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Francis Ford Coppola Sees Cinema World Falling Apart (cinema dinosaur watch)
Vanity | 10-12-2009 | Frantzie

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: cinema; coppola; culturewars; hollywood; liberalmedia; propaganda
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Francis is saying people have others things they can do besides go to movies. Wrong. Conservatives are sick of Hollywoods depravity, pimping for the DNC and Obama, Rahm's brother the agent getting "actors" to pimp for liberals.

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"

1 posted on 10/11/2009 7:51:43 PM PDT by Frantzie
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To: Frantzie

My movie entertainment is coming out of the Walmart five dollar bins these days. My John Wayne collection is almost complete.


2 posted on 10/11/2009 7:55:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (DUDE! Where's MY Nobel Peace Prize?)
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To: Frantzie

“We pledge to be servants to the president.” And they wonder why we don’t go.


3 posted on 10/11/2009 7:56:58 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Do you have the John Wayne movie where he fights the octopus?


4 posted on 10/11/2009 7:57:23 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: Frantzie
Besides the obvious problem of injecting liberal politics into movies, I can cite the following other problems:

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.

5 posted on 10/11/2009 7:57:35 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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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!


6 posted on 10/11/2009 7:57:44 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: tflabo

give it time and we will have commercials during the movie.


7 posted on 10/11/2009 7:59:34 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: BlueStateBlues

Wake of the Red Witch. Yes.


8 posted on 10/11/2009 7:59:53 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (DUDE! Where's MY Nobel Peace Prize?)
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To: Frantzie
All media is undergoing rapid change. The cost of making and distributing entertainment is coming down to the range of high school film class project budgets, just as blogs can undercut news divisions. TV screens are almost as big as movie theater screens, which now has Hollywood turning to 3-D technology and what not to differentiate themselves from your own living room.
9 posted on 10/11/2009 8:00:13 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Goody! I will donate a S&W .38 to Hollywood if a bunch of celebrities will look in the mirror, realize they are worthless and useless, and do the right thing.
10 posted on 10/11/2009 8:01:02 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: LukeL

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.


11 posted on 10/11/2009 8:03:00 PM PDT by EDINVA (Obama CAN'T see the Olympics from his back porch !)
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To: tflabo

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.


12 posted on 10/11/2009 8:05:10 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's health care?)
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To: EDINVA

Product placement. Has been in Bond films for decades.


13 posted on 10/11/2009 8:05:57 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's health care?)
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To: RayChuang88
"The moviegoing experience is getting worse and worse"

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.

14 posted on 10/11/2009 8:06:39 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Lockbar

Yeah - but who’s got any ammo? ;-)


15 posted on 10/11/2009 8:06:44 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's health care?)
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To: Vince Ferrer
TV screens are almost as big as movie theater screens, which now has Hollywood turning to 3-D technology and what not to differentiate themselves from your own living room.

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.

16 posted on 10/11/2009 8:07:03 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Frantzie

I watched “The Lives of Others” based on Rush’s recommendation a few weeks ago. I agree — very powerful and scary. Highly recommended.


17 posted on 10/11/2009 8:08:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: tflabo
A friend of mine took his wife to see “Mississippi Burning” at a theater in Florence, Alabama (60 miles away) when it was released in the late 1980’s. He said about half the audience was African-American and that Eddie Murphy was correct on SNL when he claimed black folks yell back at characters on the screen.
18 posted on 10/11/2009 8:08:32 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Frantzie

not just Bond .. all of them! It’s a Hollywood way of doing business.


19 posted on 10/11/2009 8:10:04 PM PDT by EDINVA (Obama CAN'T see the Olympics from his back porch !)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yes. I will not mention any things to avoid ruining it for anyone but it is a must see.


20 posted on 10/11/2009 8:11:25 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's health care?)
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