Films are brilliant. Wells some of them are. The thought that you can introduce an audience to a group of characters, then tell an epic story with them in less than two hours in baffling. Unless it’s the extended Lord of the Rings. Then it’s more like 18 hours.
The advantage that films have over TV is that because they are short, something meaningful has to be happening practically all of the time. Recently I watched the film 6 episodes of series one of 24. In this 6 hours, not very much happens. More precisely, 4 things happen. And none of them are particularly good.
What baffles me more is that a company can spend millions on a film, get the best actors in the world, have massive crews full of creative advisors and the like, and still come up with what can only be described as a pile. For further research, watch Valentine’s Day or New Year’s Eve.
However, the greatest films are those which are so bad, they’re good. Case in point, here is 19 seconds of The Room, possibly the best 19 seconds in cinematic history.
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