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

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Post by kyriakos »

darth_avocado wrote: post #19

I’ve seen a lot of explanations for this, but talking to most people my age, there’s only one that’s the real reason: the economics are terrible for watching a movie. The tickets are averaging $20-30 per person around where I live. In 2018, the same movies cost $7-13. Parking and food push the costs even higher. All for a couple of hours of entertainment. I can watch the same movie for $20 when it comes out on DVD. I…

During covid a lot of households got equipped with better TVs and sound systems. Avoiding movie theatres also showed people that they can experience movies at home just by waiting for a couple of months. I personally been in a movie theatre once since covid lockdowns were over. It no longer makes sense to me neither from the economic or entertainment point of view.

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Post by JetSpiegel »

gyudin wrote: post #70
slibhb wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Furiosa a cash grab? I haven't seen it yet but Fury Road was anything but.

It’s a watchable warmup before rewatching the previous one :) and that one still looks fucking epic. Personally I think Chris Hemsworth was a big miscast and just plain boring and weird. If they would get somebody like Rob Zombie it could’ve been much more fun and menacing xD. Otherwise it just doesn’t take you on an emotional journey. They tried to cramp as many story lines as possible, but it just has diluted the w…

> But at the end I left with only single thought. That this is gonna be a future of LA with all water supply issues, AI taking jobs, and poor actors, models, stand up comedians and homeless people inheriting the land xD.

Yes, and cosmetic surgeons slashing people, Sendero Luminoso conquering territory, Carjack Malone living on a tanker ship, Peter Fonda surfing on a stormdrain.

It's called Escape from LA, and it is glorious.

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Post by musha68k »

urban_alien wrote: post #76
mr_mitm wrote: post #62

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Fury Road was certainly not a cash grab, but a prequel to the blockbuster of the 10s except with a female lead definitely smells like a cash grab.

What a female lead has to do with it?

I like how the anti-woke internet twisted the subject for their agenda, claiming people didn't watch because they have apprehensions about woke Hollywood and female protagonists.

Also they often don't seem to have a clue what kind of living legend George Miller is.

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Post by actionfromafar »

ethbr1 wrote: post #103
actionfromafar wrote: post #102

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Please elaborate. :-)

The fantastic is sufficiently detached to provide an allowed, apolitical outlet for social commentary, where more realistic stories would be censored.

I often wonder how "Kin-dza kin-dza" could have been produced, but it was perhaps in a climate of increasing openness.

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Post by evanelias »

FireBeyond wrote: post #51
slibhb wrote: post #31

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Is Furiosa a cash grab? I haven't seen it yet but Fury Road was anything but.

Fury Road made sense. The fact that Furiosa is set in between the original Mad Max and the time of Fury Road kinda says "cash grab" to me. No real logical reason to insert this fifth film between films 1 and 4 other than "we don't know how to continue the storyline with something new, so let's just bridge the gaps".

No, Miller originally planned to film both Fury Road and Furiosa back-to-back. Not a cash grab.

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Post by finack »

lancebeet wrote: post #37
finack wrote: post #6

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I love movie theatres. I hate stupidly expensive popcorn and people talking and using their phones the entire time.

I think a fair question then would be what you actually love about them. Theaters do boast large screens with high image quality, but compared to a large flat screen you can have at home (where you can select your own seat) the difference diminishes. They also boast high audio quality. But as we all know, the audio quality is only great at a few seats in the center. You can certainly create an audio setup at home for…

It's just kind of the experience, I don't know. It has a certain familiarity, but there's also the shared experience aspect of it. I don't like to be cloistered more and more at home, despite that being the overwhelming arc of American culture. Sometimes it's nice to enjoy a shared, familiar experience (even if the popcorn costs too much).

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Post by xela79 »

jseliger wrote: post #68
darth_avocado wrote: post #19

I’ve seen a lot of explanations for this, but talking to most people my age, there’s only one that’s the real reason: the economics are terrible for watching a movie. The tickets are averaging $20-30 per person around where I live. In 2018, the same movies cost $7-13. Parking and food push the costs even higher. All for a couple of hours of entertainment. I can watch the same movie for $20 when it comes out on DVD. I…

The number of ticket sales has been flat to declining since the '90s: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/ and I've read that the heyday of movies was in the '40s and '50s. The simple answer is likely the quality of TVs: 65" OLED TVs with good sound aren't that expensive any more. The quality delta of going to a theater versus watching something on TV used to be massive.

this I think is exactly the reason, I was going 3-4x times a week to the movies in the 90s, but once I had more pocket change and "spending" money, really started investing in quality home theater gear, and over the years it fulfills 90% of my movie watching needs. Reducing my "going to the movies" to twice a year, if at all.

there is also so much content available, that there is no real urgency to watch the movie at release. "Waiting" for it be available on bluray/streaming, is not even "waiting" at all.

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