Proud
America made a stand this weekend. Not against illegal immigrants/border security or the selling off control of American ports. Nor was it against a government that doesn't really speak for them. It was against something more pressing. Something that could not be pushed off to the shoulders of our children. For it wasn't a matter of when. It was a matter of now.
With advance warning and carefully placed posters to warn of the bold attack, America put aside its color-coded differences and loudly proclaimed "Fool me once..." to Sharon Stone's vagina. Basic Instinct II drew only 3.2 million dollars. If the average ticket price is $10 (which I've chosen for the ease at which it lends to the division of large numbers), that means only 320,000 people witnessed.
The first movie made $15,129,385 in its opening weekend of March 22, 1992. When adjusted for inflation, it was $20,489,092. That's a $5,359,707 difference, and $2,159,707 more than the sequel pulled in. Why did so few people go to see it? Was it the horrible reviews? I myself have yet to see it, but I do imagine that I will masturbate to it when it arrives on cable. Which leads me to one of the main reason I think people didn't go out in droves to see it:
1992 was a long time ago. Almost 15 years ago, people. In that time we have grown up, we have become wiser. No longer do we have the need to put on a long coats and nondescript hats before going out in search of things to bust off a couple of knuckle children to. We found the internet.
We now have the ability to get porn whenever we want. We don't need to spend money at the movie theater (no matter what kind it is) for we already drop $50 a month on broadband. That said, porn wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar yearly business if people didn't spend money on it. And that might be the saving grace for the producers of the movie.
Start selling off the sex clips from the movie on ITunes for Video IPods and PSPs. People want convenience and what's more convenient than allowing perverts to be able to whack it on the go without having to get dressed up. Besides someone to whack it for them, I can't think of anything.
With advance warning and carefully placed posters to warn of the bold attack, America put aside its color-coded differences and loudly proclaimed "Fool me once..." to Sharon Stone's vagina. Basic Instinct II drew only 3.2 million dollars. If the average ticket price is $10 (which I've chosen for the ease at which it lends to the division of large numbers), that means only 320,000 people witnessed.
(one of the posters used to warn Americans)
The first movie made $15,129,385 in its opening weekend of March 22, 1992. When adjusted for inflation, it was $20,489,092. That's a $5,359,707 difference, and $2,159,707 more than the sequel pulled in. Why did so few people go to see it? Was it the horrible reviews? I myself have yet to see it, but I do imagine that I will masturbate to it when it arrives on cable. Which leads me to one of the main reason I think people didn't go out in droves to see it:
1992 was a long time ago. Almost 15 years ago, people. In that time we have grown up, we have become wiser. No longer do we have the need to put on a long coats and nondescript hats before going out in search of things to bust off a couple of knuckle children to. We found the internet.
(If he only had the internet back then)
We now have the ability to get porn whenever we want. We don't need to spend money at the movie theater (no matter what kind it is) for we already drop $50 a month on broadband. That said, porn wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar yearly business if people didn't spend money on it. And that might be the saving grace for the producers of the movie.
Start selling off the sex clips from the movie on ITunes for Video IPods and PSPs. People want convenience and what's more convenient than allowing perverts to be able to whack it on the go without having to get dressed up. Besides someone to whack it for them, I can't think of anything.
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