Why spanish movies are so bad?

Year after year the films made in Spain attract less and less people to the movie theaters.

The public has not much consideration for the spanish movie makers and almost all the movies shown each year make less money that they cost. We are talking about movies that have a production cost between two and five millions euros (you have to add to this the promotion costs) that sell at the most half a millon euros in tickets.

The only exception to this are movies that barely can be considered as spanish, with foreign directors and almost all foreign cast. They are considered spanish movies just because some part of the money come from spanish producers.

So, where is the problem?

Usually the story of the many spanish movies is just plain stupid and are made for people that like this kind of movies. Other movies tell a story that does not interest people anymore, like the ubiquotous spanish civil war, or try to exploit some polemic issue that only interest to the writer of the script and the director of the movie.

The quality of the actors are no better, usually the movies use actors that have some notoriety because they appear in some tv series. There are other actors that are plain bad, but there are famous for some strange reason. I have always though that in spain there are no more professionals in the actor business, they are just glorified amateurs that appear as quickly as they disapear.

Movie theater tickets are also expensive, you have to pay around 7 euros and there are better ways to spent that money when the probability to feel robbed after seen the movie is very high. You always can see the movie in tv one or two years later for free, there is no rush.

But the problem is not the prize of the tickets, the problem is that money from our taxes are going to the producers of those movies. So we are robbed twice each time that we decide to see a spanish movie.

Maybe is time to think again about to try to save spanish cinema, in this times of crisis there are another priorities. You can not save something nobody cares about.