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.

[GunRunner]

I'm a recent TV convert after hearing about it for years. People would talk about all of these shows, and I'd never be in the loop, considered myself a "movie guy".

But House of Cards changed it all for me. Gone through Sons of Anarchy (final episode tomorrow night!), Homeland, Black Sails, Da Vinci's Demons, Penny Dreadful, Sherlock (UK version with Cumberbatch), The Americans, and trying to find some time to buckle down and start Game of Thrones, and have started watching Peaky Blinders.

I think the production values of television really started to skyrocket after 24. From then on, TV shows have been shot, edited, acted in, and produced like movies.

Gone are the days when everything looked like a glorified soap opera.

[bjcoop]

I have to disagree with you on Gravity. I think it is gripping adventure with solid acting. Interstellar was a disappointment

[publius911]

Really?

Welcome to the smarmy unisex Marie Antoinette Club...

[GunRunner]

I almost forgot True Detective. That was one I ran through in just two sittings after the kids and wife had gone to bed.

[bjcoop]

Gone Girl was a decently made movie——if you can get over that Ben Affleck is the star.

[mware]

I am planning to go see Into The Woods, over Christmas break.

[Jane Long]

I can’t wait to see Unbroken (Angelina Directed movie).

[unlearner]

You should report him to John Robinson.

[mware]

From what I heard they are kind of light on the God part and more on the scientific explanation to all of God's works.

[GunRunner]

Probably the most technically accurate movie done on the subject.

This is debatable. Lawrence Krauss said that the science is terrible, and Phil Plait wrote a whole review where he agreed:

What Interstellar gets wrong and really wrong about black holes, relativity, plot, and dialogue.

It treated time dilation as more of a gimmick than a true plot mechanism.

[mware]

Isn’t “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” deliciously bad.

[dforest]

Follywood movies are so boring and political that I quit watching them.
I quit Netflix a couple years ago and only pick an occasional one off Amazon.

[Jeff Chandler]

[AlaskaErik]

I haven’t been to a movie theater in over 10 years. I have no intention of ever going to one again.

[liberalism is suicide]

As a rule both TV and movies today turn me off. If a TV show or movie doesn’t sicken me, it bores me—or both.

[LostInBayport]

I haven’t been to a theater this century.

I was just about to post the same thing. I was last in a movie theater in 1999.

A little effort and some smart shopping and one can create a truly enjoyable home theater and even save money in the long run.

[autumnraine]

Haha my thoughts exactly.

[wally_bert]

The Rifftrax version has the whole uncut and badly out of sync movie.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Answer—Make better movies—Not special effects junk. Make movies people want to see not Leftist propaganda. Some suggestions:Drop the Obama movie Project!
make a good movie about Iraq. US soldiers as heros.
How about something about Civil war or the American Revolution. What about a comedy more like Marx Brothers than cheech and chong?

[trisham]

Well said!