Hollywood Blames Text Messaging For Bad Movie Turnout
from the gotta-blame-something dept
Apparently, the folks in Hollywood don't think that the dreadful quality of this summer's movies have anything to do with the poor turnout. They're also not blaming the ever-increasing price of a movie ticket and the struggling economy. They haven't even gotten to the point where they blame other entertainment options like video games for stealing away precious mindshare. No, they're blaming text messaging. Studio execs say it's these damn kids today with their mobile phones sending text messages to their friends on opening night telling them just what a dud "The Hulk" is that have stopped everyone from going to the movies. Next thing you know, they'll be crying to Congress to ban text messaging for taking away their ability to profit from their terrible movies.
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As I skimmed through the article you linked, I was led to believe that Hollywood was trying to explain the "NE1 C HULK?" phenomenon with a far better-known phenomenon that more people could easily identify: how fast a computer worm will eat through a Microsoft Windows network.
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What date?
These days if you make a crappy movie and don't recoup your investment, it's not your fault - it's those dang kids with their new high-tech whatchamgadgets giving your movie a bad rep!
If you're a music company and all you're turning out is tripe that sounds like everything else that's already out there and your album sales don't show the numbers your analysts predicted, it's not your fault, it's those dang kids with their napster-p2p-WinMX-Kazaa file-sharing-whatchamacallits!
If you own a scary, run-down old amusement park and you can' burn it to the ground for the insurance money, it's not your fault - it's those dang meddling kids and their stupid dog!
OK, maybe I got a little carried away with that last one...
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What about internet, newspaper, and television?
Does that mean that they plan on shutting down the internet, newspaper, and television too?
Oh, yeah, they cannot shut down newspaper or television as doing so would be a violation of the first admendment (though shutting down the internet or SMS wouldn't be, as the public doesn't have huge amounts of money, nor do they care anyway, as they are mindless sheep.)
For newspaper and television, the movie industry is just going to have to own them, that way they can say what ever they want...oh, wait...they do.
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Ah, yes, but you can sue them!
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Just curious...
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Misleading article
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Hahahahahaha!
Next you're going to tell me that record sales are down because people had the opportunity to listen to the music before they made their purchase decision.....oh, right.
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Any more excuses for bad product...
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Text messaging in movie theaters...
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