What killed the Blockbusters?

[kolaval]

Also streaming did to cinema what Temu/Shein does to local retailers.

 

[TheMightyQuin]

I do not blame @R4ziel

He did answer the title. Title even has a capital B indicating a name vs this:

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Actualy he didn't.

If you would inspect the evidence closer:

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A. You will notice use of the word "the". Thus referring, not to the corporate entity but to an adjective describing movies that are "epic" or "blockbusters"

B. Notice the term Blockbusters with a plural S, referring to the movies. The name of the corporate video store that dominated 80's video was Blockbuster - notice the missing S.

I shall now have my 3rd coffee

[EDIT: fixed for Redviking. Also, its best read assuming i'm speaking like Captain Holt from the 99. ]

*the

ther term?

So maybe, just like the ther term the S was extra too.
I don't know, maybe the B should have been b?

 

[supersunbird]

2024:
Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune Part 2

2023:
Barbenheimer

2022:
Top Gun: Maverick

2021:
Dune Part 1

 

[kolaval]

Yep, R500 even with discount and snacks easy for a four ticket.

Duno about discounts, think inside out 1 or some smurfs thing might actually have been the last film we saw at a cinema.
Now that I think about it, it has been years.

 

[supersunbird]

Stop being cunty...

While he is often one, as you are also, and sometimes I am too, he was being funny with the other guy misunderstanding the question as referring to Blockbusters the movie rental place.

 

[My_King]

Hey got another example:




Why am I no longer playing? Same poef, each year with new maps.

Do I pay only for new maps? Nope, full price for a new game.

So when we go to the movies, what are we expecting?

Superman is going to save the day?
The terminator will be sent back in time?
Another super human with powers will save the day?
Or you know that one movie you like??? They are remaking it, same plot, same ending.

Now we need to search for anything new that we don't expect:

 

[TheMightyQuin]

While he is often one, as you are also, and sometime I am too, he was being funny with the other guy misunderstanding the question as referring to Blockbusters the movie rental place.

I know...we give each other kak all the time...99% of it tongue in cheek. Well, from my side anyway.

PS>< It was me that pointed the Blockbuster misunderstanding out in the 1st place...then coffeeboy jumped on.

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Hey got another example:


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Why am I no longer playing? Same poef, each year with new maps.

Do I pay only for new maps? Nope, full price for a new game.

So when we go to the movies, what are we expecting?

Superman is going to save the day?
The terminator will be sent back in time?
Another super human with powers will save the day?
Or you know that one movie you like??? They are remaking it, same plot, same ending.

Now we need to search for anything new that we don't expect:

There's more than enough movies still being released during the year to keep most happy.

But these are obviously not all big screen movies...and therein lies the rub. "Hollywood" has run out of blockbuster movie ideas...and that is understandable. I mean how many can still be made that's new and original.

The last movies I thought worthy of the big screen was Saving Private Ryan and Interstellar.

 

[Ecco]

For me personally its streaming – plain and simple. I can watch all of this at home, when I want to, on my own schedule.

But the quality is something to note. I watched Die Hard and Die hard with a Vengeance recently, movies are just not the same or just don’t have the same impact.

 

[backstreetboy]

Are all the vaccines acting up? Avatar 2 made over $2 billion without Russia and China. Avatar 3 will surely pull in numbers as well.

 

[Kosmik]

Duno about discounts, think inside out 1 or some smurfs thing might actually have been the last film we saw at a cinema.
Now that I think about it, it has been years.

I think the last movies have been Dune P 1 and 2, Detective Pikachu, Despicable Me 3 , Sonic 2 ....... thats it. Even my kids know its a very special treat. Discounts is I get 12 tickets or so a year @ 50% so fine with that.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

People realised how dirty these places are since Lockdown.

You missed the pick pockets in the mall, the thugs in the parking area, the retard who accidentally damaged your car and disappeared, the drunk drivers on the road home.

 

[notayoba]

Bad scripts: When is the last time you've watched a blockbuster without being able to basically predict the whole plot 2 minutes into the movie.

Repetitive: They are all the same. Big explosion, car chase, random CGI scene. fart joke, Repeat.

Actors alienating the customers: Actors and other Hollywood types can't keep their mouths shut about divisive issues, and end up alienating half their potential customers.

It's all just so boring. Can't even recall a Hollywood movie of the last few years that I managed to sit through.

Prices: It's insanely expensive to go to the cinema.

Badly behaved customers: Everyone on their cellphones inside the cinema.

 

[thestaggy]

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2024:
Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune Part 2

2023:
Barbenheimer

2022:
Top Gun: Maverick

2021:
Dune Part 1

Are all the vaccines acting up? Avatar 2 made over $2 billion without Russia and China. Avatar 3 will surely pull in numbers as well.

The summer is only just getting started, but there are mutterings in the film business that it's already a wash-out – the kind of waterlogged season in which every picnic is ruined by a downpour. To stick with the weather metaphor, the thunder began rumbling earlier in May, when audiences didn't exactly flock to see Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt in The Fall Guy. But the heavens really opened last weekend when Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and The Garfield Movie were serious commercial disappointments over the US Memorial Day holiday, topping the box office but making only $32m (£25m) and $31.1m (£24.3m) across the four-day period respectively. That compares disastrously to last year, when The Little Mermaid topped the same weekend with takings of $118m (£92.4m). In fact, as has been widely reported, the paltry total takings at US cinemas made it the worst Memorial Day box-office weekend in almost 30 years. Overall, ticket sales for US and Canada are down 22% year-on-year, according to Comscore.

At this point, Hollywood's slump looks less like a damp summer and more like a biblical deluge. The studios have been fixated on a handful of high-profile intellectual properties for the past 20 years. When those properties run out of steam, what can they do?

The scale of the crisis was disguised by the worldwide success of Barbie and Oppenheimer last summer. But even at the time, it was obvious that the Barbenheimer phenomenon was a blip, rather than a long-term solution to the industry's problems. Here, after all, were two risk-taking projects from distinctive auteurs, given an extraordinary publicity boost from a meme that prompted customers to see both of them, one after the other, while wearing costumes and buying souvenir merchandise. The phenomenon was fun while it lasted, but if it took a set of circumstances as unrepeatable as that to fill cinemas, it couldn't be taken as a positive sign.

After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer

May is usually when people flock to cinemas for blockbuster season – but the likes of Furiosa and The Fall Guy are flopping. The industry needs new ideas if it's going to recover.

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Hollywood has a problem and the 2024 summer (US) blockbuster window is basically riding on Deadpool & Wolverine to save it.

 

[WaxLyrical]

Notice there's no longer Hollywood stars like Arnie, Sly, Van Damme or even going further back McQueen, Burt Reynolds. Only Cruise is left.
Even Ryan Reynolds can't crack it as an action star unless he's Deadpool.
There are no longer original stories.

Too many generic superhero movies killed the desire to produce interesting stories.

Now they want to bring back the old magic with fan service and nostalgia bait.

An ageing Michael Keaton still playing Batman and Beetlguese ffs.

Peter Weller will soon play Robocop in a reboot - watch this space.

 

[notayoba]

Notice there's no longer Hollywood stars like Arnie, Sly, Van Damme or even going further back McQueen, Burt Reynolds. Only Cruise is left.
Even Ryan Reynolds can't crack it as an action star unless he's Deadpool.
There are no longer original stories.

Too many generic superhero movies killed the desire to produce interesting stories.

Now they want to bring back the old magic with fan service and nostalgia bait.

An ageing Michael Keaton still playing Batman and Beetlguese ffs.

Peter Weller will soon play Robocop in a reboot - watch this space.

Every big budget movie feels like it was written and produced by a committee checking boxes.

Nothing original, just the same rehashed formulaic crap, done by boring actors that won't step out of line.

Maybe I'm just old and feel like I've seen it all before. I used to be much more exited about movies. Even for free I don't get more than 10 minutes into any movie these days.

 

[WaxLyrical]

The 80's and 90's were the golden age of the blockbuster. Lots of variety and they were mostly quality.

 

[saor]

As a kid I could hit half-price Tuesdays at SK and Pannarotis had a half price thing and still have cash left over. As a working adult I need to go into credit for movies and a pizza.

But mostly just that I don't really care about 95% of recent movies. Prefer watching series / youtube / older movies.

 

[Goosfrabba]

I blame it on Sequelitus

You can't just watch a good movie. Everything has to be a universe of some sort so half the movie is spent setting up the sequel.

Studios stick to a tried and tested formula to play it safe so you eventually watch the same movie with just a different coat of paint.

 

[NR7]

65"

100%.

It was amazing 12 years ago to go to Sandton to watch The Hobbit in 4K. But since then, I've gone from :

A 32" 1080p TV/4.7cm bezels/10Mbps ADSL/Mweb 250Gb Fair Usage "uncapped"
to
A 65" 4K TV/sub 1cm bezels/500Mbps Cool Ideas awesome unlimited fibre

Plus the food at my house is better and I save money.