Shocker: Hollywood Admits Some Of Their Movies Really Do Suck
from the moment-of-weakness dept
The entertainment industry loves to point the blame for their troubles elsewhere all the time. This leads to ridiculous situations like blaming text messaging or BitTorrent as being behind the decline in movie going. While theater owners have been blaming the quality of movies for the slump, Hollywood has mostly denied it... until now. A few Hollywood execs are now suddenly willing to admit that maybe they've just been making particularly crappy movies lately, and that improving the product could help the industry. Of course, the theater owners need to realize that "the product" isn't just the movie, but the entire movie going experience that needs to improve. A combination of good movies and a good movie-going experience would do wonders for the industry. It's almost shocking to find out that Hollywood may finally be recognizing that quality does matter, though, it's hard to believe enough will be swayed to actually do anything to change things. Update: Double shock. Disney's new chief is saying all the right things about embracing new technologies and giving consumers what they want. Of course, talk is cheap. Let's see what actually happens.
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Confessions of a snack smuggler: "I fought the law. And the law won."
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We're still physical
Should Disney embrace new, uncertain technologies, or should they worry about their bottom line? The new Disney park in Hong Kong is having lots of problems, including mainland Chinese tourists with no manners who piss in public, spit, smoke in non-smoking areas, causing so much air pollution that some people had to get treated for asthma, get into fist fights over seats and disrupt shows, and sue the park for charging too much for water bottles.
http://www.sankei.co.jp/news/051002/kok061.htm
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"The lowest common denominator rules
Forget honesty
Forget creativity
The dumbest buy the mostest
That's the name of the game
But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?"
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Movie Theatre = Dead
1. Being forced to sit through commericals
2. Insanely high priced snacks
3. Blatent product commercials within movies
4. Cell phones / Comments from gallery
5. High ticket prices
6. Lousy scripts / canned plots
7. Same actors in every Nth movie
8. "Compulsory viewing" - It's the must see movie for Arbor Day!
9. 60"+ HDTV at home with DTS
10. Halo2/Warcraft, etc...more fun, less money.
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Seriously, I rarely go to the theatres. I can just wait for the movie to come out on DVD and watch it on our home theatre where I can have friends over and stuff.
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Granted, I have been using this justification for years and years, but to hear my Wife tell me that... wow, the movie industry is in trouble and they had better find a way to start reinventing themselves.
PS. I do think its a fairly natural extension for movie producers to start taking on the production of video games as well. Sony seems to be expanding rapidly in this area, and I think we will see a lot more of it in the future.
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P.S. I'm aetheist, more or less.
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I have been saying for the past several years that Hollywood is out of ideas, and it's just getting worse.
Thank goodness for independent film makers.
Along with all the other gripes about movie going that have been given here, I would add that the "self-love" fest that has been going on in Hollywood where they use award shows to hype movies, and try to make certain movies more popular, in order to squeeze every penny from us "poor dumb sheep" grates on my nerves.
Who gives a hoot'na haller about overpaid, self absorbed, worthless to humanity types getting praised by a society who's sole purpose is to make more money.
The good actors, the ones worthy of praise, find it in their fans, and garner a following (who doesn't think Johnny Dep does a decent if not brilliant job most of the time? Tim Burton, etc. etc.). The rest need the "awards machine" to generate hype (which really only comes from, and in return, is only for, the media anyway).
Nope, for most of Hollywood, it has become only about money, not a craft.
And don't get me started about the MPAA lawsuit shenanegens.
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