to.
At the end of the day movie-making is still a money-making. That's the bitter truth.
Then remove the MMFF. The stated goal of that idiotic OPM only movies period is for the advancement and improvement of the Philippine movie industry. Kung puro walang kwentang movies ang ipapalabas sa panahon na yan, hindi sinusunod ang goal ng event. Let these cheap movies battle it out with good foreign films.
It also tells you where our society is heading.
Di ba nagkasakit yan dati si Vice Ganda? akala ko mamamatay na.
OT...
Basura na ang nilalabas na pelikula sa MMFF. At nakaka-contribute yan sa pag bagsak ng quality ng mga pelikula na pagpipilian tuwing December. Last na pinanood ko ay yung KKK na (imho) ay maganda pagkakagawa. Pero after nun wala na at sinusumpa ko kada MMFF season.
How will you ignore if there is a ban on foreign films for a certain period? Sabi nila ginagawa daw yun in order daw to help and support our local films. Well there's a saying 'God helps those who help themselves'. It seems our local film industry is not helping themselves in order to get more audience. Rather than try to produce good films, they stick to the status quo and produce CRAPPY Vice Ganda- like movies, then let the cycle perpetuate.
the operative word is QUALITY... are you saying the crop of films that are being shown in the recent MMFF's are quality films?
Kung masyadong tataasan ang criteria baka 2 o 3 lang ang makakasali sa festival.
There are already incentives in place that encourage film studios to produce high quality films. We have A and B film ratings that exempt movies from the amusement tax, and we have the actual MMFF awards. Still, Vice Ganda comedies have the highest ROI, in terms of magnitude and certainty.
The organizers are trying to compensate on this loss of quality by having a separate set for indie films, which are shown in only a few theaters.
Which is exactly why this MMFF nonsense has to be scrapped. Even those who are supposed to filter the films aren't doing their mandated jobs. It's not the first time that people have pointed out that the films being shown are trash. There is still no remedial action to get quality films shown during the festival which results in the MMFF mocking the purpose it is meant to be performing.
Media has to have some sort of social responsibility on what they show to their viewers. Hindi lang TV stations kundi pati Film makers. Kapag puro basura ang nakikita ng tao at hindi man lang lumelevel up, mananatiling basura ang gusto ng mga tao. Kung hahainan sila ng de kalidad na mga palabas, aba'y mag-iimprove ang panlasa nila.
Kung kita lang habol nila, show the movie outside the festival.
Kaya mas marami gusto ng manood ng indie films for quality movie kasi ginagawa nila iyong movie out of passion not for money.