The international box office — which is up more than 3 percent year-to-date — helped save a number of summer event films that underperformed in the U.S. Pirates 5 has grossed $618 million overseas for a global total of $790 million, while Transformers 5 stands at $604 million globally after earning $474 million offshore. And The Mummy scared up $328 million abroad for a worldwide cume of $407.8 million.
Ended up only seeing one summer movie: Dunkirk.
Now people are complaining about Hollywood Whitewashing , so expect good actors to be replaced with anything with a mouth ,LOL
I was a smoker back in the ‘80’s. I didn’t like it, got no pleasure from it, and felt restrained from other things because of it. One day when I had a cold and felt miserable and found myself contemplating throwing my boots and heavy jacket just to trudge down to the market for a pack of smokes I said to myself, “Enough!” and quit.
In the mid 2000’s I realized that part of my habit patterns were to turn on the boob toob and then ignore it for the rest of the day. It was on but I wasn’t paying any attention to it. The times that I did I invariably got angry at all the type-casting of pubbies as mean, whites as exploitative, and men as the wreckers of the universe - somehow simultaneously dumber than wood yet diabolically clever in their evilness.
I turned it off. And in very short order it stayed off. I still have it but I can’t remember the last time i turned it on. I don’t even now if it still works.
I used to go to the movies. My favorite is Sci-Fi. I’ve never been naive enough not to see the subtle little messages inserted into the themes of the movies, but (with small exceptions) they were tolerable. Until they weren’t. Until the passing of one of the greatest generations of actors gave way to the worst (so far), most pitiful excuse for “acting” that made me yearn for high school drama class again.
I can’t remember the last movie I went to. It may have been Titanic (I remember laughing when what-his-name went under for the last time).
I don’t go because I don’t care. I don’t care because THEY DON’T ENTERTAIN! (sorry for shouting). Everything about them is excess. They traumatize instead of titillate. They insult instead of illuminate. They try to make you feel like a voyeur instead of one of the characters. They routinely fail on every level and worst of all - they bore me (when they’re not offending me). Why pay money for that?!
Remember when FReeper Dr. Raoul used to post his BIAS = LAYOFFS graphic?
Hollywood recent movies have the following great new features:
o New Heros like brutal Communist Chinese. We all look up to censorship, suicide nets, loss of body organs for disagreers.
o New Attractions like sneaky gotcha gay scenes.
o Hatred for all things Liberty.
- this is their formula for movie success.
Next new feature should be OUTSOURCE movies to Somalia. What could go wrong? Old fashioned cars replaced by donkeys.
How much is due to KODI?
Free (illegal) steaming of all movies...gotta take a bite out of the box office.
And with this news, expect more LGBT/Politically Corrected remakes of Hollywood movies like:
1) Pulp Fiction - remade to where the sodomy rape victims actually enjoy the encounter and immediately went out and joined a Gay Pride parade!
2) Dirty Harry - remade to where Harry is a frustrated, closeted homosexual who takes out all his frustrations on innocent African-American citizens!
3) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - remade as “Ms. Black and the Oppressed Seven Little People” where the Evil Queen oppresses the minorities to live in rancid conditions and forces them to work in the mines for little to no pay; but that will all change with Ms. Black leading the charge to civil rights (including prosecuting the Prince for sexual assault because Ms. Black didn’t sign a pre-approved, carnal-knowledge authorization form before he kissed her)!
4) His Girl Friday - Now “Her Boy Friday” - need I say anymore?
And many, Many, MANY more! Oh boy, I just can’t wait!!
Same here.
Let’s see the last time I was in a movie theater my wife took me out for my birthday, it was 2007 or 2008; saw Will Smith in some ‘Omega Man’ type remake. It was all right. Haven’t been back since though...F#*k you Hollywood!
The only summer movie I’ve enjoyed so far is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 ... I get a kick out of the humor and the simple fact that it doesn’t take itself too seriously (also, no in your face or even subtle political nonsense). It reminds me a lot of the 1980 Flash Gordon movie only with far better acting in the lead roles.
That opening credit scene with Baby Groot dancing to ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky while the interdimensional alien is beating the crap out of the team is one of my all time favorites.
I didn’t see it in the theater though ... I waited for, uh, BluRay, yeah, I, uh, rented a BluRay :-) (I do not fund Disney ;-))
I can’t say I saw any of the expected blockbuster films this summer. Just a lot of smaller films, most of them pretty good.
The reason for this is obvious. Hollywood is saving their top movie releases for December when they will be considered for academy awards. This is a bad time for movie attendance. The audience is focused on school starting in September.
What Hollywood needs to do is reboot:
Superman
Spiderman
The Hulk
King Kong
Star Wars
Star Trek
Transformers
Batman
Pirates of the Caribbean
Titanic (I want to see Leo die again)
Captain America
The last movie I saw was The Case for Christ. I refuse to pay money for raw sewage.
We went to see All Saints last night (meh).
We were the only two in the entire theater and the multiplex was pretty empty. Hollywood is indeed suffering and I couldn’t care less.
I’ve been to the movies twice in the last 2 years. It’s just too expensive and isn’t fun anymore.