Movies, are in essence, what you make of them. When someone sets out to make a movie their initial goal is to please themselves. They don't set out to win the hearts of critics or judges, they make something interesting to them. Something they see as challenging in their own eyes. So, how does one make a blockbuster? And how can someone become an award winner in the movie field? It seams to me that blockbusters contain a common recipe to please everyone. Though, some blockbusters can also win awards. In this day and age I've come to see blockbusters as a uninteresting form of film making. A something for everyone movie apears limiting and boring. As they all contain the same ingredients none of them ever have any sort of originality contained within them. You never take any part of them with you when you leave the theater. But then, when you look at award winning movies you may end up seeing the same thing. People win awards based on the amount of appeal the movie has. If enough people are equally impressed by a film it gains a certain status. But are people enjoying it because they all see the same sort of ingredients they are used to seeing in award winning movies or because in the end they all feel a certain way about it? I think it is because they all, each of them on their own, take something separate away from the movie. It effects them all in one way and for a moment they all have something in common, enough for them all to agree it was a good film, and from then on, it's dubbed so. Now, it's not that I don't get excited about seeing some movies that turn out to be blockbusters, but, I would rather see the later, an award winning movie. However, many of the movies I have come to love don't win critical acclaim. And I certainly don't love every movie that has won an award. So really, I would rather just see a movie that, when it's all over and done with, means something to me. Something that gives me ideas and adds another layer onto my already mile high maze of opinions.

Serenity was such a movie.

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