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Summer bust leaves Hollywood worried- Attendance figures worst since 1997

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"With so many other entertainment choices -- video games, limitless TV programming, home-theater setups -- audiences may be edging away from moviehouses."

ahh yes... competition is good. gets companies off their fat asses.

Now if only there was competition for my tax $.

ie: 2 governments and i choose where to put my tax $.
 
Looks like hollywood needs to start pushing some good movies or at least decent ones and lower those damn movie ticket prices.
 
Don't forget that most of the movies being released are complete crap as well. WTH wants to spend fifty bucks going to the movies to see the same rehashed shyt.

Yes, I am HappyPuppy. 😉
 
Crappy movies, high prices, bad theater experiences caused by loud and unruly peole......hmm, I haven't been to the theater since Meet The Focker (which sucked azz BTW) and the experience made us decide not to return in the future. I can rent whatever I want to watch if I wait a few months and I am not impatient. We may try again when the movies are worth our time and if it doesn't cost us over $30....so my crystal ball tells me we will not be returning.
 
I wonder if there would be a market for cheaper movies. The movie is made for less money, the theaters charge less, fewer or no commercials.

But that would require better stories, better writers and a new way of looking at things by the studios, so it probably won't work. The entertainment industry is so detached from the rest of the country they'll never get it.
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Crappy movies, high prices, bad theater experiences caused by loud and unruly people......hmm, I haven't been to the theater since Meet The Focker (which sucked azz BTW) and the experience made us decide not to return in the future. I can rent whatever I want to watch if I wait a few months and I am not impatient. We may try again when the movies are worth our time and if it doesn't cost us over $30....so my crystal ball tells me we will not be returning.
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That's who they are making films for these days. People who watch movies like White Chicks. Once they start making movies, again, for people with above average IQs, their numbers will start to rise.
 
Everyone complains about the quality of the movies, yet piracy is rampant. 😕 I think the quality of movies is the same as always - a bunch of mediocre movies and a few really good ones each year.
 
i dont go cause of ticket prices. $10 per person is too much for a 2 hour movie on a crappy screen. imax is good but thats is like $14 here and out of the question.

plus most people home tvs have better picture quality than movie theatres
 
Ticket prices are too high for crappy movies.
Drink prices are too high.
Seats are uncomfortable.
Other patrons are rude, crude, and obnoxious: talking, cell phones ringing, babies crying, leaving drinks under the seat, etc.

I don't need to see a moving during the first three weeks it's out. I'll wait for pay per view, TYVM.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Everyone complains about the quality of the movies, yet piracy is rampant. 😕 I think the quality of movies is the same as always - a bunch of mediocre movies and a few really good ones each year.
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Well, if the probability of a movie being crappy is extremely high then the incentive to pirate it to see it is much higher as you will not be out a bunch of money. Ever think of it that way? We rent movies a lot and almost always after seeing them our responses are "that was OK and entetaining but I am sure glad we didn't spend money at the thearter to see it". Very rarely do we find one that would make spending the $30+ dollars worth going to the thearter.
 
Well, if the probability of a movie being crappy is extremely high then the incentive to pirate it to see it is much higher as you will not be out a bunch of money. Ever think of it that way? We rent movies a lot and almost always after seeing them our responses are "that was OK and entetaining but I am sure glad we didn't spend money at the thearter to see it". Very rarely do we find one that would make spending the $30+ dollars worth going to the thearter.
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I read reviews (from both regular folks and professionals) and learn a bit about movies before I go see them, and I never end up not liking a movie I see in the theater.

There are plenty of good movies out there to see, but ones that end up being blockbusters are the crappy ones. To me, that means ticket sales aren't crappy because Hollywood makes crappy movies, Hollywood makes crappy movies because ticket sales tell them to.
 
I like to go to the movies once a week. This entire summer I think I've seen about 2 movies because most of what's been released is just crap.
 
I think it's more of a matter of saturation. You can't flood a market and expect the same sort of return you've experienced in the past. The amount of advertising a film had used to correlate directly to the amount of money they could expect to make off of a film, yet that no longer holds true since word of mouth is now instantaneous. The same thing also applies to music. They raise ticket prices higher and higher, try to maximize every sale by raising concession prices, give commercials more importance then the movie, and have rampant product placement within the film itself. Add to that huge numbers of TV shows catering to regular viewers, video games, huge growth in home DVDs, gas prices, the atypical date of dinner and a movie going to the wayside, etc.... They can blame piracy because it's convenient and they don't like it, but they've become like every other industry and just don't seem willing to accept they are no longer a sole source for their market...your bubble is burst, bye.
 
I don't downlaod movies, I just choose not to attend movies in the theater. If the movie gets really good reviews I may rent it when I have friends over, nothing like 6 people paying $4 total to see a movie instead of $60+ to see it in theaters.

Competition is a good thing.
 
I wish there were theatres in Seattle like ones in Boise. There's nothing better than paying a whole dollar to see a month old movie in a movie theatre. If there were a movie theatre here that did that, I would go every weekend. I don't feel like paying $10 for a movie I might not like.
 
I hate movie theaters, for all the same reasons listed here. I can go to the store rent the movie, get some popcorn, coke, nd a bag of m&ms for about 1/3 the cost and none of the hassel. Plus I don't have to control my temper when some snot nosed little teenie twit is rude and inconsiderate.
 
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