Why is it surprising that the box office is suffering? It isn’t in one bit that it is suffering; look at how many movies come out in one week. At least three movies a week are released and they expect them to do well. Some movies that deserve the attention end up getting the worse end of the box office because of bigger movies or the blockbuster of the month.
Here is the problem: firstly, the prices of movie tickets have gone up too high in the past few years, that it turns people away from wanting to see more movies or a movie more then once. You have the bump up fee for 3D movies, Imax and Imax movies and people don’t want to pay more prices and the bump up fee. But then here the second: 3D movies are a good way to make a little more cash, but when you come out with post production conversion of 3D like the crap that was My Soul To Take and Clash of The Titans then you turn people away from wanting to see more 3D movies. You need more movies like Avatar and Tron to bring in the audience. Putting both those into consideration here is a better solution that will help, STOP releasing so many movies at once like it is going out of style, it will if you don’t stop. When you release more then two movies a week then a problem is that people cant decide on what they would rather spend $20 to go see and then they cant decide some end up not going. Normal pay is weekly so some people put aside some money to go see a movie a week, if less movies came out a week and prices went down a little bit, more people would go see the movies, possibly even more then once.
Last year Sex and the City 2 came out, it didn’t do to bad, but because the budget was $100 million, it didn’t come even, it only made $98 million. They expected it to better because the first one made $100 million plus in 2008. Expectations need to be brought down a little, and the budgets of movies need to be less so that movies have a chance to make some money.
Another problem there is now, sequels and remakes. There are so many reboots and sequels and remakes, no one wants to see something that has already been done before. Especially if it is a reboot of a remake based off of a book. Either come up with new stuff, or if you cant, STOP making so many movies and pace yourself so that more can be done later down the road.
There should not be a month where studios dump the movies they think will do bad. That is not right and not fair. If you don’t think a movie will be good, don’t make it, or make it better. A movie is to entertain people, to escape one world and go to another. If it doesn’t look like it is good, make it better then you will make more money and not go into the hole, which is where MGM went wrong.
If these were to be followed by movie studios, it would help so much and give more chance to movies that wouldn’t in a normal basis.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Music and Bieber
Music has changed a lot in the past twenty or so years. There are so many different types now to satisfy any person of any taste. I couldn’t even begin to get into detail about the types that alone would take a whole paragraph.
The point of this blog is about music and people’s taste though. How if there is a certain type a person doesn’t like they make it known very well. Which is all good and grand, it is just when you rub into someone who enjoys it and makes it seem like it is crap even though that is just your opinion.
Let me take for example, pop music. A lot likes it, but there are some that cannot stomach it. They prefer the more acoustic type of music, or rock. Which is great, but don’t make people who like it feel like they aren’t smart just because they listen to it. Just because you prefer the guitar with no added technology then ok, but that doesn’t make you smarter. If you say that you don’t like it because they don’t have talent and they just mess with the voices to make themselves sound better, then that is a reason. You don’t like that, ok; but the beats still are catchy and people like it, just don’t listen to it.
But there are some out there that don’t do that; Justin Bieber is one of them. He can actually sing without added humph to his voice. He can perform in concert and not pull a Ashley Simpson, he can play all kinds of instruments and put on a show. Yes the craze with some of the fans is extreme, sometimes too much; but look back in the past at other musicians. Michael Jackson, his fans were crazy about him; you can even go back to the Beetles. When they were first starting not many people knew of them, but once they hit stardom, they had crazed fans who loved them, mostly girls. Elvis is another one that had girls screaming for him. So why is that because Bieber has crazed fans also he is stupid or retarded?
You may not like his music, you may not think he is cute, but he is talented. He maybe one of the only few artists that actually can perform these days. While his fans may get a little out of control, you cant hold that against him, just remember that even back in the 50s and 60s, fans did the same thing.
I personally enjoy all kinds of music; I like rock to pop to the indie stuff. But sometimes the indie stuff gets a little annoying, as does the pop stuff. But it is all on taste and people need to understand that. While there are some untalented people out there that somehow get careers while the ones that actually try and do good music get crap.
Sometimes people just need to explore and actually look into artists before you make an opinion about them.
The point of this blog is about music and people’s taste though. How if there is a certain type a person doesn’t like they make it known very well. Which is all good and grand, it is just when you rub into someone who enjoys it and makes it seem like it is crap even though that is just your opinion.
Let me take for example, pop music. A lot likes it, but there are some that cannot stomach it. They prefer the more acoustic type of music, or rock. Which is great, but don’t make people who like it feel like they aren’t smart just because they listen to it. Just because you prefer the guitar with no added technology then ok, but that doesn’t make you smarter. If you say that you don’t like it because they don’t have talent and they just mess with the voices to make themselves sound better, then that is a reason. You don’t like that, ok; but the beats still are catchy and people like it, just don’t listen to it.
But there are some out there that don’t do that; Justin Bieber is one of them. He can actually sing without added humph to his voice. He can perform in concert and not pull a Ashley Simpson, he can play all kinds of instruments and put on a show. Yes the craze with some of the fans is extreme, sometimes too much; but look back in the past at other musicians. Michael Jackson, his fans were crazy about him; you can even go back to the Beetles. When they were first starting not many people knew of them, but once they hit stardom, they had crazed fans who loved them, mostly girls. Elvis is another one that had girls screaming for him. So why is that because Bieber has crazed fans also he is stupid or retarded?
You may not like his music, you may not think he is cute, but he is talented. He maybe one of the only few artists that actually can perform these days. While his fans may get a little out of control, you cant hold that against him, just remember that even back in the 50s and 60s, fans did the same thing.
I personally enjoy all kinds of music; I like rock to pop to the indie stuff. But sometimes the indie stuff gets a little annoying, as does the pop stuff. But it is all on taste and people need to understand that. While there are some untalented people out there that somehow get careers while the ones that actually try and do good music get crap.
Sometimes people just need to explore and actually look into artists before you make an opinion about them.
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