Posted on 12/13/2005 11:34:35 AM PST by Millee
I have. I am signed up with BlockBuster's moviepass so I watch about 12-14 movies a week.
I was very pleasantly surprised by it. A very good movie.
I'm deeply saddened!
"Is it the movies? Is it the ticket prices? Is it because home theater and DVD?," pondered Exhibitor Relations Co's chief Paul Dergarabedian."I think is it because all this happening at the same time, it is a combination of facts."
But he was optimistic for the future of the industry, saying that when Hollywood does dish up a good film, audiences still go rushing to see it.
"When a good movie strikes, people go to the theatres," said Dergarabedian.
These two should get together. Oh, ...wait, it's the same person...
I know what you mean about today's scripts. They are AWFUL. The reason directors like younger writers is because they think they can connect better with the younger audience (16-24) which is their primary target, while restricting dialogue to a 50 word vocabulary.
In contrast listening to the conversation between Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in NBNW was a joy and a thrill. Movies like that will never be made again. :(
noooooooooooooo...course not! : )
There is only ONE reason this boxoffice is falling sucks and will continue to fall, hollyweird refuses to accept the fact that their left leaning drivil is not worth spending money upon.
People would rather play video games, or go outside and do something than watch another looney leftist script.
I am looking forward to the Miami Vice movie. How I miss those Italian cut suits and that great Jan Hammer synthesizer music ! Play the openning theme on your car stereo and your foot is going to get heavier on the gas.
Check on imbd.com.
They sodomites and secularists are giving Mel a hard time about his Holocaust project. And you notice that the film career of Jim Caviezel has ended.
its on TV... BSG
Who is going to gay cowboy movies?
Or is it because so many of your "stars" make it a habit to insult their audience?
Ponder on, Paul, ponder on.
Consider Sandra Bullock. In Miss Congeniality she played a right wing law and order type with flare and elan. In Two Weeks Notice she played a typical hollyweird leftist, who came accross as a self-righteous pain in the ass.Two Weeks Notice sucked out loud, and Ms. Congeniality did not.
My case rests.
Well, Two Weeks Notice had Hugh Grant so maybe there was another cause of suckiness. Can men be forced to watch Hugh Grant movies ?
I've only seen one flick in the past 3 months... "Jarhead." My bud finally got a hall pass from his wife and dragged me to the theater.
The scene where the 'monster' pulls the guys arms off is still vivid in my mind after more than 40 years.
Movies that I liked this year that i can remember seeing in the theater: Cinderella Man, Broken Flowers, Walk the Line, Chronicles of Narnia and Pride and Prejudice.
I think men are reclaiming the "date movie" market.
If they are paying for a movie on a date, then they are not going to pay for a leftist looney PC homo-flick.
I wonder who speaks for the stockholders and why are not stockholders more vocal about the homo-fest of hollyweird.
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