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I don't know what that is. Apparently an action/suspense type movie...critics don't seem to like it too much
I looked it up. It's some sort of action thriller where the heroine is supposed to be really beautiful, but is in fact not. Stars Sasha Luss. I'm pretty sure she's an android. (The character, not the actress.)
Maybe Toy Story 4? Those movies have been good but we as a society are stuck. It probably started with Warhol and has spiraled down since then.
And the Judy Garland Wizard of Oz wasn’t the first ever Wizard movie, Heston’s Ben-Hur was a remake, Pacino’s Scarface is a remake, etc. Plus ofcourse there’s all the American movies that are remakes of foreign films. However, we seem to be in an especially bad rut now and it’s been building for awhile. I don’t blame Hollywood, these movies are making a killing. It’s the American audiences and the quality of home entertainment options to blame.
We have AMC Stubs A-List and have scene 5 of those:
I grew up watching the old Godzilla movies from the 60's and 70's on TV...Mothra, Ghidorah, Megalon, Mechagodzilla, etc... Those were never "great" movies, but they used to hold my attention as a kid. I haven't seen any of the more recent iterations of Godzilla of the last couple decades. Does it at least have any nostalgic value or 100% crap?
I mean. I guess it has some "throwback" nostalgic moments, but not enough to make up for the script, mediocre acting and plot holes you could fly a Mothra through. And I know it's a movie about a giant dinosaur type monster, but good lord, at least try.
We'll rent secret life, saw ts4 and loved it. The rest don't really interest me.
Our theater was packed all day, had to get 2nd row seats which suck. Great movie.
That's fair, my 16yo said he liked 2 best. I might go 4-1-2-3
What sets those apart from what we have today is love. Love of people. Everybody's an idiot somehow, most come upon it honestly and pursue it obsessively and fail by it in the end. But we don't fail anymore - we give ourselves participation trophies and begin our victim's journeys because we no longer trust our support systems in a world where the lion's share of love is pointed inward. Fall down and they're all 'well look at you'. Please continue to be an idiot cuz it takes the heat off me. No failure, no funny. No recovery, no redemption. No loss, no love.
Reviews have been great and it did make like $110 million. However, it was projected for 150-200. Combine that with the huge bombs like MIB, Shaft, Godzilla and Dark Phoenix, the summer has been really bad for the movie industry.
This true- the box office is for spectacles and event films. This is actually kind of a repeat conversation from the 50s. Once TV became prevelant, movie viewership began to dip for the same reasons it is is dipping now- easier to stay home, avoid the crowds, TV had quality programming, etc. What the studios figured out was what they could do that the networks couldn't: wide screen color spectacles. So the movies were driven by films like Ben-Hur, South Pacific, Quo Vadis, The Greatest Show on Earth and several Cinerama (precursor to IMAX documentary movies that gave visual tours of exotic places). So while TV could tell jokes and could do melodrama, it couldn't make the viewer feel like they were in Hawaii or feel the granduer of ancient Rome. I think we are seeing the next evolution of that to combat the HD, OLED 60 inch with sound bar world we live in. Movies had to become even bigger events and that required CGI. Only through super expensive state of the art CGI that TV couldn't afford could movies inspire people to leave their homes. The other driving factor in movie attendance is the water cooler. Kids at my school wanted to see EndGame right away because they wanted to avoid all the spoilers and wanted to be able to participate in the conversations. Maybe because with all the streaming services there is such a glut of new entertainment, there are not many movies that are able to become watercooler talk where viewers have to see it and can't wait until it hits HBO or Netflix.
Many of us might have spent our movie money and time or just attention on end game and Captain Marvel, waiting for spider Man.
Yep.
I say #### all that. It just really irritates me that the focus for trying to make the movie going experience worthwhile doesn't seem to have anything to do with the movies. Most of the stuff popping up around here is like you said - bar, restaurant, etc... So basically distract the masses with burgers and booze so they don't focus so much on the movies being the same mass produced stuff that we've already seen. The list in the OP is terrible.-OZ- said:
Yeah, I grumble about it, but I also realize that it's on us. Studios want to make money, so if people paid for the original movies instead of MIB 7, they would probably start making more of them. Alas, as a collective we just want comic book movies, sequels, and remakes.Ilov80s said:
Yeah, and it's not like there weren't a ton of sequels 30 years ago.
So well spoken.wikkidpissah said:
I don't know a thing about current ways, but when we were younger, this was a great Drive-In time.
Very few drive ins left I believe, which is sad, because that was a great movie going experience when I was a kid, even with the crummy sound. Given advances in car audio and networking I'm surprised there hasn't been a resurgence.
It's all about entertainment for us, risk vs reward for the industry.
Seriously, with Bluetooth there would be no issues (although there's some hesitation to link to another computer...), or just broadcast through a radio station like the Christmas houses do.
Of the top 20 grossing movies of 2010s, there were 0 movies that weren't a comic, sequel, prequel or reboot.
Great post - I thought I looked it up somewhere and come up with a similar list.
I get it, and I am not much better. I don't get to the movies a ton, but when I do it's usually with the son, and yeah - we are seeing a Marvel or Star Wars movie. I would love to go see something else on my day off, but when I look what's out, it's usually a similar list to the OP so I don't bother.
It's less risky to make toy story 4 than something we've never heard of. Just an example, but we didn't see Moana, Coco, Tangled, bao, up, inside out, the good dinosaur, etc in the theater. Now 3 of those are among our favorites. But we were at toy story 4 and end game opening weekend.
So, I'm to blame.
I guess I am ignorant. I didn't know what it was since I wasn't able to stream until recently, so I don't know what I am missing.
It was only around a yearish so it never got a chance to grow. It was basically Criterion plus the TCM library.
It does seem a lot like music where the stuff that’s popular is likely some of the least interesting and one has to dig a bit deeper to find the good stuff.
It’s astounding that a movie like Rain Man was the highest grossing movie of the year. If that came out today, it wouldn’t even make dent at the box office. One of those small stakes movies @wikkidpissah was referring to
Yes, Rain Man would've broken the bank in Vegas and be the master of an all-differents casino called the Spectrum now instead of burning PopTarts in his little flat.
Would have turned out he didn’t have autism but was a secret mutant created by the government to be the perfect agent of espionage. In the sequel, Rain Man 2: Revenge of the Babbitts, they would be driving Ferrari’s, shooting up Russians with machine guns and stopping Egyptian terrorists from blowing up the White House.
