Well, that's it, I give up. What's the point in trying to put together a campaign that no one will follow? What's the point in trying to reach some measure of common ground for those of us who call ourselves animé fans? Why should I be the only soldier in the fight to get content meaningful to us shown in local theaters? Those are things that I have to ask myself now that I sit here having just closed out an unfinished "mission statement" for the campaign that will not be. I'm not sure I can answer those things, I'm not sure I'm even the one who should answer them. The level of negative feedback I've gotten for this Regal Cinemas thing makes doing it seem pointless. The logistics of running a one man army are just too much, and I'm not going to do it. I have neither the resources, nor the energy to devote to doing everything myself. If animé fans are content with the Status Quo, then who am I to rock the boat and try to make things better for us? Thanks for the support guys, remember it next time you're in a theatre watching a movie.
Comments:
DarkFaerie88:
Well, I don't have too much of that left to collect.
Since I only just noticed them there, I haven't been getting them, but I might start picking something up once in a while when I have the extra money to do it.
scorchbird12:
I happened upon all the magazines in the same night, the graphic novels I'd seen a previous night at a different store.
There's a lot more than anti-animé sentiments going on with Regal Cinemas, too bad more people don't realize it.
It happens to all of us.
I set the deadlines because if I didn't, stuff wouldn't get done, like a couple things that are months overdue because I didn't set a deadline for them.
I never did care for that attitude, but I got through everything just to spite the teachers trying to slip the students up.
I don't understand that whole thing myself, maybe no one's ever tried growing them here is all.
sikaurai
Yeah, that's one of my favorite overall results. I'm kind of like Kenshin in a lot of ways.
You shouldn't have to do that. You shouldn't have to beg, borrow, or steal your animé You should have the opportunity to see animé films in your local theatre when they hit wide theatrical release. Those films were meant to be seen on the silver screen. Having to resign yourself to watching them on the computer screen or TV just isn't enough.
Yes, do that.
Yensid:
That's another reason for me to really think about moving up that way. K-Mart is garbage now that they merged with Sears anyway (15% restock fee anyone? You've never heard of it because they don't explain it to you on checkout like they are supposed to), Target is probably the best store of all three of them, but they're not close enough for me to get to them regularly either.
I went into Borders, and while I was moderately impressed by the three and half isles of graphic novels (Compared to the single one in Waldenbooks which equates to half a Borders isle), I was grossly underimpressed by their overly inflated prices on everything. It'll be a while before I go back in there for any of my wants, I know I can get them cheaper elsewhere.
When you play Devil's Advocate, you will get burned. "We seek to locate each theatre where it will be the sole or leading exhibitor within a particular geographic film-licensing zone." (From the Regal Entertainment Group website - About Us page) Given that they admit they are trying to monopolize the market, I wouldn't be bothered one bit if Regal got themselves shut down. The nearest any animé film got to me was Howl's Moving Castle in Pittsburgh, at a non Regal cinema. To put things into perspective for you, it would have cost me over $100.00 just to go see that movie, five hours away from where I live. I'm already saving up the money to try and see the Studio Ghibli Tales of Earthsea movie when it comes to the US because I don't expect it to be shown locally. I'll be lucky to be able to save up that much for it. Not being employed, I don't often get the cash to work with. Money doesn't fall out of the sky at me.
You tell me, is that right? Should I have to save up the money to go hours out of my way to see a film that's in wide release(available to all theatres to show), because the only theatres in and around town (all owned by Regal) refuse to show it? I haven't seen one single animé film in the theatrical setting in the past few years because I've not had the money to do so each time one has come out in wide release in the US. Regal Entertainment Group consists of: Regal Cinemas, United Artists Theatres, and Edwards Theatres, your local "major theatres" wouldn't happen to be one or more of those, would they?
One man can't move mountains, that's for sure, and right now, I'm the only man on this campaign, that's why it's off.
Magnus Lensherr
Animé is a passion of mine, getting it into theatres will have to be someone else's cause, I guess I'm not important enough to rally people to it.
It's not a lot, but it's a start. Too bad it's not the stores closer to me. I'll have to get into those to check next week, if they still have copies left.
I'm not sure if this is right, so I'll just ask if Dartmoor means anything to you. I think that's the name.
Yeah, because Oedipus Rex comes first, then Oedipus at Colonus, I hate to spoil it, but that's the one where Oedipus dies, I think, then Antigone is the last of the trilogy. The character Anitgone seen in Oedipus at Colonus with Oedipus, but Oedipus is absent from Antigone the play, so it must come after. In terms of character relations, Antigone is Oedipus' daughter, so she's not in Oedipus Rex.
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