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re: Does anyone care about mainstream movies at this point?
Posted on 3/17/21 at 9:59 pm to dawgfan24348
Posted on 3/17/21 at 9:59 pm to dawgfan24348
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Is this the thread where boomer try and act like they're somehow cooler by not liking new movies it's like the OT version of not like the other girls up in here
Is that supposed to be a coherent sentence?
The adults are talking. Get back on that 4 hour Justice League rewatch.
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Posted on 3/17/21 at 10:01 pm to squid_hunt
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Be prepared to be disappointed. From what I've seen, it's been nuked.
What happened?
Posted on 3/17/21 at 10:08 pm to DaleGribble
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The adults are talking.
Nah this is just a circle jerk thread
Posted on 3/17/21 at 10:12 pm to dawgfan24348
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I disagree there are a lot of good movies still being produced over the past 5 years (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, The Gentlemen, Dunkirk, BlacKKKlansman, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, 1917, The Irishman, Ford vs Ferrari, The Martian)
None of these are remakes, comic book movies, or sequels and all came out fairly recently.
I hear ya, but it's quite obvious that Hollywood is, more than ever, built upon the safety net of pre-existing IP.
Here are the top 10 movies of 1990:
1 Ghost $505,702,588
2 Home Alone $476,684,675
3 Pretty Woman $463,406,268
4 Dances with Wolves $424,208,848
5 Total Recall $261,317,921*
6 Back to the Future Part III* $244,527,583
7 Die Hard 2 * $240,031,094
8 Presumed Innocent * $221,303,188
9 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles *
10 Kindergarten Cop $201,957,688
*denotes pre-existing IP
And here's 2019 (last pre-COVID year)
1 Avengers: Endgame* $2,797,800,564
2 The Lion King* $1,656,943,394
3 Frozen II* $1,450,026,933
4 Spider-Man: Far From Home* $1,131,927,996
5 Captain Marvel* $1,128,274,794
6 Joker* $1,074,251,311
7 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker* $1,074,144,248
8 Toy Story 4* $1,073,394,593
9 Aladdin* $1,050,693,953
10 Jumanji: The Next Level* $800,059,707
*denotes pre-existing IP
Almost double the amount of pre-existing IP (and a significant number more sequels and remakes)
And just because this is what the masses want doesn't take away from the tedious nature of such a homogenized selection of movies. Most of us don't live close to an art-house theater to watch independent.
Only with the recent advent of streaming can many of us watch a wider selection of movies than just those that make it to the big theater chains. (This used to be a nightmare for us who wanted to watch outside-the-mainstream movies prior to streaming.)
This post was edited on 3/17/21 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 3/17/21 at 10:13 pm to HempHead
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What happened?
Sorry. Not cancelled. The ads I saw had a healthy slathering of prog programming.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 10:14 pm to squid_hunt
I just don't know how you shoehorn clownworld in to Islamic space feudalism, but I reckon they might try. I'll watch it regardless. If they frick it up, I am going to be beyond pissed.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 10:17 pm to HempHead
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I just don't know how you shoehorn clownworld in to Islamic space feudalism, but I reckon they might try. I'll watch it regardless. If they frick it up, I am going to be beyond pissed.
I wouldn't be upset if I was wrong.
Posted on 3/17/21 at 10:27 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Most of us don't live close to an art-house theater to watch independent
I don't either but I know I can easily see the next A24 film at one of my local theaters. Unless it's extremely obscure I've had no problem trying to see a movie
Posted on 3/17/21 at 11:30 pm to sabes que
Christopher Nolan still does excellent cinematic plots and production. Darknight and Darknight Rises were the only super hero movies I’ve ever liked. These new Avenger/Marvel movies they put out are not true “cinema”. It’s just a big budget with excessive CGI and the same exact plot outcome every time. Also Dunkirk and Interstellar were great movies made by Nolan, watch them if y’all ever get the chance. They truly make your mind run for days trying to grasp the theories and plots.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 12:01 am to sabes que
I haven't gone to see a movie in at least ten years.
I do want to go see one as soon as I think my son will sit through one though. Gonna be soon.
I do want to go see one as soon as I think my son will sit through one though. Gonna be soon.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 12:09 am to summersausage
quote:Midsommer, The Lighthouse, Once Upon a time in Hollywood, The Witch, Palo Alto, Hereditary, Moonrise Kingdom, Parasite, Beautiful boy, Call me by your name, Waves, Mid90’s, Joker, and hundreds more say hi.
Movies today suck anyway so no
Those all came out in the last ten years and are just as good, and better in some ways, than a lot of old movies. Don’t judge all movies just because you suck at finding good ones. Not all movies these days are superhero movies or poorly done horror movies.
Mainstream music deserves much more criticism than mainstream movies. Anything on the radio now is terrible. The best music now days are indie bands and artists like Mac Demarco, Homeshake, Tame Impala, Jerry Paper, Sleep party people, Banes world, Connan Mockasin, Leon Bridges, Summer Salt, Mild High Club ect
This post was edited on 3/18/21 at 12:18 am
Posted on 3/18/21 at 12:36 am to sabes que
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Even pre Covid,which recent movies were you excited to go see? Hollywood is truly dead, you’re more likely to find an independently made BS movie on Hulu, Netflix or something else that is better than anything mainstream Hollywood production. Hollywood sold out in every possible way and no amount of liberal pandering will bring it back
Sounds like you sure know what you're talking about here.
I'd love to know what the two clauses of that final sentence actually mean together. Did Hollywood previously survive on liberal pandering? Are you saying a bygone version of Hollywood was not liberal? Is Hollywood trying to save itself by pandering to liberals, a thing they've done since the early 1920s? Were you just combining angry internet guy catch phrases and hoping a meaning would emerge?
Posted on 3/18/21 at 12:51 am to sabes que
Even pre-COVID, it took a CGI IMAX spectacle to get me off my sofa and away from my 65” screen 4K TV.
There are certainly pro’s to seeing an eye-candy blockbuster with an engaged crowd, but at the same time, long lines, inconsiderate talking/texting, steep ticket/concession prices and now add, strangers coughing & sneezing, it makes me hesitant to run back anytime soon.
There are certainly pro’s to seeing an eye-candy blockbuster with an engaged crowd, but at the same time, long lines, inconsiderate talking/texting, steep ticket/concession prices and now add, strangers coughing & sneezing, it makes me hesitant to run back anytime soon.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 1:30 am to Zoo Crawfish
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Also Dunkirk and Interstellar were great movies made by Nolan
The best part about Interstellar was he put all the political crap away. It wasn't global warming. It wasn't nukes. It wasn't polluting the planet. It was unavoidable and inevitable and we had to put all our pettiness aside and work together or face extinction. We lost our vision and look where we are now.
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We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.
Good story. Good message.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 1:56 am to LSUFreek
Anyone who would actually pay money or even waste 3 hours of their life watching Avengers: End Game or Captain Marvel is helpless beyond belief.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 2:50 am to sabes que
they’re going to have to start fudging revenue numbers or blatantly(more than they already are) sucking up to the China tit
watching ratings for awards shows drop <50% year to year leads me to think no one gives a frick about movies anymore. except comic book nerds
watching ratings for awards shows drop <50% year to year leads me to think no one gives a frick about movies anymore. except comic book nerds
Posted on 3/18/21 at 7:49 am to sabes que
Never mind all the social lectures and bullshite. The movies they’re producing today are just plain boring, redundant, and extremely lacking in imagination or originality. They lack any quality that causes me to actually take an interest. It’s sad, and I mean really sad.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 7:52 am to sabes que
I haven't been in a theater in 10 years and don't plan on it. Gross loud people, $10 snacks, can't stop the film if I need to take a dump... sounds like a winner to me.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 8:35 am to sabes que
The issue is what David Bordwell (American Film Theorist) calls Intensified Continuity. TLDR- too much, too fast. Our tentpole films have all become too too. That overbaking of the art has a counterintuitive effect - it's boring. Films need air to breath and time to develop. You can measure this in average shot length - it's about half today of what it was 20 years ago. I believe Luke's struggle bc he stared at 2 moons for 8 sec. I don't believe Rey's struggle bc she stared about 3 sec.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 9:21 am to sabes que
I've thought the same thing over the past few years. Most of the big budget Hollywood movies are just regurgitating old movies, or making prequel/sequel bullshite for a quick cash injection. The streaming services seem to have the game cornered at this point, and with Covid, Hollywood seems to know it as they are releasing films straight to stream. I do miss the theatre experience though, I hope that never goes away.
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