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anyone notice how there was an undercurrent of "pro-theaters/anti-DVD"? Am I the only one who noticed this mentioned a bit? About how "great" going to the theater is, and how it couldn't possibly compare to buying the DVD?
I noticed it too. And, with all due respect, to the academy I thought it was a bit absurd, given that many, if not most, of nominated films just came to, or are about to come to, DVD this month to capitalize on these awards.
The reason they did this was in response to te plumiting box office figures. Unwilling to question wether or not Hollywood is making movies people WANT to see, their only recorse is to accuse the consumer. At least Clooney was honest in a speach following the Oscars about making political movies. This was teh lowest combined box-office of any Best picture in the History of Oscar. If you decided as an industry to alienate 51% of your audience, then you're going to lose sales and it has nothing to do with DVDs wich have been arround a long time. People would LOVE to go to the theater, if there were movies they wanted to see. Case in point, films like Narnia, Star Wars, Harry Potter have not suffered from the Box Office pains that the accadamy was aggonising about.
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