Movies make money, but money doesn't make movies by Barbora Misakova

The world of movies is full of money. If you want to make a good movie you need them as a salt. You need good actors and if you want them you have to make them a good offer. If you have actors you longed to get you have to find good costumes and of course you have to pay for them. If you want your characters to look good you have to pay for their make-up girls. I could continue but the point is that you have to as a movie studio invest incredible amount to create a great movie. Of course good movie can be made with a smaller investment but you have to find a good story and interesting faces. Anyway if you want to be a film maker, prepare yourself you will need some cash. If you are successful you will get your money back and if you are lucky you will become a millionaire. You just need to have a nose for good materials. Just look at such Stallone's comeback & his new movie Rambo, which is actually the follow-up of the 1980s trilogy and was also directed by him, earned 18.2 million dollars in its first weekend. Yes of course to get such amount of money is great, but if you look some reviews then you will maybe get the point. For example on rottentomatoes.com which has also their own Awards & Golden Tomato Awards you can see their rate of Rambo is quite low. It got only 37 percent and the consensus sounds: "The excessive violence is more nauseating than entertaining." Sometimes a quality has nothing to do with the money the movie earned. Another example of this fact is romantic comedy called 27 Dresses which got in its second weekend $ 13.4 million, but on the web site mentioned above didn't get so good rate & only 37 percent which makes this movie "clichéd and mostly forgettable." On the other hand there are movies which got high rate and also their earning is quite satisfactory. Science-fiction movie called Cloverfield got 76 percent rate on rottentomatoes web site and also earned more than 40 million dollars in the opening weekend, but now it has fourth place. Sixth place got "The bucket list" with Jack Nicholson; seventh place belongs to "Juno" with its 10.1 million dollars. Eight place has Nicholas Cage in his "national Treasure: Book of Secrets" and Daniel Day-Lewis got with its "There Will Be Blood" ninth place and earned 4.8 million dollars. At the end I would just like to add that doesn't really matter how much money a movie will earn, but if it stays in your mind and heart then it is a sign of a good work.

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by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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