Rart
11-23-2009, 12:48 AM
I've recently been watching Entourage and the agent of the "movie star" in the show blasts TV shows, saying that he would never let his client do a TV show (ironic that a TV show would talk down on TV shows...). That got me thinking, what do movies have over TV shows?
What was said does have some merit. Movies rake in cash. And a lot of it. They receive far more publicity as well. Just look at The Dark Knight/Twilight movies. Insane amounts of media attention. I don't think I've ever seen a plain old TV series to receive such massive amounts of hype.
That being said, I still predominantly prefer TV shows. My downloading of movies has fallen dramatically recently and I have really begun to lose interest. I just tend to like TV shows for one simple fact: they last longer. When major shows can last multiple seasons, I feel like their stories, characters, and concepts can be developed far more than a movie ever could, providing deeper plots, more character development, among other things.
Movies lack just that. Perhaps maybe to fit the average American attention span, they rarely tend to span over the 90-120 minute mark, maxing out at around 3 hours. When fitted with such time constraints, we are often forced right into the plot, with little information about the surroundings, characters, and their backgrounds. Stories tend to be more brief than their TV counterparts, and could never reach the depth or complexity of an established TV series. That's why I tend to be reluctant to download another movie: it's not as developed, in my opinion.
What do movies have over TV shows?
What was said does have some merit. Movies rake in cash. And a lot of it. They receive far more publicity as well. Just look at The Dark Knight/Twilight movies. Insane amounts of media attention. I don't think I've ever seen a plain old TV series to receive such massive amounts of hype.
That being said, I still predominantly prefer TV shows. My downloading of movies has fallen dramatically recently and I have really begun to lose interest. I just tend to like TV shows for one simple fact: they last longer. When major shows can last multiple seasons, I feel like their stories, characters, and concepts can be developed far more than a movie ever could, providing deeper plots, more character development, among other things.
Movies lack just that. Perhaps maybe to fit the average American attention span, they rarely tend to span over the 90-120 minute mark, maxing out at around 3 hours. When fitted with such time constraints, we are often forced right into the plot, with little information about the surroundings, characters, and their backgrounds. Stories tend to be more brief than their TV counterparts, and could never reach the depth or complexity of an established TV series. That's why I tend to be reluctant to download another movie: it's not as developed, in my opinion.
What do movies have over TV shows?