99 Problems, but a good movie ain't one...

THIS does not surprise me in the slightest.
If you look at historical trends, movies HAVE ALWAYS done well during times of economic downturn.
The reason for this could easily be explained:

1) when economic times get bad, people WANT to escape.  Movies allow people to do that.
2) It's a short term, easy, and relatively cheap date.  See a film, have a drink and a discussion afterwards.


Why, then is the movie industry tanking?

1) The advent of theater quality equipment for not too much money in peoples homes?
2) Making really shoddy, shitty, hack crappy remakes, reboots and prequels all the time?

I'm going with choice #2.

Hollywood is making shite.  The vast majority of the pablum they are coming up with is derivative crap.

Not to say that Hollywood has never made derivative material before.  For example, this last weekend, The Crazed American, his brother, Mrs. Crazed American, and Youngest Crazed American went and saw the IMAX re-release of Raiders of the Lost Ark.  The theater was not empty, there were probably two hundred people there, all who shelled out premium dollars to see one of the greatest (and admittedly DERIVATIVE) films ever produced.

It was:
OVER 30 YEARS OLD
Filmed on FILM ( a more expensive and labor intensive process than modern digitally produced movies)
A film with NO CGI
A film with limited use of Blue / green screen
Models and Matte paintings, and PRACTICAL effects.
Excellent acting, good stunts, good writing and story (before George Lucas lost his marbles)

I have seen than movie, literally two hundred times, if I've seen it once.  Seeing it on IMAX?  Transcendent.

So my $.02?  Hollywood should stop making shit, and start making decent, original work.  The occasional decent prequel opportunity (I'm looking at Prometheus and The Hobbit), is not terrible.  But otherwise?  C'mon!!

Also, keep Shia LaBouf out of Indiana Jones Movies, please. As far as I am concerned, you can even make more Indy movies, I have some incredible ideas to bridge the gap.

Hey, Hollywood: Take five years off to retool, and do nothing but show remastered versions of movies made in the 1970's and 1980's.  Take the original negatives, clean em up, transfer them to digital, don't add a damn thing!  No more reboots, no more remakes.  That model is failing, OBVIOUSLY.

Crazed American, out.