The changing nature of movies

[janradder]

haddayr and I watched Trading Places last night (she'd never seen it before), and as we did, both of us were surprised at how much slower paced movies were back then.

Comments

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes! Movies before the mid 90's spent the first hour in character development and rampup, the last thirty minutes in gripping good stuff! Just like classsic literature.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I have to say, in Trading Places some of the reason for it being slow-paced had nothing to do with character development but was more about unnecessary exposition. But yes, there are too many movies today that completely skip over character development just to move the plot along to the next big chase scene.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

somewhere there has to be a happy medium.