Hollywood 101

Warrenellis.com » Bums On Seats:

"Now, one KING KONG-sized film supposedly eats two tickets for anything else because of its run time. Of course, the McDonald’s cinema paradigm means every film theatre has thirty-seven screens, each the size of a 1971 Philco television set, so there’s no real shortage of other (mainstream Hollywood) things to see. So, honestly, that argument seems to hold little water in most places. It’s not like the days of my youth, when the Southend Odeon was considered a marvel of modern technology for having three whole screens. And, frankly, summer movies have always been shit, so there’s not an incredibly compelling argument to make for The Creative Death Of Hollywood. No more compelling than usual, anyway. It’d be easy, probably too easy, to make the case for Hollywood having forgotten how to make movies. FUN WITH DICK AND JANE is not a $100 million dollar movie. I mean, come on. STEALTH should have been direct to DVD, as should DOOM. The creative and financial crisis is obvious."