Posted on 12/02/2005 9:09:32 PM PST by jazzo
Lol, the movie industry has gotten so bad that a movie many times worse than an average book shines above all others. Goblet of Fire as a book was pretty good. The movie destroyed most of the good aspects of the book, and yet is decent.
Yes, I agree...
By the way, does Hollywood still make movies?
I wonder how much longer small multiplexes will be showing conventional motion picture prints on film anyway? I would think the next step will be to replace film prints their projectors with high resolution digital projectors. There may not even be any hard copy of the movie actually shipped to the theaters either.
I'll just have fun with my copies of Maltese Falcon, Minority Report, Aliens, Training Day, and Man on Fire, thank you very much.
Xinua-English: "Hollywood studios are going to cut more jobs in coming months amid a variety of problems like lingering box office slumps, a slowdown of DVD sales growth and runway production, according to an industry report released Tuesday."
To me, Hollywood has become artless.
It is true that they are telling less engaging stories these days. I used to like movies better.
More like "yawn-spinning"...
That is the plan. The question though, as always, is "Who is going to pay for it?"
A digital theater (I been to a couple over the last few months) requires about 100K worth of equipment for each screen. Print films projectors run about 20K. It will take a bit of accounting magic to replace existing, working equipment that still has many years of working life left.
That said, I don't think that digital projection is as nice as film. On the big screens, you can definitely see the pixelization of images, and fine detail is lost. Its more like a big television screen - even at the 4000 lines of resolution that is shown (compared to 2000 line for HDTV). Even more jarring is the showing of television quality images on the large movie screens - the quality is horrendous.
Just got back from Aon Flux and it is definitely a fine screen experience. The ending does do a sort of genuflection in the direction of political correctness, but does shows how citizens should remain armed, because human society is highly competitive and people can be pretty dangerous when pushed.
Sorry, Hollyweird, but car crashes, gangsta thugs, obviously aged "stars" with too much plastic surgery, and anti-American propaganda flicks just don't cut it for this consumer.
The last movie I saw and truly enjoyed was the Kurt Russell film, "Miracle" about the 1980 Olympics ice hockey team coach Herb Brooks and the gold medal win. Fantastic and made ya feel damn good.
Hollyweird has totally forgotten the fine art of storytelling, instead it's a mindless whirl of stereotyping and boredom.
This guy has the mark. I have stopped going to the low end movies because they are so unsatisfying and for th 50-60 dollars or so they expect one to spend for a family outing it becomes more appealing to wait for the DVD or when it comes on a movie channel.
Some of the most memorable movies I watched and enjoyed in the past few years at a theater are:
Lord of the Rings (All Three Movies)
The Passion of Christ
Spider Man I and II
Harry Potter (all the moves except the Goblet which I'm seeing this weekend)
American Pie (All of them)
The worst movie I saw in a theater in the past year was
"Kicking and Screaming" but I'm sure there were many more available to choose from. It is horrible how easy it has become to watch very few movies at the theater and find that you have watched much of what was worth watching leaving little that is desirable to watch from the video store.
Oh......poor Mike Farrell. (sp?)......
did you catch him on Hannity today.....with his BS crap?
The Hollywood folks are kind of like John Kerry........no one listens, so give it up.
Dummies that they are.
That system is already here, its called Video on Demand and you can get it in your living room.
Say bye bye to movie theaters, the are going the way of druve-ins.
Exactly.
It's become a poorly-drawn caricature and parody of its former self.
You know they have Jumped The Shark when they make movies based on cartoons.
Basic plot summary of 90% of the trailers I've seen recently:
1) It's dark
2) It's wet
3) Everything blows up, catches fire, or jumps
4) And the plot is stolen from another movie...
Says it all really.
Except it will have higher resolution and contrast ratio than home HDTV signals.
Heh-heh.
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