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With 900 cable channels, NetFlix, and the internet, people can see any movie anytime they want. They need a special event to justify going to see a movie on the giant screen with the booming sound system.

When you charge $10 per ticket, $6 for a soda, and $8 for popcorn, you better be putting up something eye-popping on the screen.

Nobody's going to shell out those big bucks to see something like "The Soloist" - about a homeless violin player - unless you let him shoot lava out of his eyes and and launch him into an intergalactic space battle.

Quiet, understated, reflective movies are perfect for sitting at home and watching on the television. The big screen is for blowing big things up.

The big screen is for blowing big things up.

Agree.

After watching 15 minutes or so of one of those psychological allot-of-talk-little-action 'thrillers', I am sitting there thinking, blow something up! I want some action! Blood and booms!

Nobody's going to shell out those big bucks to see something like "The Soloist" - about a homeless violin player - unless you let him shoot lava out of his eyes and and launch him into an intergalactic space battle.

Reminds me of a truth stated on "3rd Rock from the Sun" over 10 years ago:

"I'm not spending $8 on a movie ticket to watch an alien play with a puppy. For that price, he better eat it."