Thu, 13 Jul 2006

Pirates of the Poop

I'm a bit tired of movie headlines and the "news" it feeds to shows or newscasts about box office records. Like this week's news about Pirates of the Caribbean II-

It broke just about every box office record. In fact, it even did better than initially thought. Early estimates from Disney said that the film took in $132 million in its first three days of release across North America. The latest report from Variety brings the tally up to $135.6 million for the weekend. link

I don't want to hear about box office records anymore unless two things are done- or more appropriately two key stats are produced:

Without those two items, shows like Extra!(*) and ET should stfu about stuff. The stats would also be better for historical comparisons. Like Star Wars v Indiana Jones v Spiderman ticket comparisons.

*I should note I'm not as harsh on Extra! because I don't normally get it on my cable-less tv w/o adjusting the rabbit ears, oh and because I went to school with hostess Dayna Devon. Go Mules!

Since I'm rambling, I think the movie theaters should allow Fandango to do variable pricing as suggested here - it'll help offset some lame fandango service charges and maybe entice me to see more movies I wouldn't normally want to see.

SA readers: is there still the Nakoma $1 theater in SA? I can't remember

13 Jul 17:13 | /movies | 4 comment(s)


bartopolis wrote:

cara-beans vs Kari Wuhrer
I thought "Pirates" was remarkably pedestrian. Oh wait...you weren't actually reviewing the movie. NVM
07/13/2006 18:15:52

sarah fisch wrote:


I think the Nakoma dollar theatre is no more. Am in san Anto now--will investigate and let you know.
07/14/2006 23:08:25

Evan wrote:

Nakoma nixed.
It is no more!
07/15/2006 09:49:49

angie wrote:

fandango
what annoys me most about fandango is that smaller theaters haven't quite embraced it. i mean smaller in comparison to the metreon or century 26,000 in daly shitty. i mean the kabuki, for chris sake. which is going to be the "sundance kabuki" soon. *sigh*. at least it's not going to be the "google kabuki" or some lame crap like that.
07/17/2006 19:23:59

 
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