i don’t get it

If you can even call it “art” is complete garbage. No one takes risks, and even those that do are still within the lines. Today’s cinema is complete bullocks, and I for one am glad to see them losing money. Supporting Hollywood is supporting a faceless, bland society. Support independent films!

-Adam
http://www.agsinger.com

NObody here has mentioned dumba@#es talking through the whole movie…or cellphones…crying babies…I haven’t been to a movie in the last 10 years when one or more of these thngs haven’t happened….let alone the high prices or crappy movies.

I don’t to movie theaters because I can’t stand the experience. People talk at full voice like they’re in their living rooms…people bring kids to adult theme films – then the bored kids run up and down the aisles…cell phone conversations are a regular thing…

No…I don’t think so…

Peter

Maybe the public has reached a breaking point where the cost of going to the movies is greater than the value of going out to see them. Maybe home theaters are proving to be a better value for watching movies. Why pay $20-$40 to go to the movies with the family when you can spend the same amount or less and watch them from the comfort of your own home without the hassle of going to the theater? You then own a copy (oops, should read that as license) of the movie that you can watch over and over again.

I have a couple of friends who download camcorder/screener versions, and they don’t go to the theater after having watched the movie.

Of course, it’s not that they are satisfied enough with their watching experience. Its that, unanimously and continuously, they keep saying “oh, don’t go to that movie, I’ve seen it and it’s total crap”.

I’m pretty sure the MPAA would love to have people watching hyped crap after crap. No more.

pirated movie watches you.

Stop spending mega-millions on the movie budget, so that I don’t have to spend over $10 to watch it. MAYBE then I’ll actually go to the theater. Also, its not the Pirates eating your profits, its the DVDs we rent/borrow/own.

The way I look at it, movie theaters are getting hit in a few areas. (1) DVD, big cheep TV’s and good audio systems make it easier for people to just wait for it to come out on DVD rather than going to the theater. (2) Services like Netflix make it so easy to get movies, and to keep track of movies combined with how quickly movies are released to DVD once it is out of the theater. I used to see every major block buster in the theaters between April and November. Now I just wait for them to hit Netflix 6 months later. (3) The cost for a movie ticket tends to rise about $1 ever year, and $10 to see a movie is just not reasonable anymore. (4) The very last thing on this list is piracy, the number of people who actually know how to download a movie, waste the time waiting for it, and then watch it in a degraded quality that it usually is after being ripped are very minor. On top of this, they tend to watch movies they wouldnt pay to see in the first place, so they are not loosing anything since they wouldnt have made anything in the first place.

In the end, piracy is an excuse for an industry who doesnt want to change to fit into the information age. George Lucas has been quoted saying two things about piracy. (1) If movies were available to download for $2-$3 to watch at home, they would make more money, and most piracy would disappear. People pirate when it becomes to expensive to buy. (2) Movie studios don’t make money by putting movies in theaters, they make it on DVD and merchandise sales, that movie theater releases are just advertising. This is coming from the richest man in Hollywood, so he must know something he’s talking about.

I agree w/ pretty much everyone here, the general theater experience completely blows these days. I’m lucky enough that where I live (Portland, OR) there are several theaters that show movies directly after they leave 1st run theaters, prices are good (~$3.00), they serve good microbrew beer, and they server good pizza and in some cases are attached to a restaurant so you can order a burger or plate of pasta and bring it into the movie w/ you. If it weren’t for these theaters I would shell out for a movie maybe once or twice a year.

oh, and thinking that camcorders are responsible for any measurable amount of lost revenue is a complete joke.

…you just might get it.

Just 100x more expensive and 100x less efficient.

Also I like smoking joints when I watch movies, which is the main reason I don’t go to the theater anymore… when you lose your buzz 1/10th of the movie it’s just not as fun anymore.

Frankly, the rudeness of my fellow movieviewers has soured me. As soon as the rude, inner-city element finds the new theater, it’s time to leave.

Instead I went out and spent $1000 on a home movie projector and buy my DVD’s at a discount from Target or Wallmart and watch them while drinking fine wine and eating my favorite foods.

I will NEVER go back the the theater.

PI just do not go ny more, I hate to be around all the stupid teenagers that over crowed the entertainment areas.

In addition to paying $10 for a ticket and $10 for food and drinks, there are implied costs for just watching the movie — i.e., your time. if Your net worth is say, around $20 per hour, then you lose a total of $60-$80 per person just for watching stupid movies!

And then there are other recreational things that are competing with your precious time these days than, say, back in the 80/90’s. Back then the only things you can do were just watching TV. Now there’s a whole slew of activities you can do besides watching Cinema: Video games, computer games, having a night out with friends,online chat, shopping, religious activities, clubs, playing sports, etc. Watching movies become just one out of a long list of choices that you can do otherwise.

And then there’s the direct competition from TV: there’s now cable, on-demand, Tivo and and other DVRs. Those tools creates a kind of flexibility that allow users to make better use (and better quality) for your TV time MUCH more than the 80s/90s.

And *THEN*, there are obligatory activities that prevents you from doing *ANY* recreational activities! House chores (pet grooming, laundry, house cleaning, etc), family obligations (wedding, funerals, bdays, family dinners) , Home DIY projects. These are things you “must” do because you’ll feel guilty if you don’t do them!

And *FINALLY*… Today americans are spending more time at work, extending work hours from the typical 8 hours day to 10-12 hour days. If you have a 7 hour sleep schedule, spend 2 hours on meals, and 2 hours commuting to/from work, now you are left with just 1-3 hours per day on recreational activities on a weekday. On the weekend, however, that’s a totally different matter, but now you have to factor in huge TRAFFIC delays cuz everyone in the whole freaking world are going to the same place as *you* are at the same time!

Stacking all these factors together. You really don’t have a lot of time for movies! And when you finally *do* have the time to watch a movie, you better watch a super-ass-kicking-mind-blowing-awesome movie or else it would be a total waste of your time!

😉

Yeah, like im gonna spend 30 bucks to go sit next to some annoying teeny bopper who’s cell phone is ringing ever 10 minute. . . No thanks, next.

The Jewish parasites (boo…hiss… he said something bad about Jews) who run Hollyweird, are producing crap films. The last time I went to a movie, it was Kill Bill 2 – not my choice – a ‘friend’ (ex-friend now) convinced me to go. It was complete and utter bullshit from start to finish. And of course, the volume was TOO LOUD, as in all cinemas, so I was practically deafened. And of course, many charming dickheads spoke all through it, or called up their friends on their cellphones to tell them they were “in the cinema” (thanks, Dickhead – we all already knew that), or rustled their food bags as loud as possible.

In short, modern films are utter shite, the ‘actors’ in them are all incapable of actually acting (name me a film in which Robert de Niro didn’t play an angry ex-Vietnam vet, or a film in which Al Pacino didn’t play an asshole gangster (Scent of a woman, anybody?), the public are getting fed up of blowing money on rubbish, and would rather stay at home and watch an OLD film on DVD. No noise. No cellphones. No dickheads sitting behind you. No rustling popcorn. No DEAFENING volume. No stupid, cliched plots. No shit ‘actors’. (Matt Damon!)

HDTV is another huge con job. Are the films going to be any better just because they’ve wasted all that BluRay or HD-DVD storage space? NO. HDTV only exists because we can’t possibly have people storing 20 hours of video on one piece of media, can we? And we can’t have them storing 6,000 songs on it in MP3, can we!!! Keep buying those one hour, ten tracks CDs for $10 a pop, right?

Screw the media. Don’t buy their rubbish. Make them go broke. If only the idiots that form the majority of this country would just STAY HOME for a few months. Are your lives so fucking hollow that you can’t find something better to do than watch some shit Jew-hollywood propaganda piece, like Broke Crack Mounting?

The price of the movies has gone up so much in the last few years, u’d need a good £25 for tickets for two people and refreshments. How can you say piracy is the number one cause of the fall in people going to see films when they charge £6.90 a film. I think they need to think about it a little harder….fools