Folks would rather stay home obviously..................

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

According to the study, MPAA studios lost $6.1 billion to piracy in 2005 -- $1.3 billion came from piracy in the United States and $4.8 billion internationally, with nearly half of that loss occurring in Europe. About $2.4 billion was lost to bootlegging, $1.4 to illegal copying and $2.3 billion to Internet piracy. College students in the U.S., Korea and Hungary contribute the most to each country's individual loss.

[BottomBoySlave]

According to the study, MPAA studios lost $6.1 billion to piracy in 2005 -- $1.3 billion came from piracy in the United States and $4.8 billion internationally, with nearly half of that loss occurring in Europe. About $2.4 billion was lost to bootlegging, $1.4 to illegal copying and $2.3 billion to Internet piracy. College students in the U.S., Korea and Hungary contribute the most to each country's individual loss.

If they made the price of a theatre ticket the same as a pirate dvd, then maybe the piracy would be cut down. Almost $11 to see a movie in NYC these days. Crazy!

[hwbs]

this brings me back to a memory of a few years back....im out to eat with my gf on mulberry st and we chose to eat outside......it was just a bad idea....not only was this crazy asian lady settin up shop 4 feet from my table......she was bootlegging Jesus , ie "the passion"....what made it worse was all the fucking waiters were avoiding the patrons so they could get their own copy..

[themaster]

Um... Yea. Think of all the movies made in 2005, and of those. How many movies were considered "Good Movies?"

[Vikki]

I can't remember a recent movie that I actually got excited in advance to see. It's like every other movie is a sequel or a rehashed theme from the 50's or 60's. I personally am holding my breath for........
"Gomer Pyle U.M.S.C. ..The Movie"

[RawNY]

Ok, I may be dating myself, but I remember double features (and I dont mean sneaking into another movie in the multiplex, LOL). I remember when you could go into a movie and stay all day long. I remember when theaters had places that kids could go to "make out" .
With the advent of the internet and Video and DVD's who needs to spend $11-12 dollars in NYC to sit in broken seats with your feet stuck to the floor (spilled soda, it aint a porn theater) and overpriced popcorn?
Maybe if they didnt pay assholes like Tom Cruise $20 mil per flix they could make some $.
With the exception of epics which should be seen on the big screen there are few features that can't wait until they come to HBO. Come to think of it, porn was better ont he big screen as well, and making out in a porn theater was better as well. :wink:

[Hugh Jarrod]

I can't remember a recent movie that I actually got excited in advance to see. It's like every other movie is a sequel or a rehashed theme from the 50's or 60's. I personally am holding my breath for........
"Gomer Pyle U.M.S.C. ..The Movie"

Shouldn't have to wait too long, they seemed to be bringing back old TV shows as movies at a steady rate these days.

[specialk]

Vikki..........is that you in your avatar??

[LoadedRevolver66]

According to the study, MPAA studios lost $6.1 billion to piracy in 2005 -- $1.3 billion came from piracy in the United States and $4.8 billion internationally, with nearly half of that loss occurring in Europe. About $2.4 billion was lost to bootlegging, $1.4 to illegal copying and $2.3 billion to Internet piracy. College students in the U.S., Korea and Hungary contribute the most to each country's individual loss.

Good. With the amount of mindless teenybopper shit they produce, the studios deserve to lose billions.

[sw752293]

I don't go to movie theaters anymore because people don't know how to act anymore. I'm 38 and things really have changed. People have a loud conversation on there cell phone about nothing during a movie.Parents bring infants and toddlers to r rated films.People in general don't shut the fuck up and if you dare say anything you will have a good chance of getting shot because people nowdays who think they're tough will shoot or stab you rather than fight like a man. People stay home because eveywhere you go there's a "player or a pimp". Makes me fuckin sick.Remember the good old days when if you had a problem with someone you can just take it outside and it's you and him. Not you and 5 of his friends.I've always been polite and friendy until pushed,thats tha way i was raised. I have manners. for some reason in this day and age if your polite and nice people think you are weak.Sickening

[CuriousChocolateThaiGuy]

Ditto to that sw752293!

Morgan Freeman has a production company that is coming up with a "home cinema" service ... kinda like PPV but with movies that are released the same time as theatres. I saw him talking about it on 60 minutes a while back so they may be doing it already.

http://www.revelationsent.com


Morgan Freeman's Revelations Entertainment and Intel are teaming on a new venture, ClickStar, to provide firstrun movies and other premium content via the Internet.
The goal, said Freeman, is "to make film easier to buy than to pirate."

Kinda ironic but seems to me that not only would it make it easier to buy but easier to pirate as well.

[Quinn]

I don't go to movie theaters anymore because people don't know how to act anymore. People have a loud conversation on there cell phone about nothing during a movie.Parents bring infants and toddlers to r rated films.People in general don't shut the fuck up

Ah, so you've been to the Magic Johnson Theater in Harlem I see.

Regarding the other posts, I couldn't agree more. Everything's a sequel to some shitty movie (Cheaper by the Dozen II, etc.) or the movie version of a show whose time passed long ago (Bewitched?????). Hollywood is just getting lazy.

Speaking for myself, I prefer Indie and foreign films these days. On the rare occasions that Hollywood does put out something that will obviously be interesting (Lord of the Rings, etc.), I don’t' have any problem paying to see it in a theater.

-Quinn

[DJ_Asia]

According to the study, MPAA studios lost $6.1 billion to piracy in 2005 -- $1.3 billion came from piracy in the United States and $4.8 billion internationally, with nearly half of that loss occurring in Europe. About $2.4 billion was lost to bootlegging, $1.4 to illegal copying and $2.3 billion to Internet piracy. College students in the U.S., Korea and Hungary contribute the most to each country's individual loss.

If they made the price of a theatre ticket the same as a pirate dvd, then maybe the piracy would be cut down. Almost $11 to see a movie in NYC these days. Crazy!

Yeah no shit!

Here in Thailand we have some really nice theatres w/ kick ass sound systems,and enjoy first run movies...in fact we got MI3 about a week before the States did.


Admission for 1 adult (non matinee) $3.00
Popcorn (granted its not a huge tub) $1.00
Soda $1.00

For those prices I see pretty much every movie that comes here and dont bitch too much that I have to stand up prior to each movie to pay homage while they play the king of Thailand's video.

[BigTime]

I don't go to movie theaters anymore because people don't know how to act anymore. I'm 38 and things really have changed. People have a loud conversation on there cell phone about nothing during a movie.Parents bring infants and toddlers to r rated films.People in general don't shut the fuck up and if you dare say anything you will have a good chance of getting shot because people nowdays who think they're tough will shoot or stab you rather than fight like a man. People stay home because eveywhere you go there's a "player or a pimp". Makes me fuckin sick.Remember the good old days when if you had a problem with someone you can just take it outside and it's you and him. Not you and 5 of his friends.I've always been polite and friendy until pushed,thats tha way i was raised. I have manners. for some reason in this day and age if your polite and nice people think you are weak.Sickening

Yeah, what he said!

[JRon]

Spielberg said it best last summer when he said "If the movies were good enough, people would pay to see them."

[BeardedOne]

OK, children, it's B1's catchup time. The time when the wierd one gets home, gets sloshed, and attempts to be the Hemingway/Turkel of the internet (Usually failing miserably). :P

So many posts, so little motivation to reply (It's 'late' and the beer's cheap), but I'll try. :)

Grab some popcorn and a soda. :popcorn Ready? :D

The very first movie I ever saw was 'Santa Clause Conquers the Martians' (AKA 'Santa Clause Conquers the Showerheads'). It was also the first film to feature one of my favorite little crushlets: Pia Zadora (She was green and had antenae). During the intermission (Remember those?) there was a drawing for doorprizes and I actually won! As I was running down the aisle of this true (Albeit small) movie palace, my pants fell down and I revealled my bare ass to all the world. :lol: That set a precedent for the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and thirty years later, 'Post Porn Modernist' Annie Sprinkle was waggling her bare breasts at a house full of dykes on the same stage where I got my prize (I forget what it was). :lol:

That said...


If they made the price of a theatre ticket the same as a pirate dvd, then maybe the piracy would be cut down. Almost $11 to see a movie in NYC these days. Crazy!

Sadly, there is too much in the formula to help that. More than half that cost goes directly to the distributor and there are other increments that vary according to the house take (Much like a shopping mall that charges rent =and= commission fees). The reason they charge five bux each for popcorn and Milk Duds is because they =HAVE= to. I once concidered buying an old theatre just for shits and giggles (See "The Majestic" with Jim Carrey, excellent film - Have towels handy for when he shows the medal at the hearing - , and you can see the energy he invests in the theatre), but when I saw the actual accounting of such a venture I was purely horrified. :shock:


I'd rather stay at home anyway .... and if the movie sucks I can grab a Jet Set movie and have a good time!

I do like the choice of films at Theatre-of-Me. :D Though I sometimes had a 'Day of Me' where I would go and take in a flick at the local googolplex. Sitting at home just doesn't come close to the sticky floors, stale popcorn (No matter how fresh it pretends to be - Don't forget the 'Golden Color'), and BIG picture of a theatre. It's an experience (And, being an agorophobic hermit, I do the early shows and usually get the entire theatre to myself - Shit, for ten bux? Howard Hughes used to be the only one that could afford that kind of treatment).


"Gomer Pyle U.M.S.C. ..The Movie"

But only if Jim Naybors (Sp?) plays a General or a Drill Seargent. :lol: While many of the remakes are lame, some of the homage paid the originals is spot-on. Examples: McHale's Navy where the Admiral, played by Ernest Borgnine gets McHale ( Tom Arnold) to say "Aw gee, dad!", and Harry Morgan (The original partner to Joe Friday) as the captain in Dragnet. :) Even the Superman flicks paid homage to Kirk Allyn, Noel Neil, and Jack Larson (Superman, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen of the original serials/series).


Ok, I may be dating myself, but I remember double features (and I dont mean sneaking into another movie in the multiplex, LOL).

I think I paid a buck to see "You Only Live Twice"...Hell, I'm spacing it...A Bond flick, c1967? And, in 1968, "2001 A Space Odyssey" (Which I still didn't understand in 1978, 1988, or 1998). Both first-run flicks at the local movie house.


With the exception of epics which should be seen on the big screen there are few features that can't wait until they come to HBO.

Any space epic. Trek, Wars, Outland, even that ratty-ass Black Hole.


Shouldn't have to wait too long, they seemed to be bringing back old TV shows as movies at a steady rate these days.

What the fuck izzat about? They've even tapped the Simpsons, ferchrissake.


Good. With the amount of mindless teenybopper shit they produce, the studios deserve to lose billions.

Would that include all of the fart, maggot, and zit jokes in otherwise half-way amusing flicks like "Sweetest Thing", "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle", and "Something About Mary"? :lol:


I don't go to movie theaters anymore because people don't know how to act anymore.

People suck, and it only gets worse. That's why the ten AM Wednesday summer shows are the best bets for theatre visits. Remember the days when someone disrupting the show would get the bum's rush by the pimply usher with the big flashlight? Gawd love those kids, who grew up to be badass cops and Master Gunnery Seargants. :lol:


Parents bring infants and toddlers to r rated films.

Our local googolplex came up with an answer to that. They have an early-early show, before the announced first screenings, where they show kiddie movies like Elmo Does Dallas (OK, it's not a real flick, but it could be!) where they allow in anyone with a kid in tow (No matter how whiny), free of charge. The moms/nannies hang out, the kids burn off major energy, and occasionally someone actually sees (Though rarely hears) some wholesome family entertainment. Meanwhile, the theatre reaps massive goodwill (And sells a lot of five-dollar popcorn), and the adults see previews of coming attractions that may bring them back to the house later in the day with real $$.


Regarding the other posts, I couldn't agree more. Everything's a sequel to some shitty movie (Cheaper by the Dozen II, etc.) or the movie version of a show whose time passed long ago (Bewitched?????). Hollywood is just getting lazy.

Really. Is the writer's strike still on? :roll: Some of them aren't =too= bad ( I rather enjoyed "The Truth About Charley", to a point, but it helped that the DVD had the original: "Charade", with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, on the flip side), but if it's true that "There are a million stories in the naked city..." then why is Hollywood just rehashing the same thousand or so?


Admission for 1 adult (non matinee) $3.00
Popcorn (granted its not a huge tub) $1.00
Soda $1.00

OK, but really, how much is a night in a five-star hotel? :wink: "The Wife" visited Thailand for a couple of weeks not long ago and was amazed at the differences in prices of such things.


For those prices I see pretty much every movie that comes here and dont bitch too much that I have to stand up prior to each movie to pay homage while they play the king of Thailand's video.

But that goes to the experience of the movie. Is the music by the Thai Royal Orchestra? I know the conductor (Or, at least, an earlier one). :D

Hey, c'mon, the best we can do here is:

"Let's go out to the lob-by,
Let's go out to the lob-by,
Let's go out to the lob-by and get ourselves a snack!"

Heh, I just noticed that I spelled 'Claus' as 'Clause', as in "Sanity Clause". :lol: