re: New Captain Marvel clip.....yikes

Less people go to the movies now than in decades, and go less frequently. "Big" box office #'s are largely due to inflation and increased ticket prices.

In the 80s a typical big budget movie might cost 5-25 million to make and topping 100 million at the box office was usually considered a smash hit.

Now your big budget movies cost 50-150+ million and those type of movies need like 500+ million to be considered successful. For movies with outrageous marketing budgets even that isn't even enough. Batman v Superman made close to 1 billion and was considered a mild financial disappoint. Solo made 400 million and was a major financial failure.

Not taking inflation into account when comparing historical box office performance is either dishonest or just ignorant.

Movies are still obviously a very profitable endeavor, but legitimate box office numbers have been getting consistently worse for almost 20 years.