Never understood why they keep pumping out garbage while movies like “Lion” are ignored. They underestimate the American people.
As long as they keep making movies as political statements,about half of potential viewers are going to stay away.
Why go to theaters? There are much better tv series on and you can binge watch, pause for snacks etc. Unless you are dating, or have little kids, why go?
Try making a movie instead of a CGI comic book episode.
No problems with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. It’s making tons of money, and I haven’t even seen it yet.
It has nothing to do with the Trumpian revolution, or with Hollywood’s refusal to recognize that not all of its audiences cherish queers, dykes, mouthy black racists, and klutzy, stupid white men.
I’d love to see Dicaprio reduced to a net worth of $5 million and an income of $150K/yr.I wonder if he’d commit suicide if things ever got that desperate for him.
I would not hire Guy Richie to run a Subway franchise, let alone a $175 million film. He has had SO many flops! It's like hiring Carly fiorina to run Google. I just don't get Hollyweird.
I have just about reached my limit on DC Comics and Marvel Comics movies. What was refreshing and new is now just down right boring and predictable.
Not too long ago I watched Brad Pitt's movie “Allied”, it looked pretty good. Upon finally seeing the whole movie I was disappointed, it could have been so much better.
Once great TV shows that are made into movies are terrible. They either try to take something that was serious and make it into a comedy or just take what was a great show and butcher it and make it unwatchable.
Hollywood has only themselves to blame. I was a kid who grew up in the 1960’s and we had great and solid movies of all types to choose from all the time. I saw all kinds of films and I almost look it at that period as the last great gasp of creativity that the old Hollywood had. Everything that came later, with a few exceptions, become crude and appealed to the lowest common denominator.
Once upon a time Hollywood strived to tell real stories and a lot of them made you think, no more.
I think Dunkirk will be the shocker of the summer. It arrives at some point where people in the UK because of BREXIT...need a reminder about where they came from and why they are different from any other society in Europe.
It's not that I am engaging in any sort of political boycott against Hollywood, it's just that their product of endless reboots and sequels have stopped being interesting.
These days my wife and I will just find a TV series we hadn't watched before to binge on. Lately it's been Game of Thrones. Hours upon hours of entertainment that looks good on my 65" 4k.
And paying for the privilege...
Hollywood liberal elites make a few films for fellow liberal elites and lots of violent ‘no dialog’ stupid stuff for democrat victim groups and teenagers. Maybe it'll be better when the Chinese buy out Hollywood - can't be worse.
Two words: Netflix. YouTube.
Meanwhile, in 2 weeks domestically and three overseas, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 has tripled its production budget.
Maybe it’s my age now but I really don’t like going to the movie theatres. Sitting through all those trailers played loud and usually of violent scenes with special effects. Buncha crap. Last movie seen was called ‘Life’ about an alien life form coming to life and killing off an entire spaceship crew and ends up on earth in the end to continue its murderous ways. Dark sinister crap more better named ‘Death’. Left me with a crappy mood the next day. Give me inspirational anytime and Scrooge Hollyweird.
Hollywood makes most of it’s movies for China these days
This is bad. Maybe Homowood can get big government to force us to buy tickets. Certainly they had the power to get the federal crime law enacted to punish people that might copy a movie in exchange for 5 years and $250000 fine for make a simple digital reproduction.
With Guardians 2 at the top of the box office that first sentence has a bit of a problem. And really summer movie season has barely begun, easy to say revenues will be down when they haven’t even started yet.
I would imagine if Mel Gibson wished to direct there could easily be big selling movies about Bull Run, Shiloh, Gettysburg, and Sherman’s march. Those 4 films would sell bigger than Braveheart
For the first time since 2005 i MIGHT go to the early matinee and see the new Alien and Guardians movies.