That’s 30% of the 2018 box office. :D
I’ll pass.
I used to love them. Now they bore me. I skip 90% of them now.
Didn’t Barbara Streisand want to remake this with Elvis?
It’s hard not to bring in mega-bucks for these Stupor-hero type flicks. Within a 10 mile radius of where I live, there are 5 giga-plex theaters with about 65 screens between them. I think I counted 20 or more screens showing Venom today, including regular, 3D, xD, xD/3D and all the new “upsell” combinations that are out there nowadays for the kiddies that can’t watch a movie without all the special effects gee-gaws.
Went to see “A Star is Bored” last night, which describes how I felt most of the time. Lady Gaga’s singing was great (what would you expect?), and she was a credible actress. Bradley Cooper did a good job, given the role he was playing. A lot of old time actors/celebrities dotted the landscape to add a little extra cool to it. All in all, a good solid matinee/senior ticket movie. I’d be vastly disappointed if I had to pay full or premium price for it, though.
I liked the first two version’s of that movie. There was also another version of that movie made in the early 1930’s called “What Price Hollywood”. starring Lowell Sherman and Constance Bennett. In fact that film and the first “A Star is Born” were both produced by David O. Selznick.
I remember sixty years ago when Superhero movies were rarely made, and if so, were given the cheapo film treatment, low budget, B&W, released on the bottom half of a double feature like Hercules and the Amazon Women at a drive in.
Now they are given the top budget and great special effects, and repeats, more repeats, and still more repeats.
Our youth today truly live in an age of fantasy.
I don’t know what you are talking about, the latest Venom Inc. album from 2017 is fantastic. Just got back from seeing Disorder and Hard-Ons. Fantastic night. Here’s Mantas, Abbadon, and Demolition Man -