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Post by jeffolie on Apr 4, 2011 17:36:10 GMT -6
I am finding interesting info at demomemo.blogspot.com SS means no movies...robust adults go to the movies but the below numbers show that about the time adults become eligible for Social Security at 62, then suddenly movie going collapses. ================================ Sunday, April 03, 2011 Who Goes to the Movies? Among Americans aged 18 or older, 53 percent have been to a movie in the past year. Here is the percentage by age... 18-24: 74% 25-34: 65% 35-44: 60% 45-54: 53% 55-64: 46% 65-74: 32% 75+: 19% Source: National Endowment for the Arts, 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts demomemo.blogspot.com/2011/04/who-goes-to-movies.html
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Post by waltc on Apr 4, 2011 23:09:02 GMT -6
No, most movies are just targeted at the stupid set ie: 15-25 year old males. That's where the studios get most bang for the buck. Also most directors are under 30 and are drug addled idiots to boot and make movies that are fit for drug addicts like SuckerPunch or do a crappy inhuman remake of Quantum Leap but call it Source Code.
Bottom line: There is no money to be made for targeting a older audience(over 40). They aren't as easy to bullshit and its hard to sell to them as a result. Look when executives look at TV demographics and see a older audience watches a show, they will yank it(Dr. Quinn Medicine woman was a classic example). Advertisers can't sell to older folks the way they can to 20 somethings with the attention span of a bot fly. The same applies to movies. This is why Michael Bey gets money to make mindless movies based on a children's toy and movies like the "Kings Speech" can't be produced here.
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Post by whoswho on Apr 5, 2011 6:29:04 GMT -6
For males 25 - 30? Probably why we haven't had any movies worth watching for the last twenty or thirty years. Don't bother even going to the video store anymore... there's nothing there to find, unless you can find some of the older titles, and even those are disappearing. It's all just doofus garbage designed for morons. Thing is, though.... we're NOT dead, we of the preceding generation. If there WAS a movie worth seeing, I would love to go see it. Why do they have to make a financial killing at everything they do? they act as if they have only one audience and the rest of us don't exist.
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Post by graybeard on Apr 5, 2011 6:51:42 GMT -6
I have "Inside Job" and "Fair Game" on my netflakes cue. I record more stuff on the DVR than I have time to watch. It's chock full with near 100 hours of programs now.
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