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The movie industry is doomed.
« on: 03 Feb 2007, 14:54 »

Hollywood isn't making any money anymore, due to pirating. Bear in mind that's just box office grosses, not 100% of money made from films.
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #1 on: 03 Feb 2007, 16:15 »

Navigating around a bit, I can't fucking believe that X-Men: The Last Stand is now the most expensive film ever made.
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #2 on: 03 Feb 2007, 17:09 »

...Kinda makes me wonder what the lowest box-office openers, and least expensive films made are... But no one ever wants to talk about that, prolly 'cause they're rubbish.
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #3 on: 03 Feb 2007, 17:40 »

Zyzzyx Road grossed $30 in the box office, 0.0015% of it's $2,000,000 budget. Very low budget films, if they're good, can often be very profitable. El Mariachi cost a mere $7,000 to make, and grossed $2,040,920 at the US box office alone. The Blair Witch Project, which cost $35,000 to make (a huge part of that advertising, as far as I'm aware) has grossed an insane $248,300,000 worldwide. A lot of these films end up making back profits in video and DVD sales and TV liscensing though. There's quite a lot of even smaller films for which figures aren't even available. I can easily imagine that films like Bad Taste, The Evil Dead, Last House on the Left, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I Spit on Your Grave, some of which were probably filmed for under $5000, (some of them probably less) have made absolutely ridiculous returns, profit-wise.
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #4 on: 03 Feb 2007, 17:57 »

Bah, every few months somebody in the industry wails that "D.V.D.s/Pirating/Giant mutant octopi are killing Hollywood". Me, I say that a critical lack of imagination and a piss-weak fear of investing in anything other than endless regurgitations of the same old shit movie concepts are killing Hollywood.
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #5 on: 03 Feb 2007, 19:07 »

HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #6 on: 03 Feb 2007, 19:14 »

YOU'RE WRONG JOHHNY

HOME-TAPING IS KILLING HOLLYWOOD

PIRACY IS KILLING MUSIC

BOOTLEG RUM IS KILLING PIRATES
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #7 on: 03 Feb 2007, 22:47 »

SO WE CAN STOP HOME TAPING BY MAKING BOOTLEG RUM?
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #8 on: 04 Feb 2007, 00:38 »

How is Raiders of the Lost Ark not on that list? Fucking Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, this is all your fault!
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #9 on: 04 Feb 2007, 03:26 »

Bah, every few months somebody in the industry wails that "D.V.D.s/Pirating/Giant mutant octopi are killing Hollywood". Me, I say that a critical lack of imagination and a piss-weak fear of investing in anything other than endless regurgitations of the same old shit movie concepts are killing Hollywood.

Truer words.  I think the sadder part, though, is that people actually like the endless regurgitations of the same old shit movie concepts.
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #10 on: 04 Feb 2007, 05:54 »

I think, personally, that culture in general is in the process of running into a huge fucking brick wall. It's becoming incredibly hard to think of original ideas that don't reference the shit out of or borrow from or adapt something else. That's in every field of the arts.
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #11 on: 04 Feb 2007, 06:20 »

Inlander said it best.
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #12 on: 04 Feb 2007, 07:26 »

I don't go to see movies because none of my friends live where I do and I rarely have girlfriends. Plus there are very few movies I want to see, and Toledo has some relatively high ticket prices.
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Re: The movie industry is doomed.
« Reply #13 on: 04 Feb 2007, 12:46 »

I think, personally, that culture in general is in the process of running into a huge fucking brick wall. It's becoming incredibly hard to think of original ideas that don't reference the shit out of or borrow from or adapt something else. That's in every field of the arts.

The death of post modernism at its finest.
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