Random Thought Thread

tokerblue said:
One of Cusack and Aykroyd's best movies.

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“Popcorn!!”
 
The Amazing Virginian said:
No one cares whether you make crap. They only care whether you make cash.
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What I'm saying, is that there have been studios/companies putting out crap that has lost millions, and yet, those same people continue to make the poor decisions on new movies that again, lose millions of dollars, and then turn around and blame the public for not spending money to watch their crap.

It used to be, that the consumer voted with their wallets (and they still do), and the companies paid attention and went whichever way the market dictated, but in the last decade or two, some folks have decided to push whatever they've chosen to push, then blame the public when it flops, and yet, they're allowed to helm other projects and try the same thing again, losing more money.
 
bluemax_1 said:
What I'm saying, is that there have been studios/companies putting out crap that has lost millions, and yet, those same people continue to make the poor decisions on new movies that again, lose millions of dollars, and then turn around and blame the public for not spending money to watch their crap.

It used to be, that the consumer voted with their wallets (and they still do), and the companies paid attention and went whichever way the market dictated, but in the last decade or two, some folks have decided to push whatever they've chosen to push, then blame the public when it flops, and yet, they're allowed to helm other projects and try the same thing again, losing more money.
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Hmm. OK. Guess you have some new info for me. I know when I lived in LA and knew a few business people in The Industry, it was all about the cash. But that was more than 25 years ago now. Hard to imagine why financiers these days would keep underwriting folks who produce financial flop after financial flop, throwing good money after bad, but I'll take your word for it. Thx for the info.
 
The Amazing Virginian said:
...Hard to imagine why financiers these days would keep underwriting folks who produce financial flop after financial flop, throwing good money after bad, but I'll take your word for it. Thx for the info.
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Seriously?


I don't know if you've heard, but Alissa Heinerscheid, the former VP of Marketing for Anheuser-Busch. just tanked one of the company's must successful brands and cost the company million$. She graduated from Harvard, and has a post-graduate degree from Wharton Business School...arguably one of the most prestigious and expensive "business" educations that money can buy.

You know what she took from all that education? Instead of establishing an expertise in continuing to make BILLIONS off of an already-successful brand, her million-dollar education/indoctrination taught her to go the way of appealing to the fringe...one particular group that represents less than 1% of the population...and to offend the MILLIONS of established Customers of the extremely successful brand she was hired to promote.


If you don't think that FOOLS will continue to chase flop after flop, perhaps you haven't heard of "millenials", "Gen_Z", "academia", and their nonsense of "social investing". (*Try to imagine the very antithesis of "Capitalism")




*My apologies for the detour. [RANT OFF]
 
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