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Is this the future of movies?
Posted on 3/20/17 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 3/20/17 at 9:01 pm
My current local cinema line-up...
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast 3-D
La La Land
Kong - Skull Island
Kong - Skull Island 3-D
The Great Wall
Logan
The Lego Batman movie
Rock Dog
Table 19
Two musicals, two crazy CGI action movies, another comic book movie, two child animated movies, and an apparently cliche ridden shitty comedy about weirdos.
I liked Kong...but man...these are the choices? Everything is geared toward a very specific demographic. Is Hollywood becoming too extreme in one direction? Are people over 35 still going to the movies? Choices are getting pretty slim.
We need a revival of 70's cinema. You had the best of all worlds...choices for fans of every genre...action, war, intelligent drama, chick flicks, romantic comedies, intense dramas, epics, etc.
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast 3-D
La La Land
Kong - Skull Island
Kong - Skull Island 3-D
The Great Wall
Logan
The Lego Batman movie
Rock Dog
Table 19
Two musicals, two crazy CGI action movies, another comic book movie, two child animated movies, and an apparently cliche ridden shitty comedy about weirdos.
I liked Kong...but man...these are the choices? Everything is geared toward a very specific demographic. Is Hollywood becoming too extreme in one direction? Are people over 35 still going to the movies? Choices are getting pretty slim.
We need a revival of 70's cinema. You had the best of all worlds...choices for fans of every genre...action, war, intelligent drama, chick flicks, romantic comedies, intense dramas, epics, etc.
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Posted on 3/20/17 at 9:18 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Is this the future of movies?
It's March. Great movies cluster into the summer.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 9:20 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Complaining about musicals but then pining for "70s cinema" as if they weren't part of it makes zero sense. Grease, Hair, Cabaret, All That Jazz, Fiddle on the Roof, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pete's Dragon, Bugsy Malone... those are 70's movies.
Hell, there was even King Kong in the 70s.
Also, I liked Table 19. It would qualify as the romantic comedy/chick flick you said should be a choice when you go to the movies. Logan is the action flick, Lego Batman is for all ages, with Rock Dog being the only movie squarely aimed at kids.
The Great Wall? Let's just put it in the disaster movie category that used to be so popular.
Hell, there was even King Kong in the 70s.
Also, I liked Table 19. It would qualify as the romantic comedy/chick flick you said should be a choice when you go to the movies. Logan is the action flick, Lego Batman is for all ages, with Rock Dog being the only movie squarely aimed at kids.
The Great Wall? Let's just put it in the disaster movie category that used to be so popular.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 9:46 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
God damn people bitch a lot about normal life.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 11:38 pm to Wanderin Reb
I know it's an unpopular opinion.
As some other poster stated awhile ago...this isn't the Movie/TV board...this is the comic book movie board.
Well...you are the problem.
And you help make us all miss out on the next Godfather, The Graduate, Mean Streets, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Close Encounters, The Sting, The Last Picture Show, All the President's Men, Outlaw Josey Wales, etc.
By aggressively supporting this crap up there on the celluloid so it gets remade and remade and nothing else gets made.
This fanboy fandom has ruined cinema because apparently its directing Hollywood. So they are responding to arrested development...which is sad.
Would Raiders even get made today? As originally shot?
No way...it would be crazy, with mutant monsters and CGI figures - maybe the Flash comes in and saves the day.
Maybe.
Just not a lot of choices...
But I understand what Hollywood is doing...
Only kids spend money at movies and only parents with kids spend money at movies.
So the entire industry is now designed to appeal to 3-16 year olds to a large degree. And if you like that...well...what does that say?
As some other poster stated awhile ago...this isn't the Movie/TV board...this is the comic book movie board.
Well...you are the problem.
And you help make us all miss out on the next Godfather, The Graduate, Mean Streets, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Close Encounters, The Sting, The Last Picture Show, All the President's Men, Outlaw Josey Wales, etc.
By aggressively supporting this crap up there on the celluloid so it gets remade and remade and nothing else gets made.
This fanboy fandom has ruined cinema because apparently its directing Hollywood. So they are responding to arrested development...which is sad.
Would Raiders even get made today? As originally shot?
No way...it would be crazy, with mutant monsters and CGI figures - maybe the Flash comes in and saves the day.
Maybe.
Just not a lot of choices...
But I understand what Hollywood is doing...
Only kids spend money at movies and only parents with kids spend money at movies.
So the entire industry is now designed to appeal to 3-16 year olds to a large degree. And if you like that...well...what does that say?
Posted on 3/20/17 at 11:41 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
No, it's just like this from March until September
This post was edited on 3/20/17 at 11:44 pm
Posted on 3/21/17 at 8:00 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
You're being hyper-reactionary to the March slate of films. STFU.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 9:03 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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My current local cinema line-up...
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast 3-D
La La Land
Kong - Skull Island
Kong - Skull Island 3-D
The Great Wall
Logan
The Lego Batman movie
Rock Dog
Table 19
You just listed musicals, kids movies, cartoons, comedies, adventures and actions; yet you are complaining there's no diversity?
Posted on 3/21/17 at 9:09 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Move to a real fricking city.seriously, I had that problem when I lived in smaller cities. Those movie theaters as a rule will not show anything interesting.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 9:28 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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The Great Wall
I wouldn't really worry about that becoming a trend since it was a massive bomb. Having European dragons attack a greatly exaggerated Great Wall is the dumbest thing to get a Chinese audience I've ever seen. At best they'll be baffled by it and worst insulted.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 9:32 am to OMLandshark
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Having European dragons attack a greatly exaggerated Great Wall is the dumbest thing to get a Chinese audience I've ever seen. At best they'll be baffled by it and worst insulted.
Not sure why this needs to be repeated but it was made by a Chinese owned company and directed by a fairly successful Chinese director. It's not like it was made by a bunch of old white dudes. Of the $329 million it's made, $170 million of that was in China. It wasn't the Chinese audiences that rejected the movie, it was the Western ones.
This post was edited on 3/21/17 at 9:37 am
Posted on 3/21/17 at 11:40 am to Dr RC
And it's even funnier that they probably rejected it largely due to the fact that they perceived it wiuld offend Chinese folk.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 11:43 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I look at it this way.
All these crazy money blockbusters that you don't like help finance the stuff that you do like.
All these crazy money blockbusters that you don't like help finance the stuff that you do like.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 11:51 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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And you help make us all miss out on the next Godfather, The Graduate, Mean Streets, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Close Encounters, The Sting, The Last Picture Show, All the President's Men, Outlaw Josey Wales, etc
The 1970's was no doubt a great movie decade, maybe the best movie decade (only the 90's challenges it IMO). But it was also a different time. The great young directors (Spielberg. Scorese, et al) turned cinema and the old studio system on it's head. It was also a time when there were only 3 Networks and it has heavily censored. There was no cable, no internet, the VCR came around late in the decade and was very expensive.
Today there are more options. I'd argue the creative genius that made the movies you list, now work in other mediums, namely the great cable and now streaming serial dramas we've seen the last 15 or so years. The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, House of Cards etc, etc,
Posted on 3/21/17 at 12:22 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
If you are looking for movies that skew to an older audience, then you should be in the theaters from September thru December. Thats when you will find the movies you are talking about.
American Made-Doug Limon, Tom Cruise
Blade Runner 2049-Dennis Villeneuve, Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford
The Snowman-Thomas Alfredson, Michael Fassbender
Red Sparrow-Francis Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton
Murder on The Orient Express-Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp
Darkest Hour-Joe Wright, Gary Oldman
The Current War-Benedict Cumberbatch
Downsizing-Alexander Payne, Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz
The Greatest Showman-Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams
Wonder Wheel-Woody Allen, Justin Timberlake, Kate Winslet
Thats not counting all the other Oscar movies that will be placed then.
March(Spring Break) through August is the time of the blockbuster. You are going to see more of the movies that apparently you dont like. There are definitely movies that you can find that you will probably like during that time(The Lost City of Z, The Circle, The Wall, The Beguiled, The Baby Driver) but for the most part, this time of the year is geared towards young people since they arent in school, and go to movies.
American Made-Doug Limon, Tom Cruise
Blade Runner 2049-Dennis Villeneuve, Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford
The Snowman-Thomas Alfredson, Michael Fassbender
Red Sparrow-Francis Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton
Murder on The Orient Express-Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp
Darkest Hour-Joe Wright, Gary Oldman
The Current War-Benedict Cumberbatch
Downsizing-Alexander Payne, Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz
The Greatest Showman-Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams
Wonder Wheel-Woody Allen, Justin Timberlake, Kate Winslet
Thats not counting all the other Oscar movies that will be placed then.
March(Spring Break) through August is the time of the blockbuster. You are going to see more of the movies that apparently you dont like. There are definitely movies that you can find that you will probably like during that time(The Lost City of Z, The Circle, The Wall, The Beguiled, The Baby Driver) but for the most part, this time of the year is geared towards young people since they arent in school, and go to movies.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 1:12 pm to devils1854
Yeah but listen, he can't bitch about "kids these days and their damn CGI" if he thinks about this rationally. He needs to be reactionary.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 1:44 pm to Wanderin Reb
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Yeah but listen, he can't bitch about "kids these days and their damn CGI" if he thinks about this rationally. He needs to be reactionary.
I liked the fact he was bitching about the CGI movies made for 16 year olds and admitted he went to see Kong in the theater and liked it.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 2:51 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I don't like cartoons or super hero movies. I feel your pain.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 3:04 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Logan
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another comic book movie
Guessing you didn't see it?
Posted on 3/21/17 at 3:08 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Is this the future of movies?
My current local cinema line-up...
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast 3-D
La La Land
Kong - Skull Island
Kong - Skull Island 3-D
The Great Wall
Logan
The Lego Batman movie
Rock Dog
Table 19
Convenient not to take a look at the marquee when Hacksaw Ridge, Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea were all playing at the same time?
We're between the big winter films and the summer movies. January-March is generally the worst time for film of the year.
This post was edited on 3/21/17 at 3:09 pm
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