Hey, I care, but you're completely right in saying that most people my age (I'm 20, by the way) won't care because they don't listen to their music through much else other than relatively cheap headphones or their car stereos.
Speaking from a touring musician's standpoint, I'd hate to try to sell our music at shows by selling anything other than the instant gratification of a CD/LP Vinyl. The CD/LP formats will both be around as long as there is a (relatively sizeable) demand there. Although the current trend is to move to purely digital, people will still buy CDs just for aesthetic appeal.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head.
The fact of the matter is that Hollywood isn't unable to adapt the ideas, they're just too lazy to take anything new and make a movie out of it. Over the past ten years or so, remakes, sequels, and adaptations have made the most money at the box office, not the original movie ideas. If anything, most movies today are following the trend of liscened adaptation with poor script writing and bad direction. Only a few exceptions break the mold, but in most cases (such as many of the comic book adaptations as well as novel adaptations, and let's not forget the Hollywood massacre of the Asian horror cinema) the original ideas of the movies are obliterated in favor of explosion-happy, CGI-based fodder in an attempt to appeal to mass audiences (X3 would be a prime example of this).
I'm waiting for something relatively new and decent to come out of Hollywood again... but odds are it's not going to happen anytime soon.
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Hey, I care, but you're completely right in saying that most people my age (I'm 20, by the way) won't care because they don't listen to their music through much else other than relatively cheap headphones or their car stereos.
Speaking from a touring musician's standpoint, I'd hate to try to sell our music at shows by selling anything other than the instant gratification of a CD/LP Vinyl. The CD/LP formats will both be around as long as there is a (relatively sizeable) demand there. Although the current trend is to move to purely digital, people will still buy CDs just for aesthetic appeal.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. The fact of the matter is that Hollywood isn't unable to adapt the ideas, they're just too lazy to take anything new and make a movie out of it. Over the past ten years or so, remakes, sequels, and adaptations have made the most money at the box office, not the original movie ideas. If anything, most movies today are following the trend of liscened adaptation with poor script writing and bad direction. Only a few exceptions break the mold, but in most cases (such as many of the comic book adaptations as well as novel adaptations, and let's not forget the Hollywood massacre of the Asian horror cinema) the original ideas of the movies are obliterated in favor of explosion-happy, CGI-based fodder in an attempt to appeal to mass audiences (X3 would be a prime example of this). I'm waiting for something relatively new and decent to come out of Hollywood again... but odds are it's not going to happen anytime soon.