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May. 7th, 2012 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astri13Wow, 200plus million opening weekend for Avengers? Biggest opening weekend ever?
Last week, I read a couple of disgruntled comments in the the vein of "why do they release a movie like this worldwide before the US release? Now video piracy is going to destroy it *wails*. "
Um...yes.
I can see how it just got BUTCHERED. I mean, before the internet a movie would have probably made ten trillion dollars. In the midnight screenings. Oh wait, without the internet, you also don't get the buzz and the free publicity. Damn!!!
Maybe the point is, Hollyweird, to just make good movies that people will WANT to go see in the cinema. Often. And yes, I realize that a big effects blockbuster like that has that going for it more than some rom-com but on the other hand, the former are much more easily and faster, shall we say, distributed than the later so my point still stands.
Last week, I read a couple of disgruntled comments in the the vein of "why do they release a movie like this worldwide before the US release? Now video piracy is going to destroy it *wails*. "
Um...yes.
I can see how it just got BUTCHERED. I mean, before the internet a movie would have probably made ten trillion dollars. In the midnight screenings. Oh wait, without the internet, you also don't get the buzz and the free publicity. Damn!!!
Maybe the point is, Hollyweird, to just make good movies that people will WANT to go see in the cinema. Often. And yes, I realize that a big effects blockbuster like that has that going for it more than some rom-com but on the other hand, the former are much more easily and faster, shall we say, distributed than the later so my point still stands.
