Did you like it primarily for the special effects? There was not much of a plot and it had an anticlimax ending.I enjoyed it overall, with some qualifications, but I really liked the ending, which was accurate to the book. It breaks the "rules" of drama, but it speaks to the theme of the book, and I thought it was oddly appropriate in this time of debate about religion. Think about it, the ending is basically God watching mankind almost be vnaquished and then calling the fight. ;)
I thought the early special effects looked jerky, but there were some good special effects later. I thought Terminator 1 and 2 and the Lord of the Rings were superior "chase" movies.
I liked all of them to varying degrees. I also think Terminator 3 was an adequate follow-up, and in fact had a very brave ending in that it pushed the series to the point of no return and dealt with the idea that the machine takeover was inevitable.
In the industry, this falls under the subject of "voluntary suspension of disbelief" on the part of the audience. When a movie contains too many or too extreme logical holes and inconsistencies, it is more difficult for the audience to engage in voluntary suspension of disbelief, resulting in distraction from the plot and a lower quality of entertainment.
Yeah, it's a basic concept, but there's no fast and loose rule. Certain movies are "realistic" and strain credulity, and it's not like there's a one-size-fits-all standard. Movies some folks love I find ridiculous; movies others hate I love because for all their flaws they have value.
It should be illegal. However, the owner of a chain of movie theaters told me some time in the mid-1990's that he had to buy (i.e., rent) blocks of movie prints, including the bad movies, to get the good movies. I assumed there have been no legal changes since then, which may be incorrect.
Again, it depends on how you look at it. You have to buy books you don't think are gonna be hits--midlist books--to fill out your shelves so you don't just sell Harry Potter. Same for movies.
He did not state the specific details, such as the method that was used to impose this scheme on theater operators. Perhaps the scheme is imposed through the price structure and "discounts" for buying the suggested blocks of movies.
Yep, and there's nothing illegal or unethical about it, IMHO.
I believe the cost to rent a movie print includes some fixed price plus some amount per ticket sold. I don't know if it includes a percentage of profit from concessions sold.
If you check out your favorite movie house's profit statements you often find they are listed as food vendors, because that's where their $$ comes from. To the best of my knowledge no movie studio gets a cut of that; if they wanted a cut I imagine they'd just jigger with the amount they take from the rentals.
"movies still get pulled from theaters if they're not selling tix" I have sat in movie theaters that had an audience with only six to ten people including myself. Perhaps they were waiting until the particular day of the week when they change their movie schedule, but this has happened a number of times, usually after the movie has been in the theaters for a while.
Sure, that's expected for the reasons you say. You have to remember that outside of the weekends, the theaters have to survive and pay their employees, give them 40 hours or whatever a week, etc. Twenty years or more ago, a movie like Star Wars was in theaters for one solid year. Now they have these massive theaters and can show the same movie a half dozen times, then cut back as the crowds thin out. Movies simply don't last as long, which means they have to get as many shows in EARLY as possible, but then what do you do? You can't show nothing during the week when fewer people are going. And there aren't that many Star Wars movies showing. But if you have 10 people in there, that's ten people buying your food that you wouldn't have if you showed nothing, and you were obliged to keep the movie there because the movie company agreed to spend X amount of money on advertising, tie-ins, etc. If the studio is spending an agreed-upon amount on ads, you're obliged to have the movie THERE for the potential audience.
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