MOVIES
> As Ian Mohr writes, last year studios waited about four and a half months before bringing out a movie on DVD. That number has been decreasing since, and “one studio chief predicts it could dwindle to just two months, or even fewer for box-office flops.”
All I can say is: Please do this. Of course, it will mean the death of stupid movie theaters but that’s fine. Theaters need to realize that they need to sell a premium product, rather than thinking that their product (watching a movie in the theater) is the best thing around by default. Theaters are too expensive (it cost almost $20 for me, Kim, and Allison to go to a matinee last weekend!), and the big thing is that they don’t care if you have a good movie experience. I’ve never seen somebody kicked out of the theater for anything, even after complaints were made. If they put out movies on DVD a month after theatrical release, people will stop going to the theaters unless they can get good service, a better experience, better food, something that sets it apart. The theater is dead, long live the theater.
e that terrible first Christmas after it was released when I literally could not go into a bookstore without hearing at least one person go on and on about the book. Now that the movie has come out and it’s also crap (but how could it not be really?) it turns out that the only people unafraid to knock the thing are the movie critics. Good for them.
All I can say is: Please do this. Of course, it will mean the death of stupid movie theaters but that’s fine. Theaters need to realize that they need to sell a premium product, rather than thinking that their product (watching a movie in the theater) is the best thing around by default. Theaters are too expensive (it cost almost $20 for me, Kim, and Allison to go to a matinee last weekend!), and the big thing is that they don’t care if you have a good movie experience. I’ve never seen somebody kicked out of the theater for anything, even after complaints were made. If they put out movies on DVD a month after theatrical release, people will stop going to the theaters unless they can get good service, a better experience, better food, something that sets it apart. The theater is dead, long live the theater.