Bradley Cooper-Zoe Saldana drama "The Words" only manages third-place finish in its debut; "In the Cold Light of Day" tanks.
TORONTO -- The domestic box office brought more sobering news this weekend as revenues tumbled to their worst level in years.
One bright spot: Anti-Barack Obama documentary 2016: Obama's America boosted its cume to north of $26 million to become the No. 2 political doc of all time behind Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 ($119.2 million).
The first weekend after Labor Day is historically light in terms of moviegoing revenues, but this year was worse than usual and the first time since the same weekend in 2008 that no film grossed $10 million or more.
That weekend, revenues reached $68 million; this weekend, they are expected to top out between $65 million and $67 million (final figures won't be available until Monday). If so, that would mark the worst weekend since immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when revenues topped out at $66.5 million the weekend immediatley following the attacks and $59.7 million over the Sept. 21-23 weekend.
If this weekend comes in at $67.2 million, that would put it on par with the same weekend in 2003.
Lionsgate holdover The Possession stayed at No. 1 this weekend, grossing $9.5 million for a 10-day domestic cume of $33.3 million.
John Hillcoat's prohibition-era drama The Weinstein Co.'s Lawless stayed at No. 2 in its second outing, grossing $6 million for a 10-day domestic total of $23.5 million.
Bradley Cooper-Zoe Saldana drama The Words -- drawing a notably older audience -- opened at No. 3, grossing a less-than-expected $5 million for distributor CBS Films.
Receiving a B CinemaScore, The Words played heavily to females (58 percent). Of those buying tickets, 63 percent over the age of 35 and 39 percent over the age of 50. CBS Films believes the movie could have strong legs since older moviegoers don't rush out on opening weekend.
CBS Films acquired domestic rights to The Words for $2 million at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and is hopeful that it will have strong legs, since there is no other female-driven film opening for the rest of September.
In the movie, Cooper plays a writer who pays the price for stealing someone else's work. Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal make their feature directorial debut with The Words, which also stars Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons, Ben Barnes and Dennis Quaid.
The weekend's other wide opener was Henry Cavill action pic In the Cold Light of Day tanked it is debut, coming in No. 13 for the weekend with an estimated $1.8 million. Summit and co-financing partner Intrepid Pictures had limited financial exposure on the film, between Spanish production rebates and foreign presales.
Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri, Cold Light of Day follows a man whose family is kidnapped by intelligence agents during a weeklong sailing vacation in Spain. The agents are hellbent on recovering a mysterious briefcase, and the husband and father soon finds himself on the run.
Cold Light of Day, also starring Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Echegui and Bruce Willis, cost in the $20 million to $30 million range. Intrepid's Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans produced.
Cooper and Willis both have high-profile films playing at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival, which got underway Thursday night with the world premiere of Rian Johnson's Looper, starring Willis opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Cooper stars in two films playing at the festival during the next week: Silver Linings Playbook and The Place Beyond the Pines, which premiered Friday night and sold to Focus Features for a 2013 release.
<Classic.Mr.H...@gmail.com> wrote:
> by Pamela McClintock
> Bradley Cooper-Zoe Saldana drama "The Words" only manages third-place finish in its debut; "In the Cold Light of Day" tanks.
> TORONTO -- The domestic box office brought more sobering news this weekend as revenues tumbled to their worst level in years.
> One bright spot: Anti-Barack Obama documentary 2016: Obama's America boosted its cume to north of $26 million to become the No. 2 political doc of all time behind Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 ($119.2 million).
Good. Mr. Platitudes might begin to get the message.
On Sunday, September 9, 2012 3:19:39 PM UTC-4, Mr. Hole the Magnificent wrote:
> One bright spot: Anti-Barack Obama documentary 2016: Obama's America boosted its cume to north of $26 million to become the No. 2 political doc of all time behind Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 ($119.2 million).
Oh, yeah. A $1600 per theater average is something to boast about....
"Inkan1969" <jlara4...@charter.net> wrote:
> Mr. Hole the Magnificent wrote:
>> One bright spot: Anti-Barack Obama documentary 2016: Obama's America
>> boosted its cume to north of $26 million to become the No. 2 political >> doc
>> of all time behind Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 ($119.2 million).
> Oh, yeah. A $1600 per theater average is something to boast about....
The trick is in the spin.
'2016: OBAMA'S AMERICA' earned $1,627 per theater in its 9th week of release. That take was only very slightly less than the $1,653 per theater haul for THE DARK NIGHT RISES which is only in its 8th week of release.'
On Sep 9, 7:35 pm, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
> "Inkan1969" <jlara4...@charter.net> wrote:
> > Mr. Hole the Magnificent wrote:
> >> One bright spot: Anti-Barack Obama documentary 2016: Obama's America
> >> boosted its cume to north of $26 million to become the No. 2 political
> >> doc
> >> of all time behind Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 ($119.2 million).
> > Oh, yeah. A $1600 per theater average is something to boast about....
> The trick is in the spin.
> '2016: OBAMA'S AMERICA' earned $1,627 per theater in its 9th week of
> release. That take was only very slightly less than the $1,653 per theater
> haul for THE DARK NIGHT RISES which is only in its 8th week of release.'
But remember what Rush Limbaugh said. The people who go see The Dark
Knigt Rises are the "brain dead people". The people who go see 2016
are a better class of individual. They're going to the movies to
gain knowledge. In this case,that it's alright to be against a black
President if he doesn't show proper deference to a bust of Winston
Churchhill.
But if I were to spin the numbers, I might say, for the second week in
a row a Sam Raimi produced horror movie is at number one, and number
two belongs to an eccentric moonshine epic written by Nick Cave.
>But if I were to spin the numbers, I might say, for the second week in
>a row a Sam Raimi produced horror movie is at number one, and number
>two belongs to an eccentric moonshine epic written by Nick Cave.
If I were to spin the numbers I might just say that the amazingly low boxoffice of the last few weeks is an indicator of the imminent death of the movie theater era.
Who knows, though, maybe next week's releases will change all that....checking...wow, another RESIDENT EVIL (likely to top out at $50milion) film and a gimmicked up 3D version of a decade old cartoon (FINDING NEMO). The end is near.
> >But if I were to spin the numbers, I might say, for the second week in
> >a row a Sam Raimi produced horror movie is at number one, and number
> >two belongs to an eccentric moonshine epic written by Nick Cave.
> If I were to spin the numbers I might just say that the amazingly low
> boxoffice of the last few weeks is an indicator of the imminent death of the
> movie theater era.
Maybe. But with nothing much showing in the theaters, while college
football was in its second week and the NFL was kicking off with its
first week, the weekend's box office numbers aren't much of an
indication of anything.
But it might be a long dry patch before we get to The Hobbit. I'm not
much looking forward to it but I bet the theater owners are.
> > >But if I were to spin the numbers, I might say, for the second week in
> > >a row a Sam Raimi produced horror movie is at number one, and number
> > >two belongs to an eccentric moonshine epic written by Nick Cave.
> > If I were to spin the numbers I might just say that the amazingly low
> > boxoffice of the last few weeks is an indicator of the imminent death of the
> > movie theater era.
> Maybe. But with nothing much showing in the theaters, while college
> football was in its second week and the NFL was kicking off with its
> first week, the weekend's box office numbers aren't much of an
> indication of anything.
And the U.S Open. And the PGA playoffs. I don't know how much the
sports of tennis and golf normally cut into box-office, but this has
been an unusually heavy weekend of attentive rapid channel-flicking.
I bet many viewers are just plain overloaded on viewing.
> But it might be a long dry patch before we get to The Hobbit. I'm not
> much looking forward to it but I bet the theater owners are.
I'll predict that a mere two weekends hence does pretty good. END OF
WATCH... TROUBLE WITH THE CHAIR... hell, if it doesn't suck whole
civilizations, I might even see DREDD 3D.
"moviePig" <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
>I'll predict that a mere two weekends hence does pretty good. END OF
>WATCH... TROUBLE WITH THE CHAIR... hell, if it doesn't suck whole
>civilizations, I might even see DREDD 3D.
Speaking of all the upcoming bad movies...I saw a promo for 'LOOPER' last night during the football game. Great cast (Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt), but really, the premise seems to be that the future mafia will send people back in time so that they can be killed? I'm not sure I've ever heard of a more idiotic premise for a film...and the premise gets even more idiotic from there.
On Sep 10, 9:58 am, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
> "moviePig" <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >I'll predict that a mere two weekends hence does pretty good. END OF
> >WATCH... TROUBLE WITH THE CHAIR... hell, if it doesn't suck whole
> >civilizations, I might even see DREDD 3D.
> Speaking of all the upcoming bad movies...I saw a promo for 'LOOPER' last
> night during the football game. Great cast (Bruce Willis, Joseph
> Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt), but really, the premise seems to be that
> the future mafia will send people back in time so that they can be killed?
> I'm not sure I've ever heard of a more idiotic premise for a film...and the
> premise gets even more idiotic from there.
I agree. But I'm avoiding any more pre-info, because somehow this
flick is getting strong early buzz. 8.2 from IMDb's (presumably)
previewing users, which is, even after adjusting for bias, high.
> > > >But if I were to spin the numbers, I might say, for the second week in
> > > >a row a Sam Raimi produced horror movie is at number one, and number
> > > >two belongs to an eccentric moonshine epic written by Nick Cave.
> > > If I were to spin the numbers I might just say that the amazingly low
> > > boxoffice of the last few weeks is an indicator of the imminent death of the
> > > movie theater era.
> > Maybe. But with nothing much showing in the theaters, while college
> > football was in its second week and the NFL was kicking off with its
> > first week, the weekend's box office numbers aren't much of an
> > indication of anything.
> And the U.S Open. And the PGA playoffs. I don't know how much the
> sports of tennis and golf normally cut into box-office, but this has
> been an unusually heavy weekend of attentive rapid channel-flicking.
> I bet many viewers are just plain overloaded on viewing.
> > But it might be a long dry patch before we get to The Hobbit. I'm not
> > much looking forward to it but I bet the theater owners are.
> I'll predict that a mere two weekends hence does pretty good. END OF
> WATCH... TROUBLE WITH THE CHAIR... hell, if it doesn't suck whole
> civilizations, I might even see DREDD 3D.
Increasingly, I'm being seduced by the technology of the non-theater
experience. Last week I watched the excellent documentary about the
advent of digital cinema, Side by Side, on Amazon VOD, and this week
I'll probably cave in and pay for V/H/S. I'm DVRing tons of stuff off
TCM and I'm even thinking of starting a Blu-ray collection of horror
films I've liked over the course of a lifetime, blatantly flip-
flopping on how I mocked people who'd collect DVDs. (I bought the new
Jaws Blu-ray on impulse and my jaw hit the ground so hard it became an
altering experience.)
But I'm still enough of a mark, I'll happily pay to see the new
Resident Evil next week.
People are always going to want to see the Avengers/Dark Knight Rises
level blockbusters on the big screen, as well as family films bcause
they'll always want the experience of going out and doing something
fun and communal. But I don't see a theater eco-system that lives on
that all year round. Maybe it'll end up being a seasonal thing.
Theaters can open between May and August and then again in December.
Every blockbuster, Oscar hopeful and family film will have to fight
for screens.
On Sep 10, 9:58 am, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
> "moviePig" <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >I'll predict that a mere two weekends hence does pretty good. END OF
> >WATCH... TROUBLE WITH THE CHAIR... hell, if it doesn't suck whole
> >civilizations, I might even see DREDD 3D.
> Speaking of all the upcoming bad movies...I saw a promo for 'LOOPER' last
> night during the football game. Great cast (Bruce Willis, Joseph
> Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt), but really, the premise seems to be that
> the future mafia will send people back in time so that they can be killed?
> I'm not sure I've ever heard of a more idiotic premise for a film...and the
> premise gets even more idiotic from there.
It's getting some good reviews though, even though you'd think Bruce
Willis has done a few too many of these bg budget sci-fi action films
at this point.
> On Sep 10, 9:58 am, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
>> "moviePig" <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>> I'll predict that a mere two weekends hence does pretty good. END OF
>>> WATCH... TROUBLE WITH THE CHAIR... hell, if it doesn't suck whole
>>> civilizations, I might even see DREDD 3D.
>> Speaking of all the upcoming bad movies...I saw a promo for 'LOOPER' last
>> night during the football game. Great cast (Bruce Willis, Joseph
>> Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt), but really, the premise seems to be that
>> the future mafia will send people back in time so that they can be killed?
>> I'm not sure I've ever heard of a more idiotic premise for a film...and the
>> premise gets even more idiotic from there.
> It's getting some good reviews though,
Here's the formula: first, you make an arbitrary decision about a movie being shitty. Then, when the reviews are positive, you say the reviewers are out to lunch. Such is Usenet.
> > > > >But if I were to spin the numbers, I might say, for the second week in
> > > > >a row a Sam Raimi produced horror movie is at number one, and number
> > > > >two belongs to an eccentric moonshine epic written by Nick Cave.
> > > > If I were to spin the numbers I might just say that the amazingly low
> > > > boxoffice of the last few weeks is an indicator of the imminent death of the
> > > > movie theater era.
> > > Maybe. But with nothing much showing in the theaters, while college
> > > football was in its second week and the NFL was kicking off with its
> > > first week, the weekend's box office numbers aren't much of an
> > > indication of anything.
> > And the U.S Open. And the PGA playoffs. I don't know how much the
> > sports of tennis and golf normally cut into box-office, but this has
> > been an unusually heavy weekend of attentive rapid channel-flicking.
> > I bet many viewers are just plain overloaded on viewing.
> > > But it might be a long dry patch before we get to The Hobbit. I'm not
> > > much looking forward to it but I bet the theater owners are.
> > I'll predict that a mere two weekends hence does pretty good. END OF
> > WATCH... TROUBLE WITH THE CHAIR... hell, if it doesn't suck whole
> > civilizations, I might even see DREDD 3D.
> Increasingly, I'm being seduced by the technology of the non-theater
> experience. Last week I watched the excellent documentary about the
> advent of digital cinema, Side by Side, on Amazon VOD, and this week
> I'll probably cave in and pay for V/H/S. I'm DVRing tons of stuff off
> TCM and I'm even thinking of starting a Blu-ray collection of horror
> films I've liked over the course of a lifetime, blatantly flip-
> flopping on how I mocked people who'd collect DVDs. (I bought the new
> Jaws Blu-ray on impulse and my jaw hit the ground so hard it became an
> altering experience.)
Soon, you'll be in techno-limbo again. Next month or so, there'll be
2160p HD sets (near the practical limit, imo) ...with dvds/players pdq
in tow, no doubt.
> But I'm still enough of a mark, I'll happily pay to see the new
> Resident Evil next week.
The trouble with the new RESIDENT EVIL movie is that it's likely to be
a RESIDENT EVIL movie -- a body of work not even its fans seem to like
much. (Someone announced an informal tally of legit zombie movies
made to date. I was dumbfounded -- over 700.)
> People are always going to want to see the Avengers/Dark Knight Rises
> level blockbusters on the big screen, as well as family films bcause
> they'll always want the experience of going out and doing something
> fun and communal. But I don't see a theater eco-system that lives on
> that all year round. Maybe it'll end up being a seasonal thing.
> Theaters can open between May and August and then again in December.
> Every blockbuster, Oscar hopeful and family film will have to fight
> for screens.
As noted, the big screen is rapidly losing its technical edge over
HDTV. Re watching a movie with a large audience of strangers: while
my generally positive experiences admittedly outnumber my negative
ones, I'm not sure they weigh nearly as much...
> > > > >But if I were to spin the numbers, I might say, for the second week in
> > > > >a row a Sam Raimi produced horror movie is at number one, and number
> > > > >two belongs to an eccentric moonshine epic written by Nick Cave.
> > > > If I were to spin the numbers I might just say that the amazingly low
> > > > boxoffice of the last few weeks is an indicator of the imminent death of the
> > > > movie theater era.
> > > Maybe. But with nothing much showing in the theaters, while college
> > > football was in its second week and the NFL was kicking off with its
> > > first week, the weekend's box office numbers aren't much of an
> > > indication of anything.
> > And the U.S Open. And the PGA playoffs. I don't know how much the
> > sports of tennis and golf normally cut into box-office, but this has
> > been an unusually heavy weekend of attentive rapid channel-flicking.
> > I bet many viewers are just plain overloaded on viewing.
> > > But it might be a long dry patch before we get to The Hobbit. I'm not
> > > much looking forward to it but I bet the theater owners are.
> > I'll predict that a mere two weekends hence does pretty good. END OF
> > WATCH... TROUBLE WITH THE CHAIR... hell, if it doesn't suck whole
> > civilizations, I might even see DREDD 3D.
> Increasingly, I'm being seduced by the technology of the non-theater
> experience. Last week I watched the excellent documentary about the
> advent of digital cinema, Side by Side, on Amazon VOD, and this week
> I'll probably cave in and pay for V/H/S. I'm DVRing tons of stuff off
> TCM and I'm even thinking of starting a Blu-ray collection of horror
> films I've liked over the course of a lifetime, blatantly flip-
> flopping on how I mocked people who'd collect DVDs. (I bought the new
> Jaws Blu-ray on impulse and my jaw hit the ground so hard it became an
> altering experience.)
> But I'm still enough of a mark, I'll happily pay to see the new
> Resident Evil next week.
> People are always going to want to see the Avengers/Dark Knight Rises
> level blockbusters on the big screen, as well as family films bcause
> they'll always want the experience of going out and doing something
> fun and communal. But I don't see a theater eco-system that lives on
> that all year round. Maybe it'll end up being a seasonal thing.
> Theaters can open between May and August and then again in December.
> Every blockbuster, Oscar hopeful and family film will have to fight
> for screens.
"Robot and Frank" is very nice touching film with another fine performance from Frank Langella, if its not at a local theatre, I believe its playing on demand too.
In article
<73729ff6-be39-4664-9ab1-0490ecc19...@d9g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>,
nick <leftbehindbythetalk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But I don't see a theater eco-system that lives on
> that all year round. Maybe it'll end up being a seasonal thing.
> Theaters can open between May and August and then again in December.
> Every blockbuster, Oscar hopeful and family film will have to fight
> for screens.
Theaters will survive so long as people need a place to go out for a
date.
-- Chris Mack "If we show any weakness, the monsters will get cocky!"
'Invid Fan' - 'Yokai Monsters Along With Ghosts'
"Invid Fan" <in...@loclanet.com> wrote:
> nick <leftbehindbythetalk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But I don't see a theater eco-system that lives on
>> that all year round. Maybe it'll end up being a seasonal thing.
>> Theaters can open between May and August and then again in December.
>> Every blockbuster, Oscar hopeful and family film will have to fight
>> for screens.
> Theaters will survive so long as people need a place to go out for a
> date.
That is why 3D is doomed. Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses.
"nick" <leftbehindbythetalk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sep 10, 9:58 am, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
>> "moviePig" <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
>> >I'll predict that a mere two weekends hence does pretty good. END OF
>> >WATCH... TROUBLE WITH THE CHAIR... hell, if it doesn't suck whole
>> >civilizations, I might even see DREDD 3D.
>> Speaking of all the upcoming bad movies...I saw a promo for 'LOOPER' last
>> night during the football game. Great cast (Bruce Willis, Joseph
>> Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt), but really, the premise seems to be that
>> the future mafia will send people back in time so that they can be >> killed?
>> I'm not sure I've ever heard of a more idiotic premise for a film...and >> the
>> premise gets even more idiotic from there.
>It's getting some good reviews though, even though you'd think Bruce
>Willis has done a few too many of these bg budget sci-fi action films
>at this point.
The cast is enough to get me into the theater (probably), but that doesn't make the premise any less amazingly stupid.
nick <leftbehindbythetalk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 9, 7:35 pm, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
> > "Inkan1969" <jlara4...@charter.net> wrote:
> > > Mr. Hole the Magnificent wrote:
> > >> One bright spot: Anti-Barack Obama documentary 2016: Obama's America
> > >> boosted its cume to north of $26 million to become the No. 2 political
> > >> doc
> > >> of all time behind Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 ($119.2 million).
> > > Oh, yeah. A $1600 per theater average is something to boast about....
> > The trick is in the spin.
> > '2016: OBAMA'S AMERICA' earned $1,627 per theater in its 9th week of
> > release. That take was only very slightly less than the $1,653 per theater
> > haul for THE DARK NIGHT RISES which is only in its 8th week of release.'
> But remember what Rush Limbaugh said. The people who go see The Dark
> Knigt Rises are the "brain dead people". The people who go see 2016
> are a better class of individual. They're going to the movies to
> gain knowledge. In this case,that it's alright to be against a black
> President if he doesn't show proper deference to a bust of Winston
> Churchhill.
> But if I were to spin the numbers, I might say, for the second week in
> a row a Sam Raimi produced horror movie is at number one, and number
> two belongs to an eccentric moonshine epic written by Nick Cave.
It's all because of piracy. We obviously need to shut down the internet.
On Sep 10, 6:36 pm, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
> "Invid Fan" <in...@loclanet.com> wrote:
> > nick <leftbehindbythetalk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> But I don't see a theater eco-system that lives on
> >> that all year round. Maybe it'll end up being a seasonal thing.
> >> Theaters can open between May and August and then again in December.
> >> Every blockbuster, Oscar hopeful and family film will have to fight
> >> for screens.
> > Theaters will survive so long as people need a place to go out for a
> > date.
> That is why 3D is doomed. Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Plus the girl in 3D glasses won't be able to tell if the man making
passes is part of the movie or not.
"nick" <leftbehindbythetalk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sep 10, 6:36 pm, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
>> "Invid Fan" <in...@loclanet.com> wrote:
>> > Theaters will survive so long as people need a place to go out for a
>> > date.
>> That is why 3D is doomed. Men don't make passes at girls who wear >> glasses.
>Plus the girl in 3D glasses won't be able to tell if the man making
>passes is part of the movie or not.
On Sep 11, 8:06 am, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
> "nick" <leftbehindbythetalk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Sep 10, 6:36 pm, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
> >> "Invid Fan" <in...@loclanet.com> wrote:
> >> > Theaters will survive so long as people need a place to go out for a
> >> > date.
> >> That is why 3D is doomed. Men don't make passes at girls who wear
> >> glasses.
> >Plus the girl in 3D glasses won't be able to tell if the man making
> >passes is part of the movie or not.
Technological advance is always driven by perverts. The first people
to buy Kodak cameras used them to furtively take pictures of women at
the beach. Google glasses are going to be popular with the
descendents of the Kodak "camera fiends".
"nick" <leftbehindbythetalk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sep 11, 8:06 am, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
>> "nick" <leftbehindbythetalk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >On Sep 10, 6:36 pm, "Obveeus" <Obve...@aol.com> wrote:
>> >> "Invid Fan" <in...@loclanet.com> wrote:
>> >> > Theaters will survive so long as people need a place to go out for a
>> >> > date.
>> >> That is why 3D is doomed. Men don't make passes at girls who wear
>> >> glasses.
>> >Plus the girl in 3D glasses won't be able to tell if the man making
>> >passes is part of the movie or not.
>Technological advance is always driven by perverts. The first people
>to buy Kodak cameras used them to furtively take pictures of women at
>the beach. Google glasses are going to be popular with the
>descendents of the Kodak "camera fiends".
I don't see how 'glasses cam' is going to succeed in a world designed for 'shoe cam'.
> On Sep 10, 10:05 am, nick <leftbehindbythetalk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Increasingly, I'm being seduced by the technology of the non-theater
> > experience. Last week I watched the excellent documentary about the
> > advent of digital cinema, Side by Side, on Amazon VOD, and this week
> > I'll probably cave in and pay for V/H/S. I'm DVRing tons of stuff off
> > TCM and I'm even thinking of starting a Blu-ray collection of horror
> > films I've liked over the course of a lifetime, blatantly flip-
> > flopping on how I mocked people who'd collect DVDs. (I bought the new
> > Jaws Blu-ray on impulse and my jaw hit the ground so hard it became an
> > altering experience.)
> Soon, you'll be in techno-limbo again. Next month or so, there'll be
> 2160p HD sets (near the practical limit, imo) ...with dvds/players pdq
> in tow, no doubt.
I'm willing to accept that at some point in time the new Abbot and
Costello Meet Frankenstein Blu-ray will be improved upon, but for now
it's good enough for me.
