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12-03-2013, 05:12 PM
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High Tech killing the movie industry?
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High tech as being computers that connect to the internet and video games are causing the movie industry to collapse under its own weight. The idea of $50 movie tickets is suggested by George Lucas as a way to avoid movie studios from losing too much money in their movies.
One thing is immediately wrong, is a movie studio requires to be make $1 billion for a high budget movie to be a success. That is not true, it requires at least twice the cost of production for the movie to be successful.
In 1988, the movie industry said the VCR would kill the movie industry.
If high tech technology is killing the movie industry, how come that didn't happen ten years ago when the internet and video games were already popular? Apparently the idea of all studios losing a ton of money didn't stop all the major studios in spending $200 million on one or two movies this year.
Thoughts?
High tech as being computers that connect to the internet and video games are causing the movie industry to collapse under its own weight. The idea of $50 movie tickets is suggested by George Lucas as a way to avoid movie studios from losing too much money in their movies.
One thing is immediately wrong, is a movie studio requires to be make $1 billion for a high budget movie to be a success. That is not true, it requires at least twice the cost of production for the movie to be successful.
In 1988, the movie industry said the VCR would kill the movie industry.
If high tech technology is killing the movie industry, how come that didn't happen ten years ago when the internet and video games were already popular? Apparently the idea of all studios losing a ton of money didn't stop all the major studios in spending $200 million on one or two movies this year.
Thoughts?
12-03-2013, 08:10 PM
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If you'd step out of the box of currently-popular-ideas-in-Hollywood and make a good movie, you'd pwn the box office. Make more preachy over-produced crap where we can see every plot twist a mile away and maybe throw in a bit of anti-USA innuendo, you'll continue to go downhill. Make a straight-up STORY movie. Good guys vs. bad guys, the good guys are clearly good, the bad guys are clearly bad, you can take the older kids to the theater and they will like the action and you will like the adult jokes. Throw in a couple of legit surprises and don't give them away 10 minutes beforehand.
Of course, that would take more imagination than redoing a film that was direct-to-VHS a couple decades ago, which apparently is asking a lot anymore.
Of course, that would take more imagination than redoing a film that was direct-to-VHS a couple decades ago, which apparently is asking a lot anymore.