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kleinbl00  ·  4761 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Movie audiences shrink below post-Sept. 11 level
The music industry had a similar bout of circular firing squads when the #1 album of the year was the soundtrack to High School Musical 2. Then, as now, they blamed the audience.

Living in LA, I see a lot of billboards. Know what the billboard for "New Year's Eve" is?

A bunch of faces so small that you might recognize them as celebrities.

Here's a movie in which there's no plot, there's so many actors that you're going to get nothing but vignettes, and about all you know about it is it's from the same shit cadre that put together "Valentine's Day" which you also would rather set fire to than watch.

...and you expect me to come out to that?

I will say this. A buddy of mine has been an illustrator/storyboardist on shitloads of movies, from Tron to Benjamin Button to Zodiac to Cowboys vs. Aliens. He told me nine months ago that Mission Impossible 4 was the first thing he was looking forward to working on in a long time because he loved the script. We're gonna go see it tonight with the crew; I'll let y'all know if it's any good.