perfidy

This is a hoot. The movie industry is bothered by the fact that advancing technology allows consumers to learn of the crappiness of movies before paying ten bucks to see them. Listen to this Miramax drone:

"In the old days, there used to be a term, 'buying your gross,' " Rick Sands, chief operating officer at Miramax, told the Los Angeles Times. "You could buy your gross for the weekend and overcome bad word of mouth, because it took time to filter out into the general audience."

I cannot express how much I feel their pain. Because I don't. Feel their pain that is. They are blaming texting for putting the word out on their movies. Well, that's kind of backwards, isn't it? If you made a decent product, the very same technology would work in your favor. This kind of contempt is as infuriating as it is commonplace.

Maybe it will finally sink in that an informed public is harder to dupe. And when we play 1000 Blank White Cards with the studios, they won't be able to play this card on us:

Dungbreros, all of them.