Posted on 07/23/2014 10:23:50 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
Less than six weeks before Labor Day, hopes for recovery at the North American summer box office have evaporated. The season is expected to finish down 15 to 20 percent compared with 2013, the worst year-over-year decline in three decades, and revenue will struggle to crack $4 billion, which hasn't happened in eight years. As a result, analysts predict that the full year is facing a deficit of 4 to 5 percent.
Major Crimes, Last Ship, Mad Men and on and on. It seems all the talent is now in television. A total inversion from past decades.
I mean American actors and actresses that insist on using their positions as a means of furthering the leftist agenda. I may see a really epic film rarely but as far as casual entertainment goes, I’m not interested. Plus, as another pister stated, you generally can’t carry in a theater which automatically puts the theaters on my list of businesses to avoid. They can all KMA frankly.
Because they got tired of blaming Bush?
R.I.P.D. grossed $33,618,855 in the United States–Canada market, plus $44,705,365 internationally, for a combined gross of $78,324,220. The film has been labeled a box office bomb, with the film's combined $200 million production and promotion budget.
Never seen the comic.....however...
They've been hyping the movie for six months. It's bound to stink.
We went to an amusement park on our vacation earlier this summer. We go about every year, about the same time.
This year, it was deserted. WBill Jr. loved it, we rode a ride until we got tired of it, then moved on to the next one. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I felt a little bad. It's a smaller park in a small town, family-owned, generally a pretty nice place - I see the same people working there, year after year. I hope that they make it through this rough patch.
It’s the latest MCU, they always hype them. And they know this one is a risk. They succeeded with Ironman and Thor who were always 2nd maybe 3rd tier character, GG probably never climbed above 5th tier at best, very obscure title. I’m interested in the box office results, this will prove whether there’s a limit to the Marvel/ Disney license to print money.
exactly. Sounds like a stinker to me.
I’m not sure I’d call Falling Skies well written. It’s well executed, but man their stories are telegraphed. They really don’t do anything even a little bit outside normal cliched story telling on the show, they just slap good enough actors and directors into telling this generic story to make it work. But even that’s starting to wear out because they keep hitting the same generic beats over and over. If Pope has once again reverts to being “bad” to start next season only to once again be shown his “heart of gold” I’m done with the show.
"But, a talking sentient genetically engineered raccoon gunslinger? Yeah, that one is a stretch."
I think that Marvel might have bitten off a little more than they can chew on this one. I hope that it doesn't sink their franchise - I like The Avengers and especially like Captain America.
***Quit Netflix because nothing seemed interesting.***
I buy lots of DVDs from TCM and AMAZON. Movies of the 1940s, 50s, ad 60s I was not allowed to see as a kid.
They are GREAT! Pirate movies, Randolph Scott movies, Ray Harryhusen movies, war movies. Who needs this modern trash?
The last movie I got in from e-bay was CARIBBEAN with John Payne. I remember seeing it back in 1954, at the theater in Saguache CO. 60 years ago and it was still great!
Got hundreds of other movies dubbed off of TCM and others. I am not starved for good movies.
Yeah, the Pope character is tiresome and I'm still three or so episodes behind.
Those were the days when making entertainment trumped politics. We do the same.
Part of what they had going for them before is while the characters they were telling stories with weren’t that popular in the comics they were well known and iconic. Everybody had heard of Ironman and Hulk and Captain America and Thor. You’ve got to be a pretty hardcore nerd to have heard of GG.
We’ll see in a couple of weeks. It was always the question of the MCU, because Marvel had sold off the “money” characters (Spiderman and X-Men have been their biggest titles for a long time) the MCU was always going to be built from the bench. But it’s a big bench. I think that’s part of why they’ve got Thanos in GG, continuing the plot from Avengers should bring a lot of people in. That was always one of the tricks Marvel used to prop up titles, Dr Strange not selling well (another 4th or 5th tier character getting a movie, though I’m looking forward to that one, love DS)? Well slap Spidey in there for a couple of issues, have him join The Avengers, and what the heck make him face the Fantastic Four’s second biggest nemesis (and for the non-nerds out there there’s not one bit of hyperbole in that sentence all of that actually was done to draw readers to DS in about an 18 month period... didn’t work).
Even though I don’t want to see the movie I’m really kind of hoping it makes the cash. If they can make GG profitable then there’s a lot more “deep bench” characters that I actually like like Dr Strange that are going to get movies.
The sad part is Pope is actually a good character, the gruff loner reluctantly part of the team can be really good. They provide an opportunity for the team leader to be wrong, they’re good for doing stuff the other characters are too “nice” to do, they’re always useful for a ride in to save the day. But they just keep recycling phase 1 on him, always resetting him back to “hates everybody/ helps nobody”. I wish their writers room deserved their actors.
Now back in the 1950s and 60s, movies like this would have been given the low grade B budget and would have been seen at the drive in on the bottom of a double bill with HERCULES AND THE VAMPIRE WOMEN.
Now they are big budget with massive CGIs.
Back then there might be two or three high budget movies a week. At our 6 plex we now have three si-fi fantasies, two kid shows and maybe one sophmoric T&A each week.
We are truly living in a fantasy world.
I’m surprised they haven’t brought back this character!
ARGO MAN!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061500/
http://letterboxd.com/film/the-incredible-paris-incident/
Add a lot of money, some 3-D CGIs and WOW! Maybe he will get his superpowers back quicker after having sex with a woman!
Not a fantasy world, just the post Star Wars kills New Hollywood world. The studios have learned that was used to be B movies are where the money is actually at, that if you actually treat them like they might be popular and spend some money on them they can make a ton of cash. The end of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls talks about it. Really interesting if you’re into the business of the entertainment business.
Precisely. I remember a time when I had movies I was waiting to see. Now, I can't think of one I am looking forward to, except the last Hobbit movie; but that is in November.
I remember when John Derbyshire was writing for National Review and he wrote a column about the decline of the culture. This was back far enough where we still had stores that rented movies. So, anyway, he asked, "Do you know why you can't find anything you want to watch in the video store? Because, it is all crap!"
I think that now applies, as well, to movies coming out of Hollywood.
Really, I am so tired of the obligatory "gay" character in every damn thing I watch. They are only 1.6% of the population; why, are they everywhere on my tv screen?
The bad news is, that I just read yesterday that GLAAD is insisting that Hollywood and the tv industry do not have ENOUGH gay characters and are insisting on more.
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