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Soundwave on 04 June 2024
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curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:

The problem is it costs $18-$20 a ticket for a movie that will probably be on streaming in 6-9 weeks, and there was a lengthy strike pushing back a bunch of movies just as box office was just finding its footing again with Barbie + Oppenheimer. 

I don't think movies are actually that much worse, there's a lot of shit released in the 90s and 2000s and 2010s, there were plenty of shitty blockbusters and movies in general back then too. 

If back in the day movies released on DVD or VHS just a few weeks after their theaterical release, you can't tell me that wouldn't impact the box office of movies like Titanic, Jurassic Park, The Dark Knight, etc. etc. etc. 

Streaming absolutely cuts into many movies at the box office, but I feel like quality is also a factor; with budgets having grown so big there's so little risk or creativity in Hollywood these days, as it's hard to justify taking risks with that amount of money. 

Female-led spinoffs are also something a lot of folks have tired of, as such films often tend to push preachy messaging.

I think people don't understand that it's pretty damn hard to make a great movie. A lot of things have to go right and even greater writers, directors have many misses. 

Hollywood would make more experimental and riskier films ... if people bothered to show up. There's lots of examples too of movies that are actually decent to great where people just didn't show up. If a studio released a movie equally as good as Kramer Vs. Kramer or Annie Hall or Dances with Wolves or Rain Man or Forrest Gump or the first Rocky today or even E.T. (ie: hit films that didn't rely on being based on a comic book or special effects), would it be a lock that people show up and support it? 

I think it's a lot harder I think to make a great movie than a great video game (you can basically just iterate on a proven formula in gaming and it mostly will work) or even music album. 

The amount of great movies even in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, etc. is not as high as people think it is, it's not like every 3rd movie released back then was fantastic. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 04 June 2024