Cape Times - Hollywood finds itself at the mercy of cellphone-toting teenagers
According to movie executives, it's not the fact that the movies suck that's causing people to stop watching them. It's those damned kids and their cell phones.
See, since all these kids have cell phones this year (which, apparently, they didn't have last year), they're sitting in the theater calling their friends on the outside and warning them away from the crapfest. Why all their friends are standing outside the theater while they suffer through The Hulk is not explained. Perhaps it's some sort of gang initiation.
"Timmy, in order to hang with us, dude, you gotta sit through Charlie's Angels. And we mean all of it! No skipping out half-way. Here! Take this cell phone and do an Ebert for us. We can't read."
Yeah. That's the ticket. So to speak...
Article comments
1 - TDavid
There are a lot of people who like to play the blame game. Accountability, especially in Hollywood where many millions are risked on some of these major motion pictures, is a big issue these days, unfortunately.
What I find interesting is the often lopsided proportion of dollars spent versus dollars earned. Some films they throw almost no budget into and they hit a chord with audiences and become big $$ money makers $$ and some of these other films (Star Wars I and II for example) have enormous budgets bestowed upon them to meet with underwhelming results.