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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 3106296" data-attributes="member: 6791">In my opinion? Both. Of course, I don't know how much validity my opinion really has. But it seems to me, a lot of the really stand out movies, tv shows, and books we like had both big sales and big talent. Granted, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. The movie "Armageddon" was (if I recall correctly) the biggest money success that year (and I think its safe to say that most of us agree on its low level of quality -- as far as story goes).This is one of those times where I am the guy who put his foot in his mouth. For some reason, I had read your post too quickly and perceived a tone of sarcasm when there probably was no evidence that it was written with that intent. When I read your "What have you written? Do you have a popular fantasy series?" I thought that was a challenge marked with sarcasm. For this misunderstanding, I fully apologize.Oh, I completely agree....the main purpose is to make money with movies. But as we've seen, the innovative or just the "plain well done" movies make MORE money than the safe bet lowest common denominator property. Again, yes I'm aware of low brow pedestrian works have also made lots of money, but I think its usually the well crafted ones that hit it bigger more often.I think Firefly/Serenity was well written but not terribly ground breaking as far as creativity goes. Plus, its a movie not a novel....so that means more than just good writing has to be there. It also has too "look" good too. With the art direction and the low budget, Firefly/Serenity never gave the common audience a sense of quality. Titanic may not be our cup of tea, but it is well written and well executed. Here's where the grey areas start to show themselves. What's going against the masses and what's not? To me, I think if the masses is the center line in which we creatively travel along, my intent was to say that we can veer slightly to the left and right of it to achieve uniqueness without putting mass appeal into jeopardy. Only when you veer drastically like ....let's say David Lynch's films, do yo lose mass appeal.I think its possible to maintain mass appeal and be highlly creative at the same time. This is the hard part of being an Editor, Producer, whatever.....Having the skill to be able to see what is unique and new , but yet understandable to most people, is rare skill indeed. In my opinion, those who are both well skilled in writing as well as being a fan/consumer too are the ones that can see it the best. Lots of "suits" don't realize this and that's why I think we have lots of junk out there too.That's a pretty safe tactic I must admit. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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