Is there something wrong with this top 10?
04-27-04 | 04:00 PM
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Originally posted by soxfandoug
I think even paid admissions don't due the trick. I know quite a few people that skipped LOTR:ROTK in theaters because they would prefer to watch it in the comfort of their home theater. People that wanted to see Gone with the Wind had no such option.
Even if I do go see a movie in theaters, no matter how much I love it I most likely will only see it once, and wait for the DVD for my repeat viewings. If DVD didn't exist, I probably would have seen a movie like Memento 10 times in the theater, when I actually only saw it in theaters once.
I think even paid admissions don't due the trick. I know quite a few people that skipped LOTR:ROTK in theaters because they would prefer to watch it in the comfort of their home theater. People that wanted to see Gone with the Wind had no such option.
Even if I do go see a movie in theaters, no matter how much I love it I most likely will only see it once, and wait for the DVD for my repeat viewings. If DVD didn't exist, I probably would have seen a movie like Memento 10 times in the theater, when I actually only saw it in theaters once.
04-27-04 | 04:24 PM
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Originally posted by marty888
Otherwise, they should simply be counting the number of paid admissions.
Otherwise, they should simply be counting the number of paid admissions.
CD sales are not tracked by the dollar amount, but by the copies sold. When they announce sellouts for stadiums they don't say how much money was made for the game, its how many people are in the stands.
This is something that really aggrevates me!
04-27-04 | 06:03 PM
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Originally posted by Pants
You are so dead wrong it's not even funny. At the height of the studio system each studio turned out an average of one film a week. That means each studio released 50+ films a year. Multiply that by 6 major studios, then add in the few smaller studios. The output of films today is miniscule by comparison.
You are so dead wrong it's not even funny. At the height of the studio system each studio turned out an average of one film a week. That means each studio released 50+ films a year. Multiply that by 6 major studios, then add in the few smaller studios. The output of films today is miniscule by comparison.
http://us.imdb.com/TitlesByYear?year...include-titles
Skip the TV series, made-for-TV movies, pornos, etc and the 2003 list is still longer. Same with the other letters of the alphabet.
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04-27-04 | 08:51 PM
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Originally posted by tanman
The industry really should switch to [the number of paid admissions]
The industry really should switch to [the number of paid admissions]
04-28-04 | 11:22 AM
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Originally posted by Jeremy517
http://us.imdb.com/TitlesByYear?year...include-titles
http://us.imdb.com/TitlesByYear?year...include-titles
Skip the TV series, made-for-TV movies, pornos, etc and the 2003 list is still longer. Same with the other letters of the alphabet.
http://us.imdb.com/TitlesByYear?year...include-titles
http://us.imdb.com/TitlesByYear?year...include-titles
Skip the TV series, made-for-TV movies, pornos, etc and the 2003 list is still longer. Same with the other letters of the alphabet.
The IMDb is great up to a point but they've got an entry for everything. I was a PA on a movie that was shot but ran out of money and was never even completed and my name is on there. It's a joke. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248273/
04-29-04 | 11:44 AM
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Looking at those lists I maintain that if we were to do as you say and take off all the porn and TV shows, we would still have to take off the short films, exercise videos, independent films that were put up on the IMDb for publicity purposes but were never finished or released, avante garde experimental films, etc. Lets face it, the number of new, feature length films that appear on America's screens each year is no where near the approximately 400 feature films per year released by H'wood studios each year under the studio system. Each major studio today only releases approximately 12 films a year now.
04-29-04 | 12:21 PM
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Originally posted by Pants
Looking at those lists I maintain that if we were to do as you say and take off all the porn and TV shows, we would still have to take off the short films, exercise videos, independent films that were put up on the IMDb for publicity purposes but were never finished or released, avante garde experimental films, etc.
Looking at those lists I maintain that if we were to do as you say and take off all the porn and TV shows, we would still have to take off the short films, exercise videos, independent films that were put up on the IMDb for publicity purposes but were never finished or released, avante garde experimental films, etc.
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