Ted Hope Says To Best Serve Audiences, Film Festivals Need A Reboot

Lots of questions and nothing more solid than, "We need to try harder!" so I'm not sure what the point is for this ultimately.

The problem is that there is a lot of noise. I don't think the solution is adding more to the noise. Nor should the solution be, "Make better movies!" That's not a solution. No one sets out to make terrible films, they just don't have the capacity to realize, at the script level and beyond, that their film is terrible. You can't really fix that.
 
He makes some good points about losing young viewers, including his own son who professes to "not like movies" (in spite of his dad disclaiming that he's actually liked 'all of the ones he's seen' - there's an explanation in there somewhere I'm sure). Reminds me of a discussion I saw here recently where someone (presumably on the younger side) asked "why are movies so long"? In the internet age, attention spans have shrunk to where that is an increasingly valid, if very troubling, question.

As he points out, many, many very important things have drastically evolved in just the last few years...
 
Ted Spencer said:
He makes some good points about losing young viewers, including his own son who professes to "not like movies" (in spite of his dad disclaiming that he's actually liked 'all of the ones he's seen' - there's an explanation in there somewhere I'm sure).
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His son is also 12...I don't think I'd use that as a litmus test of audiences in general.

A lot of movies are too long, undeservedly so, in my opinion.
 
The fact that his son is 12 is what I think makes it especially significant. At that age I, and pretty much all the kids I knew, *loved* going to the movie theater. If he doesn't, well...
 
He didn't say his son didn't like going to a movie theater. He says his son doesn't like movies.

"Do you like movies?"
"Not really."
"Did you like Pirates of the Carribbean?"
"Yeah, I liked that one."
"Transformers?"
"Yeah, it was cool."
ect. ect.

That's why bringing it up seemed to be pointless.
 
I'll be the one to add "i don't like movies" either... There is very FEW films i, as 30-something, enjoy or even finish because very few filmmakers are doing anything of interest as far as 30 year olds are concerned. I can't be expected to like what i liked 10-15 years ago as back then i was much dumber... then again major of filmmakers (like in any field, btw) are very unremarkable human beings devoid of ideas and thus it's no wonder that in times where everyone can make a film it's so much harder to find quality.
 
I agree for the most part with Patryk on this one.

I was not one of those kids that was obsessed with movies when I was a kid, in fact I didn't even consider working in film until I was ~20. The reason being, growing up I was exposed to your typical mainstream movies, which I thoroughly enjoyed just as much as the next guy, but which didn't really draw me. It wasn't until I was in my late teens and was introduced to classics and foreign films that I fell in love with movies.

When I was a kid, my love was video games. Video games are still the "new thing". They are still mostly fresh, and are definitely going to attract young kids much in the same way movies did for a long time.
 
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