Numbers We Pretend to Care About

This guy HERE talks about the absurdity of us caring how much a movie or song costs to make as well as the stupidity of us caring how much it sells.

 Information about artists' deals and sales are irrelevant to the consumer. Why is it important to know these things? Too many times I hear people say "the record only sold [insert low number] so it can't be good." Why should sales affect whether or not you'll buy an album or see a movie? How much a movie cost to make doesn't make it a good movie.

Which I wrote about a few years ago HERE, although, to be honest, my "fancy food restaurant" riff was even funnier.

6) Speaking of movies, do I constantly need to be barraged with articles about how good or bad the movie business is doing? Every day, all I see in the papers are charts with how much $$$$ each movie is making. Unless my name is Steven Speilburg, why do I give a fuck? When did this start happening, when did we start demanding to know how much each movie was raking in? But even better than that is how every other fucking week we gotta read through some sob story where the movie industry wants us to feel bad cause they’re not making as much money during this quarter, please please run out and spend all your money at the movies!!! Cause even though I’m returning all my Krasdale Coconut Grape Drink aluminum cans to Key Food for a nickel so I can buy a pound of “ground meat” for 99 cents, how can I live with myself if Jeffrey Katzenberg doesn’t make enough scratch this week to buy Trinidad AND Tobago????? Fuckwads. Save these fucking reports for the 6 people in Hollywood whom it affects, and in the meantime maybe, hell, just for shits and giggles, actually try to make a fresh, new movie that doesn’t COMPLETELY fucking suck.

As I wrote probably brilliantly HERE:

Nobody gives a shit how much a movie costs to make. Whether a movie was made for $100 or $100M, if I thought it was a great movie I never questioned if the $12 ticket was worth it or not. And the same is true if the movie sucks - I never think well, that movie sucked but it was worth it cause I only paid $4 for it. And my liking or disliking the movie, therein establishing it's value to myself, may influence whether or not I decide to pay to see another movie.