Why do you think movie tickets sales are in such a big slump?
Besides a huge hit like SW's Ep3 movie ticket sales for the year aren't looking good.
Why do think people are not going to the movies as much anymore?
1. crappy movies
2. high ticket prices
3. Overloaded with home entertainment- cable, satellite, computers/internet, videogames, DVD's, Big-screen HDTV, and etc.
4. All the above
more info about sagging movie ticket sales can be found @ http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movi...iew/index.html
Why do think people are not going to the movies as much anymore?
1. crappy movies
2. high ticket prices
3. Overloaded with home entertainment- cable, satellite, computers/internet, videogames, DVD's, Big-screen HDTV, and etc.
4. All the above
more info about sagging movie ticket sales can be found @ http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movi...iew/index.html
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Originally posted by johnsocal
Besides a huge hit like SW's Ep3 movie ticket sales for the year aren't looking good.
Why do think people are not going to the movies as much anymore?
1. crappy movies
2. high ticket prices
3. Overloaded with home entertainment- cable, satellite, computers/internet, videogames, DVD's, Big-screen HDTV, and etc.
4. All the above
5. The other people at the movies. Nasty, crinkling celophane, cell phone jabbering, thuggish people.
I have a 120" projection screen. If I could get first run movies on it, I would never go to the theater again.
Originally posted by johnsocal
Sometimes I think pure digital special effects have cheapened movies. Now when something happens like a major chase seen or something being blown up it doesnt have an element of danger with stuntman and actual pyrotechnics anymore. While I love FX in movies like SW's but explosions and etc have lost their WOW-factors since we just reduce them too "that is a just a digital effect made on a Mac" .
Agreed. As much as I like digital effects, when action sequences become too fantastic, they loose some edge. Now, there's a place for this, but it certainly gets overused.
But in line with the thread, I'm going to say that (4) is the answer. For me it's, "why am I going to spend $8 to see a movie when I can see it for $3.50 a few months later, and not have go through the trouble of going to the cinema." So that pretty much covers all the bases. I have a 46" HDTV and decent speakers. When combined with a comfy couch, it beats the cinema.
Originally posted by e1618978
5. The other people at the movies. Nasty, crinkling celophane, cell phone jabbering, thuggish people.
I have a 120" projection screen. If I could get first run movies on it, I would never go to the theater again.
Same here (projector + surround sound). With a home theaters people don't have to put up with the BS they have to at theaters.
I'm to the point where the only way I go to the movies anymore is by taking afternoons off of work and seeing early shows at least two weeks after the film is released. But that's only the twice a year that I care enough to go. Ironic since I've been in the habit of watching 2-7 films a week for years now.
Long story short: all of the above
It's all about the media's "on-demandness." With TiVo, you watch your shows when you want. With Netflix, you get whatever movies you want for as long as you want. With an iPod, you keep your entire music library on one device and listen to whatever you want at your whim.
Driving to a theater to watch a movie at a specific time is SOOOO 10 years ago!
#1) VERY Expensive to hit the movies. Dates/family = Cha-CHING!
#2) My home theater is a good substitute. (1200 Watts of sound and a 1400x1050 projector) 8) I'm looking at one of THESE next. And maybe this...
#3) Few movies are trip-to-the-theater worthy. I'll usually wait for them on DVD. I do wish I saw The Incredible in the theater though and I WILL see Serenity, but probably not opening day. (I want to!)
Additionally, There are rarely compelling enough movies that I feel like seeing, but if the ticket prices were cheaper(like under $5), I know I'd end up viewing movies that I might not normally be interested in.
I do think George Lucas re-releasing SW's EP4 in an all-new digital 3D format in 2007 could be cool and might start a new trend. Right now there is only 80 digital projectors in the US which would keep that release very limted for a while.
1. Ticket prices- Too high and concessions are out of this world.
2. The advent of Netflix and Home Theatre. For less than a grand I can get better bass at home than %60 of theaters out there.
3. Parking hassle- hate it..not theatre ever has enough parking
4. Content- Hollywood lived off of Star Wars and LotR but the megafilms are ending and the whole "Sword and Sandal" epics didn't fare well(Alexander, Troy). Nothing is really that exciting anymore from large studios.
5. Theatre comfort- poor riser seating, people with big heads or loud voices. Easy to wreck a good night.
I'm eyeballing a Front PJ system and a nice but modest 7.1 system and once that happens my movie going will drop even more. I got better things to do than be forced to watch crappy Coca Cola adds and trailers that i've already seen.
Originally posted by Ebby
#1) VERY Expensive to hit the movies. Dates/family = Cha-CHING!
#2) My home theater is a good substitute. (1200 Watts of sound and a 1400x1050 projector) 8) I'm looking at one of THESE next. And maybe this...
You have a $5000+ sxga+ projector for your home theater and going to the movies is prohibitively expensive to you? I guess you somehow got a nice discount on that.
For me: There are just very few movies worth going to see. Movies suck. And I think many people are getting tired of going to see blockbuster movies that really have very little merit or relevance.
You can only see so many zombie, spooky thriller, teens highschool sexcapade, will smith/ben affleck/ben stiller/john woo shit flicks before you just get tired of it.
There's a reason people revolted against the latter Batman movies but have adored the Spider-Man ones.
In addition, the movie going experience just sucks anymore. You get so bored wating for the damn movie to start that you don't even care anymore when it does. You're just checking your watch. When I visit my girlfriend in Pittsburgh, we occasionally hit up the Lowe's Cineplex there. For a bit more than a normal ticket fare, you can get balcony seats in reclining leather chairs with a shared table for 2 people and they have waiters running to fetch your food and drinks. It's cool because you feel like you're actually getting something for your money other than a 90 minute product placement fest.
The discount was called "NAB" and it was $3,600. Our last projector could only handle 640x480, was nosier than a full throttle G5, and besides, I needed an upgrade.
I don't mind seeing trailers since I look forward to seeing good ones like Chronicles of Narnia before SW's EP3 but the whole "The Twenty" advertising thing before the movie kind-of wrecks the theater experience for me.
I am all for the market-place pushing it as far as the market can bear but hopefully hollywood and theater owners will soon realize they pushed it too far and the better fix their problems quick because there is too much competition in the alternative entertainment industry now.
Just as the music industry blamed their problems on p2p networks instead of their insistance of pushing crappy recycled music the movie industry will recycle the same old argument as their profit tank as well.
All the big movies this summer/fall will either be sequels or remakes of books, tv shows, and even older movies done just a few decades ago so some fresh new ideas wouldn't hurt.
This drift towards entertainment and leisure as a generally personal (private) experience has a lot of profound implications. Urban planning, vacationing, consumer trends... For our purposes here it means that people are more willing to spend money on content and delivery tech that they can control personally rather than pay for a shared experience. We are becoming introverts.
Industries that want to keep us coming to public venues have the challenge of offering a compelling argument in favor of public venues.
Why do people go to concerts, plays, sporting events, galleries?
Adrenalin, business, social call?
Can Cinema be adapted to those uses?
The product is only part of the problem. The delivery mechanism might need a redesign...
Originally posted by johnsocal
All the big movies this summer/ all will either be sequels or remakes of books, tv shows, and even older movies done just a few decades ago so some fresh new ideas wouldn't hurt.
When I last went to the movies someone mentioned every single trailer was for a remake or the movie of a book. I have to agree that that's probably the big one for me. I used to go to the movies tons but these days...there's just nothing to see.
I also agree that of course the MPAA will blame P2P. Could never be them, oh no they must be doing great work
I also agree that of course the MPAA will blame P2P. Could never be them, oh no they must be doing great work
Hollywood is beginning to lose me. Not only was I charged $9.50 for my last movie but they had the nerve to force me to watch an anti-piracy advertisement.
How does that make sense? You just charged me $10 and now you're telling me not to pirate. You're speaking to the wrong people idiots. I'm sitting there thinking "damn...you mean I could have downloaded this movie and saved myself $19?"
Bright Hollywood...real bright.