Box Office boo-hooing again

[adam]

Everything that I said came straight out of the NY times article, so yeah I read it. When read in its proper context I believe the statistic is fairly innocuous, as I said. Its certainly not a measure of govt. aid since it is nothing more than a subsidation for a private entity. They're loans. The govt. does the same thing for teachers, military, etc... but the individual still has to qualify for the loan. I was suggesting that others should read the article themselves since the statistic cannot be taken at face value when it is used, out of context, as the link label on a site positively filled with anti-bush/war/conservative propoganda.

Too off topic for me. The article is there so people can read it themselves. If anyone cares enough they can start a new thread.

[TBoneit]

ah. drive-ins.

The affordable way for a family to go see a movie. Load the kids in the car, add the big bag of homemade popcorn buttered with real butter!, cans of soda in the cooler.

unfortunately air conditioning being wanted while watching the movie, poor economics of only one evening showing, high land taxes have doomed drive-ins. sigh...

[edDV]

ah. drive-ins.

The affordable way for a family to go see a movie. Load the kids in the car, add the big bag of homemade popcorn buttered with real butter!, cans of soda in the cooler.

unfortunately air conditioning being wanted while watching the movie, poor economics of only one evening showing, high land taxes have doomed drive-ins. sigh...

In the cold north country, hot air heaters were needed to extend the season. The walk to the snack bar could freeze you solid.

[ROF]

Our Drive-Ins are open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. (May-Sept)

The last weekend the local one was open they ran nothing but horror flicks. 4 movies for $10 a person. 9:00PM - 3:30AM. Great fun!

[Dv8ted2]

What makes the movie industry think they are entitled to make boatloads of money year after year?

Every business has ups and downs and ins and outs.

[painkiller]

I like that question.

Chances are they (RIAA & MPAA) don't though.

(Who do they think they are - oil magnates? heh)

[somebodeez]

Our Drive-Ins are open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. (May-Sept)

The last weekend the local one was open they ran nothing but horror flicks. 4 movies for $10 a person. 9:00PM - 3:30AM. Great fun!

Ahhhhh now that's awesome!

[somebodeez]

(Who do they think they are - oil magnates? heh)

AHaHaHa!

[Rich86]

I remember bunches of us going to the drive-in many years ago in high school and taking over the entire back row. Sometimes it was "buck night" - $1 per car no matter how many kids were in it. Sometimes we had to pay $1 per person (the trunks were heavy on those nights). I'm sure the MPAA would frown on that these days and some folks in this forum would call us "pirates". But then - I don't recall ever actually watching a movie on any of those nights anyway, so maybe we were innocent after all . . . . well, not toally innocent . . .

[LDinOR]

My parents had six kids, this was the fifties and they had a big old Mercury. On a week end night we all piled in the car, made a stop at a local burger joint for their 6 for a dollar cheeseburgers and headed for the drive-in theater. A cheap way to take the kids out once in a while, the youngest of which would fall asleep by movies end. The old man would pull the Vodka out from under the dashboard, so he was happy. Years later my girlfriend and I sat in my souped up Ford and made out in the back row, we had to invent the movies plot if our parents asked about it. Those days are long over as that theater closed years ago, I think there is a freaking WalMart there now. Too bad!

[mattso]

What really pisses me is actors don't act anymore. Most of them walk through their roles... Most of these people get famous and don't want to put their all out anymore. They start getting paid for name recognition not acting ability.
How stupid is that?
Compare that to a Lee Marvin William Holden Jimmy Cagney or Kirk Douglas.
They gave every role their best.
Even a disabled Kirk Douglas is still better than most of todays Hollywood.

Not just actors - directors too. Spielberg: case in point. "War Of The Worlds" was movie directing at its laziest. Trash.

Like everybody seems to be saying, make good movies, we'll pour into the cinemas. But what they're dishing out to us is multi-million-dollar garbage. What a criminal waste of money.

[RottenFoxBreath]

spielbergs war of the turds was rubbish.
he was just making do with what basic crappy license he got to make it,as he never got the rights to the real story.

[oldfart13]

The last drive-in land here was bought up by the Jehovah's Witnesses and turned into their main complex.

Things I hate even worse than cell phones ringing at the movies: people who want their old single life back so in order to save on babysitting insist on bringing their infant children (under 2 years old) to every film they go to regardless of the time. I had a late show Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire (10PM+) ruined by a couple who thought it was really funny to have their son yell out at all the characters on screen everytime they appeared. I told them I wasn't laughing but the sarcasm was wasted on them. Luckily the kid fell asleep about 11:30Pm but these are what Dr. Spock in the 60's would have called "bad parents". What happened? No one tell them this anymore??

[gadgetguy]

oldfart13,
I had the same experience in the same movie. Do you think it's a conspiracy?

[cyflyer]

Compare that to a Lee Marvin William Holden Jimmy Cagney or Kirk Douglas.
They gave every role their best

How true Gully. Give me Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Alec Guiness, Kenneth Moore, Shaun Connery any day.

Superman ? Again, another remake ? Have they totally run out of ideas in hollywood ?

[TBoneit]

Our Drive-Ins are open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. (May-Sept)

The last weekend the local one was open they ran nothing but horror flicks. 4 movies for $10 a person. 9:00PM - 3:30AM. Great fun!

what area is that, As far as I know they closed the last drive-in here in NJ a while ago. I used to prefer drive-ins. Maybe not surround sound but they had something that is missing in the multiplexes.

[mattso]

Give me Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Alec Guiness, Kenneth Moore, Shaun Connery any day.

Superman ? Again, another remake ? Have they totally run out of ideas in hollywood ?

Yes they have. Money & creative ideas DO NOT go together.

It's Sean Connery, by the way. Great actor back in the '60s.

And Lee Marvin was a legend.

They don't make 'em like they used to.