Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 9:50 AM by Gene

A rare critical show-biz article -- and from SI, yet! -- that hints THE CONSPIRACY is pouring its money down a 3-D rathole. When we see something like this:

The Motion Picture Association of America claims that 2007 was a good year for the cinema business, with U.S. box office revenue up 5 percent to $9.6 billion. But that’s unsupportable spin. The jump can be almost entirely attributed to a bump in ticket prices. The number of tickets sold in the U.S. stayed flat from 2006 to 2007, at 1.5 billion. (In 1950, while TV was taking off, U.S. theaters sold 3 billion tickets a year—and the population was half what it is today.) Meanwhile, 379 screens were added between 2006 and 2007. Do the math and movies are doing worse than ever in theaters. [Emphasis added]

...you know the writer needs a reeducation camp. Send him to the ASSPress's Stupid Twins, DAVID "300" BAUDER and DAVID "NON" GERMAIN; they'll know what to do. He does hedge his connections by hinting the movies themselves aren't the problem, just all those "crummy seats" and not serving alcohol. [!] But when he concludes by saying that 3-D is "a temporary cure for a situation that will only get worse over time", perhaps movies AREN'T better than ever.