I used to go to movies- to be entertained, not lectured.
I literally can't recall the last movie I paid to see, it has been so long ago... all they make nowadays ( to judge from the trailers I see ) are ripoffs of old plots, movies about cartoon characters ( for Gawd's sake! ), and "stuff about the Future"-- a "future" where everything is wet, dark, and scary, and everything blows up or shoots lightning bolts. It's all faux... even the sex is Faux.
Give me a break- this trash might entertain a kid, but it bores me.
I read some other posting that FX costs are going through the roof. I'd pay to see a movie with a better plot than seeing catwoman flying through the air like a troglodyte from a scifi flick.
Music is the same way. Notice how many top rated songs are remakes of old hits? And when was the last time you listened to an FM station and heard them stray from the 20 or 30 songs approved by their format?
The entertainment industry sucks. We can find more interesting things to do on the net, (or in REAL LIFE, imagine that...) and customize our content too.
I like a ton of the stuff they put out, not a lot of it is preacher liberal trash. I don't think their problem is sales from reading that article.
I think the problem is Time Warner in general is run like crap.
It's amazing to me that the Hollywood honchos don't get it. Like liberal academics they are so stuck in their own stagnant sub-culture that they can't see that the world is leaving them behind. Until they learn to "Shut Up and Sing" they are going to lose more and more money.
The "little people" who have been laid off at warner can thank the "celebs" and studio for putting politics above entertainment.
bttt
As the economy feels the pinch of rising energy costs the film industry will continue to suffer.
Hollywood needs new blood, fire everyone that now works in an executive posistion and fill with midwestern kids at 1/3 the wage. Do you think that the results could be any worse?
Someone called me in a poll some time back about movie going habits. I used to go once a week. I even used to give credence to and watch the award shows until shortly before the release of Farenheit 9/11. Now I almost never go, which I told the person, and I turn off the award shows in favor of news or old movies or sports.
In fact, I practically yelled at the pollster to tell her supervisors that I will not go and spend my money as long as Hollywood chooses to shove political statements and garbage from the left down my throat. I told her that I will not be lectured by high school dropouts and spolied celebrities who've no experience with hardship and real life, and that her supervisors need to get this message to Hollywood if Hollywood wants me to patronize their TV shows and movies. Finally, I told her I tell all my friends and acquaintances this same message over and over.
I felt a little bit bad about being angry with a pollster. Only a little bit.
I anyone is trolling here from the West Left Coast Hollywood crowd, do the math. I am not alone.
Hollywood's devotion to socialism is an anchor around its neck. It will drag the American film industry to its death unless the studios realize that THEIR vision is badly out of synch with their CONSUMERS' vision. You can't sell a product nobody wants to buy, no matter how good YOU think it is.
I feel HOllywood thinks if they throw in a few sex scenes and a few cuss words, it is a good movie ha ha ha
Very good comment...I thought I was the only one who thought that way...
we need to the film industry what foxnews is to the MSM- then you'll see a studio that makes some serious dough.
Halliburton was scheduled to revamp Hollywood but they just got a new contract to rebuild the Paris suburbs as soon as the levees in New Orleans are finished ;o) /s/