Movie industry blames texting for Bad Box Office (no joke)

[chenGOD]

Check it out: http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=434778

Ridiculous or what? They basically admit that they've been making crap movies for the last decade, and have now found a convenient scapegoat of the moment (wasn't the MPAA blaming pirates earlier in the year for poor box office?)


Didn't post it in LBN, cause it's not really serious enough for that.

[FlashHarry]

1. How wonderfully neo-con of them!

The problem isn't the fact that their product sucks, it's that the word is getting out! No information, no problem. Instead of worrying about text messaging, maybe they should scrap their plans for a cinematic reworking of "Hello Larry."

[chenGOD]

2. Haven't you heard?

They've retitled that particular project "Hello Ari"

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. How utterly interesting. And sad. And predictable.

If you look at the myriad excuses for the tanking that the entertainment industry is presently mired within, it is becoming clear that there is a common thread running through all of their excuses:

"It ain't our fault our stuff tanks! It's that Demon Technology!"

With the Internet, it is used in a desperate ploy to maintaing their grip on their failing distribution model. It's failing, too. Just ask the great producer, Jimmy Iovine. He warned them that they would have to fully embrace the Internet, as their target buyers were embracing it and the damn thing was not going away. They ignored him. As it turns out, at their peril.

Now, the movie industry is using the same demonization tack on another type of information technology. You see, they invest a lot of money in carefully-crafted marketing campaigns to create a perception, a mood if you will, around their movies. But still, they make Movies That Suck. Dogs. But these sociopaths, scratching and clawing furiously to gain ground, cannot admit that they make crap. So they need a scapegoat and golly(!), that there technology sure is convenient.

Look for them to blame another form of technology for their woes RSN. Just like it was when they were doing cocaine, once they get on a roll, they just can't stop themselves.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. appalling - so what I hear Hollywood saying is this:

"Our movies suck and we know it and are well aware of it, but in the past we could count on the marketing and hype to bring us at least two or three good weekends before the general populace caught on that a movie is crap. Now they can find out it's crap the first weekend, and THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!"

What a bunch of idiots.

"No, please, let us not ponder the question of why do our movies suck so much that the kids are IMing each other about the suckitude, but let us instead bitch and moan about the technology that let's the kids offer to each other their suckitude quotient for each film".

MAKE BETTER DAMN FILMS YOU BOZOS!!!! and then people won't feel compelled to tell everyone "that sucked".

Or maybe the studios will just begin suing reviewers, newspapers, or ANYONE who says ANYTHING about a movie.

"So, Rabrrrrrr, how'd you like the Hulk?"

"I can't say, or the studio will sue me again."

"So would you receommend it?"

"You know I can only say, legally, you have to go see it and make up your own mind."

"But if you didn't like it, I won't, so tell me before I waste my money."

"THAT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO THE STUDIO! They have a right to earn a dollar, too, you know."

[Kellanved]

5. too many sequels

Bad sequels to make it worse.

Even some movies that are no sequels feel as if they were.