Richard Jones' Log: Random stuff
Sat, 16 Jul 2005
I got to shake Neil Gaiman's hand last night :)
Rachel and I also saw Sin City last night. Great film. We paid $29 for the experience. I bought A Fish Called Wanda on DVD (commentary by John Cleese, second disc full of extras) for $12.98 on the same day. Now, tell me again why the cinemas are struggling?
I'm working on the PyWeek code, and have discovered some neat Zope Products that have made life a little easier. Zope's still really nice to work with, but there's some parts that are just plain obscure (I really wish there was a nicer way to _Add_Diary_Entry_Permission = ('Manager', 'Entrant') - which doesn't always work)
Are cinemas struggling? The ones near me (Northern California, USA) seem to be thriving, despite the MPAA's continued posturing on piracy.
Your language is interesting; $13 bought you a DVD, but $29 bought you an experience.
And that's why I love the cinema: it's not just the big screen and big sound, it's the experience of watching a film with a bunch of other people. It can be a horrible experience with a bad audience; but with a good audience, a film becomes something more that what you buy on DVD. (Best cinema experiences: Touching The Void, with a full audience totally rapt and silent; Finding Nemo, with an audience of families and young kids, who were completely entranced.)