Weekend Box Office Collapses to 16 Year Low

Brietbart ^ | December 8, 2014 | John Nolte

[Zakeet]

Despite the best efforts of Jennifer Lawrence, two big family films, some horrible bosses, and The Mighty Christopher Nolan, according to Deadline, the weekend's box office collapsed to a 16-year-low.

Box Office Mojo reports the weekend earned just $70.4 million, which Deadline says is the worst post-Thanksgiving weekend, going all the way back to 1998. Mojo adds that this weekend was the second-worst of the year and somewhere around a 20% drop over this same weekend last year.

[donaldo]

I stopped going to movies several years back. There’s just too many distractions, particularly illuminated cell phones. People are admonished to turn them off and put them away; no matter, the last time I was there many were texting and a few were actually having conversations. Never again. We’re living in an age when it’s almost impossible to shield ourselves from either visual or aural impositions.

[aomagrat]

I haven’t been to a theater this century.

[dirtymac]

You mean you don’t want to rush out and buy tickets to movies that would gag even 13 year old viewers? The best adjectives that I can come up with for the movie crop is idiotic, disgusting, stooopid, lame, moronic,. . . I think I need some help with a few more .

[Junk Silver]

“Seeing Steve Carrell do heavy drama would be interesting.”

Carrell did a fine job inhabiting the character, the nose prosthetic is amazing and I honestly wouldn’t have known it was him if I hadn’t been told ahead of time.

Foxcatcher itself is just LONG. There’s no character development and very little actually happens. It’s apparent the director thinks he’s created some profound comment on the human condition, but as far as I’m concerned it’s just a piece of shoddy workmanship.

[tenger]

Bzzt. Wrong person. Never saw American Carol. Nice try. Thanks for playing. What will I do now since I no longer have cred in your eyes? What to do, what to do?

[Zathras]

Interstellar caused you to really, really think...HARD.
Probably the most technically accurate movie done on the subject.
Still, very very difficult to follow.
I picked up on most of it after I left the theater and thought about it.

The loud soundtrack was distracting and added nothing.

[Truth29]

I stopped going to movies several years back. There’s just too many distractions, particularly illuminated cell phones. People are admonished to turn them off and put them away; no matter, the last time I was there many were texting and a few were actually having conversations.

I guess it depends on the theater management and the audience. Where I usually go, we get the same admonishments and most obey. Those that don't get talked to by staff.

[867V309]

That graphic on the left is pretty idiotic.

Right. And the biggest idiot missing is George Klooney.

[who knows what evil?]

I haven’t gone to a movie in years...the few I have any interest in seeing I can catch on a relative’s flat screen. Not interested in sitting in a theater with the kind of freaks populating this country nowadays...

[Borges]

Gravity was a small well told story that didn’t try to do nearly as much. Interstellar is painful to sit through.

[Borges]

It’s what the British have always done. If they feel they only have 4 good episodes for the year they will only broadcast those four. and say ‘See you next year.’.

[MamaDearest]

I stream from both Netflix and Amazon and far too often liberal content of TV shows and movies causes us to delete whatever we started watching because the content is anti-conservative, immoral or minus a cognizant plot. Liberal references in “The Good Wife” series to Sarah Palin and Obama got it readily delteted in my house.

[dangus]

Dumb and Dumber’s John Carey

It’s spelled “John Kerry.”

Or did you mean the star of the FICTIONAL movie, Jim Carey?

[MamaDearest]

Meant to say “deleted.”

[wally_bert]

I went to Rifftrax for the uncut ex-MST3Ker’s take on the Mexican movie Santa Claus.

http://www.rifftrax.com/

[Future Snake Eater]

I’m jealous! How was it? I watch the MST3K version of “Santa Claus” every year along with “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” of course.

[publius911]

Make better movies, and maybe things would turn around.

I can't speak for everybody, but my absence from any local theater is my precaution against having to fumigate my house for bedbugs.

The Municipal health department is probably on strike.
In three years it's gone from really bad to intolerable.

[GunRunner]

I'm a Nolan fan, and Inception is one of the best movies of the last decade in my opinion.

I love cosmology, so I was excited to see how Nolan was going to both portray travelling through a wormhole AND a black hole.

The whole thing was overlong and just not very interesting. I said I would be satisfied if all they could do was improve on the ridiculous ending of Contact, where Jodie Foster goes through a wormhole and talks to an alien who looks like her dead Dad. Lame, but Interstellar was lamer. If you've seen Contact, you can kind of guess where the whole thing is going.

The planets were uninteresting, the space travel boring, and the score (by the usually great Hans Zimmer) is literally nothing but really loud pipe organs (or so it seemed).

I would just watch Contact again.

[GunRunner]

At least Gravity didn't try and portray itself as a film that asked deep question. Gravity was of an experimental short film than a movie.

It lasted what, 80 minutes? Interstellar is 3 hours of pipe organs.

[dead]

The quality of television programming has gone up greatly over the last decade (Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Justified, Walking Dead, Lost, Longmire, etc.), while the movie's get worse. Movies are all remakes and liberal message movies. Ain't nobody got time for that.