George Lucas: Movie theaters are a dying form of entertainment

http://www.variety.com/VR1117951284.html

Lucas says that people don't want to go to theaters much anymore because of the increase in broadband and smaller stuff being distributed. Not to mention that for the same $200 mil he spends on a movie could be spent making 50-60 2 hour tv films.

While I do understand where he's coming from, I think the reason why people dont' want to go to theaters is because a lot of the movies coming out just plain suck. It seems like the filmmakers (or the people who finance them, and therefore get final say in what happens in the film) have lost touch with what people want.

Sure, online videos will have some future, but I doubt I'd want to give up going to the big screen to watch that new movie coming out (assuming it doesn't suck that is).

The fact that Lucas hasn't made many films either (although I will admit the ones he does make usually rake in tons of cash) doesn't really add much to this credibility (and this coming from the guy who opposed the colorization of the Three Stooges as tampering with classics, yet repeatedly butchered his own films and pissed a lot of people off that Han didn't shoot first lol). If Steven Spielberg said this, on the other hand, then I'd bet it'd have a lot more legitimacy (cause Spielberg constantly cranks out movies, and the majority of them are good and entertaining).

Do you think Lucas is wrong, or is he right? What do you think is the future of the film industry?

Jam it back in, in the dark.