2. All Movies Must Have Respect For Their Audience
And really, thats what this all comes down to, no? At the end of the day, me, you and everyone we know could fill out a hundred thousand entries on a list like this, explaining in agonizing detail every nit that we have to pick with the movies industry and how we wish it would be better. But at the bottom line, all I ask from a movie (and its makers) is that it extend the basic effort of respecting my intelligence and the intelligence of the collective human race that will be spending the money that executives will later turn into houses, couches, cars, boats and gadgets (not to mention the piles of cocaine that all those things will be made out of). I want to see movies that try to do new things, that try to capture something true and honest about being alive in this world right now, that treat my time and money like things that have value and should be rewarded with an experience that I cant get anywhere BUT at the movies. I want to see movies that act like people, all people across genders and nationalities, are intelligent and deserve to be represented as just that: As people. Its easy to be cynical about movies these days. I spend an exhaustive amount of time reading and reports and opinion pieces that paint the whole town as a hive of idiocy, devoid of any creative drive or artistic interest. Its easy to look at the endless rehashing of whatever style is popular and assume that the whole place is stupid and that any quality that leaks out must be some kind of accident. Easy, maybe, to think that. But I dont buy it. Because, speaking only for myself, I know how truly transporting a good movie is. There is no experience like being in a darkened movie theater, being engrossed in the action on-screen. The movies allow you to love, fear for, and mourn the lives of people who have never been and never will be. They show you lands that have never existed and creatures that have never walked the earth, and makes you as familiar with them as you are your own house or pets. Movies absorb you in such a way as to become an essential part of your thoughts and dreams, this despite being built entirely out of falsities and illusions. That aint no fluke. No, movies are something else. Something special. They are magic. And as long as a movie really tries, really makes the effort to engage with the audience and make that magic come alive, well, I can guarantee theyll always have this writer as a customer. Oh, and one more thing