A recent conversation reminded me of a clip before the movies I saw recently where a set painter was talking about the movies he’s worked on and then he tangented off on piracy affects the average Joe working on films. The clip ended with the URL respectcopyrights.org and the tagline “Movies, They’re Worth It”
This was S.W.A.T. and Tomb Raider II, they weren’t worth it.
Not that I condone or believe in piracy at all, but Hollywood’s high horse about it’s IP self-importance really gets to me. They even went so far as to recently blame the explosion of text messaging on the poor box office returns of this summer’s movies. Maybe it’s because the movies suck. Hollywood Reporter has a good article about re-thinking movie marketing.
Man, I don’t think I’ve seen one decent film in theaters this summer.
