This isn't working. Let's just try harder.

[ginny_t]

Seen on the Elevator News Network: "In spite of great opening by Batman Whatever, Hollywood's still suffering its worst slump in 20 years."

Goody! Know what that means? NOTHING! Nothing will change - they'll still put out shite movies. Oh wait, yes, they'll start blaming downloaders again. Maybe we'll get Joe-the-stuntman (or whoever) back on-screen to lay a guilt trip on the people who paid to see the movie!

I was at a movie yesterday (Mr. & Mrs. Smith = enh), thinking nostalgically back to the days when there were no commercials in movie theatres. Bastards. Raise prices, make shitty movies, show commercials, and lay a guilt trip on us 'cause we had the unmitigated gall to pay for the show.

Comments

[phantom_wolfboy]

Astounding, isn't it? And somehow they're in this slump despite the fact that movies take in hundreds of millions of dollars each!

[bluedragon70.livejournal.com]

That's because instead of putting thought into the movies they just throw money around on special effects. It's a good thing I just watch to stop being bored and thinking of my own life.

[lordshipmayhem.livejournal.com]

Seeing as the current empty suits running Hollywood never met a new idea that didn't give them a nasty bout of anaphylactic shock, I doubt if they'd ever cotton on to the idea that it's the STORY and CHARACTERS that draws people in, that you can lack one or the other and have a moderately successful film but if you lack both, the result is utterly and instantly forgettable.

You're better to rent the DVD at Blockbuster's and buy a microwave popcorn bag and a 1-litre of whatever at the grocery store. It's cheaper, and all you need to get the full theatre experience is to turn the lights down and hire someone to try out the tones on their cellphone every five minutes.

[csi-tokyo3.livejournal.com]

....

Seeing that, Howl's Moving Castle has opened in only one theater here. On the other side of freakin' town. The same distribution happened with Spirited Away. And what's the first comment I see in the Citizen's review of Howl's?

"The world of Japanese animation is just plain freaky."

... Yes, we *know* that, but will you STOP discouraging people from classic animation and instead making them see the Pretty People From Hollywood?

That, and I can get a whole week's worth of entertainment for 12 bucks from the video store, instead of paying 10 for your "theatre experience" and another 8 for your magic popcorn & birdbath sized drink.

Bernard Black: Excuse me. I have a problem. I bought popcorn and a drink and I have no money left.
Attendant: That's what it costs, sir.
Bernard: What is it, magic popcorn? Does it produce some sort of dizzying high?

[bunnyhero.livejournal.com]

why did you call it batman whatever? it's actually pretty good.

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Only because I can't remember what this one is called, and I was too lazy to look it up. And there was probably some anti-franchise bias in there, too.

[chazriel.livejournal.com]

Yes, they are making a Dukes of Hazzard movie. Are you scared?

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Oh god. Have you seen the trailer for that. I have. No amount of soap will fix my brain now.

[chazriel.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes I have.
Must try to forget now

[eldithia.livejournal.com]

wow. It's all so TRUE. Reminds me of a line from my friend Scott's song, 'Reap and Sow' : "But no, it can't be you, because it's always been somebody else . . . and you feel like you've been shafted."