I think this thread deserves a bump.
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Perhaps it's also worthy of being elevated to the Star Wars Discussion zone.
Lucas after all is most famed for Star Wars and mentions it in the quote on the first post.
It'd be nice to see Hollywood shot in the foot. It'd be even better, though, if the same happened to the music industry.
I certainly think the Blockbusters have picked up a lot in the few years since this thread was made.
Yes, Lucas of that quote would have died seeing the cash Avatar raked in. Of course, by that time, Lucas had changed his mind and denied ever saying that.
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doubleofive said:
Yes, Lucas of that quote would have died seeing the cash Avatar raked in. Of course, by that time, Lucas had changed his mind and denied ever saying that.
I mean, back in 2006 we hit a point where they were releasing some really painful to watch films and passing them off as exciting blockbusters. I fell asleep during the Incredible Hulk, I can't ever remember falling asleep during a film I paid money to see in the theater before or after that point. And King Kong was absolutely awful.
The studios blamed the Hulk's failure on piracy. Apparently George Lucas blamed King Kong's failure on the decline of the blockbuster. Seems nobody was stopping to take into consideration the slight possibility that both films just weren't worth going to see. Transformers, G.I. Joe, Avatar, and plenty of other blockbusters have done extremely well in recent years. Regardless of rampant piracy and the economy.
Big blockbusters will always do fine as long as they have brand recognition and merchandise/tie-ins. It's kind of silly to just look at box office grosses all the time, because in actuality that's not where the profit is; studios don't make blockbuster movies, they make highly-promoted multi-media, cross-promotional products, of which a motion picture is one component. You can lose money at the theatre and still come out in the black because you have home video, video games, Pizza Hut combos, Pepsi sales, a board game, action figures and collectible toys, posters, comic books, and maybe if you are lucky a cartoon or something. Blockbusters are financed based on this understanding and that's why they keep being made, even if the film itself doesn't make it's budget back upon initial release.
Unfortunately, that means there aren't really original blockbusters anymore. Avatar has been an exception, but there are a lot of other reasons for that. Star directors can maybe get an original blockbuster going, and a few random exceptions that prove the rule (Battle:LA, Sky Captain, etc., all financial losers). Otherwise it's all sequels, remakes and adaptations, for financial security reasons.
DuracellEnergizer said:
It'd be nice to see Hollywood shot in the foot. It'd be even better, though, if the same happened to the music industry.
With a grenade launcher, I might add.
DuracellEnergizer said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
It'd be nice to see Hollywood shot in the foot. It'd be even better, though, if the same happened to the music industry.
With a grenade launcher, I might add.
No that would be too quick. I want to see them drawn and quartered while being set on fire.
We are talking about an industry that things they are owed millions if someone uses a thirty second clip of their product when they review said product as an example and cries out against censorship whenever some store decides not to sell their products but then they turn around and try to have all negative reviews of their products pulled off of the web.
Let them burn I say.