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Now Playing: Lackluster Movies to Empty Seats

It may be the quality of the movies, but when tickets are close to, or over, $10 a ticket, you think twice or 3 times before going. A family of 4 can stay in, watch a video and have pizza for less than the cost of a movie - a lot less.
 
Personally, I have gone to less movies in the theater as of late because it seems that almost every movie is now in 3D. I absolutely HATE watching 3D movies with those awful "one size fits all" (NOT!) glasses that only blur the picture and detract from the moving watching experience. Then to add insult to injury, they want to charge me $3-4 EXTRA for that awful experience.

It's no surprise to me ticket sales are plummeting.

Kurt
 
We saw The Lincoln Lawyer last weekend. It is a formula legal thriller with excellent performances; an enjoyable enough couple hours, but it isn't going to win any awards. And I felt like I should have held out for something better.

With 10 Oscar nominees each year, and a pair of tickets running $16 (average for 2010), plus gas, dinner, popcorn, etc... after seeing the ten best films you're out $500. Who has anything extra for average fare like The Lincoln Lawyer, let alone trash like Red Riding Hood? (Red Riding Hood scored an 11/100 on Rotten Tomatoes, 28/100 on Metacritic, and 4.7/10 on IMDb. But someone still sunk forty two million dollars into it!)

Just about anything that isn't scoring really high, and with Oscar nominations or good recommendations from a respected reviewer, I'm going to wait and see on my HDTV, for $3 for the both of us downloaded on Netflix, or Amazon, or from DirecTV.
 
DH loves going to the movies but we have cut back substantially. Part of it is the price but mostly it is the quality. It's hard to believe Hollywood spends millions to make these awful movies. It is really unusual these days to find an interesting new story that is well told. I won't see anything with bad reviews on Rotten Tomatoes no matter how much I had looked forward to it.

And I'm with Kurt about the 3D movies. They all seem to give me a headache.

Deb
 
How can Hollywood put out great movies when the big stars like Lindsay Lohan are in jail or rehab? :rofl:
 
DebBrown said:
DH loves going to the movies but we have cut back substantially. Part of it is the price but mostly it is the quality. It's hard to believe Hollywood spends millions to make these awful movies. It is really unusual these days to find an interesting new story that is well told. I won't see anything with bad reviews on Rotten Tomatoes no matter how much I had looked forward to it.
Deb
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You said it. For example, we were looking forward to The Eagle, based on the trailer... thank goodness for the review sites like Rotten Tomatoes.

Now, all this being said, last year was a really great year for movies, IMO. What we're missing is good films that aren't award nominee quality. There should be something worth seeing that's in between.
 
PigsDad said:
Personally, I have gone to less movies in the theater as of late because it seems that almost every movie is now in 3D. I absolutely HATE watching 3D movies with those awful "one size fits all" (NOT!) glasses that only blur the picture and detract from the moving watching experience. Then to add insult to injury, they want to charge me $3-4 EXTRA for that awful experience.

It's no surprise to me ticket sales are plummeting.

Kurt
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I agree. Disney decided we should be watching movies in 3D. I have taken the grandkids to see a few and basically find they add nothing to the movies. Right now it is a gimmick that Disney, the movie theaters, and the hardware providers want to force on the public. I think it might be a niche item but will not gain general acceptance simply because it adds very little and even detracts from the movie experience.
 
I saw Lincoln Lawyer, I enjoyed it along with 2 friends. Popcorn was not so good but still cost $8.

Other half said an electrician he knows told him a few years ago that everyone, including electricians, that works on movie set making a movie gets a % some how each time it's played going forward vs getting paid x1 for work done. Big Bucks being made in entertainment. Have a friend whose dtr made a 30 second commercial for a soda pop several years ago, she was in the background and blurry, but dtr was still getting occasional check in the mail from that one day filming of 30 second commercial that played in movie theaters in the south . :eek:
 
Personally, I've never seen the allure of paying $8-10 to go watch a movie with a bunch of strangers in some theater I have to drive to. Way back when, I suppose one could somewhat justify the price/inconvenience with the superior sound and video, but that's certainly not the case anymore with 65" TV's and surround sound.

I'll take staying home with a $0.30 Coke, a bag of uwave popcorn and the "pause" button resting under my thumb any day of the week.
 
I've gotten old.

They play the movie so damn loud I can't hear it (yes, I mean it that way). The actors mumble so much I can't hear what they say. And alot of times the lighting in the movie is so dark I can't see anything either. And I won't even go into the joy of sharing such an expereince with strangers who seem to not even be there to watch the movie to beign with!

Paying upwards of $15 each to see a movie that I come out of wondering what the hell happened, just doesn't make sense to me. I will wait for the DVD, thank you. And more so due to price. I don't mind so much blowing a $1 on a stinker.

My God. I have turned into my parents!
 
Elan said:
Personally, I've never seen the allure of paying $8-10 to go watch a movie with a bunch of strangers in some theater I have to drive to. Way back when, I suppose one could somewhat justify the price/inconvenience with the superior sound and video, but that's certainly not the case anymore with 65" TV's and surround sound.

I'll take staying home with a $0.30 Coke, a bag of uwave popcorn and the "pause" button resting under my thumb any day of the week.
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I completely agree. An added problem for me is the behavior of those strangers. Non-stop talking, cell phones, getting in and out of the aisle mutiple times. And the occasional one that has the script memorized and thinks that gives him the right to recite it along with the actors.
 
jlwquilter said:
They play the movie so damn loud I can't hear it (yes, I mean it that way). The actors mumble so much I can't hear what they say.
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The mumbling drives me crazy! There have been quite a few movies where I'm sure I only picked up half the dialogue. Anyone see that Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr? Fake accents and mumbling!! I couldn't figure out what they were saying. I was sure it was clever and witty though. :rolleyes:

In the getting old category, I can no longer watch endless car chases and explosions without getting a headache.

Deb
 
The trailer for 'Paul' looked cute, so we went this weekend. What a waste of $. Poor acting, poor storyline. I walked out of there saying it was the worst movie I ever paid for. Another choice was one with Johnny Depp as voiceover for the animation. Should have followed my man, even if I couldn't look at him.
 
that why we have netflix.. get the DVD or for some you can stream them to blue ray player..
pay about 9 buck a month for one DVD out and unlimited streams. WHAT A DEAL

so long blockbuster... see what greed (late fee's) does for you. :bawl:
 
DebBrown, I know what you mean on Sherlock Holmes. Fortunately, we rented it, and could back up and replay the scene to understand.

We find in a lot of movies, tv too, the background music is louder than the dialog. We've been using the Redbox at the grocery stores. $1 seems a fair price to pay for these movies.
 
Elan said:
Personally, I've never seen the allure of paying $8-10 to go watch a movie with a bunch of strangers in some theater I have to drive to. Way back when, I suppose one could somewhat justify the price/inconvenience with the superior sound and video, but that's certainly not the case anymore with 65" TV's and surround sound.

I'll take staying home with a $0.30 Coke, a bag of uwave popcorn and the "pause" button resting under my thumb any day of the week.
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I definitely agree with you, but if everyone does what we do, one day, in the not so distant future, there will not be any movies to rent. Or worse yet, we'll only be able to rent "Zombie Girls From Venus" and all of the sequels. :)

Here's hoping enough people keep going out to the movies!
 
Or maybe some actors will get paid something less than a zillion dollars a movie so movies don't take a hundred zillions dollars to make and renting them out for $1 can be profitable.

$1 movies are what I favor now for sure. Being able to rewind a scene half a dozen times at various volume levels is key :eek: The only bummer part is often somewhere in the DVD it's damaged and we have to skip that part. Not a huge loss usually though.

The other night DH and I browsed thru the TV movie offering. Nothing at all appealed. Moronic plots, bad acting, etc. Pathetic. Soon we were looking at NatGeo, Discovery, and those channels until we hit one appealed (and we hadn't seen before).

Did I mention that I have become my parents?? Even more pathetic! :hysterical:
 
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