Will Box Office Rebound? Captain America, Black Bag, Mickey 17 Struggle
Will Box Office Rebound? Captain America, Black Bag, Mickey 17 Struggle
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26952001
As original films like "Novocaine" and "Mickey 17" struggle and "Captain America" and "Paddington" sequels fall short, when will the box office rebound?
This is a general rant.
Pretty much everything that I used to enjoy now feels like work.
At some point, comic books went from $2.00 to $7.00. I went from having one cheap streaming service to having five expensive ones. $20.00 to see a movie and don't even talk to me about seeing live music.
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Thanks I'll do that.
It's all income inequality. Start talking about taxing the rich. You don't even have to do anything super active, just passively agree with and educate yourself on taxing the rich. We can fix society and go back to (or forward depending on who we're talking about) better economic realities for the vast majority of people simply by taxing the rich.
This is attributable to movies not being interesting or good, given there have been 3 billion dollar movies over the past year and Disney had its biggest opening weekend ever with Moana 2. People want to go to the movies, they just aren't willing to go to the movies for movies that aren't interesting
I thought Miki 17 was solid, part of the story felt a bit all over the place, but IMO it's more tolerable for a satirical black comedy.
To be fair, I really like Sci-fi and Bong Joon Ho (discovered him via Memories of Murder way back when), so I am biased.
It’s a lot of different factors and unfortunately the movie industry has just been going on inertia and greed for years and this is the result of that.
Another commenter mentioned prices. Prices for everything have risen but when it costs more for a month of a streaming service than the price of one movie ticket it makes the movie ticket harder to justify.
Speaking of streaming, it’s obviously far easier to stream a movie at home rather than make the effort to go to the theater. Add the cost and complexity of child care if you’re a parent and a night out at the movies is expensive and a headache.
Take those two factors out and you’re still up against the issue of time and marketing. This is the more personal one for me so these examples below are my personal thoughts and feelings.
Before the night of the Oscars, I had only heard of two of the nominees for best pictures and only had the chance to see one in theaters. I see the advertisements but I’ll be honest unless the ad really piques my interest, I don’t know where to watch said movie. Is it streaming? What service? I don’t know they showed the logo at the end but I wasn’t paying enough attention. Is it in the theater? It is? Ok, let’s go see it, oh it was only in the theater for two weeks but you can stream it now on Amazon for $20. I don’t want to stream it and I wanted to see it in a theater. And if I want to see it badly enough, I don’t want to pay Jeff Bezos the money to do that so I’ll wait until it’s on one of the ones I subscribe to. Or it’s a movie like Mikey 17. I’ve never heard of that movie anywhere except on this website and about half the times it’s been mentioned, it was in articles like this saying, “why isn’t anyone going to the movies?” Same shit happened last year with “Fall Guy”. Movies used to be allowed to grow and find their audience, now it’s all the bottom dollar and extracting that value as soon as possible.
How quickly stuff comes to streaming and how expensive theaters have gotten means that for mid stuff, people are content to wait. Brave New World got really bad word of mouth, hence the huge dropoff after opening weekend. Meanwhile Mickey 17 is pretty bizarre and probably with limited appeal so probably not a good example to use.
Good, I hope American cinema never recovers. Who cares about nazi culture? Not me.
Who the hell is still spending money on visual media? Why?
I specifically am not going to watch US films when I got to the cinema (if I go to the cinema). They shouldn't be getting our money. Fuck them !boycottus@lemmy.ca and !buyeuropean@feddit.uk
Not with that attitude.
Capitan america civil war was so bad. I've never felt like leaving a movie midway through before.