Is the adventure movie genre dead?

[Saxm13]

Since reading press-screen reviews of the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie and considering how many people didn't like the 3rd one and the latest Indiana Jones movie, I can't help but feel that adventure movies are becoming less and less frevalent at Hollywood.

The adventure genre seems to have been replaced or combined with pure action movies. Blockbusters are mostly about big and fast, set-piece action sequences. Less about the journeying and more about the destination resulting in rushed stories.

Do you think adventure movies are gone or are simply more focussing on action which results in a different experience?

 

[Fappy]

Walking around isn't as cool as explosions are in 3-D.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Was there ever a time when these "adventure" movies WERE prevalent?

 

[Rathcoole]

These thing's seem to go in circles. One minute it's the go to genre next minute it's a risk to greenlight. But it will have it's turn again no genre is ever truly dead just unpopular at the time. At the moment comic book movies seem to be the go to genre. which is why they seem to be making a movie about every character who has ever appeared in so much as a single story.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

Was there ever a time when these "adventure" movies WERE prevalent?

I think this is kind of true. Adventure movies were never that common to begin with. Also I think the OP is correct that they have been melded into Action movies anyways. The two are basically the same in my eyes.

We are now reaching the end of the comic book adaptation domination of Hollywood. Its nearly time to usher in the age of the Video game Adaptation!

May God have mercy on us all...

OT: I don't think the adventure genre really got big, well then again fantasy movies are pretty big and a lot of those are adventures...whoaa

 

[Spade Lead]

Well, in the Nineties the big thing was Action-Adventure (movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and the like), in the 2000's it was Horror (well, gore-fest movies, anyway) flicks, and the beginning of the Comic Book adaptation era.

Pure Adventure movies were never a big hit since I started watching movies in the nineties. (I have seen movies from all eras, but it is hard to put a label on eras I haven't seen extensively.) I can't recall ever seeing any serious adventure movies that defined an era. Indiana Jones was special because it was unique. Maybe it bred a following and era, maybe it didn't, but I am too young to say.

 

[Serving UpSmiles]

I remember "Journy to the centre of the earth" being very crap. So yeah maybe you're right, doesn't mean we can't have good action movies though!


Right?!

 

[plugav]

Was there ever a time when these "adventure" movies WERE prevalent?

Well, the eighties spawned Indiana Jones and The Princess Bride among others, so maybe back then.

Right now, however, the genre seems to have been replaced entirely by PG-13 action flicks. I suppose one could name video games (action is expected) and the Internet (our attention span is not what it used to be) as two reasons behind it... Not that I'm qualified to make such assertions.

 

[Jonluw]

Not completely gone.
The Trollhunter was good, if I can call that an adventure movie.

 

[Doktor Sleepless]

Was there ever a time when these "adventure" movies WERE prevalent?

I think this is kind of true. Adventure movies were never that common to begin with. Also I think the OP is correct that they have been melded into Action movies anyways. The two are basically the same in my eyes.

We are now reaching the end of the comic book adaptation domination of Hollywood. Its nearly time to usher in the age of the Video game Adaptation!

I sincerely doubt it, especially as Marvel and DC are just gearing up to franchise their properties properly. Plus video games haven't even had their starting Spiderman equivalent film yet. I think we're going to be waiting about 5 to 10 more years before someone finds a game thats filmlike enough to properly adapt.

 

[Belluavir]

What about the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Avatar? They were very popular and made quite a bit of money. Perhaps the cost of making them is too prohibitive for them to be shoveled out onto the box office like romantic comedies and action movies are.

 

[Saxm13]

What about the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Avatar? They were very popular and made quite a bit of money. Perhaps the cost of making them is too prohibitive for them to be shoveled out onto the box office like romantic comedies and action movies are.

Lord of the Rings was almost 10 years ago (O_O wow i'm old) and Avatar was fairly mixed in terms of reception it seems, especially on the internet with people either enjoying it as a groundbreaking epic sci-fi romp or flaming it as a derivitive environmental flick with pretty visuals.


Prince of Persia was a recent adventure movie that i personally thought was the best video game adaptation to date. Apparently everyone else didn't think so.