re: Hollywood had worst summer in 17 years

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Rarely do you see Hollywood throwing any kind of budget to new, original ideas. Because the gamble is too big and they won't risk it not paying off.

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And the only time they do anymore is with an Indie budget and a limited release. Which is great if you live in a larger city that would get those viewings. But there are a lot who don't.

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This is what I was about to say. It seems like Hollywood doesn't take many chances anymore...everything has to be guaranteed to make money and do solid business. And part of that is because people are becoming more and more tight on what they spend (and movies are most definitely a luxury that people can afford to let go).

So Hollywood focuses on making movies that can guarantee asses in the seats. So you get things like several sequels of successful movies, comic book movies (which are hot right now and have been for a while), animated movies (family demo), and guaranteed success based on already-existing mega franchises (like Hunger Games, Twilight, etc.).

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I think the decline of DVD/bluray sales has a hand in this. They used to be able to do well on the back end of movies that didn't perform as well at the box office. People don't seen to be buying new release DVDs like they used to so they have to play it as safe as possible to try and make their money at the box office

There's still and always will be something special about going to the theater and experiencing a movie with many others. However, the movie business is in the midst of a major transformation and by 2020 will be a completely different world.

There's just so many factors pushing the industry into the unknown right now. No one out here really has a clue anyway. As William Goldman famously said, nobody knows anything. Sadly, I think the gap between the studio big budget recycled stuff and the low-budget indies continues to widen. I would love to see a Renaissance of sorts around the corner, but the studios are digging in their heels right now. Just look at the slates they have released 5-6 years in the future.

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There's still and always will be something special about going to the theater and experiencing a movie with many others.

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Yeah well blockbuster used to believe people would always prefer the "experience" of going into their stores. When in reality the customers fricking hated the blockbuster experience and could not wait for a better alternative.

They reap what they sow - eventually.

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And the only time they do anymore is with an Indie budget and a limited release. Which is great if you live in a larger city that would get those viewings. But there are a lot who don't

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This is what I don't get about the movie industry- for the first time, especially with digital projectors, they can actually let the moviegoer decide which released movie they would like to see. Why not have a cue, similar to the movies OnDemand on cable that is available and smaller screening rooms instead of huge auditoriums that really only fill up ,maybe once or twice a week now?

If it didn't cost so much I would see more movies.

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Good. All the big blockbuster movies sucked this summer outside of maybe edge of tomorrow.

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Guardians, X-Men, and Planet of the Apes absolutely did not suck.

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Good. All the big blockbuster movies sucked this summer outside of maybe edge of tomorrow.

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most previews these days are fricking terrible jumbled messes of random jokes and action scenes strung nonsensically together to the point that nobody even know what the frick half these movies are even about.

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This. They really are exploiting the general public's short attention span with this. Frankly, it's made most of the movies they preview seem totally fricking cheesy and formulaic. I roll my eyes at most previews.

On the subject of previews, a big part of the reason that I rarely go to the movies anymore is because there are just too god damn many of them. After you're done flushing your week's pay down the toilet on concessions, you're done with them long before the feature even starts. And to make it worse, now they're cramming commercials in before the previews. Commercials!! The lack of them was what made part of the appeal of going in the first place. Now there's 10mins of commercials, 30 minutes of previews (which just seem like the same movie over and over), and all of the drinkless, popcorn-less patrons have to piss by the time the fricking thing even starts. I'm tired of sitting in the theater so long that my arse hurts and I'm ready for the movie to end.

It's just gotten to where the negatives far outweigh the positives for me. And if they don't scale back the absurd amount of previews, they'll never fully recover.