Movie Execs Say Halo 3 Caused Bad Ticket Sales

Movies are too expensive and the majority are pretty crappy anyway. They are right to be worried.

Surely it's not the fact that 90% of movies released today suck camel ass?

I dont like going to theaters these days. The sound system is cranked way too high and theres always several jerk offs with their phones on or talking really loud.

I agree with all of these comments. Take Transformers for example. If you went to see it in the theater, you'd pay around $9-10, plus the cost of food, etc. Now you can buy the HD-DVD version for $5 more and can watch it as many times as you want. Considering how quickly it made it to video, it's really a no-brainer.

Either that or the Heartbreak Kid just sucked. Thats the impression I got of it in the commercials.

Heartbreak what?

Nice slam at the end there. :)

Like the Halo crowd would have lined up for that movie even if the game wasn't released. Maybe if it was Rob Schnider, but I still doubt it.

I haven't watched Heartbreak Kid and probably never will but I'm sure that the characters and acting in HL2:Episode 2 were much more impressive and Oscar-worthy. And I guarantee the humor in Portal was more witty than Ben Stiller Phone-it-in Movie #193.

I went to the movies this past weekend (I hadn't been there in a year or so), and realized why I just never want to go back ever again.

First off, I went with 2 other people, so just to get in the door to see Resident Evil 3 (which was alright), cost us 9.00 per person. Thats 27$. Then we wanted some snacks and drinks, for one Large popcorn/Large soda/Large bottle of water, it was 18.00 fucking dollars. I mean, between the 3 of us were already up to like 50$ just to watch this fucking movie and eat some popcorn.

Add this to the fact, that I have to leave my house, drive there, find parking in a packed mall, walk through the mall packed with annoying teenagers acting like morons, and then deal with other stuff inside the movie theatre (like some people who cut the line at the concession stand, or people talking on their cell phones during the movie). Like what the fuck. The movie industry really doesn't understand why people are not going to movies as much anymore?

Alternatively, I could have bought some water, soda, and popcorn at the market for $6, and rented a high definition movie through time warner for 4.99, and watched it on my big screen HDTV, sitting on my comfy couch with my friends, and not dealing with any annoyances.

It basically comes down to: Massively inconvenient and ridiculously overpriced vs. Massively convenient and ridiculously cheap. For what is basically the same service. The only difference is that you can't get the newest releases at home. But you know what, I can deal with that just fine I don't watch movies that often anyways, so I have no problem waiting for movies I want to see to come out on DVD/HD formats.

Fuck movie theatres and movie companies for not understanding this.

perhaps after paying $7 with their student ID from 1990 nobody was in the mood to sit through 35 minutes of commercials and previews with their $4 small soda, and $3 large box of sour patch kids, which has a small bag stuffed inside the misleading container.

and after I've finished eating and drinking and the previews are almost over and I'm tired and ready to go home, the heartbreak kid finally begins.

...can you really blame us?

So it's not piracy any more. Now it's legitimate games.

Why did these geniuses cancel the Halo movie then?

You know what movie came out on the same weekend last year? The Departed (and a bunch of other stuff I never heard of) -- http://www.film-releases.com/film-release-schedule-2006.php

So, it looks like they're trying to compare weekend sales of The Heartbreak Kid to weekend sales of The Departed.

Gee, I wonder why sales are so much lower this time around?

didnt realize people still went to movies

Hollywood products are far inferior in quality and value than most games, and cost 20% and sometimes 30% of the price of a game and only for a one-time viewing (and thats ticket price only, compare DVD prices for an even harsher comparison).

Now can you really blame joe gamer for buying the orange box at 50$ instead of going to see 3 crappy movies?