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."

Comments

Everybody's wrong about the cause. Here it is:

[Catbeller]

Piracy, quality, yadda yadda.

There's a economic depression going on. That's why people are cutting back on movie ticket purchases.

Salaries are down, raises are gone, jobs that pay well are scarce, and those jobs easy to get are slavery with a timecard and optional Medicaid.

There's a price for the free-market utopia that's finally upon us, and will be with us for at least another fifty years. That price is an increasingly impoverished workforce.

Broke people don't buy stuff. And there are only so many upper middle class and wealthy people to buy expensive real estate and splurge on $50 outings to the movies.

Attendance is down because people are cutting back on the luxuries. And DVD rentals are what, a dollar a day?

"Rocky Horror Picture Show"

[falconwolf]

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.

In a sense that's how the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" is supposed to be, it's an active audience participation movie.

Virgin!

Falcon