The first trailer features David Goldstein, a set painter who says that piracy hurts him more than film industry executives. Each ad ends with the tag line, "Movies. They're worth it.''
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Somehow I'm not able to muster up much sympathy.
If poor David isn't making enough, maybe he should cast a suspicious eye to the Goliaths of the movie industry, who are making $10, $20, even $30 million per oft-stinkerish films. Does anyone really merit that kind of money? Does anyone really NEED that kind of money?
Or maybe the movie industry should examine why it's costing a family of four well over $30 to see a typical flick at the cinema.
Lastly, here's a really radical idea: If it's getting prohibitively expensive to make bigger and yet bigger explosions or look-at-the-hyper-realistic-hair on animated creatures, maybe it's time to consider a return to that long-overlooked ideal: a good storyline.
I'm betting the studios could buy a very high quality script for considerably less than $30 million. Might even find some decent actors to offer their services for a piddling six figure sum. Imagine that!
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