Posted on 08/29/2017 6:40:38 AM PDT by C19fan
By the time Labor Day weekend wraps, summer box-office revenue in North America will end up being down nearly 16 percent over last year, the steepest decline in modern times and eclipsing the 14.6 percent dip in 2014. It will also be the first time since 2006 that summer didn't clear $4 billion.
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I can’t say I saw any of the expected blockbuster films this summer. Just a lot of smaller films, most of them pretty good.
The reason for this is obvious. Hollywood is saving their top movie releases for December when they will be considered for academy awards. This is a bad time for movie attendance. The audience is focused on school starting in September.
What Hollywood needs to do is reboot:
Superman
Spiderman
The Hulk
King Kong
Star Wars
Star Trek
Transformers
Batman
Pirates of the Caribbean
Titanic (I want to see Leo die again)
Captain America
I’m a frequent moviegoer and was VERY disappointed in Dunkirk——overhyped to the max.
Two sons and two young adult grandsons felt the same way.
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The last movie I saw was The Case for Christ. I refuse to pay money for raw sewage.
Hollywood needs to make MORE movies! Not special effects showpieces but films with STORY. Hollywood needs to stop preaching the religion of the Progressive Cult. Need more films with an uplifting message—Hope! Capracorn is what we need now. People don’t want reality—They want escape from the Trump is a Nazi, Russia, Russia, Russia, Race, Race, Race. HATE doesn’t sell.How about a Patriotic Picture?
You’re preaching to the choir. :)
I used to be into special effects movies and do like some of them. But I learned with Star Wars episodes 1-3 that without a good story, special effects are a waste of time.
My wife and I are finding the movies we really enjoy are the ones with good stories. Sometimes they don’t even need anything else other than good acting and competent cinematography/directing.
Two serious winners I recently watched were The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Dead Zone. Great stories and very well done.
We went to see All Saints last night (meh).
We were the only two in the entire theater and the multiplex was pretty empty. Hollywood is indeed suffering and I couldn’t care less.
I’ve been to the movies twice in the last 2 years. It’s just too expensive and isn’t fun anymore.
My family has been watching old movies too recently. The movies were so much better in the 30’s-60’s.
The only movies worth seeing on the big screen are blockbusters and/or visually driven films like Gravity or Avatar.
I’ve noticed that some classics are classics for a reason. But others are just no longer relevant.
The only movies worth seeing on the big screen are blockbusters and/or visually driven films like Gravity or Avatar.
I loved Pocahontas in 3D in Imax. I’ve never even bothered to watch it on a regular TV, even with good sound. No point.
Sorry, not Pocahontas. I meant Avatar. Same thing, of course...
“I’m a frequent moviegoer and was VERY disappointed in Dunkirk——”
One of my friends summed it up well. He said that the director had heard that there couldn’t be a worse war movie than the “chick flick” Pear Harbor and took it as a challenge.
The most apaulingly bad scene was where the Spitfire was torched and we were supposed to be emotionally moved when the propeller, supported by a chunk of tubing where the famed Rolls Royce Merlin engine should have been dropped. I nearly puked.
“The most apaulingly bad scene was where the Spitfire was torched and we were supposed to be emotionally moved when the propeller, supported by a chunk of tubing where the famed Rolls Royce Merlin engine should have been dropped. I nearly puked.”
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Best laugh I’ve had all day.
My favorite war movies are “The Enemy Below” and “Tora,Tora,Tora”.
Two months before I saw “Dunkirk” I saw a British film about making a propaganda movie about Dunkirk to get the USA into the war——similar to what was done with “Mrs Miniver”.
It was called “Their Finest” and was quite humorous.
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Another really bad technical error that showed up at multiple times in the movie was that every ship that got sunk was at the end of its anchor line when rolled over, even the ones that were underway at sea when they were bombed. I couldn’t believe they didn’t digitally edit the anchor lines out.
But yeah, it was a terrible, disjointed story, badly recreated, with a head splitting soundtrack.
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