Cinematics, Me, My Movies, and the Movie Industry (or CineMMMMI for short)
Before I get down and dirty, let me introduce to you my new best friend.
Like the hot blonde on the subway yesterday, I just want to stare at her ches--er, the screen all day. The rundown? 24" widescreen, 1080p, and alot of yummy desktop screen space.
This let's me watch HD-DVD movies in all it's HD-DVD glory. Ever watch a movie on your non-widescreen monitor and get really annoyed that the HD feed is letterboxed? Ever watch an HD movie on a 62" widescreen HDTV? If the letterbox didn't annoy you before, it really does after that.
Besides trying to justify why I blew so much money on a widescreen monitor, I really want to talk about the movie industry.
Because of the things that I mentioned above, there's almost very little reason to watch a movie in the theatre anymore. Granted, there are still some movies that must be seen on a big screen surrounded by giant megaspeakers, but there are other films where that surrounding doesn't make a difference.
The cost of movie theatres is also rediculous. I could watch a movie for close to 15 bucks a person, or I could wait two months (the dvd release times are getting shorter and shorter) and buy the DVD for 20 bucks.
Why doesn't the movie industry just suck it up and release movies in theatres and dvd at the same time? I understand that they are trying to maximize the amount of money they make, but there are different ways to approach it.
You know how many families would watch a movie and then buy the movie immediately after? For example, a family of four go see a kids movie. The kids love the movie so much that when they are exiting the theatre, they see the DVD right there on a sales rack and scream and kick until the parents spend the money to buy the dvd so they can watch it again at home.
I mean, sure, that may be an isolated incident, but imagine the possibilities. If you lowered the cost of movie tickets down to let's say 5 dollars (and i'm using NYC's 15 dollar movie ticket as a gauge, so your country-suburb 6 dollar ticket might scale down differently), how many people would go see a movie just to see it, so that they could decide on if they wanted to add the dvd movie to their collection? I can't prove it, but I speculate that DVD sales would rise if more people were exposed to the movie.
People always talk about the death of theatres, and the theatres have been able to adapt so far in staying alive. I think the movie industry and the theatre companies need to work together once again to adapt to these new entertainment conditions.
Because really, if they don't, I'm just going to watch movies at home on my shiny new 24" widescreen monitor.
Like the hot blonde on the subway yesterday, I just want to stare at her ches--er, the screen all day. The rundown? 24" widescreen, 1080p, and alot of yummy desktop screen space.
This let's me watch HD-DVD movies in all it's HD-DVD glory. Ever watch a movie on your non-widescreen monitor and get really annoyed that the HD feed is letterboxed? Ever watch an HD movie on a 62" widescreen HDTV? If the letterbox didn't annoy you before, it really does after that.
Besides trying to justify why I blew so much money on a widescreen monitor, I really want to talk about the movie industry.
Because of the things that I mentioned above, there's almost very little reason to watch a movie in the theatre anymore. Granted, there are still some movies that must be seen on a big screen surrounded by giant megaspeakers, but there are other films where that surrounding doesn't make a difference.
The cost of movie theatres is also rediculous. I could watch a movie for close to 15 bucks a person, or I could wait two months (the dvd release times are getting shorter and shorter) and buy the DVD for 20 bucks.
Why doesn't the movie industry just suck it up and release movies in theatres and dvd at the same time? I understand that they are trying to maximize the amount of money they make, but there are different ways to approach it.
You know how many families would watch a movie and then buy the movie immediately after? For example, a family of four go see a kids movie. The kids love the movie so much that when they are exiting the theatre, they see the DVD right there on a sales rack and scream and kick until the parents spend the money to buy the dvd so they can watch it again at home.
I mean, sure, that may be an isolated incident, but imagine the possibilities. If you lowered the cost of movie tickets down to let's say 5 dollars (and i'm using NYC's 15 dollar movie ticket as a gauge, so your country-suburb 6 dollar ticket might scale down differently), how many people would go see a movie just to see it, so that they could decide on if they wanted to add the dvd movie to their collection? I can't prove it, but I speculate that DVD sales would rise if more people were exposed to the movie.
People always talk about the death of theatres, and the theatres have been able to adapt so far in staying alive. I think the movie industry and the theatre companies need to work together once again to adapt to these new entertainment conditions.
Because really, if they don't, I'm just going to watch movies at home on my shiny new 24" widescreen monitor.
posted by Allen M @ 10/13/2006 04:42:00 PM
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