Re:A Look Back at Why Blockbuster Really Failed and Why It D...
by Dylan16807 on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:42AM
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A movie being popular is half quality and half marketing. Unless we abolish huge advertising budgets, there's no reason to assume that the mainstream viewer would actually give the best ratings to mainstream movies.
Re:A Look Back at Why Blockbuster Really Failed and Why It D...
by xapata on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:51AM
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Yet people care sometimes more about popularity than quality. You want to watch the same movie everyone else did so that you can chat about it.
Re:A Look Back at Why Blockbuster Really Failed and Why It D...
by scarface74 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @06:12PM
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Before I had the AMC subscription movie pass, we wouldn’t bother about spending money going to a movie that wasn’t one of the big blockbuster movies. A movie that is all about a great concept or great plot, is just as enjoyable on a TV at home.
We went to movies to see action, special effects, etc. on the big screen. We also never went to a movie that we couldn’t reserve our seats in advance.
What you consider “quality” and what most people consider quality - ie what enough people are willing to pay money for to make it a $1 billion grossing movie is different.
When we had to spend money on individual movies, the movies that had the “quality” we were willing to go out and pay for are the ones that delivered something that we couldn’t easily replicate at home. Anything else we could just pay $5.00 to rent it on iTunes or wait for it to fall off the back of a truck onto my Plex Server.
And that’s what most people buy and rent and that’s where the money is. That made perfect sense for Blockbuster.
I strongly suspect that the new AMC Stubs subscription program will be a long term success even though it costs more and you really only get access to mainstream movies.
Many of them rarely realize how crappy the selection of Netflix streaming is, as they've been brought up on a diet of crap, and are only vaguely aware that there's a whole world of fantastic movies out there beyond Hollywood blockbusters and TV shows.
Everyone knows that Netflix doesn’t have a good selection of movies - they look for mainstream recently released movies and they can’t find them. By definition, If your definition of a good movie and the mainstream’s definition of a good movie is different, your taste in movies is not mainstream - not theirs (no judgement intended).