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Bad Movies to Blame for Box Office Slump
macklin01 writes "The LA Times is reporting that box office executives are finally fessing up and taking the blame. Poor box office receipts over the summer weren't caused by surging fuel costs, changes in audience preferences, or anything else. As Slashdot readers might have put it (and as it comes out in the article), 'It's the movies, stupid.'"
no it wasn't! It was those damn hurricanes, how much clearer can it get?? silly...
Insinct is stronger than Upbringing - Irish Proverb
...Fire is hot!
It's not because of Steve Job's $.99 price model?
Tim
At least they're no longer in denial, and they're now willing to produce movies their customers will want to see.
Hopefully that means "Naked and Petrified" starring Natalie Portman will finally hit the big screen in 2006.
One can only dream...
At least Serenity came out yesterday. The wife and I are seeing it on Sunday! Stupid goram MPAA.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
"Overabundance of Commercials and Tons of Bad Reality Shows - Not TiVo - To Blame For Decline in Television Audience."
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Many Bothans died to bring you this sig.
If only the record companies could come to such an enlightened conclusion...
How about more inspiration and less specualtion? More perspiration and less litigation... what else rhymes with this...?
Waiting for you by the bridge
Duh, that was The New York Times coverage, this is The LA Times coverage. Everyone knows that PST is behind EST, don't they? The first story was for people on the US's Atlantic seaboard, this one is for people on the US's Pacific seaboard, nothing more, nothing less.
Of course, people inbetween the US's east and west coasts mainly voted for Bush, so their version, linking to Fox News, will follow later with a suitable spin ("It's the fault of those damn terrorists!"). Meanwhile, people outside the US will get their own frontpage story too, citing news sources such as the BBC, that will point out that it's the American film industry that's in decline, not the global one...
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
It's all George Lucas' fault, Seriously! That guy redefined movie-making in the 70s and 80s, and then single-handedly destroyed it in the 90s and 00s!
Episode I) Fool us once, shame on you.
Episode II) Fool us twice, shame on us...
Episode III) Fool us three times, screw this shit.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
It's all George Bush's fault.
He doesn't care about movies.
I know he's too busy with his bicycling career and all to go to movies. I just want to know that he cares.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
The problem was all those altruistic producers, with their Lord of the GNU/Rings, KAlien and OpenMatrix trilogies!
Moviegoers should support our plotless, $2.00-worth--I mean, Oscar® worthy movies! All the people that we entice and underpay^W^W^W^Wwork on our movies deserve nothing less.
--Dr. Random RIAA Spokes-Person
P.S. Encourage your local movie studio to use CSS (and I don't mean standard Web technology--besides, what's better than protecting official-movie-site IP with Flash?)
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
The MPAA has set in motion litigation against makers of big screen televisions. According to one industry insider, these home entertainment people have to be stopped, their evil must be undone. If G*d wanted us to watch movies in our homes, he would have made television... oh wait
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You're using the IMDB as a source? Next you're going to cite a slashdot poll...
!= profit
To prove that today's movies are so bad, bootleggers on the street are bootlegging old classics such as "Gone with the Wind" and "North by Northwest".
When P2P networks don't even bother distributing new movie titles, you know it's true...
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
What the... actual data? What are you doing here? With actual data we can't mindlessly just repeat the same old "movies are worse than they used to be" ranting you see in every Slashdot story!
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I think you identified the reason for the bad movies. The MPAA is trying to put the bootleggers out of business, by making movies that are so bad, nobody wants to watch them.
Oh well, what the hell...
Goes back to watching downloaded cam-capture of Corpse Bride.
I really miss some original plots, like "The Incredibles" where ALL of characters are completely unknown.
Unknown only if you never read The Fantastic Four or Watchmen.
Ok, I'm being a dick here, but it had to be said.