August 24, 2005

This issue of Duh Magazine: Movies Suck Now

King Snarky of Sarcastalot, Defamer, has a post about a NYTimes article (use BugMeNot to avoid registering) about how Hollywood execs are admitting that the reason for supposed "low earnings" may be because of their product, and possibly not their previous reasons of file sharing and terrorism. "Audiences have gotten smart to the marketing, and they can smell the good ones from the bad ones at a distance." Well there is that, but lets not forget: ever rising ticket prices, the price of theater snacks, the 30 minutes of commercials before the previews, the commercials that trick you to thinking its a preview, the movies that are actually 30% commercials and product placement, the 1/4th of seats in a theater that are at an unviewable angle that you have to sit in cause you didn't come 1 hour early, the $8 parking, the people who bring babies, the people who translate dialog in realtime to non-english relatives, and the re-makes, sweet jesus the re-makes. Can someone remind me again why I'm not pouring my money into this industry?