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Ever since the VHS, when we had the choice to watch movies at home rather than go out to a cinema, home theatre systems have become more and more elaborate, high tech and state of the art. There almost seems to no need to go to the cinema anymore. You can pretty much have the same experience at home for a fraction of the price these days.
The last movie I watched at the cinema was Law Abiding Citizen. While I thoroughly enjoyed the film, I think I would have enjoyed even more if I could have watched it in the comfort of my own home.
What is really funny though, is every time I go to the cinema to watch a movie, I come out saying, "Never again! I'm just going to wait for the DVD to come out and watch it at home". Why do I get so frustrated after watching a movie at the cinemas? Simple. The people. You use to be able to go to the cinema to watch a movie and people were quiet. Yes, they laughed when something was funny, or screamed or jumped if they were shocked by something. But, every cinema I go to, in every suburb I try, there are people carrying out conversations during the movie, getting louder to compete with the sound, what they don't seem to realise is everyone else in the cinema wants them to shut up so they can enjoy the moive. Then you get people answering their mobiles during the movie and instead of walking out and answering once they've left, they answer then proceed to the exit chatting away loudly on their damn phone. Then the people who don't put their phone on silent. Ok, they may have forgotten, despite the ad before the movie starts to remind all phones to be on silent, but then they can't seem to remember after the 4th text message!?
Movie tickets aren't cheap by no means these days either, so you'd think we could spend that kind of money and watch a movie in peace and quiet. Even when you spend all the extra money to go to Gold Class, these people with their mobiles, and need to talk during the movie instead of before and after, are there too! Don't they realise how much they've paid to watch the movie? Don't they also want their monies worth?
I think it's safe to say that watching a movie at home wins. The cinema doesn't offer that much of a different experience to what you can recreate at home. You can even have your family and friends talk during the movie and use their mobiles and it's like you're at the cinemas!
Yes a home theatre package may cost quite a bit, but let's face it, you don't have to go overboard. A nice size TV, good sound system, is more than enough.
Then you can sit in the comfort of your own home, with only the people you want around, watch the movie, pause when you need food or a bathroom break, and you don't even have to pay exorbitant prices for food and drink!
The best thing is for less than the price of one movie ticket you can go to your local video rental shop and hire 5 or even more DVD's and watch them at your own leisure.
Yes you'll have to wait longer to watch the new releases and if the DVD isn't released in 3D you'll miss out on that (not a great loss at all in my opinion), but it's definitely worth the wait to save money and not deal with annoying people.
What does it for you? Home or cinema? Make your choice...
Wes Craven is my go to guy when it comes to horror movies. He's been apart of all the greats, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left, Scream and many more.
But now, Dimension Films have said they want to continue the Scream franchise and Wes Craven has agreed to it. Even the original actors, Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox Arquette will be coming back to Scream 4.
It is almost what, a decade since Scream 3 was released? What possible reason could Dimension want to continue with the franchise now? Well, it's simple. The money! The first Scream movies would have raked in loads of cash for Dimension FIlms, so why not bring it back now, see if the franchise still has it.
I have to admit, I'm a little dissappointed with Wes Craven for going along with the idea. Now don't get me wrong here, I loved Scream and when I saw Scream 2, I loved that as well. But lets be honest, Scream 3 wasn't anything great. By the third movie it had lost something. I think it happens to most movies. The appeal is lost by the third movie. You can try and revive it with a 4th and 5th and 6th and so on, but it usually doesn't work. Look at Final Destination, the third one was horrible and then they released The Final Destination, which didn't help much at all. Even A Nightmare on Elm Street, went through the same fate. Though, I would say the worst Nightmare on Elm Street movie would have been the second. Took a really odd turn with that one. Then in 1995, Wes Craven came out with Wes Craven's A New Nightmare, in an attempt to revive the Freddy franchise. Now I will admit, I thought this movie was really well done, despite coming out several years after the last one. What really killed A Nightmare on Elm Street, was Freddy vs Jason, there's a movie that we could have done without.
But I digress, the point I'm making is, maybe directors, film companies, writers, need to just let things die. Run their natural course and end. Attempt to come up with a new idea, something even better than what they had in the past. I just don't understand why, if a movie franchise has been dormant for over a decade, why bring it back now? Scream 4 is going to come out so beyond it's time that it won't be anything like the others and will feel more like a complete seperate entity. I must say though, I am happy at least they it's going to be a sequal and not a remake of the first Scream. How I can't stand remakes!
I know the film companies are trying to make money, everyone is, but they should realise that, though not by much, Scream 3 did not do as well as Scream 1 and 2. Don't they think a pattern may be forming?
They may be on to something though. I mean with a new audience and target market, much of the younger kids probably haven't even seen Scream 1 or 2, so they'll watch it with no preconceptions at all. But the older audience will know. And if I'm correct, many of us won't like it.
My only hope is that they end at 4 and don't drag it out longer than this...
I would just like to take this time to say hello to all the readers of Scratched Screen.
As of today I am the new blog owner, and the posts titled:
"3D Movies - Advancing or Annoying?"
"Movie Remakes"
"Dancer in the Dark - Film Review"
"Dogville - A Quiet LIttle Town Not Far From Here"
Are what I have written, all blogs written prior to this are not mine and I have no affliation with them.
I hope you all enjoy what I write and the old readers stay and we gain some new ones.
Thank you. Looking forward to hearing from you.
=)
I am slowly becoming in love with the work of Lars von Trier. I am a fan of odd movies, films that are different, films that dare to move away from the mainstream. And that is what Lars von Trier does.
Dogville, is definitely not your average movie. The whole movie is shot on a black stage, with nothing more than chalk lines on the ground, akin to the plans of a house, to signify where buildings, houses, objects, and the like were. It has the appearance more of a stage play with minimal props, rather than a movie
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Dancer in the Dark directed by Lars von Trier, was released in Australia in 2000, but last night was the first time I watched this film.
I heard about this movie from a friend and they couldn't really describe it to me, they told me I "..just had to watch it." So that is what I did.
I got the DVD, got comfortable in front of my TV and popped it in
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Isn't interesting that more and more "new release", high grossing films, are in fact remakes of movies released in the '70's, '80s and sometimes even earler?
It seems that they are making money of ideas of the past, movies they have made money on before. Fooling us all with better special effects, fancier props and better images.
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With the sudden wave of 3D movies being released, and the hype created by them, anyone would think this is a new technology in the film industry. However, it is in fact, far from a new feature in films.
Movies in 3D have existed in some form from very early on, and became fairly popular in the '50s in American cinema. They were still a niche market in the film industry, nothing like the mainstream phenomena it has become in recent years. It didn't last long though, while it was exciting at first, with all these 3D films coming out, the thrill that came with this new way to see movies, slowly died. And of course, with exhibitors feeling uneasy with the technology and more comfortable with the newer processes such as cinemascope, the want to show 3D films was dying
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