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Topic: Why Movies Flop

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24 AUG 2003 at 11:43am

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Originally Posted By Petter_Holmberg (24 AUG 2003 11:18am)

As an interesting side-note, here in Sweden the major cinema companies makes more money on popcorn than on the movies themselves! The movies are so expensive to get that the tickets alone doesn't give them much profit.

That's true here in the US too...a popcorn and a soda can cost $10 while the movie only cost $8

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24 AUG 2003 at 2:08pm

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We pay $13 in Australia for a movie ticket and the popcorn is $3.50 as is any bag of sweets and so is a medium coke.  I can save $$$ by taking in supermarket sweets and a bottle of water. (that's what I usually do)  However, as it's only $7 to hire a video I usually wait the 6 months to see it.  Unless it's a super special movie.  Not many of them nowadays.




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24 AUG 2003 at 6:20pm

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I think some movies also flop because of a lousy marketing campaign. I've seen a trailer for Solaris that tried to sell it as a big science fiction movie, while it's actually a gripping drama. Same goes for Fight Club which was being marketed as being a brainless action movie, but actually was an intruiging mix of genres (action, drama, black comedy, ...).

And I agree with Petter. Hollywood should start to realize that special effects are supposed to support the story, not the other way around (Matrix Reloaded indeed being the best most recent example, but Star Wars Ep. 1 & 2 suffer from the same problem).

Movie Theater tickets cost around 8$ here, but it used to be a lot cheaper a few years ago (before one big movie complex company took over
). I don't visit the theater that much anymore, mostly wait for the dvd release.

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