Movie theater owners fire back at studios
Hey nimrods, box office sales aren't down because of theater owners or your usual targets, file-sharers. It's because your product, for the most part, sucks. Another Deuce Bigalow movie? Theatrical remakes of every twenty-year-old TV show that aired? What for? What's next? The Love Boat, with Patrick Stewart as Captain Stubing and Snoop Dogg as Isaac? ALF: The Movie?
Don't laugh. Some Hollywood exec would read this and think it's brilliant.
You're only making the problem worse by shortening the window from theater to DVD. Why should I pay $22 for Rhonda and I to see a movie in a theater when I can wait four months, buy it on DVD for $14 at Fry's, watch it on my 60-inch screen with 5.1 DTS sound, then sell it back on eBay if it sucks? I could practically break even.
Make better movies with smaller budgets, and of a wider variety. Not every movie has to be PG-13. Didn't you learn anything from the successes of Sin City and Million Dollar Baby?
I always used to think theaters were a racket, until I found out the studios charge the theaters so much for the privilege of shilling their crappy movies, that they have to charge five bucks for a small drink to break even. If studios can bring their costs in, theaters can bring their prices down, and people will be more willing to take a risk on going to the movies, rather than waiting for the video.
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