Script Changes? How About a Total Rewrite
I keep reading all Summer how the movie industry is upset that their box office figures have been coming in at below expectations for the year, and they just can't seem to figure out why this is happening. For those highly paid industry executives that ponder this situation on a daily basis, let me just say that the answer is right under their nose, more obvious than the plot line in a B Movie slasher film. Here are my top five reasons why no one goes anymore...
- Ticket Prices - Prices near 10 dollars a person requires a second mortgage to take the family out to see the latest box office bomber.
- Concession Prices - In addition to the 10 dollar ticket, add another 8 bucks for a pintsized box of popcorn and two gulps of Coke.
- Lack of Good Releases - It truly is sad when "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" tops the box office charts because everything else out is either older than the mummies at the natural history museum or a poor attempt at a plotline (awesome-0 comes to mind)...Adam Sandler...falls in love with...a giant panda...LAME
- Lack of Original Scripts - Why is it that for every waiter or waitress in LA that has script ideas...nothing good can seem to be made? When in doubt, make a bad sequel...(Deuce Bigalo 2?) Original scripts are gone, everything else is ass with a side of ass sauce it seems.
- Home Theaters - A DVD Player, a HD Television, and a 5.1 Surround Sound System can easily turn your home into a good theater experience, and unlike the real theater, you don't have to donate blood to go see a movie, AND you don't have the little 5 year old kid behind you kicking your seat every 10 minutes!
It doesn't take Stephen Hawking to figure out why no one goes to the movies anymore. To parallel the oil industry..."the time of easy box office money is gone..." Soon, the movie industry will finally learn that you can't take a crappy script, add some CGI and a marketing campaign and call it "good". Every industry has to adapt to changing market conditions, and they are no exception. In this case, change is necessary, or else they need to get use to trading their Porsche's in for Kia's.
posted by EZMezzo at 12:13 PM
8 Comments:
I got 20 bucks that says they wouldn't even care if it weren't for theatre owners using the internet as a fall guy. Every dollar a studio looses in box office it makes up in DVD sales, and then some.
I think the movie industry just needs another Titanic. That's what everyone is waiting for. They want the next "killer app." (Take that maddox!!!!!!!)
That is True. DVD sales are a bigger portion of a movie's take these days. That's why the time between being in the theater and the DVD Release has shrunk so much?
gotta get them dollars
i am awe -some -0, i will clean your room and organize your video tapes,
yyyaaaayyy! awesom-o 4000! that used to be my blog ego before i moved to korea and gave my address to my extended family. i had to switch egos because i was the "pleasure model" 4001 and i didn't think my grandma needed to read that about me online. :)
and yes, movies are really lame these days. of course, now i live in korea, where i get macgyver reruns all day and night and all the stephen segal and jean claude van dam that a girl can take.
It's probably a kick to see the movies in english but subtitled in korean?
Sometimes I think I need a P-C Blog for my Family, and this one for the non faint of heart!
did whackly say we need another titanic????....for shame
yeah that episode of south park,is one of my favourites
oh,you are cursed with having to watch steven seagal.....i'm so sorry
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