RayChuang
07-31-2005, 10:09 AM
James Verniere
Boston Herald
July 31, 2005
Read the full article here (http://theedge.bostonherald.com/movieNews/view.bg?articleid=95908)
t's been the summer of our discontent at the movies, and if the box office has been in a slump for much of the summer season, the American film industry has no one to blame but itself.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=8><SPACER height="8" width="8" type="block"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Once, movie theaters were magic kingdoms often designed to evoke literal and mythical palaces, and spending an afternoon or an evening inside one was a quasi-religious experience.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=8><SPACER height="8" width="8" type="block"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Now, they are little more than automated slums, mall-like spaces with concession stands selling ludicrously overpriced junk food and soft drinks and a wilderness of corridors leading to individual ``screens,'' some almost as big as the movie theaters of baby boomers' childhoods, but most much smaller.
This article sums up very well why moviegoers are staying away in droves this summer. It dovetails well with the article I posted two months ago from the New York Times saying how better home theater technology has made people less likely to see movies in the theaters.
Mind you, I think the author missed one the biggest reasons why moviegoers are staying away in droves: they got tired of the ultra-Left bleatings from the Hollywood crowd and are essentially doing a "de facto" boycott of the movies this year. The movie industrys knows this but refuses to admit it publicly.
Boston Herald
July 31, 2005
Read the full article here (http://theedge.bostonherald.com/movieNews/view.bg?articleid=95908)
t's been the summer of our discontent at the movies, and if the box office has been in a slump for much of the summer season, the American film industry has no one to blame but itself.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=8><SPACER height="8" width="8" type="block"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Once, movie theaters were magic kingdoms often designed to evoke literal and mythical palaces, and spending an afternoon or an evening inside one was a quasi-religious experience.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=8><SPACER height="8" width="8" type="block"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Now, they are little more than automated slums, mall-like spaces with concession stands selling ludicrously overpriced junk food and soft drinks and a wilderness of corridors leading to individual ``screens,'' some almost as big as the movie theaters of baby boomers' childhoods, but most much smaller.
This article sums up very well why moviegoers are staying away in droves this summer. It dovetails well with the article I posted two months ago from the New York Times saying how better home theater technology has made people less likely to see movies in the theaters.
Mind you, I think the author missed one the biggest reasons why moviegoers are staying away in droves: they got tired of the ultra-Left bleatings from the Hollywood crowd and are essentially doing a "de facto" boycott of the movies this year. The movie industrys knows this but refuses to admit it publicly.