Why Have So Many Movies Lost the Plot? He Blames Video Games

I think it's sad that Wyck Godfrey and the Hollywood Machine are so artless and soulless that instead of creating and respecting story, they have to lead with fanboy hype, as story, art, and film die. Well, their own careers will soon follow suit--as that is what they chose--hype over integrity, fanboyism over manhood, cheap business over everlasting art.

Godfrey's tomato meter is at solid rotten (28%) setting, and after six rotten movies, you can bet the the GEARS OF WAR movie will be rotten too. What are the chances of the Gears of War Movie being better than I-Robot, which was written by a gifted storyteller and writer, instead of a Hollywood fanboy hack?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/wyck_godfrey/about.php

Godfrey/Cliffyb need to leave Hollywood before becoming the next Uwe Boll.

Just came across an awesome blog posting: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1759066,00.html

Why have so many movies lost the plot? I blame the video gamesA cursory glance at the list of cinematic stinkers which have taken their lead from PCs, Xboxes and PlayStations reveals that there has never been a half-decent movie based on a computer game, says Mark Kermode Sunday April 23, 2006The Observer

'The video game is extraordinarily popular,' enthuses Silent Hill movie producer Samuel Hadida, 'because each gamer experiences something unique when they play it.' Not so the poor old movie-goer who is left experiencing the same dreary tosh as every other disgruntled audience member. Without the luxury of a joystick in our hands, the viewer has no chance to make the incoherent on-screen antics any better - or worse. We just sit ... and stare.

How about video games and movies with soul, story, and plot? Why are Cliffyb, Wyck Godfrey, Stuart Beattie so opposed to talented artists and writers? Why do they hate novels and the Great Books and Classics? Why do they always lead with hype, try to tag some fancy graphics on it, and then follow up with even more hype? Why does New Line want to lose money--is Wyck Godfrey's ego really more important than New Line's bottom line, art, and film?

More from the awesome blog posting--filmmakers (like Godfrey) have lead the decline of narrative and storytelling, as they cant' make films: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1759066,00.html

The decline of narrative has, of course, gone hand in hand with the rise of consumer test screenings, the grisly process through which Hollywood execs show a movie to a cross section of its imagined 'target audience' and then ask them what they would do to make it better. This is the one area in which audiences do actually get to 'play' movies like computer games, and the results are always terrible. It was dunderheaded audiences screaming 'kill the bitch!' at test screenings of Fatal Attraction who persuaded the film-makers to shoot a new ending in which Glenn Close's character became the victim of a shooting rather than a suicide, thus destroying whatever internal logic the film may have had. If it was left to the viewers, you can rest assured that Humphrey Bogart would have gotten on the plane with Ingrid Bergman at the end of Casablanca, or that Ali McGraw would have experienced a miraculous recovery in the closing moments of Love Story. Audiences cannot make movies - that's why they are audiences. Sadly, in the current marketplace, it seems that many film-makers can't make them either.

ROCK ON FANBOIS!!! BANGATY-BANG-BANG!! KILL THE STOY!! KILL THE PLOT!! HYPE! HYPE!