December 21, 2008

  • For an avid movie goer such as myself, this time of year can get a bit hectic. The movie studios want to release their "Oscar bait" movies closest to the Academy Awards, but before the year ends, so December becomes the designated month for all those films. The problem is that these good films (or films that look really good) are released at this short period of time, making it hard and very time consuming for me to see most of them. Another problem is that a lot of these movies aren't even on wide-release and are restricted to being limited to a small number of theaters, which means that I'll have to drive as much as 40 miles just to see a particular movie. The reason for those limited releases stems on the fact that all the studios care about is that the movie is released within the year, so that it can eligible for the upcoming Academy Awards. Once the Oscars are closer, those movies go into wide release, with slogans like "nominated for..."  or "winner for..." to add to the advertising, which theoretically should draw in more viewers, which means more money made. More quality movies is a good thing, but c'mon people, spread them apart and make them more available to us who actually do like going to the movies.