Comments on: Hollywood attacks Calgary

By: Pig Lamplight

Pig Lamplight — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:23:43 +0000

So, exactly where is the country of “America?”

By: obscur156

obscur156 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:43:31 +0000

Well,if those big corporate mafia’s think that they can put us into submission,i would say go to hell **AA’s.
First i would never let a cinema employee search through my stuff for cam or cell phone wathever.If they insist,just scream as loud as you can asking for the manager to refund you because you will not accept being treated like a f*cking criminal.Of course they will wait until you have paid your tickets before searching. Try to influence others in the cinema to understand that they cannot threat you like criminals.

Anyway,there is only about 10 good movies a year and i am very optimistic cause i would say only 5 are good.,all the reste is pure crap.Now i am going less often to the cinema,juste going when there is a blockbuster that i LIKE.

I live in Montreal where is the cinema GUZZO (Quebec) and believe me i will NEVER go back there because they were searching trough people’s stuff before entering the cinema.I will go in other cinema that just dont treath me like a criminal.

It would be ironic if that the cinema GUZZO was owned by Italian mafia’s and claimaing that they have been stolen by there customer.
Makes me remember that a couple of years ago,cinema Guzzo add problems with some good old friends putting bombs at there cinema.

Sarcasm mode ON
Its probably because Guzzo are very very nice people….
Sarcasm mode OFF

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:35:08 +0000

I’m sure this has never occured to Hollywood, but is it possible that maybe, just maybe, the solution to poor box office revenue is to offer the consumers something better? They’re so arrogantly misguided by their pathetic claims that it’s all due to piracy, but it clearly isn’t. As the previous comment pointed out, camcorded movies look like shit. Do they honestly believe anyone’s going to put up with searching for the right torrent, waiting for the download to finish, and then end up with a mediocre product just to save ten bucks? They’re losing money because:

1) The majority of new movies are terrible, low-brow, and unoriginal.

2) The cinema experience sucks, and they’re making it worse and worse by the day.

It’s clearly not just about money. They’ve become so obsessed with commercialism and market domination, they’ve forgotten what making movies is all about. Movies are supposed to entertain, and cinemas are supposed to create a friendly, welcoming environment in which to enjoy oneself and be entertained. Thanks to Hollywood’s sleazy business practice, modern films and cinemas don’t satisfy either demand.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:53:16 +0000

Hollydud is certainly reducing the attractiveness of going to the movies and at the same time lowering “the theater experience” as fast as they can it seems.

The quality of a camcorded movie leaves more to be desired than it is worth. I would not waste the bandwidth on one so their fears of what cam movies do in damage is far over blown.

The stats released on who is the paramount piracy danger changes from day to day, depending on where they decide is their focus of the moment. It ignores reality and where the real problem is in favor of generating false numbers to influance where ever they have some sort of legal pressure or the attempt of influancing politicians to favor their side when a bill is emminent for consideration that they are concerned with.

They long ago reduced the “Silver Screen” and it’s surrounding magic to merely more BS one has to put up with to pay someone for a couple of hours of entertainment. It is one of the main reasons that rentals have done so well. It is to say that the public is voting with it’s pocketbook where the value is as far as experience and convience is. The more they pile on the hassels and hoops they expect their customers to go through, the less they will have as customers.

As it is, I already resent the assumption that every viewer is a theif. They are digging their own graves financially and I personally welcome the thought images it brings with that mental picture. Maybe whatever phenoix arises from the ashes might be better attuned to their customer base.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:40:20 +0000

“the city has become, “a major source for pirated films recorded in the theatre using camcorders or cellphones,” says the story.

Do they seriously expect us to believe that? Nobody pirates a movie using a cell phone.

This is complete BS. Yet more examples of Hollywood’s lies, scare tactics, and 100% untrue propaganda. At this rate, they’re going to lose their entire business within a few years, and they’ll have nobody to blame but themselves for alienating and deserting their consumers.

IDIOTS!!!!!