XFX3d opened this issue on Feb 07, 2006 ยท 151 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 08 February 2006 at 1:20 PM
If your goal is to sell things -- then give the people what they want.
BTW - as an aside, this rule is a fact of life which Hollywood used to understand. But these days, the movie moguls have forgotten it in exchange for obsessively stroking their own egos.
And now, Hollywood producer-types are debating among themselves over the deep mystery of why box-office receipts have been plummeting so badly in recent years. Their conclusions usually have something to do with ancillary issues such as DVD sales, piracy, or cable TV. No -- their over-inflated egos won't permit any of them to acknowledge the presence of the elephant in the room. Namely: that they aren't supplying the movie-going public with stuff that the largest segment of the public actually wants to go out and pay their hard-earned money to see. No.....instead they want to attempt to force-feed us with subject matter that most of us have no taste for, and don't want. Whether it's social issues, or left-leaning "message" movies.
Until such time as Hollywood re-learns what it used to know, then they'll continue to suffer financially for the sake of their......"art".
In the meantime, the few Star-Wars type blockbusters that the movie industry chooses to reluctantly offer to the uneducated, unenlightened redneck hoi-polloi will help to carry the financial water for those far-more-important "message" movies that no one actually goes to see. Or sees in very small numbers.
Ancillary matters like EULA's and store merchant policies have little to do with selling anything to the Poser public.
Giving 'em what they actually want to buy is about 98% of the equation.