04-22-2009, 02:02 PM
If we're talking apples and oranges, Wayne and McQueen are in the same bin. So you see my point, you're just quibbling over the exact name of the actor. :-p
The real apples-and-oranges is something like this:
John Wayne, "The Searchers", Blu-Ray, Amazon Sales rank #964 in Movies and TV
"Redacted", Amazon sales rank #28,947
"Magnificent Seven", #1,978
"Casualties of War", #25,673
It doesn't seem to take long before Hollywood's latest and greatest has slipped down to the depths, but they re-release an old John Wayne movie on Blu-Ray and clearly someone is buying it. Magnificent Seven isn't even in a new format and it's still selling better than a lot of Hollywood's recent cry-in-the-cheerios attempts.
It will be interesting to see how Battlestar Galactica rates in sales 5 years after its release.
Incidentally, looking down the Amazon sales ranking for sci-fi shows, excluding shows that are recent (popular because they are new -- wait 5 years and see if anyone still buys them before we judge those), it looks like the top seller is actually Star Trek Season 1 on Blu-Ray (either that or X-Men, depending on if we're calling that "recent" or "apparently a classic"). After that is the Star War Trilogy, episodes 4-6.
Star Trek is as old as dirt, and now that it's out on Blu-Ray, people are lapping it up again. I wonder where it would be if Kirk was Adama.
Classics, man.
Crying in the cheerios might be "realistic", but it's destined for the dollar bin at the video store.
The real apples-and-oranges is something like this:
John Wayne, "The Searchers", Blu-Ray, Amazon Sales rank #964 in Movies and TV
"Redacted", Amazon sales rank #28,947
"Magnificent Seven", #1,978
"Casualties of War", #25,673
It doesn't seem to take long before Hollywood's latest and greatest has slipped down to the depths, but they re-release an old John Wayne movie on Blu-Ray and clearly someone is buying it. Magnificent Seven isn't even in a new format and it's still selling better than a lot of Hollywood's recent cry-in-the-cheerios attempts.
It will be interesting to see how Battlestar Galactica rates in sales 5 years after its release.
Incidentally, looking down the Amazon sales ranking for sci-fi shows, excluding shows that are recent (popular because they are new -- wait 5 years and see if anyone still buys them before we judge those), it looks like the top seller is actually Star Trek Season 1 on Blu-Ray (either that or X-Men, depending on if we're calling that "recent" or "apparently a classic"). After that is the Star War Trilogy, episodes 4-6.
Star Trek is as old as dirt, and now that it's out on Blu-Ray, people are lapping it up again. I wonder where it would be if Kirk was Adama.
Classics, man.
Crying in the cheerios might be "realistic", but it's destined for the dollar bin at the video store.