What's killing the box office?
For the third straight year, the U.S. box office totals have been declining. Why? Hollywood is actually turning out entertaining movies. So that's not it.
The answer is a combination of things. Home theater leads the way. Affordable home theater has made the home viewing experience pretty darned good. You can get better sound than you'll ever experience at the theater. And larger screens and cheaper projection systems give a viewing ratio and sharp detailed picture that is starting to rival the big screen experience. Blue-ray DVD's capable of HDTV quality will put it over the top.
Meanwhile, the theater experience gets worse and worse in most cases. Kids wont sit quiet and still. Teenagers are constantly up and down. Cellphones ring. Stupid people point out obvious details to their equally intellectually challenged mates at volumes that the entire row can hear. The movie is loud, so they have to speak up to be heard ya know. And dont even get me started on babies at the theater again.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, the movie going experience is no longer special. It's either a safe place to go with a date, a time killer or a babysitter for the kids.
As the viewing quality at home gets better, why put up with it? In my own house, I can set the rules. Talking during a movie at The Billy Bob Bijou and you'll find yourself waking up in the yard wondering why your butt hurts and you taste shoe leather.
The answer is a combination of things. Home theater leads the way. Affordable home theater has made the home viewing experience pretty darned good. You can get better sound than you'll ever experience at the theater. And larger screens and cheaper projection systems give a viewing ratio and sharp detailed picture that is starting to rival the big screen experience. Blue-ray DVD's capable of HDTV quality will put it over the top.
Meanwhile, the theater experience gets worse and worse in most cases. Kids wont sit quiet and still. Teenagers are constantly up and down. Cellphones ring. Stupid people point out obvious details to their equally intellectually challenged mates at volumes that the entire row can hear. The movie is loud, so they have to speak up to be heard ya know. And dont even get me started on babies at the theater again.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, the movie going experience is no longer special. It's either a safe place to go with a date, a time killer or a babysitter for the kids.
As the viewing quality at home gets better, why put up with it? In my own house, I can set the rules. Talking during a movie at The Billy Bob Bijou and you'll find yourself waking up in the yard wondering why your butt hurts and you taste shoe leather.
3 Comments:
I stll love the movie-going experience, I have done all my life but yes it does slightly ruin it when you have annoying people in the theatre(or cinema where I come from).
Also, pirate dvds,etc have quite a big effect as well.
>>>Talking during a movie at The Billy Bob Bijou and you'll find yourself waking up in the yard wondering why your butt hurts and you taste shoe leather.
Sounds pretty kinky. You should add candlewax on the nipples to your repertoire.
I want to know why my butt would hurt. COUGHdeliveranceCOUGH. But yeah, I go see a lot of movies, but it doesn't seem to hold the same allure it once did.
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