tick tock, Hollywood.......tick tock.

I Stopped reading the thread on the first page so my comments may have nothing to do with where the thread is now.. anywho..


This whole deal with Slumping box office is total horse ****.

Studios have 2 revenue streams nowadays... they release theatrically and then again on DVD... DVD is where they are making the big bucks.. it's funny how you never see any of the DVD grosses posted like the theatrical ones.. except for a selecte few that make huge records.


Comparing one year to the other is completely ridiculous... there are so many factors that are never addresses... one being the actual profit made on a film rather than the gross...

Hollywood can eat my ass, Greedy muther ****ers..

now where did I put those plane tickets to LA..hmmm.

rant over..
 
I only support Vin Diesel.

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Everything else is crap!!

~reservoir~
 
Funny when I started reading this thread I was thinking of my recent experience at our one remaining drive-in in western Washington. Between features (Star Wars and Batman), my wife and I were discussing the final death of the drive-in. Ironically it will probably be what helps save regular cinema. We were standing back at the booth watching the light throw the 200 yards to the triple size screen. "A digital projector will never be able to do that!" Once digital distribution is king, a lot of movies won't even have film prints...no more drive-in. :(

The picture and sound are horrible but the seating and food is great (stop at Safeway on way to cinema). Noise from other viewers is rarely a problem. The only new downfall is daytime running lights...when someone decides to sneak out early, we all get an eye full.

To the topic on hand, I blame the movie going public (including myself). Traditionally when we see a picture, we will go to the film with the big star in it (not always, but more often then not). Thru this cult of personality the stars have demanded larger and larger salaries. Now we are at the point where you can't get anything but the smallest budget movie financed without some star attached to it. The star then has to protect his reputation (to keep gettting the big dollars)so he/she only makes cookie-cutter fluff with low risk (wanna bet that Herbie or Dukes movie makes a profit?). The distributers of course will buy the big-name movie, hype the **** out of it, and clog the cinemas so bit by bit we have less and less choice of what to see. Same thing in a different way happened with popular music thru the 70's & 80's (a little bit of punk and alternative dribbled thru but mostly a disaster). We have that same "punk music" philosophy with our independent film festivals. You can't deny that a couple of quality films each year come to us from these festivals (the road most in here hope to travel I imagine).

Just like with MP3 we will see a way to get new and innovative movies with the internet but the production values will be less and we will still go to theatre for "big screen" experience now and again.

Eventually, as the profits of blockbuster films goes down, the stars attached will have to get most of their pay thru owning a percentage of picture. We are already starting to see this but we need to junk this present generation of $25 million plus actors and not get the next generation use to this precentage style of contract. At that time, maybe (fingers crossed) big-time stars will be willing to take more low budget risks (less investment, more profit) with quality scripts instead of quality effects.

Whatever the disease, believe big business will find a cure (even if it's a placebo). Live theater, TV, popular music, heck even print media all had their predicted downfall but all have survived despite their eulogies. The internet will continue to change things but won't kill anything (IMHO of course).
 
The double features at the drive-in's were also good because a lot of the time you were exposed to movies that you would never have ever seen otherwise. Such as Oh Heavenly Dog!, Gotcha!, My Bodyguard, Outland, Runaway, Caddyshack, The Man With One Red Shoe and On The Right Track.

I wish they would to do that at the theatres more often and not just for sneak previews.
 
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