[kenth]

We haven't been to see a single movie this summer.

Half the time the movies just look pathetic, and the other half has some nitwit trying to force feed us their leftist politics. We decided not to pay for any of it.

[clee1]

How about this one, Hollyweird:

The vast majority of Americans don't want to see our hard-earned dollars going to support the pampered, immoral, and leftist denizens of your pathetic "industry".

Put THAT in your crack pipe and smoke it.

[kb2614]

Multiples theories for the decline abound: ...But many movie executives and industry experts are beginning to conclude that something more fundamental is at work: Too many Hollywood movies these days, they say, just are not good enough.

Only one theory can explain this. It's the work of the Eeeeeeeevil KKKonservatives of the BushCheneyHalliburtonMilitaryIndustrialZionistOligarchalImperialistHegemonCabal!!!!!!

Remember,,,,IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!! :-)

[inkling]

We have two toddlers, so a movie night is very rare. Last Saturday, the grandparents babysat and we were thrilled we finally got to go to dinner and a movie.

Excitedly, we both read the movie section to try and decide which to see. Then we read the movie section again. We finally get a night off and we didn't want to see anything! Still, we had to seize the opportunity, so we ended up at Wedding Crashers. Funny, but a better rental than full-price fare. Oh yeah, and every trailer looked awful.

Our last theater visit was six months ago and we had the same blah experience. Every once in a while you get a LOTR or Passion or some other movie event. But those are getting more and more rare. I hope Narnia's good... I bet Hollywood does too.

[martin_fierro]

Gee, wonder why.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Batman Begins was a welcomed film. Finally got the character right for once.

[BonnieJ]

The most obvious solution (other than better scripts!) is to pay the idiots IN the movies less so they can charge us less to see them. But they seem destined to hand out $20 million & more paychecks to their "major talents" (?!) like Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt ETC.

[Alien Gunfighter]

I'm tired of seeing crappy remakes (Psycho, Planet of the Apes, American Godzilla), back-shelf comic-book characters (Daredevil, The Punisher, Elektra), third-rate live-action cartoons (Josie and the Pussycats, Rocky and Bullwinkle), thinly-disguised political screeds (Cider House Rules, The Day After Tomorrow), mildly amusing Saturday Night Live skits blown up into two-hour crapfests (Stuart Smalley, The Ladies Man), and mentally-challenged films designed to amuse the Jackass generation (Dude, Where's My Car?, anything Adam Sandler is in). Will Hollywood ever produce anything original ever again, or will they just keep looting the corpses of the past?

[benjaminjjones]

Besides not having been out to see a movie in years, I even have trouble finding something to watch on the bazillion channels I have on cable.

There always seem to have some offensive liberal as a headliner.

Current favorite star is Diane Lane (she gets more beautiful as she gets older), unless she's appearing with homo Richard Gere (in Unfaithful on my schedule tonight).

Have settled on 3 hours of TNT's X-Files repeats as a way to fall asleep tonight.

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

I personally can't remember another summer where the movie pickin's have been so slim. I normally go to the movies twice a month or so, but this summer have been to only two or three movies, and was unimpressed with those.

(Favorite movies: "The Graduate" and "The Last Picture Show")

[cambridge]

Avoid almost anything with a star in it. Skip past the 'big new movie' review and dig through the smaller movies and you can still be delighted. Or go on Netflix and order up the best movies of the last 70 or so years. It's a set up for another thread, but unless you're Roger Ebert or Quentin Tarantino there are dozens, if not hundreds, of great old movies you haven't seen.

A friend came over this weekend and I introduced him to SCARFACE [the de Palma remake] and THE LAST SEDUCTION [great twisty thriller, almost unseen on release]. Somehow EUROPEAN GIGALO did not appeal. We had a blast.

[pillbox_girl]

The simple fact that multi-mega-million dollar blockbusters-by-design with all their special effects, leftist claptrap, and liberal nitwit superstars (who don't know when to shut the hell up) have been unable to compete with 90 minutes of penguin footage shows just how much trouble hollywierd is in.

[SamAdams76]

Well I rarely see movies in the theatre but on a whim, my wife and I went to see Wedding Crashers because it had the buzz of being the best comedy of the summer. The movie ended up being mostly unfunny and full of gratuitious nudity scenes that added nothing at all to the movie. One gets the impression that Hollywood robotically sticks in obligatory nude shots to draw the coveted "R" rating. As a comedy the movie often fell flat. Certain scenes that apparently were supposed to be funny, you could hear a pin drop in the theater.

[10mm]

The only movie I'll be seeing in the theaters this year is "Serenity".

[R. Scott]

[twntaipan]

I started to go see War of the Worlds, but then I read that the script writer was anti-American and I changed my mind. It really is that simple. That is why I don't buy MSM papers or watch MSM news channels.

[wouldntbprudent]

Too many Hollywood movies these days, they say, just are not good enough.

Well, well, well. They finally are starting to consider the movie consumer.

[steve-b]

Multiples theories for the decline abound: ...But many movie executives and industry experts are beginning to conclude that something more fundamental is at work: Too many Hollywood movies these days, they say, just are not good enough.

[dinodino]

That's because all of Hollywood's movies suck, and have for a long time.

[Doohickey]

A few factors, in my opinion:

• Why pay $7.50 to see a movie and deal with a half hour of commercials and strangers who can't shut up or keep from kicking my seat back when I can see the same movie in six months from the comfort of my living room?
• Crappy movies. If I'm on the fence about seeing a movie, I'll wait to it's released on DVD so I can feel ripped off for only half the price.
• No original ideas. Not every wholesome old movie needs to be made "edgy" and re-made.

  I did take my daughter to see a re-make though. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I thought it was pretty well done, and Johnny Depp was incredible.