re: US box office suffers worst weekend in sixteen years as Hollywood's bleak summer continues

I dont somewhat agree. The big blockbusters are for kids, but we are coming up on the best time of the year for adults.

September:
Mother-Arnofsky, Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem
American Made-Liman, Tom Cruise

October
Blade Runner 2049-Villeneuve, Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford
The Snowman-Alfredson, Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson
Suburicon-Clooney, Matt Damon, Oscar Isaac

November
Last Flag Flying-Linklater, Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell
Murder on the Orient Express-Branagh, Johnny depp, Daisey Ridley
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri-McDonagh, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Molly's Game-Sorkin, Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba
Darkest Hour-Wright, Gary Oldman, Lily James

December
Disaster Artist-Franco, James Franco
The Shape of Water-del Toro, Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins
All the Money in the World-Scott, Michael Wahlberg, Kevin Spacey
Downsizing-Payne, Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz
Happy End-Haneke, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintigant
The Greatest Showman-Gracey, Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron
Untitled PTA Film-Anderson, Daniel-Day Lewis
The Post-Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep

Three Billboards looks to be amazing.

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To show you what kind of year we're having, the frontrunners for Best Picture right now (on some sites) are Wonder Woman, Logan, Planet of the Apes, and Get Out.

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All good movies, but this is typical for the summer. The ones that really stand a chance at winning are released from October thru December, and the movies look promising. This year is looking so much better for movies than last year. I think there was only one movie from last year that I loved on the top of my head and that was Kubo and the Two Strings. As good as that is and with most everyone else saying the best movie was La La Land, that's a super shitty year for movies if those clearly come out on top. Save for Transformers and the Emoji Movie, I can't think of any movie I actively despise that has been released so far this year, when there were plenty in 2016.

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but we are coming up on the best time of the year for adults.

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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House trailer

Staring Liam Neeson.

Looks awesome.

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It's been trending this way for so long. Kids go to the movies, older people don't - they have the big screen at home. You only really go if you have kids under 10.

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Or you, love film as an art. You missed out if you didn't see Dunkirk or Baby Driver on the big screen.

I just feel like most of the good summer movies have all came out early in the summer (May-early July), so now there's sort of a lull. I haven't been to the movies since I saw the Dark Tower, which was underwhelming. It will pick up again later with some of the bigger movies coming out towards the end of the year.

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Well...when you're the head of a family of four, and you spend $50 on movie tickets, and an additional $30+ on concessions, you want your movie experience to be worth it. The cost of going to the movies has driven us to the point of trusting some stranger's opinion.

I remember as a teenager back in the early-00s how it only cost $6.50 to attend an evening showing. Ticket prices have more than doubled since then

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Yep, exactly what I was saying in the beginning of the thread. Hell, it's just me and gf, but two tickets and concessions mounts up where just going see every movie isn't fesible anymore. It mounts up quickly.

But like you, in the late 90s/early 2000s, day tickets were like $4 and night tickets were $6 in BR. So when I went watch a terrible movie like Good Burger, the Master of Disguise, or whatever lame chick flick my gf would drag me to, it wasn't a big deal.

Now the proliferation of reviews help steer people away from wasting their money. But they also have the impact of steering people anyway from decent to mediocre movies that might have seen greater success without that online backlash.

This year I would probably say King Arthur and Alien Covenant might of made more money twenty years ago than today because of that.

Hahaha, probably used the wrong adjective for good burger. Wasn't that it was terrible, kinda funny if I remember (having watched it since seeing it at the seigen theater), but it's defintiely one of those movies I would never just go see unless I had kids.

Hell, I pretty much refuse to go see any comedy at the show these days, just a waste of money imo.