Posted on 07/23/2010 6:21:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Greedy Hollywood? More like stoopid Hollywood, for living, like the MSM, in deliberate ignorance of what the larger American public really want.
The limits they push are usually good taste and decency,and the new ground is likely to be in a garbage dump.
“The parents might be less inclined than the kids to see a picture, but then the kids pester the parents, and the rest is history.”
Not really. I actively look for movies that I can take my kids to. I would take them more often if a) there were more decent movies to see and b) I could buy them a popcorn and a drink for less than an arm and a leg.
We’re taking our girls to watch Despicable Me today. :)
One word answer:
Homowood.
Despicable Me was made by Universal Studios and Toy Story 3 was made by Disney/Pixar.
Hollywood has known this fact for a long time but they have an agenda. It promotes an agenda through its storytelling that is intended to destroy the family and all of the institutions built around it plus the fact that the quality of the storytelling has diminished significantly over that time period. As a result people have been less inclined to go to the box office to see movies over the past 15 or so years.
Here’s a good example.
Memorial Day movie attendance drops to 17-year low
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100602/D9G2NITO0.html
The last movie I went to see was the re-vamped version of Bladerunner that ran for a month or two in limited theaters. Before that it was Keeping The Faith.
Yep, limits being pushed in movies such as Brokeback, for example?
Brokeback was critically acclaimed by the movie critics, liberals, etc. It did well at the box office in some markets, but not in others. The liberals has some meltdowns at the fact that Brokeback was banned from some movieplexes.
One of the biggest grossing movies of all time was The Passion of the Christ. But we won’t see any major movies with religious themes such as this anytime soon.
The one reason why family films do so well, is frankly because when kids see the movie trailers on TV, they beg their parents ad nauseum to go see it in the theater. Whereas I believe that for movies meant for older audiences, many adults take the approach of waiting for the movie to come out on Cable or DVD.
Dunno. Domestic earnings are only part of the gross. How do America family shows like Despicable Me, Toy Story 3, etc., do overseas? If they’re rakin’ in the cash in Japan and Europe, then the producers really are as venal and stupid as we think they are.
I’m actually a little surprised Toy Story 3 is rated G. The scene at the dump is pretty intense.
On thing to consider with it is that a lot of people who wouldn’t otherwise be in the market for a cartoon will go see it because they were in the cartoon age when the first two came out.
The best two movies I have seen this year are Toy Story 3 and Inception and nothing else has been even close.
It’s sort of hard to take the kids to see Saw 6.
My GF loved Dispicable Me. She’s spent all week looking for Minion Dolls. Very hard to find.
I was shocked that such a good movie didn’t have well connected fast food roll out (IHOP) and merchandising attached to it.
Makes sense now, no one thought it was going to be a hit.
Homowood.
I think you are right. They don't take into account "breeders" and our children. Many of them have nothing but contempt for conservative, Christians in "fly-over" country of which we are the majority in this country.
The executives aren’t caught off guard. It’s just that normal people aren’t buying their garbage and are interested in the few good, decent films that come out of Hollywood.
Boycott the marketers of deviance. They use the profits from the money makers to market deviance and PC crap the rest of the time. They know what they are doing. Don’t be taken in.
Try the Book of Eli. I normally boycott homowood movies but this is not one of them. Only movie I have paid to see in the last 3 years.
Book of Eli is the one movie I paid to see in the last 2 years. Facing the Giants another.
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