Quote Originally Posted by Ajani
I also don't think technology dumbed down movies... But my issue with tech is that the movie studios keep thinking that new tech is the solution to the problems... There are 2 issues that need to be addressed:

1) The quality of the movies released - just because a movie is a summer blockbuster does not mean it has to be dumb... Why couldn't Avatar have a decent plot?

2) $$$$$$ - Setting up a HT with a big screen TV has become cheaper and cheaper, while going to the movies just keeps becoming more expensive... each new wave of tech is another excuse to jack up movie prices even further and ensure that the market contracts... This is why so many persons only watch big special effects films in the cinema... It really just costs way too much to regularly go and watch a movie, that you could enjoy just as much on a 27 inch TV screen as on an IMAX screen in the cinema... Hollywood assumes that means people only want to see blockbusters... Whereas I see it as meaning that people are only willing to pay the excessive ticket prices for the occasional blockbuster... Drop the prices to sensible levels and we might all be shocked at how popular even intellectual films become...
A, you have it exactly backwards. The public has voted with its dollars that they only want to see blockbusters. Studio survey after survey has proven this over and over again. The studios are just giving the public exactly what it wants, hence why blockbuster are do so well even during recessionary times.