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.
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.
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.
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.
No CGI please. Less muddled sound and fake colors for the scenery. Tell a story.
I have seen about half of last years “The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug” and cannot figure out the plot plus anytime I think of the title I think they are looking for smog...
Teal and Orange
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html
5 Annoying Trends That Make Every Movie Look the Same
http://www.cracked.com/article_18664_5-annoying-trends-that-make-every-movie-look-same.html
The “Movie going experience” lost its panache and fun decades ago.
Why waste what would pay for a week’s groceries. When you can wait a few weeks and stream it in the comfort of your own home?
Or just watch the films trailer and patchwork the film in your head. Then decide to stay hone, anyway?
Here’s a novel idea, Hollywood.
Start making films that someone over 21 and not living in their mom’s basement would like to see!!!