Posted on 10/01/2005 12:19:16 PM PDT by Simmy2.5
One of Hollywood's basic tenets is that when things go wrong it's somebody else's fault.
Which is why it's so startling, suddenly, to hear studio executives and producers taking responsibility for the rows of empty seats in movie theaters this year.
"It's really easy for all of us to blame the condition of the theaters, gas prices, alternative media, the population changes and everything else I've heard myself say," said Sony Pictures Vice Chairman Amy Pascal, whose summer releases "Bewitched" and "Stealth" flopped. "I think it has to do with the movies themselves."
After months of hand-wringing and doomsday forecasts about the permanent erosion of moviegoing, the lunchtime chatter at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills and other industry haunts has turned decidedly inward. Now, four straight weekends of crowded theaters have forced moguls and creative executives to admit in public what they have spent months avoiding: They were clueless about what audiences wanted.
"There's always a year when the pundits say the movie business is over," said producer Brian Grazer, whose May release "Cinderella Man" was a disappointment despite strong reviews. "If there's a movie people want to see, they go see it. I just think we all have to do our best to make better movies."
Credit a healthy September with showing that people haven't completely rejected the multiplex. "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" and "Transporter 2" both drew throngs of moviegoers. Last weekend "Flightplan" (also produced by Grazer) and "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" pushed the box office 41% above the same weekend in 2004. From Labor Day through last weekend, grosses were 17% above a year earlier.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The recent uptake in the box office, where better movies are being released, should be an example of that.
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The 3 remakes of War of the Worlds should have been enough of a clue. Two were so bad they went right to DVD. They still cost time and money to make.
This seemed to be the years of remakes.
Having that fat pig Michael Moore as a person who makes 'documentaries' and then mouthes off at the Academy Awards isn't helping.
I went to see Transporter 2, since I like the first one, and hoped with a bigger budget this one would be even better. But it stunk bad, it pretty much had the same plot just different setting.
I also went and saw Lord of War and that was bad as well. Why are so many movies today have political messages?
I think the movie industry has to privately admit that their extreme anti-Bush bias last year has finally come back to bite them in the rear end pretty hard. Americans are sick and tired of movies with blantantly anti-American plots and entertainment celebrities that spout out the latest Leftist Bravo Sierra; as such, we're seeing a fairly strong de facto boycott of the movies this summer.
I noticed that everybody and I mean everybody on screen is just so damn good looking these days. And cute. And flapping thier eyelashes and pooching out thier lips. Like Ensign TOM CRUISE backsassing a Brigadier.
FACE IT. Good looking people don't have to try that hard so they get by on thier looks and that why movies are mediocre and not worth the ten or twelve bucks.
My brother talked me into going to see Terminator with him some years ago. I was not/am not a moviegoer but every year or 2 will go to one that strikes my fancy or I get cajoled into seeing- like Terminator( or was it T-2? or Bride of T?). While my brother was excitedly remarking on the awesome special effects all I could think was I spent 9.50 of real money to see this cur. I got nothing from the movie except that 9.50 was entirely too much money for special effects. I then resolved- and have not wavered in that resolve- to never spend more than $3 to see a movie in a theater. Nothing worth more than $3 will ever come to this town anyway.
Glad they finally realize it. Serenity was the first movie I've seen in months. It also doesn't help that they bombard you with obnoxious commercials up to and a few minutes after the official starting time.
I am so sick of every movie having a token gay couple in it.
"The market creates conventionality and conformity, but that's not really what people want to see," he said.
They also don't want to see your movie about a homosexual dwarf.
re remakes
remember Pat Boones MO of doing covers of other artists popular songs??.....he whitified them for mass consumption
movie remakes kinda like that.
Like watching Pat Boone sing "tutti fruity"....in his little suit....snapping his fingers and going "awop bop aloo mop alop bam boom!"
remakes don't work.
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