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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Speaking of Aliens, the last movie I liked was Gladiator which did use a small bit of CGI.
People don’t like hollywood and movie theators are full of rude people.
Last time I went to a theater the experience was ruined by “teens”.
A lot of classic shows on Youtube and other sites, I like watching subtitled foreign shows on DramaFever.
Nothing out recently that is even worth a buck at RedBox.
Going to the theater is a luxury of the white middle class... the folks Obama is destroying.
Better luck next season you useful idiots in Hollywood.
Other than special showings of iconic movies in the restored old “movie palaces” that most cities of any size at all have, there’s just nothing special about going to see a first run movie anymore. Modern multiplex theaters have no atmosphere and the screen isn’t all that large, limiting the dazzle of the experience. Also, the other patrons have gotten loud, rude and disgusting.
Combine that with the cost, the availability of home viewing options that are closing the gap, the paucity of movies that are actually compelling from a creative standpoint and the overt politicization of actors and movies themselves.
What did they expect? It’s surprising to me that they’ve coasted this long. Must’ve been doing really well overseas because I just don’t see anything but dwindling domestically.
I only go and see a movie if it has an 89% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes, I don’t pay to see garbage. $15 is way too expensive for a ticket. I think the problem is ticket prices and the fact that Hollywood produces so much crap, make good movies and people might come, also dropping ticket prices by $5 might help.
And that’s not to mention the $8.00 popcorn and Cokes!!! Last movie we attended cost over thirty dollars.
Also sick of all the movie trailers and commercials the theatres throw at you before the main flick starts. We’re paying to be advertised to —not very appealing.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! It's hard to shell out for $20 3D tickets if you're living in a stagnant economy.
Spiderman, X-men, Transformers, apes ...
And they wonder why such juvenile, paltry fare doesn’t attract paying audiences.
Just wait until CGI is good enough to replace human actors. Which I predict will come in the next 10 years. Then Hollywood is out of business.
How about movies that have an interesting story line, and actors who can act? How about movies like the tried and true ones who attracted an audience? How about something without political mind bending? How about-——— aw forget it. They do what what they want to do, and I don’t give a darn. I don’t waste my money on it or them.
“Nothing out recently that is even worth a buck at RedBox.”
This. In spades.
I believe I haven’t been in a movie theatre for more than a year ... I think the last show I saw was the second Hobbit movie.
Big budget films are designed for a public IQ of room temperature.
Wasn’t it George Lucas or some other major movie director that commented (a couple of years ago now) that the mini-series would overtake the movie genre and eventually kill it? Makes sense to me. Look at the quality of the mini-series out there now (Mad Men, House of Cards, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad).
Breaking Bad set a new standard against which all other mini-series are measured, in my opinion.
Big budget films are designed for a public IQ of room temperature.
Real quick what’s the last good movie you saw? Stumped huh. There are many reasons they are losing money that’s just one. How about I go once a week to church for my preaching and I don’t have to pay 12 dollars for it. How about some fresh new actors instead of the children of someone who was never that good to begin with. How about some fresh new ideas instead of remakes of remakes. Hollywood is like an inbred family that forgot its roots. People pay to be entertained not to keep you employed.
The problem is lack of anything new. They are recycling story lines that are predictable.
They had some excellent adult films. Blue jasmine and The Dallas Buyers Club but for the summer they need new innovative engaging stories and characters. The hunger games knock offs are lame. Special effects are awesome but come up with new types of characters and surprising stories to engage people.
Spider-Man. Done to death along with the superheroes. Try taking some risks with new writers They are out there.
~And can the whiny angst ridden characters.
Mad Men doesn’t remind me of the 1960’s at all, just revisionist P.C. slop.
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