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Welcome To The Recovery: US Box Office Spend Plunges To Lowest Since 2000
While the cancellation of 'The Interview' wiped billions off the US Box Office take in 2014 (</sarc>), ticket sales in North America will total roughly $10.5 billion, according to The NY Times, the lowest since 2000 (after inflation). Regal Cinemas and AMX Theatres have seen profits collapse and Carmike Cinemas has plunged to a loss as major movie delays (from Pixar and Universal), "pirating" of several movies (The Expendables 3 and Annie) before their release, and studios suffering one dud after another (Warner Bros.) the 4% YoY decline - for what is ultimately an affordable luxury - suggests the gas-price-savings are going anywhere but discretionary spending (just as we noted previously).
Not a pretty picture of recovery...
Ticket sales at North American theaters gave studios mixed messages about consumer confidence, as The NY Times reports,
The delay of major movies from Pixar and Universal. The pirating of “The Expendables 3” and “Annie” before their release. Warner Bros. suffering one dud after another. Hackers forcing the cancellation of a big Sony comedy.
Hollywood does not want a sequel to 2014.
For the year, ticket sales at North American theaters will total roughly $10.5 billion, a 4 percent decline from a year earlier, according to projections by the box-office data firm Rentrak. Attendance will drop by about the same percentage.
Annual fluctuations of that size are not uncommon at the domestic box office, which rises and falls based on the strength of the movie lineup. Still, that total would give the movie business its lowest tally since 2000, after accounting for inflation.
Cyclical or Structural decline...
Whenever ticket sales take a tumble, Hollywood pulls the assertion of cyclicality out of its hip pocket: Just wait until next year — next year will be our best ever.
Hollywood’s primary worry is that moviegoing in North America is changing along generational lines. In particular, young ticket buyers traditionally turned out weekend after weekend — with the quality of the films mattering less than the opportunity to fraternize. But this group is staying home more often.
The Nielsen Company said this month that the moviegoing of Americans age 12 to 24 dropped 15 percent in the first nine months of 2014, compared with the same period a year earlier.
And then there's this...
“It’s been a rather sluggish market since Thanksgiving,” said Chris Aronson, president of domestic distribution for 20th Century Fox.
But but but the gas-price savings...and discretionary spending... what about the narrative!!!
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Here's why:
Source from David Collum's Year in Review:
“[Malls] are trying to change; they’re trying to get different kinds of
anchors, discount stores. . . . What’s going on is the customers don’t
have the fucking money. That’s it. This isn’t rocket science.”
~Howard Davidowitz, flamboyant retail analyst
good. fuck them, a bunch of garbage anyway. Im so sick of all the blatant propaganda movies they keep releasing, and having to explain why i don't give a shit about the new american sniper movie to all my friends, who also can't believe i haven't seen zero dark thirty yet. Its all just Propaganda for the govt and the war party. Our 'leaders' are no more above it than the elites of north korea, we are just better at it, and perhaps a little more subtle
Wowww duuude that was like, sooo rebellious and anti establishment and stuff, like for reals.
Oh please do continue to dazzle us with your repartee and snappy one liners.
Story ignores the obvious explanation. Pirating? Delayed movie? Or a series of lame sequels (Expendables 3?), pointless remakes (I'm looking at you Annie) and an endless series of almost identical Marvel superhero crap. Stories that might have made a good movie (Hunger Games)padded out to four movies. Along with the occasional black movie marketed by appealing to "white guilt".
Movies suck.
Took my three kids to a movie - we bought popcorn and a pop and it was close to $120.
Wonder why I don't go? Now if it isn't in the discount cinema where I can go with a partner two pop and a big popcorn for $15 it simply doesn't get watched..
$120! You could have taken them to Disney World for 2 to 3 days for about $4,500.
I can one up that!! Now I send $2500 / month and get to see them 2 days a year :D But it sounds tempting two hour line ups while everyone hucks looies on the sidewalk and a cotton candy is $15. Sign me up!
i live an hour away from disney, and have an 18 month old. I am already dreading the day i gotta do that to make the wife happy.
Gas-price-savings are going to the corrupt scam that is Obozocare.
Yes we can't!
Jim Gaffigan - Disney stand up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrfh2GCOq2c
I took the kids there in Feb. I thought it was off season and not crowded. Total misery!
The trick is going to a matinee of a movie that is nearing the end of its run and smuggling in your own food. I went last weekend for $7. However, I was surrounded by cackly, hard of hearing old women who wouldn't shut up during the feature.
I forgot one of my main reasons for no longer going to movies is the rudeness of the average person today. People talking and cell phones make such an experience anything but pleasant.
Miffed
Jeepers just *buy* the Blue Ray it's only $25.
Try your local library. Lots of DVD's to choose from; and you can reserve on line.
screw that. wait for red box. 2$ to rent for a night, probably won't want to watch it more than once anyway.
xbmc/kodi...total entertainment system for your viewing pleasure with you the little guy fucking the zionists.
LOL!! Sshhhhhh.
Daddy, what is plex media server?
Last time I went to the cinema, having spent a good portion of my mortgage on tickets, drinks, and what passes for "food", I walked out in the middle of a film wanting to torch the place. It was like being locked up in a nocturnal ape sanctuary and flying coach at the same time. I think an entire generation has forgotten how to behave in public - talking, shouting, thumping, putting their feet up, and commenting throughout. You're suppose to suspend reality for those precious minutes in the magic of the cinematographer's art - an impossible feat in your average flea pit these days.
Not only that, when I watch most films nowadays I usually end up rooting for the "bad guy" so apparently my tastes have completely diverged from the usual Hollyweird pap.
I know i should prolly go see INTERSTELLAR in a theater, as it wont look as spectacular on my 27" SONY flat CRT-still working flawlessly after 13 years.....but i will end up watching it there.
I had a few hours to kill one day downtown.....after doing everything i could else to kill time is still had a couple hours left. So i went into one of those downtown multiplexes, paid $15, no snacks,
and proceeded to sit thru 10 minutes of commercials......including a "CITIZENS! ALWAYS REPORTS SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOUR OR PACKAGES TO YOUR LOCAL AUTHORITIES!" PSA......plus i had no choice-the film was in 3D-and THAT really sucked
a lot of it probably is pirating. apparently you can download pretty much anything off pirate bay, i just refuse to do so. Its easy to imagine the govt really going after people for doing that at the behest of industry lobbiests, and they care more about making them happy than they do about actually doing their constitutional duties. And if the movie wasn't worth the $ to rent on demand or redbox, its definitely not worth risking thousands in fines or a prison sentence
Maybe the movie industry should offer 100% money back guarantee if their film sucks. That will limit the propaganda . One of the few industries in the world today that will not back up their product with a guarantee.
"Story ignores the obvious explanation... a series of lame sequels (Expendables 3?), pointless remakes (I'm looking at you Annie) and an endless series of almost identical Marvel superhero crap. Stories that might have made a good movie (Hunger Games)padded out to four movies."
Agree, just a constant parade of nothing but garbage. If we watch anything at all, they'll be on a <$2.00 Redbox rental. I suspect many others are doing the same.
just repost:
Maybe some statistics are needed:
- Labor Force Participation Rate in Japan 59.7% in 2014
- Labor Force Participation Rate in Germany 53% in 2013
- Labor Force Participation Rate in USA 62.8% in 2014
- Labor Force Participation Rate in UK 46.4% in 2013
- Labor Force Participation Rate in France 41.1% in 2013
Labor Force Participation Rate in China 56.6% in in 2013
most of those numbers used 2013 population with 2014 employed...
Hard to compare wages. CIA Fact book is probably better than OECD Numbers.
But we know US Wages, median wages, weekly, indexed to 1984 Dollars are the same today as in 1979 in the USA.
And
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ROWFDNQ027S ($3.29 Foreign Investment USA)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/GPDI ($2.89 Private Domestic Investment)
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/intinv/iip_glance.htm
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/intinv/iip_glance.htm ($28 Trillion foreign Ownership of US Property compared to $24 Trillion in US Ownership of Foreign Property) (This is very interesting as Big Banks are growing strongly, but the number of total us banks is dramatically decreasing, like someone is gaming the system, Commercial Banks in the U.S. - FRED - St. Louis Fed)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USNUM
Foreign Investors are stronger than our Domestic or Wall Street Banks. We Decapitalize Industry, and our Banks don't Invest in the USA, not in a depression, a recession, and not when we return to normal markets.
Commercial Banks in the U.S.
2014:Q3: 5,636 Number Quarterly, End of Period, Not Seasonally Adjusted, USNUM, Updated: 2014-11-14
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Weekly and hourly earnings data from the Current Population Survey
Series Id: LEU0252881600
Series title: (unadj)- Constant (1982-84) dollar adjusted to CPI-U- Median usual weekly earnings, Employed full time, Wage and salary workers
Year Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Annual
1979 339 334 325 328 332
1980 324 314 315 317 318
1981 317 311 304 314 312
2012 337 335 329 336 335
2013 334 333 330 337 333
2014 339 328 332
Constant Dollars, Weekly Earning same in 1979 as 2014.
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Series Id: LEU0252882800
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (unadj)- Constant (1982-84) dollar adjusted to CPI-U- Median usual weekly earnings, Employed full time, Wage and salary workers, Women
Year Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Annual
1979 256 249 248 249 251
1980 248 242 241 242 244
2013 304 303 299 306 303
2014 307 301 300
All Industries, All Occupations, Women, 16 years and older.
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Well, Looks like Status Quo Politics. Both the Ds & the Rs... like the way things are going. They never talk about Sweeping Reforms. They protect their own money and sources of political funds.
Congress never looks at the Big Issues. Just look what they did in 2008 after the Financial Crash. Collectively they decided there was no Moral Hazard and that the People that got us into trouble paid big donations to keep the party going just like it was designed.
Looks like 2005 is when the Budget went totally out of Control.
We, The people, are making this thing run. Monthly Treasury Report, 30 September 2014.
2014 Federal Outlays = 3,504,199
2013 Federal Outlays = 3,535,881
2012 Federal Outlays = 3,538,286
2011 Federal Outlays = 3,630,146
2010 Federal Outlays = 3,455,931
2009 Federal Outlays = 3,653,290
2008 Federal Outlays = 2,978,440
2007 Federal Outlays = 2,778,632
2006 Federal Outlays = 2,654,873
2005 Federal Outlays = 2,472,310
2004 Federal Outlays = 2,292,628
2003 Federal Outlays = 2,211,712
2002 Federal Outlays = 2,011,016
2001 Federal Outlays = 1,854,945
2000 Federal Outlays = 1,788,143
So, figure - $1 T for Military (and Black Budget), $1 T for MEDICARE/MEDICAID, $1 T for Social Security.
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People can take on the power to control Government if they see a deeper truth.
Paid up to end of Fiscal year, 30 September 2014
2014 Individual Income Tax Revenue: $1.394 Trillion
2014 Corporate Income Tax Revenue: $320 Billion
IRS, Total Outlays—Internal Revenue Service, under Treasury, 2013 = $103.3 Billion (Boom)
IRS, Total Outlays—Internal Revenue Service, under Treasury, 2000 = $38 Billion
IRS, Total Outlays—Internal Revenue Service, under Treasury, 1998 = $33.2 Billion (??? What? For what??)
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IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 2013 = $57.5 Billion (?What?)
IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 2000 = $26 Billion
IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 1998 = $23.2 Billion
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IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 2013 = $21.6 Billion (?What?)
IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 2000 = $806 Million (Million)
IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 1998 = Zero.....
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Economy Slow enough for you, President Obama, John McCain, John Boner, Nancy Pelosi, Janet Yellen, Stanley Fischer...
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1V (M1 seems to increase with Mortgages)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2V (M2 seems to show different bubble perhaps)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MZMV (MZM seems to show peak in Economy 1981)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/A14187USA163NNBR
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MULT
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Deregulation leads to misery? Many industries in the United States became regulated by the federal government in the late 19th and early 20th century. Entry to some markets was restricted to stimulate and protect the initial investment of private companies into infrastructure to provide public services, such as water, electric and communications utilities.
Transportation, Energy, Communication, Finance, Free Trade, Campaign Finance
1978 - Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978,
1980 - Depository Institutions (J. Carter, followed by S&L Crisis, 5000 convictions, RTC)
1981 - Executive Order 12287, (R. Reagan, removed price controls on Petrol)
1992 - Energy Policy Act (H.W. Bush)
1994 - NAFTA, Deregulation of Trade, 3 Nations (W. Clinton)
1996 - Energy (W. Clinton, followed by ENRON Scandal)
1996 - Telecommunications Act (W. Clinton, cross ownership)
1999 - Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (Phil Gramm, W. Clinton, followed by 2008 Financial Crisis)
1999 - bombing campaign in Kosovo (W. Clinton, over 60 days)
2000 - Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (P. Gramm, W. Clinton, derivatives)
2002 - McCain–Feingold Act (G.W. Bush, Campaign Finance, soft money unlimited)
2005 - Energy Policy Act (G.W. Bush, subsidies, excluded clean air Water acts)
2005 - Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA).
2009 - 2014 Continuing Resolutions in which Congress gives up Budget Powers
2010 - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (money is free speech for corps)
2011 - US combat in Libya (B Obama, over 60 days)
- (Laissez-faire economic policies)
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Check out the Multiplier for M1... I may be wrong but 30 years ago the Multiplier for Manufacturing was cited as proof of where the engine of the Economy was.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MULT
Nobody talks about it anymore. But what with all that has been deregulated to facilitate "gaming the System" by Elites... MULT just proves how the Elites have Hobbled the Economy for the poor so we have to work for one of the big corporate powers and have to kiss ass for jobs.
Eunuchs, I say. They want to cut off our balls.
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Because we know there are fewer good jobs with good compensation, Open Borders drives down Wages, Open Borders creates a huge Black Market Labor Force, we know Capital is moving off shore and we have Decapitalized US Industries, we know that Free Trade isn't Free, isn't auditable, uses Slave Labor, and is part of what is ripping apart US Labor and making US into Debt Slaves.
- Capital Flight
- Brain Drain from US Industries
- Decapitalization
- Open Borders
- Off Shoring Corporate HQ, Off Shoring Production, Outsourcing, Free Trade Agreements that supersede US Laws
- CAFTA-DR, NAFTA
The Model is from Great Britain, Trade Model, this was used by Lords & Kings to get Rich from Cheap Overseas Goods from all around the Globe through Sea Trade Routes. So it is a Model of the Elites... and probably lead to lots of Crime in London where people were very poor.
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How do you or we get Justices that feel outrage about 9-11 to take the venue or lawsuit in their court?
- Presumably there are some Justices that feel outrage at 9-11
- Presumably there are justices that want justice and face voters to keep their jobs
18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
§?2381. Treason
§?2382. Misprision of treason
§?2383. Rebellion or insurrection
§?2384. Seditious conspiracy
§?2385. Advocating overthrow of Government
§?2386. Registration of certain organizations
- 1900s when US started Depending on Outsourced Produce
- 1960, when US started Outsourcing Auto Factories
- 1968, when Costs of Vietnam War became Obvious Problem
- 1971, Nixon Shock, US Refuses to convert USD to Gold for Foreign Holders of USD
- 1972, BCCI Bank created
- 1974, CIA Slapped with Investigations of Practices, they decide to Outsource & Subcontract
- 1978, Soviet-Afghanistan War Starts
- 1979, the Top of US Manufacturing
- 1979, when US Median Wages got Stuck or leveled out
- 1980, Presidential Campaign, Debt, Economy, Inflation, Iran
- 1981, the Top of US Money Velocity
- 1982, Ronald Reagan Maxes out DoD Budget
- 1982, CIA Begins using BCCI Bank
- 1986, DoD Contractors Soar with profits & plans
- 1990, Start of US Gulf War with Iraq, US & UK will Bomb Iraq for the next 13 years till US-Iraq War II
- 1994, NAFTA Treaty,
- 1995, Sub-prime mortgages started
- 1995, Community Reinvestment Act, the Clinton Admin urged flexibility,
- 1995, HUD advocated greater involvement of state and local organizations
- 1996, Start of a Period of Accounting Fraud in USA which continues today
- 1997, M2 Money Velocity Top
- 1998, Brooksly Born Rejected on her concerns on OTC Derivatives
- 1998, Derivatives expanded and were not regulated
- 1998, Clinton's Kosovo War
- 1998, Citicorp & Travelers Insurance Merger
- 1999, Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), End of Glass Steagal Act
- 2001, US-Afghan War
- 2003, US-Iraq War
- 2005, CAFTA-DR Related Progression
- 2005, US Mortgage Top of Bubble
- 2008, US-Global Financial Crisis
- 2012, Existing Home Sales finally return to USA
- 2013, IRS Budget exceeds $100 Billion since it now pays out cash to households as Credits
- 2013, Corporate Income Taxes Receipts still fail to return to 2006, 2007, or 2008 pre-crash Level of over $300 Billion
The MANY FACES of RICO Violations???
The movies are bad to boot. Forget the crappy propaganda, the art is shit now. CGI superhero movies.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
6.2/10 Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. (105 mins.) Director: Kenneth Branagh Stars: Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh LOL!Endless and I mean endless MIC, See Eye Aye, En Ess Aye, SWAT, cops in armor, droning, proxy wars and stolen gold propaganda to soften up the sheep.
The govt is so cool and people making UnConstitutional murders from some office building in VA or Maryland are just the coolest people and we all just want to be like them because they are so cool and powerful.
And we really love thoise black ops hit teams in movies that make Mercedes catch on fire while going 120 mph into a tree in LA due to a chip being taken over because some pesky journalist actually did his job.
But the good guys for Uncle Sam are so cool droning and killling. This is a few of the thing Hollywood spews.
And everybody in movies has a nice house or perfect teeth or a gun or a really cool but really secret govt job where they can rip off millions from some bad guy.
Yes and as Cornfed said - everything is loaded up with endless CGI. I stopped watching movies and never so the 3 Star Wars preqals but George Lucas went totally ape shit with CGI like all of the endless the comic book movies.
I'm right there with you. I don't go to movies. In fact, I hate them. They're a total waste of time and money. And this is coming from a guy who used to love movies...spent a half a career as a commercial photographer and studied film in college.
Now, over the holidays, I'll go to my relatives houses for dinner and sit and listen to their totally boring conversations about the all stupid movies they have all gone to see....that's all they do!
Hopefully on Friday the weather will be nice enough for a little outing to the firing range and then, over the rest of the holidays, I'll get to finish my latest read, "Snow and Steel" (a history of the Battle of the Bulge).
OR maybe, just maybe, 90% of all the movies SUCKED. Plus who wants to sit in a theater full of pot smoking texting and giggling teenies anyways.
Yeah man, like going out in the real world is stupid and stuff.
You nailed it! I went to the cinemas for a long time - being ripped off for shit movies and a bad experience. I steal movies now because they fucking owe me.
Bingo! We have a winner. Like my wife said, there is no reason to go to the theater.
+1 for quoting Davidowitz. Don't care that he's a jew, he tells the truth when it comes to retail reality. My favorite opening line from one of his pieces was this: "OK, here are the nunbers: We're broke."
That was a couple years ago. Little has changed since.
F Obam-Hollywood and F Obam-TV. It is for idiots and serfs who support the regime. They still love him in TV/Tinseltown.
Maybe Americans are finally waking up and conservatives realize that Fox and Murdoch are as evil as the rest.
Pull the plug on Hollywood and TV.
I wouldn't pay for anything coming out from Hollywood, because it is garbage in, garbage out.
Why should I give my hard earned monies to a bunch of Tribal propagandists, so that they can create even more trash propaganda.
'The Interview' probably saved them an embarrassment more than anything
I think this whole thing has been a publicity stunt to make people want to watch the movie to spite the Norks.
Yep the turnip has no blood
Hollywood worries about young Demographics? Well they have demonized white familes for deacdes and TV and Hollywood totally support open borders.
They need new movies like Pedro and His Monkey Go To Pasadena.
Let em eat cake.
LOL.
Too expensive for the bad writing and crappy acting.
You mean you don't like Shia LeBouf, James Franco, Ben Affleck, Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Logan Marhsall-Green and endless numbers of douchebags? Plus other tribe member young actors with hypenated names?
Haven't been to a movie theater since 2001 and I am not ever going again. Fuck hollywood and those hypocritical govt-humping assholes. They produce shitty flix and stories, and if they make a profit they use the money to fund assholes who want to deny us liberty. They can rot in fucking hell.
You sound super bitter and angry. But mostly lonely.
I bounce between the indies that make me think a little and the formulaic Hollywood shoot-em-ups that make me grin. Everything in between is usually poorly done.
Exactly, why would I give money to the pigs in that industry that provide millions in contributions to pigs like obama and every cause that is against my liberties. Only a BrainStem supports their own demise.
"In particular, young ticket buyers traditionally turned out weekend after weekend — with the quality of the films mattering less than the opportunity to fraternize. But this group is staying home more often."
Yeah, home in their parents basement cause they don't have the money to go to a shitty movie.
Maybe it has something to do with $11 tickets...
More like the $11 popcorn.
Yeah man that darn theater food is sooo expensive!!! Can you trll us about the quality of airline food now?
You know, ZH gets its share of shitty trolls, but you are the worse.
If you're going to be a jackass, at least entertain us. This isn't twitter, you know.
Or is your one line crap the best you can muster?
Well he is a pro-Hollywood and we know everything in Hollywood is shit just like his trolling.
Your village wants you back.
You can get a whole month of shitty movies on Netflix for less than that.
Tru dat is !!!
Tru dat is !!!
Apparently one can't use an ebt card to go to the movies.
Not for the ticket....but the snack counter qualifies.
What if you buy grocery for buddies with EBT for $.60 on the dollar, and then use the proceeds to see Expendables 8 or whatever the current one is.
Hello Movie Theaters. Your damn tickets cost too much!
How is porn doing?
Fine -on the internet.
It's amazing...the porn. All the Free Porn you need thanks to Satan and his minions....They keep talking about the money made in porn....is it just me, or am I the only one who hasn't paid for it? Unless you count the click fees on those Russian Hottie Dating sights on ZH.
QE4!!!!!!!
In America profits are guaranteed, or the banks will fail and take civilisation with them!
Since I have not gotten a raise for 8 years (and neither has anyone else at my place), movies theaters can go punk themselves and go Belly Up so they can share in my fortune. I don't see ever going to a crowded theater again and paying those prices for something I can easily watch at home [or sponge off my parents at their house].
Don't worry about Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox execs. They got plenty.
BangBros prolly doing just as well.
I'm saving my dosh for Rambo26; stuff you can believe in.
I hear termintor 23, where arnold comes back as Abraham Lincoln and burns Atlanta all by hisself, is pretty good. Unfortunately, the cartoon show "The Terminator and Mr Peabody" becomes a flop...
I do not watch Hollywood or TV shit but your Terminator sounds pretty good. Better than the Honest Abe the vampire killer they actually made.
It sounds like years better than the Seth Rogen and James Franco (highly unlikable) film that was killed because it is a pile of shit.
forgot about that one. Never watched it but thought the whole concept was bizarre...
Yeah Abe vampire killer. More like Abe the killer of the Republic who helped turn America back over to the Red Shield banksters. Marriner Eccles and the rest helped some more in 1913.
Are you referring to Honest Abe Vigoda?
Loved that guy in Cannonball Run 2.
im sure Sharknado 3,4 and 5 are in the works.....and you only have to pay with your IQ.....
I remember when you could take your best gal to a moving picture show and buy two tickets, two popcorn and two drinks for a dollar!
When I was in high school, you could get in for $ 0.50, park in the balcony, make out, get your dick rubbed your finger wet, and feel some hard nipples. Now that was entertainment at it's finest. Don't recall a single Movie Title from the era. Go figure.
Yeah, but that was probably two SILVER quarters!
Marlboro gave me 2 movie passes for my birthday so I took my son to see the Hobbit. Someone still cares.
Black and Mild (part of Marlboro), just sent me a set of bedroom slippers I didn't even order, ask for or anything. They just showed up! I've already told Marlboro (who has also sent me free stuff) that I get more tangible things from them than the government. They are generous with their customers even though they get taken to the cleaners for taxes. Kudos to those companies, and thanks!
You might want to ponder how they knew what to send you, when to send it, and where to send it...
Probably should have scalped the tickets for lung cancer expenses. Just saying. (kidding) lmao Oh wait, my bad....Obamacare has that covered. Carry on.
Hollywood will blame piracy, encourage the FBI to scrub everyone's hard drives for their precious films, only to discover it's really because no one gives a shit and there's no money left to buy tickets.
Well you know, how's anyone supposed to make it to the movies or go shopping when it's so cold outside.
Let's see...
A laborously inclusively cast Annie didn't lure white and latino viewers. Clue: Annie ain't The Wiz and The Wiz ain't Annie even they are both second rate musicals.
The James Franco fronted extended SNL skit stylee retread of Team America got shelved.
Even children are bored with the likes of Eddy Murphy and Mila Kunis repetitively voicing the same pie-eyed CGI plants, furry animals, faires, dolls and misc. anamorphic junk in 80 minute toy advertisements with de-rigeur 70's pop music dance number anti-climaxes.
Morgan Freedman fatigue.
People that cannot forgo use of their cellular devices for an hour and a half are ruining the theater experience. Not just movies. All of it.
42" lcd screens, blueray, WI, Xbox, netflix, dish, youtube, ESPN, etc.: ALL from your fucking couch.
Did anyone notice that I ZH assigned me the Unknown Comic's photo?
I'm writing a screenplay based on this development.
Dude, that is funny .....let us know how it turns out.
Adam Sandler or Ben Stiler should be able to absolutely ruin whatever you got....
Why anyone would want to pay to subject himself to Hollywood's audio/visual brainwashing is totally beyond me. If he likes stories, there are many good novels published every year.
television is better, better writing, pause when you need to, take a piss whenever, and people just wait for movies to come out now, or i do anyway
China has been fucking hollywood for years. Ebay is a treasure trove of Chinese pirated dvd's that look like the real thing, except they are single layer, not copy-protected and iffy quality. Everytime I get a pirated set I ask for a refund and keep the dvd's.
I'm waiting for Rocky 11, the Zombie Match.
Stallone is already using moar makeup than most Zombie Movies and he still looks worse off!
Could the real reason be that the sheeple are starting to wake up to the political propaganda and social programming/engineering packed into every jew made POS coming out of hollywood?
No?
You got that right. Just watched Maze Runner and it kept me entertained - then at the end they hit the exit and find - the 'sun scorched Earth' and a bunch of guys in black suits and black helicopters to haul them away.
'70 inch bigscreen for $1,500 means I stay home and wait for it to come out out HBO, Netflix etc. And as another astute poster mentioned, concessions at theatres are a rip-off. I am not a broke joke but see no reason to pay big money when I can wait a few months for that blockbuster and see it at hole where I can have a cocktail, get burnt, have the gf make some great snacks and get blown all at the same time for far less.
The Canadians are beginning to make better entertainment than Hollywood, that should tell you all something in and of itself...
70 inch bigscreen for $1,500 means I stay home and wait for it to come out out HBO, Netflix etc. And as another astute poster mentioned, concessions at theatres are a rip-off. I am not a broke joke but see no reason to pay big money when I can wait a few months for that blockbuster and see it at hole where I can have a cocktail, get burnt, have the gf make some great snacks and get blown all at the same time for far less.
Exactly what "hole" are you seeing it at? You have a big screen in the ice fishing house? Sweet.
ROFL actually sometimes less than a few months-i keep seeing "ON DEMAND same day as theaters"
My movie is pretty good. Feature film I wrote, directed and produced.
Called Caution To The Wind. You could look it up, if curious.
AC
I am over 54, which means I am out of the prime demos for anything that is consumption based. Note that demos cut off at 54...there is a reason.
I cannot stand the bullshit in all media.
I also cannot be ''sold '' on anything and god help the next poor bastard that accosts me with a sales pitch against my will. Heard it all, done much of it, not interested, fuck off you are wasting my time.
Part of this is that I took the red pill years ago and frequent sites like ZH.
Another part is that I remember the 70's, one example, so when Hollywoodland makes a film about 1978 and I watch it, the look, feel, and sound of it is off. Some of it is correct, but much of it is not - a fictionalised version of a past that I remember.
I am also burnt out on English language culture and watch stuff in Spanish, Russian, French, enjoying lots of 70's vinyl rips of south american jazz bands lately.
I would tell you youngúns that films don't represent historical reality at all, except as though it were a TV version of reality you would watch on TV then, on a film screen, but you are young, you know everything, and you won't listen.
Mostly I garden, and learn languages, and travel, and my TV has been sitting in a spare room covered by a blanket for years.
Last time I went to a theatre 10 years ago I noticed I was older than everyone and realised what that meant - films are for beaners in baggie shorts.
Well actually you just shifted to a new demographic - where you get targeted for ED, adult diapers, and hair loss cream.
Last time the Wife and I went to the cinema was to see Prometheus. High expectations (from the diector of the original Alien), total POS.
Dumb, dumb, and dumb. Bad everything, especially plot.
We were invited to see Gravity with friends - turned that down (3D it may be, crap it certainly was).
Seems the "A" Standard films these days are far worse than many "B" Standard ones. Only REALLY good films we've seen of late (on DVD mind you) - District 9, and the amazingly low-budget "Monsters".
Big thumbs up for District 9. Possibly the most under-rated and provacative SciFi film of the last decade. Gritty, realistic -and ultimately saddening.
The surprisingly sprung, wild and dirty mecha battle climax is in itself worthy of a viewing even if the well crafted back story and developement of the central character is of no interest...
Hello, Leraconteur!
May you and yours have a very happy and safe holiday season.
Cheers!
The Throxx Of Vron
I think Hollywood and the theaters have become slaves to the blockbuster - where they can charge $11 to $15 a head and suck another $20 out if your wallet for concessions. But what is hurting them now us that you have to pay the same prices for the B grade movies - and there are tons more of those that get slapped together and released.
So the blockbusters will do well - along with some family movies (with kids prices) - but when given the choice of $35 for two people to see a B grade movie, they are no longer going, and instead find something on Netfix.
Hollywood sucky sucky long time, but this is the
Best song ever about "the movies".........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkjFhoW2ns
Well Saturday night at 8 o'clock
I know where I'm gonna go
I'm a gonna pick my baby up
And take her to the picture show
Everybody in the neighborhood
Is dressing up to be there too
And we're gonna have a ball
Just like we always do
Saturday night at the movies
Who cares what picture you see?
When you're hugging with your baby
In last row in the balcony
Well there's Technicolor and Cinemascope
The best out of Hollywood
And the popcorn from the candy stand
Makes it all seem twice as good
There's always lots of pretty girls
With figures they don't try to hide
But they never can compare
To the girl sittin' by my side
Saturday night at the movies
Who cares what picture you see?
When you're hugging with your baby
In last row in the balcony
Saturday night at the movies
Who cares what picture you see?
When you're hugging with your baby
In last row in the balcony
Saturday night at the movies
Who cares what picture you see?
When you're hugging with your baby
In last row in the balcony
Was there a movie worth watching in 2014?
If yes I missed it.
Most of the new movies stink! Real car chases are replaced with CGI. Everything is about bling bling, blood and bad story plots. I watched a movie recently called 'The Mechanic'. What a complete waste of time. Now compare that with 'The Getaway' or 'Midnight Run'. It's day and night. The last movie I saw at the theater was Monsters and Aliens (3D) with my 8 year old around 2008, I think. With Popcorn and Icee, I think I spent over $45.
Find a good melodrama or romcom Bollywood movie as long as you can stand the English language subtitles. Long (about 2 hours 20 minutes), good plots, a few songs thrown in. Many of these films are very positive and upbeat in their outlook. "Bang Bang" for instance, a remake of the stupid film "Knight and Day", was very entertaining. And on Sundays where I am, you can see it for $5.
When the TV programming plays false flag action movies 24/7 and all the crisis actors say "It was like I was in a movie" who needs Hollywood anymore?
Do you really need to pay to see Vin Diesel play an ex-con co-opted FBI informant gone rouge that is hunted down and killed when you could watch the Boston Bombing Hoax for free?
I'm putting up a GoFundMe to put on an major Black-tie event called the Mocksters
It's an Major Awards Banquet mocking parody cross of the Oscars (Hollywood) & Monsters (i.e golem slave crisis actors) that can double as a model for anyone willing to set one for the Banksters
This years Best Fraudster Award goes to Cassidy Stay. The satan worshipping fraud that so beautifully acted the part of the sole survivor of a family mass execution by a lone deranged gunman. Praise satan that the bullet intended for her head ricocheted off her finger. Her survival enabled her to laugh and smile in public celebration 2 days later. And enabled her to praise the work of the brilliant Caduceus snakes that saved her finger and JK Rowling in a satanic reference to seeing the light
Second runner up Gabby "Dual-citizen" Gifford whose over the top portrayal of a congresswoman shot in the head and surviving a lone gunman was just not enough to take the cake
Besides the comfort of watching it on my big screen, with full surround, sectional sofa, and no jack offs near me to piss me off. Why would I throw my hard earned fiats at some retread drivel regurgitated by an incestious industry that ran out of fresh idead decades ago???
I used to go to movies. Then prices rocketed.
Then I discovered torrents.
One word: Netflix
I haven't been to a movie theater in almost 18 years. The movie was "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery." Uncomfortable seats, can't smoke or drink beer, surrounded by morons who won't shut up. Yeah, baby, yeah....errr, I think I'll stay home.
All they do is remake the same movies over and over again...how many Batmans are there? How many King Kongs have they made? Or 'Part 2, Part 3, part 46", whatever, of every movie ever made...
I'm in my 50's...I've already SEEN these movies, the first time they came out. Back when they had actual actors in them, instead of CGI effects.
And why the hell would I need 'free refills' on a soda that comes in a half-gallon cup? It's a 2 hour movie...unless I wear a catheter or something...seriously...charge me half-price and I'll forego the refills...
Well this will all change in '15 with Star Wars. I've seen 4 movies at a theater in as long as I can recall, and 3 of them were Star Wars. Transformers was good too. But that one movie will bloat their numbers for sure next year.