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Originally Posted by Mako
Agree on everything. I don't go to movies very much anymore, because some asshat always brings his fucking screaming kids into an adult PG-13 show simply because babysitters are making $10 an hour now and he can't afford it. That or you get the obligatory punk-teenager confrontation when you say "you want to stop kicking my seat guy?" only to have him and his four other 130lb friends then escalate it to the point where you have to go to jail for beating them down, or change seats.
It just sucks, lol.
Plus home theaters are getting so good now that the sound from my home system (I'm an HT geek) is far superior to most of the state-of-the-art theaters that have been built within the last few years, much to my neighbor's chagrin. Why should I pay $10 to get a lower-quality experience?
And it doesn't help that soild movies of late like say "Crash" failed, while the mediocre/generic comedy The Longest Yard will easily hit $200M. It does make me hopeful though when I see a movie like Batman Begins do well, we need more action films of that sort, and LESS like "National Treasure" or "Sahara" or the countless other cookie cutter films that were released this year.
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Crash was a huge success. Already grossed $60 Mil and only cost $8 Mil to produce. Hollywood will always cater to 16 - 25 year old men. Thats who goes to the movies multiple times a month. Adults have more things to do, kids to raise, jobs to keep etc so they go to less movies so Hollywodd makes less for them and when they do, they promote it less. As someone said earlier, its not the quality of the movie that is the problem, (people are still renting and buying DVD's) its the improved technology that allows you to gte the theater experience at home. Now the only thing they have going for them to get people to see the movie in the theater is the early release date.
On a related note, you could change the words Hollywod to "The Adult Internet Industry" and movies to "sites" in the title of this thread and its completely true.