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Movies Losing Popularity at Box Office
andyring writes "Without the slightest mention of piracy, the MPAA said box-office revenues declined by 8 percent last year. About 40 percent of the decline came from the U.S. Now if only they'd realize that the decline is from movies sucking more than my shop vac." It's been a while since a film warranted spending the money to watch it in a room full of strangers.
No shit there is a decline in profits, the movies have sucked royally recently. I used to watch a movie once a week and I wasn't even that picky. I've seen my share of shitty movies, but this past year and a half or so I haven't been tempted to go see a movie. I've gone maybe three or four times in the past year and a half because I just wasnt interested in anything. My friends talked me into going . . .
Here's a thought Hollywood, stop making movies about gay cowboys and pimps. Get real writers and try making a quality movie or at the very least a movie about topics that people give a shit about. While you're at it, try removing the commercials in the beginning and lower the price of a movie to under ten dollars. What you lose from price you'll make up for in volume.
Can I get an eye poke?
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Every single time this subject comes up, someone tells us that it is about the obnoxious other people in the cinema and how crappy the cinema experience is because of it and every single time these people get modded up even though they are talking about a pretty much non-existant problem that almost noone seems to care about but them and some people on Slashdot.
You have all heard the stories about people answering mobile phones during the film and actually talking loud for fifteen minutes.
It has hardly every happened to me, and I have literally gone to the cinema thousands of times. I am not alone either. It has never impacted on the movie experience of any of my movie-crazy friends.
I'd say much less than 1% of movie goers are seriously bothered about this problem on a regular basis, so there is very little chance of this actually causing this decline.
The fact is that 8% decline in one year is absolutely no statistical basis for claiming the movie industry is in general decline. It may very well be, but the 8% decline proves absolutely nothing. It might just be a slow year.
Looking at the oscar winners, and remembering the films I watched this year I'd say this year was definetely a slow year. I personally loved King Kong, but it does not seem to have had the massive appeal the studio hoped for.
It is not however some terminal decline, and all the great films of all time were not made in the 60s and 70s. It annoys me when people claim this, as they obviously has not followed film in the last 15 years in any detail.