Why do movie studio execs keep giving us throwaway movies like "The House Bunny" and "Disaster Movie"?

Question

Is meaningful art being passed over for the quick buck? And how many truly good movies are passed over?

Answer 1

I agree the directors have no respect for audiences and then they take our hard earned cash and shove it up their-. Maybe if people stop paying to see them they will stop making them.

Answer 2

Yes. Meaningful art is being passed over for the quick buck. Their Mindset: "why risk losing money on a truly great artistic film, when we can put out a crappy one what will make 20 million, and give us a quick and easy profit"

I'd say about half of the Good movies aren't recognized, or are over hyped or overlooked. Example: The Dark Knight. Has been way overlooked, and over hyped. I personally thought it was a masterpiece of cinema, with a villainous performance for the ages that will go down in history. I thought it lived up to the hype and then some, but some people got their hopes up way too high. If critics say a movie is 4 star worthy, and is well made, people tend to get their hopes up way too high, because they are so used to seeing crappy movies, so its almost like they expect a praised movie to be a masterpiece.

Answer 3

  Formulaic movies are generally good business. The budgets on these films are small, and they can make a profit if only sell tickets equivalent to one percent of the American population. It's the same reason that they make reality television. The odds are good that one in five will be a hit, and they aren't risking much.

  It's hard to believe that they would risk another sci-fi film with Vin Diesel like BABYLON A.D. after THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK tanked so badly.

   I would rather watch The House Bunny than any of M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN overblown, self conscious, ridiculous movies. (Other than sixth sense, of course).

  Art films are probably as healthy as they ever were with big screens and DVD players. they don't have to make money at the box office.

Answer 4

Because 90% of People are sheep?

Answer 5

Steven, people aren't paying to see them.

House Bunny as only made 4.7 million and Disaster Movie is tanking.

Since the beginning of movie making people have made the best of films, and the worst. Nothing has changed.

Answer 6

Hey house bunny was kinda good not the best but okay , but for the answer to this question it makes them money! if you notice these movies are usually pretty cheap and low budget so they end up making more than what they pay for it  

Answer 7

From my understanding, films are made and actors/actresses are signed to do a certain number of movies to get the movie when they sign with a studio. Some good, some bad movies - but the actors and actresses do not have a choice sometimes and get thrown into roles and bad scripts that are part of the Hollywood game.  It seems like more politics than entertainment to me.  

Answer 8

Part of it is it's just that time of year - while the summer blockbusters still have money trickling in at the end of the year, but before awards season has really started up, is when the studio executives tend to put their 'throwaway movies' - mid to late august is the worst. However, once you start getting into September, then the studios start releasing potential Oscar contenders, especially for indie films that can take months to hit big theaters. As the next few months go by, more and more of those Oscar contenders, and films that the studios hope will be able to hold up against the Oscar contenders, are released. Once the holiday movie season starts around Thanksgiving, almost everything in theaters for the next several weeks is either a future Best Picture nominee, or a big holiday family film. However, Oscar nominees for, say, 2009 must be playing for at least one week in 2008. So, after Christmas is over, the studios send out the other yearly batch of 'throwaway films' just to put something new in theaters while the Oscar competitors are getting more attention and the holiday movies are picking up their last little bit of box-office revenue. Then, awards season starts in February, after which studios start releasing their other films that, while not 'throwaways', are definitely not blockbuster or future awards material, but decent enough to make a small profit at least. This lasts for around 2-3 months, until the first weekend in May, which is the start of summer-blockbuster season. Then, rinse and repeat.

I also think part of it is the studios honestly don't care how good their movies actually are (unless they're potential award winners) as long as they think they can make some money on them. If people will pay to go see movies like Disaster Movie, then the studio executives will keep OKing projects like that cause the last 3 similar projects made a profit. Or, else there's a niche market (sorority girls for House Bunny, stoners for Pineapple Express) that they think will be interested enough in the rare movie directed at them that they'll go see it and make profit.