What makes a Movie "Good" or "Exellent"?

what would you think makes a movie good?

the story?
the people?
the music?
the camera work? effects?
the action? fighting?

tell me your opinion and why.

:astonished:

ugh.

all of the above. :confused:

i think the combination of all of the above would make an excellent movieā€¦
but a good story and a good presentation of this story would make a movie good enough for me. no cute actors/tresses necessary.
the movies that iā€™m really into these days are romantic comedies and other futuristic and insightful onesā€¦

rewatch ability

Right now i could watch count of monte christo again and again and again and again. And wouldnt get bored. but i watched 8 legged freaks and yawned again and again.

ooooo, i absolutely adored that picture.
i wish every man was that way. itā€™s a wonder to me that you enjoyed it tho blu.
i donā€™t know why exactly i thought that you would like films with, ugh, i dunno. more adult content than that in real porn.

i love you the same,
yogitha

wait do they make movies with more adultness than porn? I want some more adultnesssss. I need to move out of US cause US is to strict on the adultttttneesss.

Movies i loved
Count of MC(dumas had the best name ever and best cameo in Shawshank)
Seven samurai(kurasawa is godlike)
LoTR (jackson and tolken rock)
O Brother
Matrix
Aliens 2
Princess Bride. Which i think i will watch.

move to russia. heee heee :laughing:

or create your own playboy mansionā€¦ iā€™ll visit you, or will think of it.

Matrix is a good one, watch it over again and agian like 20 times or more.
Seven samurai rocks too, I watched this western, it think it was called Seven or something, it was based on the story of Seven samurai, it was pretty cool too, but sometimes nothing can beat them good old fashioned black and white movies :slight_smile:

What makes a good tv series good? that is has point of being a series and
will grab you in everytime and you feel all excited about the next episode?

one of the reasons I want to know is cause Iā€™m makinā€™ a flash movie, or ā€œwebisodeā€ as they call it.

If you donā€™t know what Iā€™m talknā€™ about then look at this:

shockanime.com/films/originals/gblade/

this:
stanleereturns.sourceforge.net/7thportal.html

and this:
stanleereturns.sourceforge.net/accuser.html

any one of the three will give yee a lilā€™ taste.

So summing up what you guys said so far itā€™s basicly all of the above or just good story and good job at expressing it?

sounds simple. :smiley:

I like to have a feel for the environment. Like have the ability to experience more of it in my mind. Like reading a book leaves the experience open for your imagination to take over with the words to guide you but once you put it on a screen it kind of ruins the experience. I like to see how other people interperet books and all but they donā€™t leave anything up to your imagination. In a way movies leave you to think a specific way but in infinite boundaries. I guess a better example would be a puzzle. In a book you set it up so that you can trace your way around the puzzle and you read more and expand on it as a whole. In a movie you are given peaces in random places and expected to fill in the gaps yourself. O or like a game. In a game you experience even the boring parts like walking for a couple minutes to get to the next scene. But in movies they cut that out.

Also a feel for the characters. Like again in games or books when you stop you miss the characters. I think it may have a lot to do with the time you take reading or playing while movies are all condenced into an hour of extreme action but after a while the exciting parts just get boring. It ruins the effect of encountering something out of the ordinary when everything in the world is out of the ordinary. Unless you are going for a totally outrageous movie where things are totally out of the ordinary like the matrix. If you break rules in a revolutionary way then it makes it more fun.

ā€œthe people?
the music?
the camera work? effects?
the action? fighting?ā€

Itā€™s really all of them. You just have to use them in a way that everyone can enjoy it. To do that you have to figure out what people enjoy which Iā€™m assuming you are doing here? It would be easier if you could graph out what makes a good movie itā€™s just that there would be so many dimensions to the graph that it would get kind of confusing. And a lot of the experience that make up for a bigger total experience are so subtle that most of the time they go unnoticed.

I hope I helped. Reading this over is just confusing me moreā€¦

cba1067950, thanks a lot for your input. I see what you mean. I like your point about leaving some spots for the viewers to fill in. Iā€™ve watched alot of animations and little movies to get a understand of whats out there and how I can make a good one. Some Iā€™ve seen really disapoint me when they expose to much, and leave none of the thinking to the viewer. I hope to give my story brains, most animations on the wbe have hardly any. Well itā€™s bed time all the way over here in the US, so bye bye! :smiley: thanks again!

It depends what kind of mood Iā€™m inā€¦

Usually, I can be satisfied with a good healthy dose of action-packed fun, with good special effects, half-naked ladies and lots of guns. When Iā€™m in a serious mood (itā€™s getting more and more likely these daysā€¦) and Iā€™m in the right frame of mind for a more serious piece of film making, itā€™s different.

Music is very important. Give me some powerful classical music and Iā€™ll be happy for hours.
Generally though, Iā€™m quite a visual person so I respond best to imagery. Not the kind of imagery that you have to read miles into and analyse to death to get anything out of it, but the bold, breathtaking imagery that just makes you think: ā€˜Wow! I could analyse this if I wanted to, but I donā€™t bloody care!ā€™.

Take, for example, the final scene in my favourite film of all time, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Oh my God. Seriously, Oh my God. Anyone ever seen that film?

My top 5:
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
The Matrix
Bound
Monty Python and the Holy Grail