04-25-2006, 11:32 PM
Dixen Andomiel,Apr 25 2006, 07:24 PM Wrote:With a family of 6 we figured we could rent 3 DVDs, buy all the pop, candy, popcorn and chips that all 6 of use could eat, and could even allow each of the kids (4 of 'em) to bring over a friend or 3 and still spend less than a single movie in a theater... Oh, and we could do "movie night" 3 times a month and still spend less.Sounds sensible :) Movie prices are obscene nowadays. Here, we pay about $15-16 for a single ticket. What I do is, when I get home from a movie where I haven't been completely happy (something wrong with the sound/picture, people talking, etc), I send an email to the cinema, and they send me a couple of tickets for my trouble. :)
Back to Serenity. I guess there's no single answer why Serenity did so poorly in the cinema (world-wide gross totalled about $38m, the movie cost $40m.) Why do you think it didn't do so well? If it wasn't for the lack of superstars, what was it? Granted it's a tough movie to market, what with it being an action-adventure/horror/drama/comedy/sci-fi/western-hybrid sort of thing, but it has a solid fanbase who should have been able to spread the word. (However, some articles have claimed that the zealotry of certain extreme fans put people off and alienated potential viewers...)
