Posted on 09/12/2014 11:28:52 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
When you combine Variety's story about a 19% drop in entertainment industry jobs, and The Hollywood Reporter's story about the 2014 box office already being written off as a "disaster," things look pretty glum in the business of show. And probably for good reason.
No one expected Summer 2014 to tank. No one. Everyone's saying "wait till next year," but this year there was a Spider-Man, some X-Men, a bunch of Apes, more Transformers, ..., this past Labor Day weekend was the worst since the post- 9/11 Labor Day weekend.
No one knows why. No one can explain it. And that has everyone worried.
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Why go to the movies? With shows like Breaking Bad, The Strain, Game of thrones...The Last Ship...all the good stuff is on TV.
Ummm, the first point is an unfounded accusation that’s been rejected by investigators and the 2nd point...Soon Yi was not his stepdaughter.
Ticket prices are way too high!
Fandango http://www.fandango.com/los+angeles_ca_movietimes
$15 adults and $11.50 for kids. Mom/Dad and 4 kids is $76! before popcorn!
Rent a movie or find it online (Netflix etc) at no more then $8 a month and you have better picture and sound and food.
And you can fart when you want to....
“No one knows why. No one can explain it. And that has everyone worried.”
And they are too stupid to see that the enemy is themselves, with their constant attacks on half the population, their strutting around with lefty political figures, their support of destructive economy tactics.
Truly, they must believe that the American populace will forever worship at their feet and feed them with an endless supply of money plucked out of the sky or something.
If I go at all, I go to the weekday morning show because the rude kids are in school. It’s sad that we’ve become so uncivilized.
We’re gonna have to agree to disagree on this one, Borges. Have a good one.
CC
I just stated facts.
“Winters Bone” decent enough movie and not a huge production
-— Tea Party - Sarah Palin - locusts, a terrible flood, they had a flat tire ... -—
Climate change.
-— Entertainment for 12 year old boys -—
They’re the ones who most want to get out of the house. I know. I used to be one. 8-)
Favorite memory:
We’d go out on Friday to the local second-run theater. We’d sit through just about anything. One Friday the best we could do was “Death on the Nile.” We paid $2 each.
After the title, the story opened with a boat slowly moving down the river. One guy said, “I’ll give you guys $1 each to leave now.” We thought about it for a second, and then we took him up on his offer.
-— Breaking Bad, The Strain, Game of thrones...The Last Ship...all the good stuff is on TV. -—
That’s even harder to explain. One thing these shows have in common is great writing. My favorite is “House of Cards.” It’s almost as good as Shakespeare or Dostoevsky.
They have worked hard to destroy tradition, morality, Christianity, and have backed Dems to the hilt.
Let them take their medicine without any sugar to make it go down.
There is no sense, right or wrong in scripts--just violence, sex, evil, and hopelessness, so the movies are tired and not entertaining..
Look at all the great western movies and tv series--always right pitted against wrong with heroes like John Wayne to save the day; the great war pics; the great musicals. H'wood has gone total perversion.
vaudine
I’m not sure if the Great Depression would be a great measuring stick...seeing that ‘talkies’ may have been popular just because they were a novelty.
At no time in my life has my disposable income been so constricted...property taxes, energy costs, groceries are all outpacing inflationary raises. I am not alone - and frankly, there’s no money in the budget to go to a movie. And I’m employed. The spin is we are in recovery...the ugly truth is consumers are still not enthusiastic about the future.
No matter how ‘recession proof’ movies used to be, they no longer are - if for no other reason that they compete with themselves on price, and people just wait it out until the Red Box has it.
No one expected Summer 2014 to tank. No one. Everyone’s saying “wait till next year,” but this year there was a Spider-Man, some X-Men, a bunch of Apes, more Transformers, ..., this past Labor Day weekend was the worst since the post- 9/11 Labor Day weekend.
The Dallas Buyers Club was a great movie. The character was engaging. That is what I object to in much of the schlock out there; the characters are wooden, have no depth and frankly, a lot of the time it’s the material. Buyers Club was risky to make and they pulled it off with an excellent script and actors who excel at characterization.
Not many of those out there; Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts and the very gifted Frances Mcdormand come to mind along with Matthew McConaughey, Richard Armitage, Jared Leto and others who are able to delve deep within themselves to portray people in depth. Sean Penn is another who manages to bring a great deal of depth to his characters, also Robert de Niro, Kevin Spacey.
So many actors are walking parodies of themselves. They are who they are in every single vehicle. The script has to conform to their personalities rather than they embodying and bringing a character to life.
I’m sure you know many actors who fit that category.
I enjoy seeing a movie. Sometimes you have to see it on the screen to get every nuance.
And, good movies are rare.
If I do spend money on a movie, it's usually one on Blu-ray made before 1970. The last movie I watched was The Great Race from 1965 on Blu-ray. The only movie I've seen in a theater in the last 2 years was Captain America from this year.
That’s the answer.Even for a dollar they are not worth renting.Did they fire all the writers in Hollywood?We’ve been watching the Strain on TV and it’s free.I like Rat Man.
Hah! Looks like no one in Hollyweird has a working brain. That means things will get worse and worse till all the local Bijous are shuttered up across the fruited plain.
Big malls plus half the private entrepeneneur stores in strip malls plus family restaurants are already closed or are in trouble, why not the movie theaters on Main Streets?
The economic depression we're in, high prices for viewing only one film with commercials, conservative boycotts, a current latent fear of being in crowds or out late at night....plus moronic films being ground out by the dozens to pander to teen-age boys, dating couples and adolescent males in the twenty-to-forty five age group who still get their kicks from Spiderman.
No one wants to go out after dinner any more like we did in a bygone era. There's too much entertainment of all kinds at our fingertips at home....with popcorn only a couple cents a bowl.
Big box theaters will disappear soon, although new concepts in movie-watching will be innovated (not necessarily involving the computer at all) for watching at home or in settings not thought of before.
Leni
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