Posted on 03/26/2010 6:37:12 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
I was pretty happy to learn that I could watch Netflix Instant movies on my XBOX360.
I’ll probably get a blu-ray if and when I get a 3D TV.
Until then, I have to say my upconvert DVD player is really just as good. Even on a high-end TV, I can barely tell the difference between a regular DVD on the upconvert player and a blu-ray - and regular DVDs are a hell of a lot cheaper.
A 26% increase is just fat cat movie execs trying to cash in on my rights. And this disproportionately hits minorities and the poor.
It's time for the government to take over the movie industry. Where are you President Obama? You know you want to be a movie exec.....
I think I have gone to the movies about once a year in the last decade and of the 10 movies I've seen I was disappointed in nearly all of them.
The Star Trek movie was pretty good. And Iron Man was pretty good. Beyond that I just wasted my money.
I'm a member, but frankly there isn't that much worth ordering. Its just a wasteland out there.
If you can barely tell the difference, it’s possibly because the TV isn’t calibrated at all. Calibration makes an enormous difference (to my eye) with high definition. However it’s the norm for most people to never change picture settings after they get sets home. People in my family consider me a home theater geek simply because I open the menus on their sets and turn the contrast down from maximum (to eliminate crushed whites) and then fiddle with brightness settings (to eliminate crushed blacks).
Over the last decade I’ve been averaging about 1 movie theater viewing per year. I think I’ll let that lapse to zero.I have been once. To a movie theater. In a decade. Fair movie, but the "theater experience" was aweful.
Movie theaters are also a lot like gas stations in one respect . . . the prices they charge reflect a lot of costs that they pay uniformly across the industry, so there shouldn't be any surprise that there is some consistency among them in terms of their prices.
Having said that, I have to say that I don't much care how much they charge. I've been inside movie theaters a total of three times since 1995.
So is a 3 month wait + Red Box + $1!
Ya, I don’t like to go to movies anymore. Too many are pushing liberal messages for my taste.
I think it’s interesting that “The Passion of the Christ” set box office records, yet the guys in Hollywood would never think to make more such movies. Hollywood likes to make money, but, they prefer to push liberal clap trap to do it. They would rather make less and push their agenda rather than make more by producing good quality movies.
How did Michael Moore’s movie about capitalism do at the box office? Ironic that a communist/socialist sympathizer such as him had made millions within a capitalistic system.
Instead of seeing Avatar over Christmas break, early in the day, I saw it after school, only to discover that the bargain weekday matinees aren't before six, but not before three (so you have to cut class to catch them).
I went to the IMAX version only because I just I could justify the amount to myself better. I skipped the popcorn.
I'm sure you're correct...although they don't realize that my 14 year old only goes to the movie theater with me....which means they are losing more than just my demographic.
And these kids in theaters can be disruptive. So many of them, not all of course, but many, talk throughout the movie, and are working their cellular phones during the movie. It’s all very distracting. Are they there to see the movie or work on their Facebook accounts?
Side note: I just saw “UP” for free yesterday. My wife rented it from the library. (It might actually cost me a buck because I think I may be a day late returning it.)
“...They know that at least 46% of the American people are in fact stupid enough to do just that....”
Make that 52%. The same percentage of brain dead voters that pulled the lever for Ø.
Not quite I believe that number has been reduced by those that will not allowed themselves to be fooled again.
Right, I don’t doubt that increased costs from the studios had a lot to do with this. This is evidenced by the fact that the price increases are heavily weighted toward, or in some cases confined to, 3D movies.
It’s not so much the fact that they raised their prices around the same time that makes me suspicious. It’s the fact that they all announced it on the same day.
Plus, gas stations are selling a commodity in a much more liquid market with much more intense price competition and near-daily price adjustments. Movie theater competition is somewhat less price-sensitive and price changes are usually closer to an annual than a daily occurrence. It just seems odd that the big three chains would all announce price increases on the very same day absent some agreement either amongst themselves or between themselves and the studios. Either type agreement is probably illegal.
I’m not saying that this will likely be prosecuted or even investigated, either. I can imagine a lot of other industries that would be investigated if they did something like this, though.
I see . . . that’s a good point. I wonder if these announcements coincide with a Friday release date for new movies.
Could be. Clash of the Titans was originally supposed to be released today (it was pushed back to next Friday), and that will probably be the biggest 3D movie this year.
I’ll stay home. Between the crying kids, and cell phones, and the TO LOUD sound system, I’ll wait until Netflix gets them. Then I can watch in my PJ’s with my scotch and water at hand.
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