45worlds Forum - View Single Post - Nostalgia while entering old shows

4th Dec 2015, 8:38 PM
	Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3730 Points Moderator	The worst example I can call to mind was when there was one of those Underwold films on (Highly over-produced film -grei vampire/werewolf fetish fest with Kate Beckinsale), It'd been on a couple of times before, but I always managed to find something else to watch... On this occasion, there was nothing, and so I began to watch, and about half way through, there's an extensive soft focus sex scene which has precisely no story-telling value what so ever, and does nothing, and adds nothing for the film, except act as a kind of admission from the film makers that they themselves had so little faith in their own film, that the only way to get bums on seats was to chuck this completely ramdom scene in it. Rather than think, ""Ooh,that's nice", or anything like it, it only made me sit there in my own thoughts for the rest of the film (not like that!), not paying any attention to the rest of the "story" wondering why it was there, what possible process resulted in it's inclusion, such as the conversation with the studio, money people, and not least the actors themselves, who must have felt kind of cheap because of it. I hardly noticed the film had ended when I concluded I didn't really care, and if any were on in future, I'd better just read a book or go to sleep instead, as a better use of my time.