This is what I noticed, which is a pretty sad
thing. When people watch movies, they tend to think that "Hollywood
movies are worth watching" while movies made locally by locals or
asian movies, they tend to think "Is this worth the money?" or "I'm
not going to watch this movie because this is not a hollywood
movies." Let me raise one example, godzilla. I seen a lot of these
movies, but nobody give a damn because it is rubber suit and the
buildings are props. When the american version comes out (which
sucks big time), people watch it and think it is a good movie.
Remember, the american version don't have any trademarks of
godzilla's (Japanese ver), but people watch it just because it is
made in hollywood. Similar movie, Jurrasic park, the dinosaur
rampage is similar to godzilla's rampage in the city. People never
complain.
Another example, the ultraman series produced in
hollywood. This series is even condemned by the tsuburaya(the
company that produce ultraman shows), but people apprecitate it
because it is hollywood made. The action, story and props are all
at the worst condition and people still accept it rather than the
original made in Japan. Same goes to masked rider(kamen rider in
Japan).
If just about sci-fi movies, of course might be a
little not convincing. Action films. When movies like die hard or
eagle eye or James bond, people think of it a good movie as "it is
action packed", "it is very interesting". But when asain action
movies such as "Flash point" or "SPL", people never give it a go. I
rarely see full seat in those HK movies, why? In terms of
action, I definitely go for the asian as a lot of mor hand-to-hand
combat are involve, car chase and explosion scene. If we take a
look, those actors actually did the action or at least uses a
double. But in hollywood, we see CG images and blue screen effects,
which is the worst thing ever to see on screen(look at money no
enough 2, blows your mind away with CG images), which makes the
scene looks unrealistic. Yet people prefer that way, just because
it is Hollywood made.
Love story is also another one, I’ve seen a lot
of touching love movies from Japan and some of other places such as
Taiwan or korea. In Japanese movies such as “sky of love”, the
story is very touching and people cry at the end of the movie, or
at least tears or moved. But when compare with Hollywood, people
prefer Hollywood because of the comedy or the music. Ma ma mia is
one good example.
There are a lot of more reason that why people
prefer the Hollywood movies, but this could go on forever. Whatever
movies are being made, whether it is Hollywood or not, what’s more
important is the story and the character. Some Hollywood movies
suck too, look at street fighter the movie or any video game based
movie. Yes, including resident evil which all of them leave hanging
endings even though extinction should be the end of the entire
resident evil movie franchise. What I’m trying to say is that,
movies are not easy to be made, don’t judge a movie by whether it
is made by Hollywood or not, give it a go and you might get a very
entertaining movie.