Rocky was the movie that ruined Hollywood with those beatings that 10-15 men could not have taken let alone a single man. The subhuman beatings that have become commonplace in Hollywood and on TV have no sense of reality at all. Rocky destroyed it and made it all fake.
They made movies about superheros before Batman. Superman for instance. Duh.
Also there were movies made from TV shows before The Fugitive.
Crap, there was a BATMAN movie in the 60’s made in the same style as the TV series. Even Star Trek! There were even 2 Dark Shadows Movies made in the 70’s.
Hollywood lost it way when every movie is crammed full of those over the top CGI type special effects. And mixing the sound effects and music way too loud versus the dialog.
It was Speilberg, Lucas, Stan Lee and computers that ruined Hollywood. The violence is so mind numbingly worthless that a 9/11 occurring today would have little impact on a public that watches disasters like these in every stinking movie.
Making movies for international audiences (china) is what ruined hollywood
“Batman” certainly impacted discourse among us teenagers when I was in high school. After the movie and TV show came out, we found ourselves using “holy___, Batman!” exclamations inspired by the character Robin.
For example, a’60’s teenager might have responded to Joe Biden’s reversal of his stand on the Hyde Amendment by exclaiming, “holy flip-flop, Batman!”
>>First, somewhat obviously, it showed Hollywood that they could make a film, a non-sequel film no-less, that could be a presumed guaranteed moneymaker by virtue of its source material.
There were plenty of such turkeys in the 70s 80s and 90s.
And Keaton was miscast and Prince was an odd choice for the score. At least Queen was part of a campy Flash Gordon film.
What about Superman and Superman II with Christopher Reeve, featuring Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman, Glenn Ford, Jackie Cooper and Ned Beatty, Margot Kidder, Valerie Perrine and Terrence Stamp?
Or Superman III with Richard Pryor, Annette O'Toole and Robert Vaughn?
Or Superman IV again with Gene Hackman and Jackie Cooper?
-PJ
Nope, political correctness is what ruined Hollywood.
I thought that Hollywood is going through the same thing contemporary music is experiencing. That is, a shift from rock that had big timeless successes but deep losses, to a less-volatile pop mix that produces more steady and predictable hits.
Hollywood's hit machine has crashed because the market woke up, and doesn't want rehashed plots that cost you $50 a trip to the theater.
The pop successes haven't crashed yet but I predict in 5 years, we'll start hearing better, harder rock on more people's iPhones.
None of these ruined Hollywood!
The LEFT ruined Hollywood.
It is all the SJW and LGBTAEGFHJIKM crap they jam into every movie
Wow it’s been 30 years since the giant riot that broke out at Showcase Dedham when tickets were over sold.
SWAT had to be sent in. What a CRAZY night that was...
If I recall correctly, Tim Burton's Batman wasn't even very popular, though it had to have done better than the George Clooney Batman flick. The '80s were the decade of blockbusters, and Batman didn't come along until the end of the decade.
Now, we're in the age of the comic book movie. The Superman and Batman pictures were only a foretaste of that. Superman and Batman were already cult figures, familiar even to the older generation, and didn't rely on a movie to make them familiar. But this isn't the first batsh_t theory about the movie. Does anybody remember the "Batman anti-Semitic" controversy?
But that really doesn't matter. The person who wrote the article wants to get clicks and start a controversy, not to actually prove anything, and the author has probably succeeded at making waves and calling attention to himself and his magazine.
>> Globalism is what ruined the blockbuster. <<
This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. So many movies were bombs in the U.S., but were funded again and again because no matter how bad they were, as long as they had enough explosions, they were monster hits overseas. Turns out the European movie-goers had all the sophistication of a toddler. As the 1990s drew to a close, movie companies learned to avoid risky movies like Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense, Home Alone, Ghost, Dances with Wolves, and stick with noisy crap, like Independence Day, Water World, Batman Returns, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (2), Gidzilla (1998), etc.
No big-budget movie could fail, if marketed to un-American tastes.
Every big-budget, legendary crap sandwich made killer money overseas.
Terminator 3 made $283 million.
The Matrix Revolutions made $460 million.
The Fantastic 4 made $128 million.
Waterworld made $176 million.
Alexander made $133 million.
Troy made $364 million.
War of the Worlds made $357 million.
Mission Impossible 3 made $267 million.
Transformers 3 made $771 million.
2012 made $663 million.
Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides made $804 million.
Ultimately, yes. Leftism, politucal correctness, etc.
This year is especially bad. Last movie I saw at the theater was The Mule and that’s only because Clint Eastwood is in it. Marvel movies......getting old now, just my humble opinion.