The Best Movies Few Will See

In the last two weeks or so, I've seen a variety of writers/movie critics writing about how some of the best movie that will never be seen are coming out in/have come out in the last month. I wrote to one of them today and wanted to share the story with the readers of my blog as well. Tell me what you think about it - are you using any of the DVD-renting services? Do you think that "Hollywood is in trouble?" Let me know what you think!

"To Joe Williams - St. Louis Post Dispatch Movie Reviewer

Greetings, Joe!

I just finished reading your most recent piece and I wanted to interject a perspective that I thought might initiate some great banter. I've recently fleshed out my theater at home, "The Shire" (I've included a photo of it in this Email) and when you consider that the timetable for even major blockbusters arriving on DVD and (YUMMY!) HD-DVD is now 4 months, I wonder if Hollywood and the movie-making folks in general have not only begun to realize that while grand box office are there to be had, and are short-lived, there is even more money to be made when introducing those films to the after markets of DVD media, HBO, Cinemax, showtime, pay-per-view, etc.

At the end of your article you'd mentioned money and it truly does make the movie world go round. So with people creating "theaters" (like mine at home), with the prices of electronics, even the best ones coming down, doesn't that directly effect where people are going to put their money in general? When you consider even gigantic movie offerings like "TRANSFORMERS" which I saw a couple of times in the digital theater at The Galaxy here in STL, becoming recurring DVD-sensations (ie cha-ching), I think the proliferation of theaters in people's homes really does play into today's movie landscape more than people want to admit.

Something else that bears mention: There are many DVD-renting services available. We take advantage of our BlockBuster Total Access plan heartily in out household. We'll get the three we get when initiating the program, we'll finish those out (usually a couple of movies for my wife and I and then one for our daughter, Jade), and then march them back into BlockBuster, select three more movies, hand them our done movies and walk out paying nothing but the money it takes for gas to get there. It's decidedly satisfying, too. By the time we've finished two movies it's been a day and we're into another set of three that usually arrive in our mail box the next day. And so on, and so on, and so on.

So how do we "help the movie industry back on it's feet?" The answer is easy - we don't need to. This year alone, Hollywood had so many banner marks that it's hard to imagine "Hollywood needing a boost" so let's not bother with that, and get back to what matters: enjoying the hearty entertainment goodness of sitting with ones family and friends in a grand home theater sharing in some of the best entertainment available - until of course it's time to head out to the theater to see a new movie that is.
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Thanks for the article and I look forward to your next piece.


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