Surprise! Sex Sells
Fox News reports on the box office power of sex comedies. Personally, all this tells me is that - if true - I won’t be going to the movies any time soon.
Boys of Summer Put Libido in Box Office:
Pandya feels that we will see more from the sex comedy genre, and that it could help to resurrect the movie industry, which has been down more than 12 percent since 2004 and spent a good part of this spring and summer in its worst slump in 20 years.
That last three movies I saw are (in reverse order): The Fantastic Four, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Star Wars. Not exactly high drama, but just good, escapist fun.
Hollywood keeps trying to figure out what the public wants to see. Try making good stories, and tell them well. Titanic wasn’t a great story, but it was a decent one told pretty well. The Spider-man movies are pretty typical hero movies, but very well done. Hollywood isn’t doing a very good job lately of finding good stories or good ways to tell them.
