He was refering to the person/people who put it on the net, not the people who where watching. I must agree though the movie was crap, the priated copy just saved lots of people from having to kill themselves after wasting 2 hours of thier lives.

Suuuure, like they won’t go to the same p2p site they are visiting now to get his movies for review.

riiiiiight… they expect us to believe that?

I don’t watch TV ads. I channel surf, skip them, or walk out of the room. If they weren’t FORCED down my throat a few ads might be interesting.

This movie must really suck. I hear about all the good ones through word of mouth.

Poorly written sequels done to cash in on the first one’s better made movie, plot, or sound, have left the customer with the idea that most aren’t worth going to watch. If one studio has a box office smash then all the rest produce an imitation of it. One done hurriedly to cash in on the theme but quality is left in the dust in the rush.

Same thing with music. No one will buy an album unheard because of all the filler and duds that have come out.

It’s not about you made it, therefore it should be a hit at the box office. No one guarantees a hit on every movie or album. Forms of payolla have merely pushed the customer into the corner with refusing to pay first and find out they’ve been ripped off yet again. The cartels have no one to blame but themselves in this. It’s been a standard industry practice for so long that even the customers won’t just plop down the money for the un-tried, un-seen, un-heard, “product”. How many take offs can you do of a horror film based on teens in some isolated place before the public goes sour on theme? Yet the movie studios make take after take until the market is flooded with these silly themes and then it’s the pirates that are at fault for not buying? Puleezeee people, getta clue.

Add to it, that when the stockholders reports come out, you get a better clue to just what is happening at the box office. Even with the funny figures adjusted magically from thin air, they got to give their stockholders a bit more accurate accounting or see the money dry up. Any other time, it’s beat the drum as usual. Conflicting reports of self interest aren’t making their case for them but rather against them.

Last week was the report of the movies doing well and good, expanding in an upward spiral of income. Yet the next week, such as this, it’s back to the pirates. Do you really think the customer doesn’t read those reports as well and remember them over the span of a week? Helloooooo….