Interesting NY Times article on this years glut of CGI movies

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/bu...=1&oref=slogin

I'm wondering what you guys (and gals) all thought about the number of CGI movies that have been coming out lately. Do you like it, or do you think that Hollywood is doing too much "Monkey see, Monkey do?" mentality?

I think a little 13 year old girl sums it up best as written in the article:

Quote:

Natalie Ward, 13, who was out shopping with her grandmother, Bonnie Ward, in Hollywood recently, was unimpressed with the latest offerings. “There are so many movies with animals,” she said, pursing lips tinged blue by the icy neon drink in her hand. “The ones about cows are too, like, I don’t know — boring.”

I for one would love to support these movies, seeing as how I'm working on a screenplay I'm hoping will be a CGI movie (although it's fantasy/sci-fi based), but the "failure" of all these movies is certainly making my chances look a lot slimmer.

I think the problem is that they all feel too similar to each other. Talking animals do various things where the results are often comedic in nature (aka a "kid-oriented comedy"), and it seems Hollywood is too scared to invest in any animated movies that isn't comedy (particularly after the failures of other movies such as Treasure Planet, Titan A.E., and Sinbad, which don't follow the "comedy" theme exactly).

Heck, even Ant Bully, which apparently failed miserably in theaters, seemed too much like Antz and A Bug's Life, only with themes of communism in it lol

I'm all for seeing funny movies, but if that's all that's playing and being released, then after a while I'm going to get kind of bored of them (especially if they're not good).

Or maybe Hollywood really is out of good ideas, and are just rehashing stuff in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, we'll like it and go see it over and over.

So, do you like the amount of CGI movies coming out? Why or why not?

Jam it back in, in the dark.