I Want A Refund - A Letter To Sony Films

Lets think about for for a sec.

While visiting Las Vegas, you drop a coin in a slot machine. To your disappointment, you don't win.

Do you...

A) Write a letter to the machine manufacturer and demand your money back for having such a poor experience with their product.

or

B) Accept it, because it's just like paying to see a movie... You don't know if it'll be good or bad.
 
I'm afraid there are too many people out there that are perfectly willing to give their money to crappy Hollywood movie after crappy Hollywood movie without realizing that the reason they keep making crap is because these people keep buying it. It seems that the best movies released in theaters never get the audience that a movie like "Armageddon" gets. Most people out there really don't care about good movies. They don't distinguish a difference between "Batman Begins" and "Fantastic 4". Tons of people actually liked both and a lot of people actually thought "Fantastic 4" was the better movie! I can't understand that.

So, we just need to support the good ones. Hollywood can make a good movie every once in a while. Good independent films make it to the theater from time to time. Just make sure you see them when they do.

Also, if you like "If Chins Could Kill", you've got to read "Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way."
 
Hollywood will continue to spew crap as long as they know they can get the male 18-35 segment in the theatres for at least the opening weekend.

Here's the fomula:

  • Jessica Alba in a bikini
  • Explosions
  • At least 100+ iterations of the F-bomb
  • T & A (Baywatch music-video styled segement)
  • Car chases
  • Cool fully-automatic handheld weaponry
  • Loud, repetitive music from some Metallica wannabe band
  • Uncountable gallons of blood
  • Jessica Alba in a bikini
Here's the plan:

  1. Make this crapfest for under $8 million dollars.
  2. Pimp the shit out of it hoping for a strong opening weekend where they can actually break even on it.
  3. DVD sales will guarantee them an acceptable annuity.
  4. Hollywood wins!
  5. Rinse, repeat.
 
Well, despite how bad the reviews are for "Ultraviolet" it still managed to gross over $18 million at the box office in one month. This reinforces dylan61's point. Hollywood keeps making formula movies because the majority of the public keeps buying them. At the moment, it seems that the majority of the movie-going public is not interested in the types of movies we're talking about.
 
Loud Orange Cat said:
Hollywood will continue to spew crap as long as they know they can get the male 18-35 segment in the theatres for at least the opening weekend.

Here's the fomula:

  • Jessica Alba in a bikini
  • Explosions
  • At least 100+ iterations of the F-bomb
  • T & A (Baywatch music-video styled segement)
  • Car chases
  • Cool fully-automatic handheld weaponry
  • Loud, repetitive music from some Metallica wannabe band
  • Uncountable gallons of blood
  • Jessica Alba in a bikini
Here's the plan:

  1. Make this crapfest for under $8 million dollars.
  2. Pimp the shit out of it hoping for a strong opening weekend where they can actually break even on it.
  3. DVD sales will guarantee them an acceptable annuity.
  4. Hollywood wins!
  5. Rinse, repeat.
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Rob,

I think you are dead-on here, except for one thing...the demographic has dropped to more like a 12-24 age range. Therefore, cut back the F-Bombs to only one, ease off a little on the blood and get a PG-13 rating.
 
But isn't "good" subjective? Look how many argument we get in here on the boards about what movie is high quality or "good".

If theaters, prodCo's, distributors, studios and investors were forced to refund money because someone didn't like the movie.... Yikes! Could you have afforded to even make "Left for Dead" if you knew every person who didn't like it would get their money back? Would a distributor ever pick up a film made by filmmakers like us if they new they would have to refund money to each person who didn't like it?
 
Loud Orange Cat said:
Has anyone ever seen the IMDB Bottom 100 list?
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Man! Uwe Boll OWNS that section! What a crock!

But seriously, Captain America ('91) rocked some serious sock! I remember a particularly hilarious sequence where the Captain is strapped to a ICBM Nuke headed for the white house. He pretty much gives up for no reason, until he sees a young photographer boy standing on the street in front of the presidental palace (good vision to see a kid on the street from an ICBM, but even funnier is that the kid manages to snap a clear headshot from his vantage). In any case, he sees the kid, hope is renewed, and he diverts the missile to the north pole by kicking it with his foot, only to be cryogenically frozen by the weather for like 50 years. Classic. SO classic.
 
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