Took my grandkids to the movies last PM (Madagascar). Total cost without parking $42. Who TF can afford that? Not a lot of people there either for a product that will be in video stores by Labor Day for $4. No wonder there is pirating. There is a cheap market created by the insane greed of everyone in the so-called business. Everyone in the business. Show business is the only business in the world that could suffer a 100% loss of all talent and executives and have every position filled immediately without losing a beat. Stop and think about it. Who can't do it? These self annointed geniuses ain't even very bright. Not a one of them. There is nothing as unimportant as an "important" movie. The studios are now owned by multi-nationals who won't put up with their crooked bookkeeping, under the table kickbacks, and secret deals if the bottom line turns bright red. Reasons for the decline in attendance? Hell you can name anything, but bad movies are bad movies; but no masculine leading men help, barely feminine young women (getting dead drunk in public, wearing no clothes, and fucking ten guys a month ain't feminine, it's just slutty), scripts from university film schools that all teach exactly the same thing (left politics, character development, scene plotting, and not to forget the mandatory sex scenes with two men, two women, or a man and a woman or two), and directors whose main claim to fame is that they did some kinky little move for twenty five cents and then try to repeat the success for 100mil. The machine is broken. The movies are the same ones I saw two years ago with different titles and different casts--sometimes.

MSNBC, the lowest rated channel in the universe, has done it again. If you want to view a video on their site???? You have to download the new Microsoft Internet Explorer. Should you do it, you will find that the "new" Explorer will literally take over your system. The "new" toolbar simply invades exactly like the old Apple Quick Time did.