Posted on 10/11/2009 7:51:43 PM PDT by Frantzie
Can't post Bloomberg content but looks like Coppola thinks Hollywood is in big trouble. Awww.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ajbmamDBit14
Francis - you area lib but not really a loathesome lib but you don't get it. Keep avoiding the movies folks.
Looks like The Hope & Change Depression is killing Hollywood too.
"Barrack Hussein Obama plus dying dinosaur liberal media mmm,mmm,mmm"
My movie entertainment is coming out of the Walmart five dollar bins these days. My John Wayne collection is almost complete.
“We pledge to be servants to the president.” And they wonder why we don’t go.
Do you have the John Wayne movie where he fights the octopus?
1) The moviegoing experience is getting worse and worse. Between high price of tickets, even higher cost of concessions, uncomfortable seating, subpar picture and sound quality, and rude behavior by the moviegoing audience, is it small wonder why sales of flat-panel TV's and home theater systems have gone through the roof?
2) Movies in theatrical release are often hacked up to meet MPAA ratings and/or time considerations. Often, the movie in video release is a better movie because the video release version is what the director originally intended for the film.
Bad economy, many crapola movies, over priced theatre tickets and refreshments. Noisy atmosphere and having to sit through all those movie trailers on the screen-—I’m one that does not go anymore to movies! Bye Hollyweird!
give it time and we will have commercials during the movie.
Wake of the Red Witch. Yes.
You already DO have commercials during movies. Companies pay to have a coke v. pepsi on an actor’s desk, or to show a Shell gas station, or any other name brand. They actually bid for those placements. Subliminal advertising.
Too many gangbangers at even nice cinemas. The only good stuff is foreign directors who avoid overt political commentary.
Ridley Scott with Gladiator, the Lord of the Rings with Peter Jackson, the Brit director and actrs who took over Batman and made it interesting.
I don’t have to hear liberal s**t from people like Russel Crowe, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale and a few other non-American actors.
Best film I have seen recently and probably ever:
German film, The Lives of Others, which Rush Limbaugh and many others loved including the late Bill Buckley. It was about the evils of socialism in East Germany.
I encourage every one to rent it. Very very powerful.
Product placement. Has been in Bond films for decades.
Yessiree! When I was a kid, you got a cartoon or two before the movie and no previews. Then one or two previews showed up and that was the end of the line for the cartoons. After that, theaters showed slide shows of still photo adverts for local businesses and pleasant accompanying music, but the previews had grown to over 10 minutes. Now it's about 20 minutes of rapid fire loud adverts and previews that are edited for constant quick shot cuts alternating black and white with each flash lasting maybe a half second. The incredibly loud noise with the strobe effect is just nauseating.
For me, it's now the movie of my choice at the time I choose on the BluRay and Plasma at home. MUCH nicer.
Yeah - but who’s got any ammo? ;-)
And even THAT advantage is disappearing as flat-panel TV's will soon have 3-D viewing technology, too. Anyway, I've seen my brother's home setup with the 55-inch Samsung UN55B7000 flat panel and even hooked up currently with a upconverting DVD player through the HDMI port, the picture quality of this flat-panel blows away the picture quality I've seen in most theaters.
I watched “The Lives of Others” based on Rush’s recommendation a few weeks ago. I agree — very powerful and scary. Highly recommended.
not just Bond .. all of them! It’s a Hollywood way of doing business.
Yes. I will not mention any things to avoid ruining it for anyone but it is a must see.
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