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Your favorite Hollywood excuse for 2005's crappy box office woes

#1 Lord Aquaman

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Posted 30 October 2005 - 10:01 PM

The list of excuses from Hollywood execs is as follows:

1) The movies stink
2) There's been no Passion of the Christ
3) What slump? DVD sales are huge
4) Men aren't going to the movies
5) It's cyclical

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Posted 30 October 2005 - 10:37 PM

i already know what's wrong...

hollywood won't let anyone make a film that is exciting and new, with a different formula...

they only like movies targeted at the common man. Movies that are shown at cinemas which are priced out of the range of the common man.

$15.00AUD for ticket
$10.70AUD for smallest popcorn and smallest coke

take into considereation transport cost and parking...

and your easily looking at over $30.00 just to go see a feakin' film!!!

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Posted 30 October 2005 - 11:49 PM

Mmm, in Mexico the tickets are so low... um 40 pesos... 3.12924 dollars the ticket

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Posted 30 October 2005 - 11:51 PM

30 pesos children, 25 adults in Wednesday, 15 children.

Smallest popcorn 25 pesos.

Even in the VIP Cinemas are low 70 pesos, like 4.2213 dollars

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Posted 31 October 2005 - 07:59 AM

Woah, kids cost MORE?

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Posted 31 October 2005 - 10:32 AM

QUOTE (Otal Nimrodi @ Oct 31 2005, 05:59 AM)

Woah, kids cost MORE?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Apparently.

A lot of people have said they wouldn't mind going to the movies more often if it wasn't so damn expensive. Odds are movie theaters are only going to raise prices after hearing that one.

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Posted 31 October 2005 - 12:29 PM

I like going to the movies every once in a while but I have a decent home theater setup. So I'd much rather just watch them at home.

For example: For Jen and I to go to the movies and see a movie once with no popcorn, no drinks, etc. would cost us at least $20.00 anywhere in New York City (or most of the rest of America).

Or we could wait a few months (which I'm more than willing to do with 95% of the movies I want to see) and purchase the same movie for $20.00 (sometimes less) and have it forever and have special features, etc. Or, rent it for $4.00 if we only want to see it once.

There are only 2-3 movies a year that are exciting enough to me to not be able to wait to watch them at home. The rest I'm happy to wait 4-6 months to see.

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Posted 31 October 2005 - 05:40 PM

QUOTE (Otal Nimrodi @ Oct 31 2005, 07:59 AM)

Woah, kids cost MORE?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No.

40 PESOS ADULTS
30 PESOS CHILDREN

Wednesday
25 PESOS ADULTS
15 PESOS CHILDREN

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Posted 31 October 2005 - 07:35 PM

if you only see one movie this year, you'll probably be able to afford some descent presents by christmas.

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Posted 01 November 2005 - 10:04 AM

If movies cost less, I wouldn't have to undermine the system by sneaking in.

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Posted 01 November 2005 - 07:25 PM

It didn't use to be a problem for me - I worked in a movie theater for 2 and a half years, which is longer than anyone should work in a movie theater. I stuck around mostly because of this one golden perk: you could see free movies on your day(s) off. Plus, and this was more a liberty than a perk, you could sneak into movies and check out the previews so you would know in advance what to avoid witout relying on the Internet. I got in a lot of trouble for making fun of the Troy, Catwoman and King Arthur trailers, among others, and it was worth it

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Posted 07 November 2005 - 04:20 AM

The films suck. Why can't the analyists just leave it at that. It always has to be some one elses fault for poor sales.

I worked at a vid store, I should know. Not only did I watch all the new films, I got customer feed back. I think, and people thought, that most of the new movies sucked. Rental sales were down and my boss was not stock piling new releases.

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Posted 12 November 2005 - 12:16 PM

For the record, where I live the matinee is 4.50$ and it's 6$ at night to see a movie at the cheaper movie theater I go to. The food is so expensive I either buy something else at the conveniently nearby grocery store to munch on and sneak it in, or I go without. I refuse to pay 2.50$ for a 12 oz. soda when I can get two liters for 99 cents or less. I'm thrifty out of spite.

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Posted 12 November 2005 - 02:46 PM

QUOTE (EwokHunter @ Oct 31 2005, 05:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No.

40 PESOS ADULTS
30 PESOS CHILDREN

Wednesday
25 PESOS ADULTS
15 PESOS CHILDREN

You see, what happened here, is when you did your last post, it sounded like on wednesdays, it was thirty pesos children.

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30 pesos children, 25 adults in Wednesday

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Posted 16 November 2005 - 08:11 AM

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There are only 2-3 movies a year that are exciting enough to me to not be able to wait to watch them at home. The rest I'm happy to wait 4-6 months to see.

Thats pretty much how I feel. Theres an annoying reel being played being played before all films over here right now. In it, a girl starts crying over a voice track that says "My emotions are being stolen, my feelings are being stolen, my movies are being stolen". Her tears turn into what looks like developing fluid, which turns into a skull printed over a reel of film.

"Don't illegally download!"

I hate this kind of pathetic self pitying whining from the film industry. You just charged me $10 to see The Brothers Grimm, and you want to convince me that i'll miss out on the full movie experience if I download it from the net?!

I was so disgusted I nearly dropped my camcorder.

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