From TMP:
With the Summer 2011 movie season behind us now, the numbers have come in. While most movie-goers and even websites (ourselves included) have been adamant that this has been one of the better Summer's for movies in several years, the numbers can't lie. Theater attendance this year was at it's lowest point since well over a decade...
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It just hurts my heart. I mean, I'm already going to have to explain to my son what a VHS tape is. I hope I don't have to explain to him that 'back in the day' we went and saw movies on a big screen, and not just at home.
Cheapening the price of home video releases isn't helping. DVD and Blu-ray releases don't seem to hold up their initial value for a long time, so you have a lot of people focusing on getting titles on sale, and just not having the extra energy and cash to want to go see more movies in theaters.
I don't see why many websites are saying this is one of the best summers ever. Just want to know why, im not bashing anyone's opinion (especially a fellow writer lol).
My take
Last year alone was WAY better, and next year is already shaping up to be ten times better. Last year we got thing like How to Train your Dragon, Toy Story, even Inception (one of the few movies recently released to blow me away). This year we got a bunch of introductions to Avengers, and a Green Lantern movie nobody supposedly liked.
This is the problem for me. A really good example of this problem, how many movies are "converted" to 3D after production? Its a half arsed attempt to make a quick buck. We all know having true 3D (like Avatar) takes effort right down to the cinematographer shooting things differently. To me this half arsed attempt is seen throughout all the major movies, except animation. How many movies have deep stories anymore? Things you walk away remembering? Having a changed experience and bringing you into an entirely new world? very few do it. Most have you sitting there "oh that was cool visuals" and thats about it. Some like Thor and Captain America head in this direction then its over before it ever gets there so they could have a few extra action sequences.
Combine this with the prices and the fact Hollywood rather have money than good experiences and you see how they shoot themselves in the foot all the time and don't care.
I have a drive-in movie theater in my town. I want more of those :)
Probably the best way to see a movie imo.
I don't know what I'd do with myself in theaters went away. I know more and more people are choosing to stay at home, but the theater business brought in BILLIONS. That isn't going to just go away. Sure, it might decline, but I don't see theaters completely going away.