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Post #133355

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Master Sifo-Dyas
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Piracy not to blame in decline of moviegoers
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Date created
25-Aug-2005, 6:58 AM
Heya, I've stumbled across an interesting NY-Times article linked to by Slashdot:
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Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 25, @11:27AM from the fear-itself dept.

lucyfersam writes "In a somewhat surprisingly earnest assessment, the NYTimes has an article about the massive decline in movie-going that does not once try to blame piracy and file-sharing programs. It sounds like studios are beginning to understand that they have only themselves to blame." From the article: "Multiples theories for the decline abound: a failure of studio marketing, the rising price of gas, the lure of alternate entertainment, even the prevalence of commercials and pesky cellphones inside once-sacrosanct theaters. But many movie executives and industry experts are beginning to conclude that something more fundamental is at work: Too many Hollywood movies these days, they say, just are not good enough."
What are your thoughts on this?