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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…
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Is Furiosa a cash grab? I haven't seen it yet but Fury Road was anything but.
Yeah this is most likely the wrong movie to blame. Fury Road was IMHO the blockbuster movie of the 2010s. I didn't have time yet but very much looking forward to see what George Miller has cooked up this time around!
It really does feel like there has been very little originality in movies in the last decade or so. Too many comic book movies, sequels/prequels, and remakes. Couple that with the price of movies going up, and many times audience annoyances with people on their phones or just being otherwise distracting and it makes the desire to go see a movie in a theater pretty low for me.
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They don't play video games, they watch people play video games.
As a 21 year old explained to me, "Playing video games is a lot of work."
kind of unfortunate, I heard Furiosa was actually a good movie. though, I personally haven't been to the movies in about 6 years or so.
Fleshing out a weird movie world we’ve already visited? Rarely a good idea. See: John Wick.
… but it was pretty damn good anyway. I like it more the more I think about it.
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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".
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Is Furiosa a cash grab? I haven't seen it yet but Fury Road was anything but.
Yeah this is most likely the wrong movie to blame. Fury Road was IMHO the blockbuster movie of the 2010s. I didn't have time yet but very much looking forward to see what George Miller has cooked up this time around!
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 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.
The solution is painfully obvious for anyone who isn't actually involved in milking every last red cent out of media: make movies people actually want to see, and not just shameless cash grabs recycling everything from 1980 onward. Of course, now every suit expects every movie to gross a billion dollars, so that's not going to happen. It's a fun dream, though.
Is Furiosa a cash grab? I haven't seen it yet but Fury Road was anything but.
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 whole experience. They didn’t use any dynamic and rememberable soundtracks. Technically they did a great job and many moments were quite similar to original one.
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. If only Hollywood won’t come up with an entertainment so epic that they will be able to compete with passionate creative people creating new kind of movies using AI for pennies.