Posted on 09/09/2014 3:29:06 PM PDT by Perdogg
Hollywood has forgotten how to tell a story.
Hollywood has had a dismal summer. The bad news started coming out in late July, but there were a few still-to-come movies with promise of softening the stats. Alas, they did not. Jim and I took the kids to see one of those flicks on opening Friday night. (Does it matter which one? I hardly remember it.) Jim got tickets online early, in case our preferred 7 o’clock-hour show sold out, and we arrived early to get good seats. We needn’t have bothered. If our foursome made three dozen in the theater, I’d be surprised
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Yup they forgot how to work what Americans are really about
At this point in the summer, even in the years listed, nothing happens. The top two earners of the year, both of the Marvel flicks, were summer releases.
Hollywood makes movies for foreign audiences.
Not coincidentally, they were both good movies. Nothing else looked even remotely interesting (though Liam Neeson’s latest Taken-style film might be decent).
Actually, no.
Hollywood is less concerned about making money than they are at putting out crap.
Studies have shown that the majority of Hollywood productions are R rated crap, filled with violence, language and nudity. Yet people want to see the family friendly movies. Movies that win Academy awards and bring in hundreds of millions in box office receipts are less important than the “Hollyweird” agenda.
Guardians of the Galaxy was a big, fun and enjoyable hit. Not big enough to save the box office.
America went from one or two “blockbusters” a year back in the 70’s, to four and five “Tentpoles” a Summer now in the last few years. Americans are, I think burned out on ‘event movies’ and they are not going to plunk down 20 bucks to see a flick when they can own it in a few months for the same price.
Unless there is a flick that absolutely needs to be seen on a giant screen (like Star Wars) there’s no reason to go pay and see it in a theater.
Plus, there is a lot of crap out there. Hollywood is out of ideas which is why it is resorting to going back and hunting through comic books to find something ‘original’.
Not entirely true. Profits where higher than they’ve ever been. They made billions. The gross dropped some and that is VERY dependent on whether or not a Summer has a mega-blockbuster.
Hollywood is not in trouble, is not going anywhere and is not going to change. That may not be the way we want it but that’s the way it is.
There are now dozens of television drama series that are far, far superior to the crap that the film industry puts out
You can DVR them and watch at your convenience.
True to a great extent. Studies have shown that while Family movies will do well, only so many of them will do well. People will go see 1 or 2 a Summer but that’s it. While with other fare (like the R rated flicks( people will see many of those in a Summer. Those movies, over all, are much more lucrative.
The liberalism of Hollywood provides another layer on all this bad storytelling. Liberals don’t merely dislike conservatives, they don’t understand them. Little wonder, then, that conservatives have grown almost numb to Hollywood presenting crude caricatures of us and absurd simplifications of conservative thought. One cannot write what one doesn’t understand. And audiences don’t want to pay for insults.
Exactly. Fans are already vomiting about what they are hearing about BatFleck v Superman as the studio is shoving their version of the Avengers down our throats to cash in - but we are getting more excited about Gotham than what they are attempting in Hollywood.
Not coincidentally, they were both good movies.
Maybe, but I think all the comic book/graphic novel movies (Marvel very much included) glutted the market for blockbuster movies. Mediocre stuff crowded out the movies that could actually have succeeded big. Or maybe this just wasn't a good year.
One of the reasons that Pauly Shore was able to make as many movies as he did was because they all made money. They only cost about $2 million to make and would bring in $20 million before going to VHS (back in those days).
I read a "story" years ago (it was actually more of a "screed") that halfway through it I became convinced that it had to have been written by an ultra-conservative, because only someone that far on the right (I believed) could think that on the left could think that this was the way someone on the right thinks. (Sadly, I know that it's true that the left actually does believe that the right thinks like that, which is why the left find Colbert funny and thinks it's realistic. I enjoy good satire and can laugh at my own foibles when the joke is funny -- but he's neither.)
Hollywood now exists to serve the foreign markets. Domestic take is less important.
Haven’t been to a movie theater is years. And the way the experience is described here on FR, I’m glad.
Thank goodness for NetFlix!
Movie theaters are obsolete. It’s only a matter of time when the studios will cut a deal with Netflix or Amazon Prime for streaming rights on their new releases for $5.
99.9% of what Hollyweird’s been producing for the last 20+ years has been worse than worthless.
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