I saw all five. Toy Story 3 was good.
Haven’t been to a theater to see a movie since Dances With Wolves in 1990. There’s nothing I want to pay that kind of money for to see. And my DVD rentals are less than 5/yr. So, there’s really nothing out there for me (my wife agrees...).
I suspect two things are happening; adults are getting tired of animation and want real stories, and 3D just isn’t doing it. It may be fun to see in a theater, but can’t be repeated at home without a major expenditure. So, the mass interest isn’t there.
I don’t think they understand. Just as big a problem with the dreck that is put out is the sheer displeasure of paying big bucks to put up with impolite people.
Aka that recent article about the Marine in FL who got jumped for telling some brat to shut up.
I haven’t been to a movie in 20 years. Screw ‘em.
The point of 3-D is to (1) be able to charge more money, (2) make people have to go to the theater to get the effect rather than wait for the DVD, and (3) make it harder to pirate movies by simply bringing in a video recorder to the theater.
Hollywood is still putting out crap, though.
It was kind of a crappy year for good movies. My girlfriend and I usually go quite often, almost every weekend in the summer, but this past year we went the least in the ten years we’ve been together.
Iron Man 2 was the only one we saw from the top five.
Hollywood, here’s a hint: make better movies.
I only saw ‘Iron Man 2’... and didn’t think it was all that good.
Better to wait a few months and rent for $1 at a Redbox.
The incessant insulting of conservatives has taken it's toll. We are more than 50% of their audience...fools!
If someone offers you money to watch it, turn them down.
If at some time in the future, you go over to a friends house and see it playing on TV, leave the house immediately, and consider dropping them as a friend.
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Neither of those is the big factor, IMO. My wife and I used to go to a lot of movies. Now that they cost ~$10 a head (even without 3-D), we just don't. I can buy the DVD for less than that. We haven't been to the theater in probably over two years.
Hollyweird is crumbling some more because movie attendance is dropping like a rock down a deep hole ping.
I think movie theater owners are in for more tough going. With rentals/dvds coming out just a couple of months after the movie is in the theaters, lots of people just wait until then to see new movies.
So, what can movie theaters do? Their draw has to be the ‘movie theater experience.’ And unfortunately, they’re screwed there too. Obnoxious people in the audience just ruin ‘the experience’. 3-D is an attempt to enhance ‘the experience’. But to pay extra for the 3-D and still deal with rude/inconsiderate audience still doesn’t solve the problem. And is 3-D here to stay? There’s no ‘after market’ yet so how long will it last?
Ridiculously high concession prices doesn’t help matters either - although I understand that’s where they make their money. It’s another negative to overcome. So a family of four to go to the movies and get popcorn etc. is going to shell out close to $100 for entertainment.
And the movies themselves are awful. Loud. Vulgar language. Lousy writing. Terrible plot. Horrible theme. Usually negative attitude toward traditional values. Usually negative attitude towards our country.
It’s gotten so bad that I always notice if the F-bomb isn’t strewn throughout the dialog.
Staying home becomes more appealing every day.
I think there is going to be major ‘consolidation’ in the movie theater industry in the next few years.
I was completely distracted from what little plot there was by JR’s non “Pretty Woman” status. The lady is just plain homely.
No amount of million dollar holly wood makeup or collagen lip pumps can hide the fact.
The upper lip collagen injection for the pouty look appears more like she took a left hook.
FWIW, I seldom go to the movies, not so much for the content, but because of the experience.
Unruly, untended little kids
Talkative ‘adults’
Flicker and glow of smart phones
Audience members who insist on participating in the dialog
NET: behaviour by others in the theatre that I did NOT pay to have to tolerate.
Our home theatre investment of 13 years ago has long paid for itself. (even with having to buy new bulbs, and one new amp)
[Movie] Attendance Crumbles in 2010
Gee whiz. I wonder why? It couldn't be because 90% of what Hollyweird pushes now is anti-American, pc, homo infested leftist tripe filth. Now could it?
A couple nights ago I watched a movie made in 2010, it was called, 'Meet The 300'. It was supposed to be a parody of the '300'. Well, it was the most UN-FUNNY (cough) 'parody' I've ever seen.
In short it portrayed the Spartans as a bunch of limp wristed Homos. Every couple minutes there was some Homo reference. And instead of walking they 'pranced' like girly-men wherever they went. But it also portrayed the adult Spartan men as a bunch of 'Butch' child abusers who beat-up their sons for the pure joy of it.
That 'movie' was plain SICK.
Yes, Spartan life was tough and cruel. They were a Warrior Culture trained to Kill.
But back in 480 BC life for anyone wasn't exactly a bowl of cherries.
After we got there, the ushers took the food from my daughter and threw it in the trash!!!
I didn't find that out until the movie was mostly over, otherwise I would have asked for my money back. As it was, we walked out with their damn 3-D glasses in our pockets, not in their stupid “glasses return” bucket.
I'll see ‘em in hell before I'll go to that theater again.