Posted on 12/28/2005 6:59:55 AM PST by bulldozer
These days, the film industry bemoans decreasing box office sales by crying about illegal downloads of movies. If all the major providers of peer-to-peer software had not been shut down, they might have a point.
Industries who think consumers are slaves to their products usually end up in this boat. The consumer goes elsewhere.
“Brokeback Mountain” has netted a paltry $4.9 million in box office sales, nearly identical to “Memoirs of a Geisha”. Both movies have been out for about two weeks. King Kong has earned twenty times more in only eight days of apish reincarnation.
Here is a wake-up call for Hollywood: Nearly one-fourth of viewers gave Brokeback Mountain an “F”, while 69.4% gave it an A, leaving no middle-ground. We can easily guess who these votes came from on both sides of this tin coin.
Golden Globe elites went into plebian parinirvana over the idea of two married cowboys rustling something more than livestock on the range. Monkeys go “ape” seeing themselves in the mirror, too. A “Gone With The Wind” this is not.
The business model for film distribution is changing rapidly in ways Hollywood is loathe to admit. With cable and satellite, viewers do not need to waste money going out to see movies they do not really want to see, out of sheer boredom. We can more easily surf cable to watch the best of the worst, in far more comfortable surroundings, with our favorite snacks just a few steps away. The box office and DVD rentals merely give us time to figure out what we really want to see.
Hollywood no longer has a monopoly on entertainment. The internet and video games are where celluloid ex-pats now reside.
Consumer dollar-votes are most instructive. The fish now know the difference between a real worm and a fake one with a hook on it. We are no longer addicted to seeing the latest insult to family values just so we can pretend we are hip while complaining about it at lunch.
Shock entertainment will be an increasingly marginal market. Those who wish to be successful in film and television will look to the great box office hits, shows, and the legendary acts for new foundations for the film industry.
David R. Usher is President of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, Missouri Coalition
Actually I would like Walk the line to win with Reece Witherspoon and Jouquin Pheonix to win the actor and actress awards. That would be a great Golden Globes night.
WW2 was a great leveler socially, economically, geographically. Since then - there has been no societal event that was all inclusive. As the media moguls get richer, they segregate themselves from the hoi poloi - their audince.
It's amazing that any grass roots movie directors, actors, productors and screenwriters are allowed to provide input. And when they do that input is plagerized, secularized and perverted to the point of nonrecognition.
The new digital movie media is going to be the grassroots answer to the big moguls companies.
If Brokebutt Mtn gets nominated, which it will, then it's guaranteed.
Homo on the Range has been released in the most liberal cities in the US (read that "homo lifestyle embracing cities"). It won't play in middle America.
Hollywood wants to indulge their fantasies of being "cultural leader" rather than mere entertainers. If that delusion works for them, fine. But they shouldn't expect me to pay for it. Or support it. Or view their crap...
It makes a great party venue, too! You can MST3K any movie you'd like with a group of friends!
NIP/TUCK is the best! Who would have though how dangerous it is to be a plastic surgeon in Miami Beach!! LOL! Think about it...in the last couple of years they've been tied up (many times)cut, stabbed, held at gunpoint..had botox injected into their genitals (who can forget that one!) etc. How'd you like that final episode? I wasn't surprised about who the CARVER was, but the other part of it was a shock! So much of that show makes absolutely no sense, the sense of time, etc. The whole subplot with Matt and the white supremists was SO over the top...but the whole show is over the top. THAT'S WHY IT'S SO GREAT! And don't get me started on Julian McMahon. He is, by far, the sexiest man alive!
In Wisconsin, they apparently prefer cattle.
Wis. Cheese Sellers Hope for Holiday Boom
Dec 26, 3:07 AM ET
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Nothing says Christmas in Wisconsin like cheese. At least, that's what Wisconsin cheese sellers hope. "It's something from the state that can be enjoyed...
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Man Pleads No Contest to Cattle Relations
Dec 23, 5:49 PM (ET)
NEILLSVILLE, Wis. (AP) - A 64-year-old man has pleaded no contest to charges in Clark County Circuit Court after telling police he regularly had been using calves for sexual gratification.
That's right - going after the "base" first so they have good ratios to tout.
I thought all of us conservatives don't have cable so what difference does it make....
Interesting stats at boxofficemojo.com, brokeback increased the theatre realease by 148 theatres but still declined 28% in sales. It's one of the most ingeniously marketed films I've ever seen, but it's probably not going to break even even with the best marketing hype ever.
Ah, but was he True to Himself??? That, after all, is what really matters. (Just ask the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, for example).
Second, BM was kept in minimal release because it would have fallen completely flat on its face in wide release - despite the enormous critical acclaim it has garnered from the usual suspects.
Third, BM will be put into wider release in January to coincide with the Academy Award nominations, of which it is guaranteed to get several due the critical treatment. Oscar buzz is always good for giving a film at least a week of undeserved life.
I think the left will do a movie glorifying pedophiles before they tackle bestiality.
I remember seeing the original "La Cage Aux Folles" and thinking there was no way "The Birdcage" could possibly be as funny, until I saw Nathan Lane, who was hysterical.
The funniest lines and scenes, though, go to Hank Azaria as Agador Spartacus, the flaming queen who's the butler.
Its good. Go see it, you'll like it.
It does not seem like anybody wants to see this movie. Homosexuals do not need to see this movie. There are plenty of internet and porn DVD's for them to watch. Why watch something like this? If they need porno, all they have to do is turn on the computer. Much easier than going to the movie theater which apparently they are not doing.
Golden Globe elites went into plebian parinirvana.....
Plebian parinirvana? I'm going to have to look in Webster's for that one. It doesn't sound good.
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