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- SilverRocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was in WalMart the other day, and they had some really cheap DVDs for sale... can't understand why they weren't selling... I mean, there was "Iron Eagle", "Police Academy 4"... all the good movies
- vanlandw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The one thing that really burns me is the "Special Edition" bullcrap. You buy a movie right when it comes out and then in a month they announce a better version. Clearly I've stopped buying single disk versions of DVD's because you know a better version is coming. After seeing people get burned on I Robot and Man on Fire screw the companies for that.
I mostly only buy TV DVD sets of shows I missed or love. - bill.clark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why I stopped going to the movies: The bastards started playing TV COMMERCIALS in the time between doors open and previews start. What's next, commercial breaks throughout the film?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, im sick of hearing stories like this for 2 reasons:
1. It seems like alot of people jump on the whole rants of "the movie industry isnt being creative and all new movies suck". Yet I normaly see this exact same person going to see Spider Man 6 COMING SOON! and they just bend over to the hype and get sucked in.
2. The second reason ties into the first. DONT SUPPORT ***** MOVIES. Ive been to a commerical theater about twice this whole year (once to see batman and once to see Sin City (which is a terrible movie btw) ).
Techincally we as the people control the industry. Hollywood is cranking out what makes money and sales so obviously some of you people are going to see this ***** or else they woulndt have this cliche , one liner movies.
AND LASTLY ***** SEQUELS how can you people like ***** sequels. 90% of them are predictable and lame. - M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's sad to see the movie industry BITCHING that their movie only made 50 million dollars, or some other ungodly amount of money. O boo hoo, you didn't make as much as you wanted. :( Selfish bastards!
- DWatch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the Internet is killing Hollywood. NOT because of the limited amount of downloading of movies (which I suspect only fuels movie attendance by those downloading)... but because now we have forums, instant messaging, and good web sites that steer us clear of ***** movies. Which, perhaps 95% of all movies coming out the past few years have been *****. There are a few gems here and there, but I refuse, REFUSE to pay to see a remake of a movie I saw over 20 years ago on broadcast TV (i.e. Herbie).
In the past, we only had a few review shows on TV, and they were only shown late on Sunday night, and once a week. Or, sometimes there would be a review of a movie in a newspaper. There was some word-of-mouth, but it was usually your uninformed idiot co-worker or neighbor. Now days, the amount of information about a movie is instant, and no-holds-barred! There was a story awhile back about movie studio's trying to get text messaging from cell phones in theaters banned. It was because people were sitting there watching a crappy movie and telling everyone on their contact list how crappy it was, real-time. Lol.
As far as DVD sales slumping... how do you expect to sell a DVD of a crappy movie after it was panned real-time while it was in theaters, and by the time the movie hits the shelves, there are even MORE reviews online panning the movie.
A quick suggestion for anyone in the movie business... stop freaking out over a few people downloading movies, and start freaking out everytime you get a script greenlighted that attempts to shovel more ***** down the consumer's throats. How many freaking sequels are we going to have to endure???? Stop making so much crap and look for quality, over quantity. In the end, the consumer will let you know you are making the wrong product for them, by not buying it. Hello, look at your sales figures. Nuff said. - a_greer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can predict now that Dukes of Hazzard will be on BT the day before the open, and when it tanks, the studio will blame "the evil downloaders" when the fact is that we dont want to see some bimbo talk about her under-carage whilst being sold as the rebirth of a great, and mostly clean show.
This is just one example, everything now is a remake, and they all think that if you add hardcore sex and the f-word 30 times, it is somehow better than the original...I want Hollywood to burn to the ***** grownd. - PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Money Money Money...it's what makes the world go round'
- showgun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Those cheap dvds were probably selling. The thing is the studio made so many of them, and they were probably 2nd or 3rd run prints, that they had to discount them like that (how else are you going to get Police Academy the shelf space it deserves? its not like it would sell like hot cakes at 20 bucks a flick.)
- Permanent4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Personally, I don't see why so many people build huge collections of DVDs in the first place. How many times are you going to watch the same movie over and over again? Sure, there are exceptions, like kids who watch certain Disney flicks three times a week, but DVDs don't seem to have the reusability of CDs. You can listen to a CD hundreds of times before you finally get sick of it. Who's going to watch even a good flick like, say, "In The Line of Fire" that many times?
Let's not forget that used DVD stores are becoming more common as well, as people decide that they don't want to keep certain movies after all. Now factor in Blockbuster, Netflix, video-on-demand, continuing FUD about the next-gen disc war (HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray), and even the looming spectre of the video iPod, and you have to wonder why DVD sales haven't started slipping sooner than this... - ajb2015, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been saying this for awhile now. If they want to start making money they have to get creative. Enough remakes, sequels, and overall abuse of cliche storylines!! I've turned to independent films and documentaries for my cinema thrills lately.
- bloodrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0overall tickets to a movie are alot now then 5 years ago. seeing just 3 years ago i paid 4 to 4.50 for a tikect and around ten bucks for a big drink and chile,cheese chips.
- BT-Wang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0not all movies are bad.......
........ we had batman, sin city and hero.
...but every other movie was bad. I know because I pirated them.
I think that's actually what's damaging sales. people download it, see how crappy it is, and then don't give it the light of day again. whereas there is value in buying a good movie dvd or seeing it in a theater. in addition to the fact that apart from the three I listed all recent movies suck. - castufari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If a movie is bad, what makes the studios think someone is going to buy it? Some folks will, but I've really restricted my cinema visits due to the huge amount of crap being pawned on us as movies. I'll stick to Netflix instead.
One thing that is really keeping me from purchasing DVDs are the movie ads on them. I've just paid $15.00 for a DVD, I'd rather have just a movie and not 30 minutes of ads for other movies. Disney is bad about this, screw purchasing anything from them anymore. - M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sorry wrong link, this one
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/film/index.html - M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Also, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/charts/index.jsp
When DVD's 1st came out ppl wanted a stockpile, so they bought more then 1, now ppl have their stock ,so they only buy what they consider a classic, and just go rent the other crap. The RIAA and MPAA should be going after Blockbuster, cuz I can jsut go their and copy a dvd...LMAO, talk about easy sharing, you only have to pay $25 a month for endless amount of movies, ripe for copying. :D - vdub12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its not bad movies. Its p2p sites and downloaders messing up sales it has to be.
because you know anyone that buys DVD's just buys them so they can pirate them.
:-) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DVDs rule. i just got the fast and the furious for a whole 6$
- Gorbash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I only buy movies now if I really want to watch them more than once. Otherwise Blockbuster Online is the way to go. Where else can I see the DVD box sets for 15 bucks?
- nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what else would affect dvd sales? and no bittorent and all that other stuff wouldnt really affect it.
- madprof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow! they did not blame this on Bittorent!! I must be in Bizzaro-World.
- Vash_aka_TK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually Bill Clark there was a movie in which they had a 15 minute intermission and played commericials inbetween. I was seeing Lost In Space I think. It sucked but the movie was good.
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 Norman Jewison said it best when he said the life of any movie these days is two weeks. After that people find out what crap the movie is and no one goes to it anymore.
I believe him. Movies are promoted insanely these days. You're just slammed with commercials, talk show visits and ads for new movies. It was never as bad as this only a few years ago.
Also, you can see the "good" parts of the movie on TV commercial trailers, there's no need to go to the actual movie. - Rhomboid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have always wondered if the following idea would be able to make money:
A theater for responsbile people
This means:
- All cell phone signals would be blocked so that nobody can be interrupted
- People that are talking loud or have crying babies would be escorted out
- Everything but trailers for new movies would be stripped from the beginning (no ads, no BS)
- Movies would start promptly on time
- Concession stand with more than just popcorn and candy available, and reasonable prices
Now, I know there are some theaters that do this kind of thing already. But they seem to be small niche things that play cult or arthouse movies. I wonder if the sort of thing could work for blockbuster/new movies. I know you would have to charge more for admission, because theaters make a lot of their money from the ads and the overpriced popcorn -- and being able to pack theaters full of cellphone and crying babies. So you would definitely have to pay more up front, but I think you could solve a lot of the problems that turn people off from theaters currently. - showgun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Changing consumer buying habits. Shrek which completely missed its sales projections was considered a good movie.
Consumers waiting for the next format of home movies to hit.
Over saturation of the DVD market (too many "new releases" to choose from).
Retailers ordering too many dvds without the shelf space to keep them. Take your pick. There are many options.
I agree with the writer's overall sentiment though, that movie goers are liking movies enough to see them vs. everything else in the box office, but not enough to actually want to own it. - manvsmonster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Executives are marketers for profit. That's it period. There are artists, and then there are people who are employed. And artists who are just part of the majority, don't fight, or manage little. And without funding, you got nothing. Making movies is a careful dance, but the fact is that most people just rollover easy or have their priorities. And the most realistic thing is to wage a long thin war individually I think. So *****'s stagnant. And there's lots of pussys.
- reaver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't buy DVDs, too much money for something I'll watch once or twice. I subscribe to Blockbuster Online so that's how I see my movies.
- digit9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree with those of you who said movies lack creativity. Most of the crap out there now is just a rehash of an older idea or a remake of some other ***** movie.
The RIAA and MPAA will jump all over these numbers and claim that it is attributed to pirating and this may be true, as one poster said. People pirate the movie, realize it sucks and then don't buy it.
I have a pretty huge collection of DVDs, almost 1,000. 50 of which I bought at retail places and the rest I got from street vendors in Shanghai. Most of the bootlegs I have are movie theater rips, bad quality etc, and most don't even play to the end. That said, it at least gives me an idea of what the movie is before I drop down $20. - manvsmonster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I agree with iceblink2 with he did say. There's lots of apathetic, lazy, no lifers who I think are just emotionally immature. They pay the expensive ticket to see a predictable movie with bad jokes and/or loud noises for their instant gratification, and then they go home to their dilluted lives and get ass raped by everything and watch other people make conscious choices about life.
- jumjum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0It seems to me that most people who make movies are commies, and commies aren't the brightest bulbs in the socket. It's insane to think that any ounce of creativity is going to come from these people. And the remakes they're making aren't just remakes, they're bad remakes. The guy who played "Cooter" on the original Dukes of Hazzard TV show has basically said that the movie is a complete bastardization and perversion of the original show, plus the makers of the movie & the studio didn't even want anything to do with the original people that were affiliated with the original show. That, friends, is dumb, dumb, dumb on about 100,000 levels. (and turning Starsky & Hutch into a comedy? Black Honeymooners? a black Catwoman? WTF? and if I see that kid from Godsend (a POS movie) in another horror movie that surrounds a child (Birth being the second), I'm going to vomit my guts gratuitously out.)
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