You've got it all wrong. Flock was designed by 8 year-old Bobby Williams so his disabled grandmother could use the friggin computer. She's legally blind so the type had to be ridiculously huge, and the site had to be crappy because he's an 8 year-old, not a team of professional web designers!
Look, the problem here besides all the crappy movies with lots of explosions and little plot/storyline is the fact that it takes a lot to get people to do things these days! I for one don't care about the extra ten minutes of commercials in the beginning, but think about all the other factors that are in play here. The movie industry has to produce something good enough to compete with the allure of our own comfortable lives, and overcome the increased laziness in America, and I think it's coming down the value of the movies we're paying for.
Let's say it's 15 bucks for one ticket, a bag of popcorn, and a drink (and that's a lowball). For the same price, I can get a six pack of beer, have a pizza delivered to my house, not have to fight traffic and put up with stupid teens at the theater, watch whatever movie I feel like on cable, sit in a recliner with a great view of the movie, and if I have to piss, I can stroll to my own bathroom rather than having to do a 100 meter dash down three different corridors to a blinding bathroom with Barry Manilow playing in the background, just so I don't miss the next Brad Pitt wanabe say something as witty as my retarded cousin.
I for one value not having to put up with the crap way more than the 15 bucks I'd throw at the next garbage "action/thriller."
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You've got it all wrong. Flock was designed by 8 year-old Bobby Williams so his disabled grandmother could use the friggin computer. She's legally blind so the type had to be ridiculously huge, and the site had to be crappy because he's an 8 year-old, not a team of professional web designers!
Look, the problem here besides all the crappy movies with lots of explosions and little plot/storyline is the fact that it takes a lot to get people to do things these days! I for one don't care about the extra ten minutes of commercials in the beginning, but think about all the other factors that are in play here. The movie industry has to produce something good enough to compete with the allure of our own comfortable lives, and overcome the increased laziness in America, and I think it's coming down the value of the movies we're paying for.
Let's say it's 15 bucks for one ticket, a bag of popcorn, and a drink (and that's a lowball). For the same price, I can get a six pack of beer, have a pizza delivered to my house, not have to fight traffic and put up with stupid teens at the theater, watch whatever movie I feel like on cable, sit in a recliner with a great view of the movie, and if I have to piss, I can stroll to my own bathroom rather than having to do a 100 meter dash down three different corridors to a blinding bathroom with Barry Manilow playing in the background, just so I don't miss the next Brad Pitt wanabe say something as witty as my retarded cousin.
I for one value not having to put up with the crap way more than the 15 bucks I'd throw at the next garbage "action/thriller."