quality vs quantity might make a difference to (Score 1)

really, what does hollywood have to bitch about? They are one of the few industries still showing growth in profits with the american economy in the shitter, they are making more last year than the year before, and that trend CONTINUES. In fact, since the advent of easily accessible internet sources for copies of media, the film and music industries have never done better. But my main complaint is that the quality of films latley vs the number in theaters is ridiculous. The quality of films up until around the mid 90's to early 2000's really were leaps and strides above previous films in terms of cinematic technology, but the fact is that a large portion of films seeing theater time today are utter shit compared to titles produced 15, 20, or even 30 or more years ago. Look at how rare it is to see a film hailed as a true gem of a film, we have the occasional one, but look at the kind of ratings vs number of films coming out today compares to film history taken on a whole, how many films like Seven Samurai, the Godfather, Star wars, Schindlers list, Shawshank Redemption, Lord of the rings, casablanca, Cross of Iron, Snow White, Toy Story, The nightmare before Christmas, Monty Python, Animal house, Die Hard, Wizard of Oz, the Exorcist, Haloween, Jaws, Psycho, the Matrix, 6th sense, Forrest gump, Jurrasic Park, singing in the rain, Apocalypse Now, and Harry Potter. Now how many of these were made recently? Maybe we would come see your movies in the theater if they were bloody worth watching. You know what we have had lately? I can name very few off the top of my head. The dark Knight, Serenity, Sin City, Murderball (all films that were made to please the kind of people who pirate allot of movies, the overlap of net savvy individuals and comic book nerds is high) and you know what? A massive number of people went and saw them in the theater, even if they pirated it, I know I did, because if its a good film, you WANT to see it on the big screen, and you WANT to own a copy of the DVD and buy merchandise related to it. The damn Harry Pottter films are on the top 100 highest grossing films list, so is Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars, you know why? because they were GOOD films, and yet those were also on the top 100 most downloaded movies list of all times for places the pirate bay, demonoid, isohunt, and a dozen other torrent sites. Guess what, a couple of them are still on the top 100 most popluar torrents (most seeds/downloaders active), and DVD sales are still higher than average on all of those based on how long they have been available. So the most pirated films of all time are making the most money and have the longest curve on dvd sales. Well film industry, you just keep alienating your core group of supporters and see what happens to your profit margin.