Oscars academy wants to shun simultaneous DVD releases

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#1

I just posted the article Oscars academy wants to shun simultaneous DVD releases.

It looks as
though the concept of releasing a movie to DVD at the same time it hits the
theater, does not sit well with those behind the Oscar awards…whoever they
are. The Motion Picture…

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#2

then its simple scrap the awards and release everything at the same time its what we want

#3

The only movies that win Oscars anyway are those that no one bothers to go see because they suck. :stuck_out_tongue:

#4

Well 50 years ago the Oscars meant something. Now, theres 20 different awards to go out for the movies. and they all suck. I should give a shite if Keannu gets a best actor award for the matrix part 4. Just release the dam thing on DVD so I can watch it right away

#5

Just goes to prove that big business does not give a crap about what their customers want. All they want to do is keep things either traditional or most profits. In this case though, I think they would profit more from selling the dvd’s as soon as the movie is out. I woulda bought Superman Returns as soon as I left that theatre…but no I gotta go back and watch it again, instead of spending only 20 bux to buy it, they nickel and dime me 10 bux each time.

#6

As one of the other posters noted I don’t see any corellation between how many oscras movie has won and how good it is. In fact it’s quite opposite. 11 oscars for Titanic??? Come on… So it’s not a big loss in my eyes.

#7

Maybe the academy members are afraid there’ll no longer be a market for their screener DVDs. Perhaps they think they’re better than everyone else because they get to see new movies [legally] in the comfort of their own homes while the rest of us have to slum it in the cinema. We can’t take that away from them now can we - it’s the only thing that makes them feel like real men (or women).

#8

I can see cinemas being a dying breed unless they offer something that a home theater enthusiast will never have. Why not have theaters that are the size of an IMAX and a state of art sound system. Some of the theaters here in town sound worse than my home system. I have an IMAX theater here but it mostly shows educational movies but maybe that is changing since they are showing Batman Begins, but I have this movie already on DVD. It would look sweet though seeing it again on that HUGE screen!:slight_smile:

#9

When 3 Six Mafia won an award I knew it was rigged. “Three six Mafia: 1 Martin Scorsese: 0”

#10

In a related story, dinosaurs voted not to become extinct.