Posted on 01/03/2006 6:52:33 AM PST by RayChuang88
LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood ticket sales took a little swan dive in 2005. Why? The consensus hypothesis appears to be that the movies were -- brace yourselves -- not good.
The industry and its observers are also variously blaming DVDs, video games, iPods, cellular phones, HBO, crying babies, $10 tickets, Chinese pirates, big screen plasma TVs, an aging demographic, liberal bias, video-on-demand, annoying pre-feature commercials and the Bush administration's energy policy.
The Great Box Office Slump has been covered by the entertainment press with a kind of giddy obsession ever since the summer proved blockbuster-deficient. Each week, the prognosticators sought deeper meaning in the weekend tallies for undercooked turkeys such as "Stealth" and "The Legend of Zorro." There was hope in the Hollywood press that "King Kong" might "save the day," but alas, the big ape has so far "disappointed," if it is possible for a $66 million opening five-day gross to disappoint (which it is, since Peter Jackson and Universal spent $220 million making the monkey movie).
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Not only that, but since my wife and I subscribed to our cable tv providers discount movie plan, we have been "privileged" to be able to peruse a number of recent releases. Most have been thoroughly "liberally" p.c.
I have a rule. The first time I hear the lead in a picture use the f word, I change channels. But I was surprised how many times it was the female lead that made me switch. Needless to say, we have not managed to watch many or any recently filmed products.
It was not surprising in the least when unions were buying up whole movie theaters and passing out the tickets to their people.
Have you actually ever seen the f911 movies at Blockbuster ever fully rented? I have not, not even the week it came out. I have only seen a few rented at a time, it has just sat there week after week taking up a whole shelf of space, still does even though it is long past its prime.
I never hear about this movie Bareback Mountain ever except when I am on line Freepers. If I had not come to this website, I would never have heard about the film. I am sorry that you are being inundatated with all this information, but I only have one source. Of course we are overhere in Sicily on a small Navy Base so obviously it is pretty quiet. I can't believe that it is being sold all over the place in America. Is it on the front page of the paper or something?
I agree. The patrons drive me bonkers. There's always unwashed slobs rattling candy wrappers and eating popcorn with their mouth open. Then there is the cell phone issue.
Mine ended a year ago for the same reason.
Now they're redoing the Pink Panther movies. Is there no originality left?!?
-PJ
In the rare occasions we go to the movies, we bring our own munchies.
Expensive ticket prices, crappy movies (liberal bias) and the stuck on stupid cell phone idiots.
I much prefer watching an old movie on DVD at home, at least I can pop open a nice cold beer, and not have to listen to a cell phone moron (whose IQs are lower than their shoe size).
Hollywood didn't choose shepherds. A skilled and accomplished author did.
Then make it. Raise the money yourself if you're so convinced. You've got battle scenes and probably a largish cast, so about $30 million or so should get you there. Hire a screenwriter and give him the outline to work from. Hire actors--there are plenty of them out there and they'll work cheap. Hire a director. Hire a crew. Buy film stock. Rent a camera and lights. Make the movie.
People seem to think that Hollywood has some kind of monopoly on making movies. They don't.
THREE HOURS for a giant ape?
And they wouldn't let Narnia be longer?
That is a total travesty. I only hope that the Narnia DVD is a much longer Director's Cut. It will make a fortune.
I hope and pray that you weren't trying to make an excuse for the amoral scum that run Hollyweird.
No. I was pointing out that your ridiculous assertion that the filmmakers chose the vocation based upon some intent to slam Christianity was based upon your decision to elevate your desire to fabricate some 'charge' over any factual basis for your claim. It was based upon a short story. They herded sheep in the short story.
Gremlins aren't hard to find when you spend your entire existence working for them.
Whoops. Meant "looking" for them. Damn Dragon.
Ther are a couple of ads that really get me. One is where the woman has genital herpes and she takes this medicine so it wont show and claims herpes hasnt slowed her down a bit, Then the ad says just because it isnt showing doesnt mean you cant pass the herpes on. Isnt that one great?
The other one is where the guy loses his bathing suit in the pool and stands up with a woody while all the ladies giggle about how his erectile dysfunction medicine has made a man of him.
Actually it's from a fairly indy low rent studio, so technicaly Hollywood didn't put it on the screen. But Hollywood is fawning all over it.
Wow. I am sorry that you guys have to suffer through that. I mean over here we just don't have that sort of information. Italy is pretty Catholic even though socialist, but, being on a military base we definitely won't be seeing this film.
Sixty million American babies that were never born in the last 30 years.
That's a lot of teenager/young adult moviegoers.
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