Perhaps what I should have said is, the reason for the focus on Box
Office results of these movies is that the only interesting thing about
most of them is whether they are successful or not because the films,
as a rule, aren't very good! Channing
P.S. Man, was that a run-on sentence or what. . .
On May 28, 2006, at 2:37 AM, JR wrote:
It's true fewer people are going to the theaters... as we've discussed
on this list before... because they have bottom-lined the experience
into a pain rather than a pleasure. The blasting sound from the film
in the next auditorium bleeds into your auditorium. The seats are
generally butt- and back-busters. They now show 30 minutes of
commercials before the film... and you paid big bucks to sit
through them. The concession stand charges more than a fancy French
restaurant. The auditoriums generally have a very iffy smell to them.
And in most auditoriums the "big screen" seems noticeably smaller than
the Big Screens I remember. As someone said a while back "Movie
Theaters used to be palaces. Now they are warehouses".
And, of course, they keep pushing up the date of the DVD release. It
is now only 90 days from the theatrical release date. How many films
these days are so good you can't wait 90 days to rent them and watch
them your own home for a lot less than the price of a first-run
theater ticket? They should have kept the time from theatrical release
to DVD to at *least* 6 months... 9 months to a year would be better.
But they're all too greedy. They want all their money *right now* and
so have strangled their golden goose in an attempt to get it to cough
up the return on their investment quicker.
Then, of course, there is the small fact that most of the films they
make aren't worth watching, even at home rental prices.
They've killed their own business. They can't blame the viewing public
for any of it.
Now they think 3D will save them. Seems to me I've heard that
solution touted once or twice before in the past...
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
From: Toochis Morin
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 4:25
Subject: Re: [MOPO] X-Men The Last Stand
Given the state of the film business, with declining box office
numbers, I'm thankful there are some hits which can support the
smaller films. More and more people are watching dvd's and movies on
computers. Tthe film audiences are getting smaller so any hit is
hopeful.
I'm just praying the movies get better.
Toochis
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