Here’s an upcoming Mark Cuban post - which he sent to the pho list - first.

All this talk of movies being bad, theaters being bad,etc,etc is all basically a joke.

First off, the easiest thing in the world to do is fine something wrong w any entertainment outlet or any piece of content

Find me the perfect place or piece, and we will have something to talk about

As far as movies, which generation had bettere movies ?

Was it when I was a kid and those classic 3 stooges and snow white or santa claus were out ?

Was it all the kids screaming and throwing popcorn at the screen backthen that mase them great ?

Was it that the studios knew they had us because we lived in a no vcr ,
4 tv channel universe ?

The 50s,60,70s, 80s, 90s, all had great movies and lousy movies. The only difference is that back then people and the media didn’t take such pleasure in using boxoffice and revenues as a scorecard

No one cared.

You went to the movies or didn’t

I remember when I was in college going to movies w my buddies , taking
a12 pack and getting trashed. I’m sure we were a pleasure to be next to.
Quite the golden age if you ask me
If only we had cellphones to casll each other and tell how drunk we were

If the movies have been so lousy over the last year how come dvd sales for movies haven’t fallen off a cliff. Sales per title have fallen as more titles have come out, but people are buying movies and the biggest sellers are the nrewest movies.

And if the movie experience is so bad, why aren’t we at multi year lows in attendance ?

Why aren’t PPV sales of movies, which is the first chance people get to watch the latest releases at home, and for far less than the cost of a dvd, way up ?

The logic just cracks me up.

The movies are so bad, and the theater experience is so horrible, that I will wait 4 months to pay 25 dollars to watch it at home in a scenario where I know without question that something or someone will distract me. Where either I or my significant other will have to cleanup and after which at somepoint in the not too distant future, one of us will complain that we never get out of the house

How about we just face the same truths that every entertainment biz faces. There is more competition and choices these days, so we all have to work a little harder.

The fact that movies have continued to grow in the face of expanding entertainment options is one that should make the industry proud

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