Lucas talks about the Future again

I'm getting pretty frustrated with the movie theater experience too. Adding to the talkers and seat kickers, are the loud munchers! Don't people eat with their mouth closed anymore? And whose idea was to sell nachos and smelly hotdogs in a theater!? Ok, now I'm on a rant. What ever happened to 7 and 9pm shows? It seems like they're 5 and 10pm. The theaters probably need 5 hours to cleanup all the crap people dump in their seets. On another note... besides trailers, I know have to sit through the stupidest ads I have ever seen. Some of the ads are made for seriously retarded kids. Ok... now I'm done :)
 
OK, this is as good as any thread to bring up a peve that was just re-enforced as I sat through over 15mins adverts (not trailers, ads).

Why the fubar should I have to pay (an exorbarant amount) to watch commercials?!

Starting next time I go to a movie at a theater (these are few and far between) I will call and find out how long the comercials are and go in AFTER that.
Who else want's to join my little rebellion?


..On a side, but related, note: There was a story on the news the other day about advertizers and spots sponsors beeing pissed that they are payign the same rates, but suddenly having fewier vierwers because the sports coverage is become pay-per-view. And the TV stations are screwing everyone. I'm glad at least the advertisers have noticed. They are considering dropping sponsorship of the sports (result: the [non-pro (majority)] sports teams can't afford to play).

- Mikko
 
mikko you gotta stop dropping the F bomb so much.

But i completely agree.. there is absolutely no reason for commercials to be on screen if I am paying $15 to be there. I have found myself going to the theater 5 minutes later now to skip them.
 
I don't think it's coincidence that there's a connection between the commercials before films and the loud and rude audiences in theatres. People act as if they're sitting at home in their living rooms watching tv.

I used to like the audience experience but now I'll either do that matinee in the morning in the middle of the week or wait till the hype has died down. I think once HD-DVD's hit the market theatres will take an even bigger nosedive towards extinction. And a decent HD projector costs about the same price as a good HD tv.

I think Lucas is right about the condensing of distribution channels. Even the dvxuser fest is an interesting development in that area. In a few months people will probably be encoding their dvxfest films for video ipods.
 
this is silly talk. people not going to see movies in theatres anymore? maybe you people. you forget that the people you're complaining about ARE going to see movies. Cause they're young and that's what young people do. Hang out and go to the movies. just like you used to do when you were young.

PEOPLE LIKE TO LEAVE THEIR HOUSES AND DO THINGS. Just cause there's a DVD player in their living room doesn't mean they're going to stay home all day and watch it.

If this does happen, we're talking 60-80 years from now, when everybody gets hooked on virtual reality. And even then, we're probably go watch movies in the virtual world. Movies have survived televsion, vcrs, the internet, and piracy. They'll survive wider televisions and a few extra speakers.

i'm outta here.
 
c.g._eads said:
this is silly talk. people not going to see movies in theatres anymore? maybe you people. you forget that the people you're complaining about ARE going to see movies.
If this does happen, we're talking 60-80 years from now, when everybody gets hooked on virtual reality. And even then, we're probably go watch movies in the virtual world. Movies have survived televsion, vcrs, the internet, and piracy. They'll survive wider televisions and a few extra speakers.

i'm outta here.
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actually, you are incorrect. Movie ticket sales have been on the decline, it has dropped 10% each and every year in the last 5 years. This summer alone, ticket sales where down 25% compared to last year. DVD sales are doing the exact opposite.

PEOPLE LIKE TO LEAVE THEIR HOUSES AND DO THINGS. Just cause there's a DVD player in their living room doesn't mean they're going to stay home all day and watch it.
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I havn't left my house in 243.53 days. :undecided
 
we're fine

we're fine

Jarred Land said:
actually, you are incorrect. Movie ticket sales have been on the decline, it has dropped 10% each and every year in the last 5 years. This summer alone, ticket sales where down 25% compared to last year. DVD sales are doing the exact opposite.
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I honestly believe it's a weak couple of years due to, waddaya know, BAD MOVIES. Make good movies. People will come.

And let's keep in mind that numbers are VERY deceiving in this town. "Oh we're number one at the box office with the biggest August opening ever" turns into "we lost money" the second they have to pay profit points off.
 
Actually, I think eads and Jarred are both right.

Young people are going to movies. And that is ONE of the things that young people do. They also hang out in malls a lot. And there are also a lot less young people than there used to be (proportionally speaking).

And the movie experience sucks. Between the prices, the lack of civility, and the perceived increase risk of getting shot, most people have to be pretty motivated to set foot in a theater.

And many movies suck.

And older audience attendance has certainly fallen off as people can watch DVD's at home, in a shorter period of time after the theater release than in the past.

But I don't think that HD-DVD movies will have much of an impact (increase in the slope of theater's demise) over the effect of DVD's alone. In other words, I don't think the rate of people owning either an HD-DVD player or a DVD player will increase faster than the increase of the ownership of DVD players alone.

I think that resolution has reached the level of "good enough" to the average consumer. Sure, they might be able to see SOME difference between HD and good SD on a 60" screen, but many won't, and most won't be more motivated to stay home because of the small (perceived) increase in resolution.
 
that is right about the HD-DVDs...

but when we are talking about digiphotos, and we said 2 megapixels were enough, but then came the 3, 4, 5, ..., 8 megapixels?
 
An HD presentation of a movie looks a little nicer than a well-encoded DVD, and is more noticeable in movies like "Monsters, Inc."

But it doesn't look so much better that I'd be inclined to replace the DVDs I have now with HD versions.

And heck, what really sells me on a DVD presentation (as differentiated from the convenience factor) is the sound, and that's not changing.
 
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