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Originally Posted by HeavyHitter
Bill,
Can we really make a difference? Some of us wrote letters to Fox about Patton, Longest day, and now look what happens? Clearly Disney and Paramount listened as they re-released Gangs of New York and Paramount is re-releasing Gladiator. It seems like Fox does what they want.
And more questionably, why aren't these guys listening to the insiders who supposedly had personal conversations with the studios about DNR a couple of years ago?
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Because most of "these guys" aren't there anymore, and a lot of the people who are left, while very nice people, don't really get it. It's like trying to explain anamorphic to them all again in the very early days of DVD. The other problem is that most people at the studios stopped paying attention to the online enthusiast forums a long time ago - a few hang in there, but the Internet silliness associated with the format war was the final straw that drove most away for good, and I can't say I blame them. The rest are so new to the business that they never paid attention to the Internet to begin with, and wouldn't know the names of any of the sites or forums if you quizzed them. They just think and operate in a different world. To the degree that they're even aware of the "fan" or "enthusiast" community at all, it's because they've discovered the marketing value of "the geeks at Comic-Con." It's just how it is these days.