Sunday, July 28, 2013

Got Woody? Sticking It To Mr. Allen and Blue Jasmine

Woody Allen's films generally need all the help they can get.

His fairly small cult audience has to buy tickets and support him, and not cringe if he experiments with drama or musicals.

He's had to stop filming in his beloved NYC because it's too expensive...his low-budget movies are now shot overseas.

He is known to pay his actors much less than they're used to getting...which they do because they respect him.

So why can't Tom Cruise show his face in a movie theater and be seen walking into a Woody Allen film?

What's the excuse for less recognizable people on the list of "give us free screening copies," like Ivan Reitman?

Why can't these rich executives buy a block of tickets and go have dinner and a movie...as they expect everyone else to do??

(Elton John, for example, was well known for going into a record store and BUYING a bunch of CDs even though he could've gotten promo copies. He knew the importance of an artist getting sales. Surely that's not lost on "moguls" like Sherry Lansing and Ron Meyer, who expect people to buy tickets to the films they produce??)

And why encourage piracy by putting more prints in circulation?

"Free movies!" How sad, sick and sordid!

All cheapskates should be water-boarded!

Moguls see it for free?

BUY a ticket, like me!

You rich fucking pricks can afford it!

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