For some time now, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have been complaining about how much movie theater sales are down due to all the illegal P2P file sharers on the internet. Critics counter with the fact that movies at theaters cost way too much for a family (cost me $25 for just two to see Batman, no food, just tickets), Analog theaters can't compete with the digital home theaters that are cropping up in almost every movie savvy home, cell phones and gabbing teenagers have eliminated privacy and relaxation at the theater, and of course movie titles just suck lately.
My point isn't to get into this argument which a google search would easily show, but rather give an example I saw yesterday regarding crappy movie titles. I've lived in my house for 2+ months, my drive home each day takes me past one of those super-mega cinemas. The road in front is one of the 2 lane boulevards in each direction with traffic lights every so many blocks. Heck, I forgot that the cinema even existed as traffic generally flows right past. Until yesterday, when I was stuck in traffic in the bottle neck of the area. The reason, there was a movie (Friday Night) that people thought worth watching; Harry Potter I presume. It will be nice next week, when the MPAA is back to serving crap, so I can get home at a reasonable time.
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