This is idiotic, really idiotic. For a powerful organisation, PFM (Pengeluar Filem Malaysia), they sure can come up with the stupidest idea available. They had voted the idea in lieau with the bad results in sale of movie tickets for local production. If the government were to ever take up that suggested idea, I’m sure the reports of movie goers will be dropped to a drastic result.

I was reading the morning news as usual in Metro paper and got immediately irritated by this news. You can read them here

From the usual Rm10 to RM20 just for a movie produce and directed in Hollywood. The local productions will still cost the same rate. Do you think that’s reasonable? I say NO!!

Look here PFM, I know that you want locals to support the local production but if the story line sucks with a major flaw in the plot which I usually experience, resulting in me sleeping away in the cinema and coming out of the theatre with a disgusted face. So what if you include high tech media included to produce the movie? If the storyline is MEREPEK and downright stupid, I am not going to even bother glancing at the advertisement.

There are reasons as to why people watch Hollywood movies. Most of them are good storyline, good acting, good CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) effects, good realistic makeup and props and etc.. As a consumer, we have every rights to choose what to choose even to our decision of movies. To play a lazy fool trick on us by forcing us to watch a badly produced movie is disgusting.

There are plenty of local production movies which are sadly lacking in all the above. For example the horror movies. It’s as if they have run out of ideas and love to imply the old folks tale that usually used to make kids sleep with nightmares. Come on, most of the movie goers are adults and we do not like watching our nightmares that we grew up and gradually learned its just plain stupid folklore to be made into a bad comical horror movie.

I’m not saying that all local production movies are bad. There are extremely good ones like Cicak Man and Jangan Pandang Belakang. They received a major sellout in their first premier and all because they have all the good qualities worth to watch and get excited about even though Jangan Pandang Belakang was worked on a tight budget. If local production can come out with good movies like them, surely they won’t have problems with tickets sale.

If they were to increase the price, I might as well get a pirated DVD costing Rm5 each or get a 4-in-1 DVD at RM10. Why in the world would I ever want to spend RM20 while I can watch the pirated version with the rest of my family and friends. I’ve never like supporting pirated DVDs and VCDs but if they were to imply the regulation, make sure they are able to reap what they sow. Don’t start blaming the authorities and the sindicates for their actions. We are consumers, we buy what we think is within our wallet budget.

Don’t take the easy way out and point fingers at others strength while trying to cover your major weakness. That’s being a typical irresponsible Malaysian. Work out on your weakeness and find another idea to deal with the bad sell out. Raising the price of tickets is out of the question.

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