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Home Theatre Software: Insulting?

This may be just me but how often after you seen the "cabon copy" explosion riddled movie trailer and said to yourself "God is this stuff stupid or what" and even worse.

As a music listener how long would we put up with consistently poor quality software that offends our intellect?

Seems to me that the movie industry thinks we are just stupid apes willing to buy anything the Hollywood Marketing guys/gals can regurgitate at us. Seriously, think about this next time you see a totally pointless plot but with your rerun "Take" 865.95 of bombs and flashes.

On the other hand where would Casablanca or Citizen Kane be without that great 7.1 sound :)?

I saw a bumper sticker a few years ago that read: "The more you know the less you need" . In the case of movies, maybe another sticker could read "The more you think the less you are willing spend in front of the screen watching carbon copies". Once in a while it is fun to watch a good boom boom if there is something to fill the space between the boom boomies such as Saving Private Ryan.

I am probably missing something here but why is home theatre worth ten's of thousands of dollars of our discretionary income?

Maybe that old song "In the year 2525 we will not need our minds, will not need our eyes...." was overly kind with respect to the date.

nanderson
sedond
1,314 posts
 
"Home Theatre Software: Insulting?" sounds like an oxymoron to me! ;~)

doug *doesn't do movies* sedon
sedond
1,314 posts
 
oops, i said oxymoron?!? what a dummy - i meant redundant! :>)

doug s.
aroc
760 posts
 
I find the average product from hollywood, although not particularly that great, to be far better than the mainstream garbage the record companies are releasing as of late. Though with movies, you can find some decent titles from the indepenent houses, just like with music.

Spending $30k to watch the latest hollywood suspense move tripe is akin to spending $30k to listen to the latest re-hashed Top40 music.

Give me a hi-end full range 2channel system, and a front project with 100in screen. Then give me a room full of tasteful software - both music and movies. Now that's entertainment!

Who's bringing the popcorn?
bishopwill
369 posts
 
Doug's message brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department....

I love boomies if the have some decent story line and character development. Alas, for every Das Boot we seem to have 6,000 U-571s.
nanderson OP
291 posts
 
I can hardly believe you would state that less than <0.02% of movies are of caliber you find (1/6000) "substantial" or whatever you would class as the anti-thesis of U-571 given your comments in the Home Theatre version of this exact same question. You must be make easy compromises in general....now I have this land that....... Seriously just kidding Bishop but something it seems you are making a much more powerful argument for insulting movies as a general rule with less than 0.02% chance of finding a good or whatever you want to call it movie.
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