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Hollywood box office suffers least-attended summer movie season in 25 years
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 30, 2017 | Ryan Faughnder

Posted on 08/30/2017 2:55:02 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: gaijin
I'm sick of the CGI crap. I am no longer impressed by CGI 1000 drones or robots or bugs attacking something. Yawn.

Tell a good story without CGI, and people will be flocking to the theatre.

21 posted on 08/30/2017 3:19:11 PM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: dragnet2

The monkeys in Hollywood are not entertaing anymore. They are mostly vile swamp monsters .


22 posted on 08/30/2017 3:19:26 PM PDT by Afghanvet2010
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To: dragnet2

The monkeys in Hollywood are not entertaing anymore. They are mostly vile swamp monsters .


23 posted on 08/30/2017 3:19:26 PM PDT by Afghanvet2010
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To: EdnaMode
WHY?????????

The writers are idiots and have no imagination and less vocabulary skills than a gorilla.

Actors and actresses can't act their way out of a wet, torn brown paper bag and the mumble!

CGI is NOT a replacement for good writing, good acting, good directing, nor REAL stuff !

Blatant porn/sex is NOT necessary at all!

Photographing movie scenes in the dark NEVER 1) sets the mood 2)makes it "real" 3)makes anything more interesting !

BRING BACK USHERS AND MATRONS TO TELL PEOPLE TO SHUT UP, TURN OFF THE CELL PHONE, AND THROW OUT THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE IN A THEATRE !

24 posted on 08/30/2017 3:19:41 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Roccus

I paid $16 in Brooklyn. Meh, it was okay. Took the kids to see the latest Spider-Man relaunch and it was really good and entertaining. $10 for tickets in Maryland, but the theater had motorized recliners and assigned seating.


25 posted on 08/30/2017 3:19:53 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: EdnaMode

Gee...I wonder if could have anything to the hypocritical assholes staring in them!!!


26 posted on 08/30/2017 3:20:59 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Bonemaker

“Couldn’t happen to more deserving scum.”

I can’t bear politically correct “entertainment.” Casting a woman to play an action role where she can KO a brute 150 pounds heavier makes me roll my eyes. Black characters in historic places where they either weren’t there at all or couldn’t play the role they have in the movie are a turnoff. The mandatory gay couple; turnoff. Forced plots; turnoff. But my biggie is knowing the actor on the screen is an anti-American liberal in his real life; that’s a leave the theater turnoff.

Those television shows that are eating their lunch, what is it about them? They’re originals, not derivative copies or remakes of something else. I understand the risk aversion to gambling that much money, but at some point you either throw the dice on something new or lose what you thought was a sure thing because it did so well the last three times.


27 posted on 08/30/2017 3:21:47 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: EdnaMode

Don’t forger the $8.00 popcorn!!


28 posted on 08/30/2017 3:21:54 PM PDT by ontap
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To: tiki

“Elitist actors”

You’re to kind.


29 posted on 08/30/2017 3:23:22 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: EdnaMode

Why watch a crummy $13 remake movie where a small drink and popcorn cost another $10, when you can watch something at home for free and make your own food?


30 posted on 08/30/2017 3:23:46 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: EdnaMode

My give a shit meter has not moved.


31 posted on 08/30/2017 3:24:09 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: who knows what evil?
LOL...uh, no. My wife and I absolutely DESPISE anime.

That's you and your wife. Have you looked to see what's out there?

Astro Boy and Speed Racer were anime.

32 posted on 08/30/2017 3:24:29 PM PDT by wastedyears (Anime is real.)
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To: Mount Athos

All the ads I see on TV are for absolutely sick horror flicks that are straight out of some demonic hell. Never darken the door of a theater.


33 posted on 08/30/2017 3:25:06 PM PDT by tjd1454
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To: EdnaMode

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34 posted on 08/30/2017 3:25:30 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: EdnaMode

DEFUND socialists.


35 posted on 08/30/2017 3:26:36 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: EdnaMode

“No one can fully explain why.”

Uh, could it be that they’re churning out nothing but overpriced video-game level propaganda garbage that lacks character, drama, story, dialog and acting, while their cable and streaming competitors are producing voluminous, imaginative, and spell-binding entertainment that can be had in the comfort of one’s living-room along with healthy and inexpensive beverages and snacks without having to rub shoulders with rude scum yacking it up on cell phones and screaming babies and at a cost of only a few dollars per month?

Is it POSSIBLE that THAT fully explains why?


36 posted on 08/30/2017 3:29:05 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: wastedyears

Last time I checked; my wife and I are part of ‘everybody’. Anime makes us barf.


37 posted on 08/30/2017 3:30:49 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: cabbieguy

Thanks, I love to hear that. My last movie ticket was in 1981 Apocalypse Now.


38 posted on 08/30/2017 3:32:30 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: EdnaMode

I have never witnessed such politically correct crap in my life. Nothing is real. It is all make believe for retards. We want Westerns and killing Indians again or we are not going to spend the money!!Get lost.


39 posted on 08/30/2017 3:36:48 PM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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To: EdnaMode

Quit shoveling shit at us and maybe we’ll pay to go to the movies again.


40 posted on 08/30/2017 3:40:05 PM PDT by FrogMom (The education system: The ongoing fundamental transformation!)
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