Blockbuster Bubble finna pop
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Bryan Danielson
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Yea this being a weekend I went out of town. I missed out on it too. I loved the first Shaft, like that’s a low key great movie that so many slept on and now. I hope this one is as good. I think I still have it in my movie collection and I think I’m going to watch this week
And side note
At some other shyt in here that further proves my point
Fickle
Fake
And disingenuous
Saysumthinfunnymike
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That doesn't speak on the overall landscape though. Lion King is one of the last big live action remakes Disney has left; I don't know if they can do Little Mermaid. But it's more 90s nostalgia. Yeah, it'll be huge but you look at Aladdin and that is doing pedestrian numbers. Good, not great.
Avengers was the culmination of a ten year story arc like Game of Thrones.
There's been nothing "new" that has stuck with audiences outside of the horror genre.
Ethnic Vagina Finder
The Great Paper Chaser
1. Too many remakes and reboots and adaptations that NOBODY ASKED FOR.
2. In the case of Godzilla and others like it, too much money goes into CGI, and VFX instead of the story and script.
3. Audiences have also proved they won't support a quality move when it drops these days. Hell its been like that for a while actually
I mean the only quality content that drops consistently comes from small budgets and smaller releases.
2. In the case of Godzilla and others like it, too much money goes into CGI, and VFX instead of the story and script.
3. Audiences have also proved they won't support a quality move when it drops these days. Hell its been like that for a while actually
I mean the only quality content that drops consistently comes from small budgets and smaller releases.
MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
I’m sure That MoviePass takes away from the BO. 
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
I agree. All the reboots are flopping, Godzilla isn't fooling anyone and even the young adult books that were big are no more.
White City Black
Ol’ Basquiat head ass
Now, I assume you’re talking about the SLJ Shaft and not the OG one? I’m a horrible procrastinator so to this day I’ve yet to really sit down and watch the Roundtree Shaft joint. But I watched the Jackson joint in theaters and thought it was a fun movie. Christian Bale was tremendous at being an a$$hole and I can’t say I didn’t think he would eventually become as big a star as he has.
This new Shaft though...I wonder overall how different in tone it may or may not be from the first. Or rather, how relevant the previous one is to this one. I thought the promotion for the new film was sorta lacking too, though I guess one could argue how much more they could’ve promoted a Shaft film in 2019.
PoorAndDangerous
Superstar
Godzilla probably making bank in Japan though. Movie was mediocre af
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
China is actually where it's doing decent making 110 million compared to 16 million in Japan but it's WW numbers overall aren't very impressive so far.
Burned Verses
Superstar
Mr. McDowell
The Brotha's Got His Own Money
Aladdin has made over 700 million and has an outside shot at 900 million. That is pedestrian numbers?
Kilgore Trout
Banned
who in their right mind thought men in black was a good idea.
Saysumthinfunnymike
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Beauty and the Beast did like $1.3 billion so it's a pretty big drop off
The problem is, Blockbusters are how they make money now. It's not even about the quality of the blockbusters but just trying to figure out what the audience wants to see. Audiences are fickle. Blockbusters take up the most real estate in the movie theater and audiences have already decided they don't want to go see smaller movies in the theater. I know people who decide whether something is worth seeing in a theater or waiting for Netflix and mostly, the Netflix movies are the ones without special effects.
Godzilla isn't a bad flick; just audiences don't care. Even if you look at the performance of the 2014 one over time, it dropped week after week. Men in Black? The same thing. Men in black 2 underperformed domestically compared to the first and the third followed suit.
Audiences say they want new ideas but when they get them, they don't go see them lol. Unless its John Wick, and that's a franchise that bubbled since its first installment and has kept the momentum going. All of this shyt is guesswork. The guy who wrote Dr. Strange said on his podcast that Hollywood, despite what the internet thinks, isn't in the business of making bad movies or movies that don't work. They're just trying to throw shyt against the wall to see what sticks. Some stuff works, some stuff doesn't. And right now, just like a lot of moments in history, Hollywood is trying to figure out what the audience wants. And even as an audience member, I gotta say we're fickle as fukk and I don't envy the job of any exec trying to figure us out right now
Godzilla isn't a bad flick; just audiences don't care. Even if you look at the performance of the 2014 one over time, it dropped week after week. Men in Black? The same thing. Men in black 2 underperformed domestically compared to the first and the third followed suit.
Audiences say they want new ideas but when they get them, they don't go see them lol. Unless its John Wick, and that's a franchise that bubbled since its first installment and has kept the momentum going. All of this shyt is guesswork. The guy who wrote Dr. Strange said on his podcast that Hollywood, despite what the internet thinks, isn't in the business of making bad movies or movies that don't work. They're just trying to throw shyt against the wall to see what sticks. Some stuff works, some stuff doesn't. And right now, just like a lot of moments in history, Hollywood is trying to figure out what the audience wants. And even as an audience member, I gotta say we're fickle as fukk and I don't envy the job of any exec trying to figure us out right now
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