I am seeing fewer movies than this time last year, but not by much. Good movies are harder to find. That Will Ferrell like movies out sell serious movies has been explained as follows from Entertainment Weekly which talks about how people will turn out to see Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man but not to see The Soloist: "The latter Downey project, a onetime Best Picture hopeful called The Soloist, cost $50 million to produce and has grossed just $30 million. --Producer Gary Foster thinks that there is something deeper at play. "Audiences don't want to be reminded of the darkness in the world," he says, "They want to laugh, get taken to space, watch things in a museum come to life."
The article says that Movies for Grown Ups are an endangered species. It says, "People are turned off to stuff that's holding a mirror up to there lives." The producer of My Sister's Keeper which opens against Transformers says, " The strike zone for mature audiences may be getting smaller and smaller, but if you throw it right, it can still work."
I sure hope so!
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