the customer has changed, and so you must change too. ID10T. OI. Really, it is as much dilution of choices as anything. If I can watch a cutting edge anime on the net, and you can get a 5 minute satire sent to your iPhone, and tivo is quietly queing up something else...
I think a lot of people are longing for what never was. How many people saw those movies in the 70's? Were they successful, really? Revisionist history, if you ask me...
i agree that to some degree it's a bit of revisionist history/nostalgia, but not, imho, for the most part. emmocv.
definitions of "successful" aside, there were less films released then, which certainly contributed to the "event-ness" of film and film viewing. films cost less to see - in adjusted dollars - so more people went more often i think; but also, because there were fewer films, and most were in "pretty good" and up categories, it quantitatively feels like films from then were better.
absent doing studies to account for per capita adjustments in population vs viewing audience size, and ROI against costs, i think he's in safe territory with his generalization.
my problem with his last paragraph in particular, and with dumbasses like Ms Fox - and elistist Hollywood - in general, is the utter refusal to acknowledge that their films could simply just suck, or, to be fair, that the subject matter could have too narrow an appeal. instead, they just blame "middle America" for being too obtuse/uneducated/bourgeois/white/close-
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oh, yeah, much with the elitest... funnily for MFox mostly the people that watch her stuff, are the middle america ones, anywya, for what little that definition means in truth...
IMHO the thing with the taking of responsibility is all about how they feel that we should just shut up and fork over the dough, since middle America is too stupid to know what's good for it. :shrug:
IMHO the thing with the taking of responsibility is all about how they feel that we should just shut up and fork over the dough, since middle America is too stupid to know what's good for it. :shrug:
yep, which is exactly why middle America tells Hollywood exactly what it can do with its elitist bullshit but *not* forking over cash. dumb lot, them.
spook just told me, in a related aside, that Modern Warfare 2 just made 301 MILLION dollars in 24 hours.
note to Hollywood: provide the public what they want and they will THROW money at you.
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I think a lot of people are longing for what never was. How many people saw those movies in the 70's? Were they successful, really? Revisionist history, if you ask me...
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definitions of "successful" aside, there were less films released then, which certainly contributed to the "event-ness" of film and film viewing. films cost less to see - in adjusted dollars - so more people went more often i think; but also, because there were fewer films, and most were in "pretty good" and up categories, it quantitatively feels like films from then were better.
absent doing studies to account for per capita adjustments in population vs viewing audience size, and ROI against costs, i think he's in safe territory with his generalization.
my problem with his last paragraph in particular, and with dumbasses like Ms Fox - and elistist Hollywood - in general, is the utter refusal to acknowledge that their films could simply just suck, or, to be fair, that the subject matter could have too narrow an appeal. instead, they just blame "middle America" for being too obtuse/uneducated/bourgeois/white/close- ( ... )
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IMHO the thing with the taking of responsibility is all about how they feel that we should just shut up and fork over the dough, since middle America is too stupid to know what's good for it. :shrug:
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yep, which is exactly why middle America tells Hollywood exactly what it can do with its elitist bullshit but *not* forking over cash. dumb lot, them.
spook just told me, in a related aside, that Modern Warfare 2 just made 301 MILLION dollars in 24 hours.
note to Hollywood: provide the public what they want and they will THROW money at you.
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