It's simple. I pay too much money and sit through too many commercials to watch a too-long, mediocre movie while listening to cell phones and pagers going off around me. Thanks to Netflix and my home theater system, I can avoid all of that.
STACY RIDEOUT
swrideout@gmail.com
Tarboro, N.C.

Fox's Bruce Snyder unwittingly shows himself (and executives who think as he does) to be a big part of the problem of declining attendance at movies when he states: ''We've got to blow people away.'' That's exactly what's happened to a part of the audience that has both money and time to watch films: retired persons. They've been blown back home by this awful idea that to compete with other forms of entertainment, movies need to be a loud and disorienting experience. When the choice is between the loud and obnoxious thriller and the loud and obnoxious action-adventure and (even!) the loud and obnoxious comedy, millions of people choose to stay at home. Imagine the money that could be made from this overlooked market if the movie industry banked on fine storytelling and great acting instead of trying to blow us away with meaningless bombast.
PAUL TIFFORD JR.
North Hollywood

CORRECTION: Due to an 11th hour editing error, our review of the new Dave Matthews Band CD inadvertently implied that someone named ''Tull'' is Jethro Tull's frontman. Our apologies to the true frontman, Ian Anderson (Music).

Originally posted May 30, 2005 Published in issue #823 Jun 03, 2005 Order article reprints
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