One more step
Posted August 10, 2009 
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Comments(0) Please Roku… add NBA.com content…
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The music industry - Was Demolition Man right?
Posted August 6, 2009 Comments(0)
Comments(0) I was looking at a NYT article talking about the HUGE drop in CD sales along with the relatively small uptick in downloaded music. It also has an amazing chart to go along with it.
So, I keep thinking… In the somewhat underrated movie “Demolition Man“. The music industry was reduced to simply playing jingles over the radio. If you take the music industry as a business to it’s logical conclusion with the trend noted above, a reasonable way to monetize music on any big scale is to have it as a marketing pitch (ie. the commerical jingle). Somewhere along the way, the “art” was lost.
Which then lead me to: I really didn’t think “Demolition Man” was very good, until I went and read Brave New World again. Then, I read this article titled “Forget Red vs. Blue — It’s the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda“. (Criticism of this link: no references to the statistics used, so I’m not sure of their validit. It’s slightly ironic, but the point is well taken.) Basically, I starting thinking that the movie’s dystopia might actually be the most realistic one in my lifetime. It’s also one of the first movies I can remember with a truly overt product placement (Taco Bell) along with cross promotion commercials (you couldn’t tell if it was a Taco Bell ad or Demolition Man ad), which then goes and spoils the Transformers movie by making them all have to be GM cars. (yes, I realize the original Transformers TV series was there just to sell more toys)
The article above points out that we’re in a culture of entertainment with politicians who only need to appear sincere. It sounds like life imitating art, or at least what passes for art today. We’re entertained by increasingly stupid shows on TV, and our society follows… What ever happened to art?
Gee maybe my parents were right, Bart Simpson - underachiever, really isn’t a good message for kids.
The end of the sequel slump?
Posted August 4, 2009 Comments(0)
Comments(0) Can it be true? 4 non-sequel / reboot sci-fi movies this summer. And they all look worth seeing. Will Avatar usher in the new age of movies?
