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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."
Movie Studios Curb Internet Piracy
Hollywood studios have come up with an effective method of deterring Internet file-sharing of movies: Make movies that no one wants to pirate.
Perhaps because most Hollywood movies are targeted at 13-year-old American girls? Like, Oh My God, how could they, like, not get it?
Sooo, you couldn't get a date this weekend either?
I don't know about you pal, but I'd take a hot date to my home theater over a public cinema any day.
So you can show her your massive collection of authentic Japanese tentacle-rape hentai?
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
So... We're in trouble because we're not creating enough diverse and original material.
Hey I've got a great idea. We should hire a market reseach firm to analyze the public, run some statistics, and figure out exactly what the average American wants. We can then create a movie plot formula that will appeal perfectly to the average American, thus generating hit after hit.
It's sure to work
I avoid having drinks because the last thing I want is
I should think the last thing you want is to have your head blown of, and your brains scattered about the theatre, in front of your whole family.
But maybe, just maybe, I have seen to many movies...
Theatre attendance declining because U.S. studios don't make good movies? What other shocking revelations await?
Next, they'll be saying that U.S. auto manufacturers are declining because they don't make good cars.
Thanks heavens there's at least one area in which the U.S. still leads. Thanks heavens Microsoft still makes the world's best software.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
One of the last times I went to the movies, there was this 14-or-so-year-old brat behind me who wouldn't stop yacking on her cell phone. Throughout the first 5 minutes or so of the movie. I gave her a dirty look a few times and then told her to take her coversation outside the theater. Well this little soccer-mom-spawn just gave me the finger and kept on yacking.
So I calmly yanked the phone from her hand and told whatever dumb shit on the other end that she was haning up now, and threw the phone as hard as I could down onto the floor in front of the screen. Well this little bitch threw a shit-fit ranting all on about how her daddy was gonna sue me and all sorts of nonsense while the rest of the theater just applauded. I then went and got a manager and he threw her and her friends out of the theater.
All an all a satisfying night, and I only missed a few minutes of the beginning of the movie.
Unfortunately, given the state of the parenting these days, she probably went home and bawled to daddy and he bought his princess another cell phone.
I know what you mean. I thought I would take my elderly mother out to a nice movie. I believe it was called Rocky Horror something. The people in the audience behaved atrociously.
Yeah, that way she could meet your parents and help your mom with the dishes.
I think you could have stopped after the first 6 words.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Why not install your home theater system in the bedroom? That way you'd never even have to leave your room, let alone the house, and you could have your sex right there while the Star Trek episodes are still playing. What woman could pass that up?
Ooooooooooooh, so that's where I've been going wrong.
-Turkey
BWAHAHAHA! You actually PAY for the watered-down soda and stale popcorn? Sheesh, my girlfriend and I usually hit the local grocer/wallmart/meijer, put some bin candy in a bag, buy water/soda, and sneak it into the theater.
Better yet: if you try it, you might find that you're capable of surviving for two hours without ingesting any junk food at all.
David Gould
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