Post by renji on Jul 8, 2007 23:24:53 GMT -5
this has been annoying me a while and not just about art, but with movies, television series and books as well. with art (using DA as an example) i often see people who will only fave/comment pictures of certain things, regardless of quality. like the people obsessed with a specific character from some anime... all theyll fave will be that character and NOTHING else. with movies, books and tv, i often see a similar thing happening, like people who will ONLY watch/read it if it is an animal story. if the protagonists arent animals, then they wont even give the story a chance. i love animal stories, too, but theres a lot of other stories that are amazing as well >.<
a good example of this is all the fans of "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron". ive seen that movie before but the only way i can see why people would love it so much was because its about a horse the story ultimately sucked and even though the animation was amazing, it was probably had the worst story of any animated film i had ever seen (or should i ask, what story?). but people love it anyways...
i often feel like people value content over quality and if you make a story about a horse with pretty animation, horse people will love it anyways e_e JUST BECAUSE ITS ABOUT A HORSE. same could be said about the reverse... like when people avoid a movie just because its about an event in history.
just to make this clear, i am not talking about GENRE (such as comedy, fantasy, sci-fi, etc). this is about CONTENT (for example, it has wolves in it).
thoughts?
a good example of this is all the fans of "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron". ive seen that movie before but the only way i can see why people would love it so much was because its about a horse the story ultimately sucked and even though the animation was amazing, it was probably had the worst story of any animated film i had ever seen (or should i ask, what story?). but people love it anyways...
i often feel like people value content over quality and if you make a story about a horse with pretty animation, horse people will love it anyways e_e JUST BECAUSE ITS ABOUT A HORSE. same could be said about the reverse... like when people avoid a movie just because its about an event in history.
just to make this clear, i am not talking about GENRE (such as comedy, fantasy, sci-fi, etc). this is about CONTENT (for example, it has wolves in it).
thoughts?