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Piracy Not To Blame In Decline of Moviegoers
lucyfersam writes "In a somewhat surprisingly earnest assessment, the NYTimes has an article about the massive decline in movie-going that does not once try to blame piracy and file-sharing programs. It sounds like studios are beginning to understand that they have only themselves to blame." From the article: "Multiples theories for the decline abound: a failure of studio marketing, the rising price of gas, the lure of alternate entertainment, even the prevalence of commercials and pesky cellphones inside once-sacrosanct theaters. But many movie executives and industry experts are beginning to conclude that something more fundamental is at work: too many Hollywood movies these days, they say, just are not good enough."
There's a economic depression going on. That's why people are cutting back on movie ticket purchases.
Nonsense, there's plenty of jobs out there to be had. Many people even have two or three of them!
ROFL
/. but damn dude its close!! :-)
Thats not the funniest reply I have ever seen on
Hey, cut the man some slack - he didn't rate his post so high himself, it's the moderators who are (as usual) on crack. :)
You aren't available if you don't answer it, dipshit.
I've never understood why people do so much whining about cell phones and how annoying they are but yet continue to support them by buying them and *gasp* using them in public
OMG! You have absolutely no idea that what you're doing is wrong. Do you have any idea what common courtesy is?
If you're so obsessed with not hearing someone's ring tone as you're in the grocery store or theter or wherever, why not turn yours off all the time too?
Hey fucktard, I do turn my phone off in places where it's likely to annoy people if it goes off. I wish other people did the same.
You sir, are an idiot.
*PLONK*
Well, this brings up two questions:
1) Did you know he knew the word "twat", and fail to sufficiently educate him about the social situations that it was appropriate or inappropriate to use it in?
2) Did you forget he's a 4 year old, and that people will, by and large, be amused by the youngin's stereotypical bluntness?
He's a kid, he's not an extension of you to pose properly as a tool to maintain your social graces with others. Kids say things that are sometimes inappropriate. The solution isn't to isolate them from what is basically the common vernacular of our society, but rather to realize that he's FOUR YEARS OLD
My advice: Stick, from your ass, remove.
"Here in the San Francisco Bay Area I can assure you that we do not exaggerate the problem." Whaddya mean "we" white man? All the Bay Area is not your neighborhood. "Theaters have been made into kid friendly hang out zones where parents can drop the anti-social little shits for an afternoon. Most movies are made and marketed for a teen mentality now. Because of this adults feel less and less comfortable at the theater." God, you sound like such an old fart. Damn those pesky teenagers ruining it for the rest of us! Look, I don't know how old you are, but I'm willing to wager that you were one of those irritating teens in the theater once. So was I, in the 70's. It's nothing new. They aren't killing the theater experience with cellphones any more than my friends and I did by just being loud and full of ourselves. Find another theater, go during off hours or get a different hobby, but don't fall back on the lazy cliché of blaming The Kids of Today for your inablility to cope.
Look kids! Comics!