Greedy Hollywood? More like stoopid Hollywood, for living, like the MSM, in deliberate ignorance of what the larger American public really want.
“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. :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
In one situation after another, the guy performs salvage miracles with good old American ingenuity. Jobs everyone said were impossible. All this in 120+ degree temps and 90%+ humidity.
Without giving details away, with NO help from America he (just a few):
1) restores ALL the wrecked machine shop equipment in one month back to full production;
2) raises a massive sunken dry dock that experts said would take six months and hundreds of workmen - does it in nine days;
3) gets "lazy" Eritreans to scrape and paint the bottoms of merchant ships supplying Montgomery every 1 1/2 days;
4) repairs three British light cruisers that were too long and too heavy for his one operating small drydock weeks sooner than "experts" said it could be done, after saying he couldn't do it at all.
You can get the book on eBay MUCH cheaper than the used book websites. A damned good read and, IMO, great material for a movie.
This is why I used to go to the movies every other week when I was a teenager. I went to the movies to be ‘entertained’. I wanted to sit down with my big bucket of popcorn and drink and spend two hours enjoying some good, simple fun. Nowadays, these ‘directors’ and ‘writers’ are trying too damn hard to make ‘thought provoking’ films. Additionally, I hate going to movies that push a political agenda and don’t even have the common courtesy to make it subtle. I’m in my 30s but I enjoy movies like Toy Story and Despicable Me because they are good fun with simple, meaningful messages.
We don’t have any kids. My wife and I just went to see Despicable Me and loved it.
The last movie we saw at the theater was Up. The movie before that was Monsters vs Aliens.
The trend, besides these all being cartoons, is that we aren’t going to pay through the nonse to see a movie that either insults our intelligence, insults our politics, or assaults our senses with pornography or profanity. If there’s a movie that has one of those qualities, but otherwise might be worth watching, we can wait for it to come out on video or on broadcast TV or the web.
There’s little that can bring us into the theater these days short of cartoons.
My wife took my son to see “Despicable Me”, which was the first time that she’s gone to the movies, I think, since “The Simpsons”, which was also a family outing. The rest of Hollywood’s output, she waits for the DVD from the library, if at all.
We typically only see a few movies a year, probably about 3 in the summertime.
The wife and I are going to see Inception this weekend. I typically like Chris Nolan’s stuff (Batman Begins, Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight).
I missed Robin Hood, which I wanted to see. The A-Team was great. The kids went with their grandparents and saw Toy Story 3.
I was curious about Dispicable. If it turns out to be appropriate for a 5-year-old, I may let my daughter watch it when it hits DVD.
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And THAT, my friends, is the way it should be. Funny isn't it? When they really concentrate on maximizing profits, they seem highly capable of eliminating swearing, sodomy, sex and gore....and we get films like Star Wars, Jaws, Lord of the Rings, Passion of the Christ and Indiana Jones. So what's so wrong with that I wonder?
it’s a long, hard road, akin to the life of the entrepreneur. But some conservative youngsters need to consider entering the animation/film/high tech entertainment field. The potential rewards are obviously great. But the quality has to be there, like Toy Story 3 and Shrek.
Plenty of sub-contracting work in that field, also. I guess young people need not think they have to start a new Dreamworks. But there is good work out there to be had, for those with talent, drive, ambition and...yes...the right values!!