Box Office 2014

[Smart]

And honestly, there have been tons of solid to good movies recently. Just looking at a list of top 20 highest grossing movies this year, I felt I got my money's worth out of:

#2 The LEGO Movie
#5 X-Men: Days of Future Past
#6 The Amazing Spiderman 2
#7 Godzilla
#8 22 Jump Street
#9 Dawn Of The Planet of the Apes
#10 How To Train Your Dragon 2
#12 Neighbors
#19 Edge of Tomorrow

The boldeds are legitimately great movies that shouldn't be missed. It amazes me that none of those movies grossed $1 per American. I feel like everybody should have seen these movies, and yet less than 10% of Americans paid to see any of them. I don't get it.

 

[outofyourmind]

I go in the afternoon during the week.
$4.25 to get in
$13.00 for popcorn and coke.
$11.75 if I get the Dixie cup size.


What a deal for a crap movie.
If it in the winter, I can at least sneak a can of coke and some candy in my big coat.


I have actually seen more movies this summer than I have in the past 5 years

 

[Hbomb]

The quality of movies & the increase cost of going to movies is the reason for decrease. They keep regurgitating the same movies over & over. Or the same people keep staring in the same themed movies.

Comedies are really bad at this. You've got Adam Sandler & his crew, Seth Rogan & his crew, & Will Ferrell & his crew churning out the basically the same comedy movies every few months.

Action movies are caught up in sequels & trying to "Michael Bay" every action movie.

Plus the internet allow people who were on this fence about seeing a movie in theater, to get reviews or catch illegal streams to get a better idea if it is worth spending $20+ for 2 hours of "entertainment".

Synopsis: Overall, movies have been pretty terrible outside of the blockbuster films.

 

[HammerDown]

Field tested, Dole approved.

Yep, I knew it was coming. This dingbat is going to start referring to himself in third-person.

What's next? "The Dolester?"

 

[Brasky]

The first Jump Street was pretty good. Haven't seen the 2nd one. The others on those list? Yeah.. Probably won't ever watch any of them outside of the small chance I'm desperate and they're on Netflix or HBO

 

[Dolemite censored]

I'm sorry buy I have zero desire to see another fucking Spiderman movie, or another Planet of the Apes, or another Transformers, or another Batman.

It's like nobody with any money or power has the balls to make anything even remotely new and interesting, and when they do come along it's one every 3-4 months at the very best.

True that, except the demographic they are after are the juveniles and teens and the genre fanatics.

Also its an easier financial pitch to make to banks and investors to go with a sequel to a blockbuster.

 

[Chewbaccer]

I haven't went to see a movie since Gran Torino.

Unless it's something I just have to see, normally I can wait until it's on Netflix or Red Box.

 

[Davis_Mike]

The $20 thing is the result of you living in a suburban hellhole where all the theaters are owned by chains who use the fact that the movie companies wont let you build a small theater today to charge well above free market rates.

Here in St. Louis, I can walk or ride a train to 5 movie theaters in a matter of minutes. Three of them are one screen. All of them are old. None of them charge over $8 (less for me as a student). They all seem to do well.

I was talking about the total cost, not just admittance to a movie. $10.50 is the average non matinee price. Add to that a drink & whatever, you are easily over $20.

Most of the time, I only go to the movies to watch them in IMAX 3D. Big epic movies like the Hobbit or comic book movies. That's usually around $17 bucks for a ticket.

 

[HammerDown]

I haven't went to see a movie since Gran Torino.

Unless it's something I just have to see, normally I can wait until it's on Netflix or Red Box.

"What's all this "bro" shit? They don't wanna be your bro and I don't blame 'em. Get the fuck outta here."

 

[GNG]

I've got a lot of ideas on how to date on the cheap and give the woman a great time.

I've heard your ideas many times Dole. Please give it a rest.

 

[Chewbaccer]

"What's all this "bro" shit? They don't wanna be your bro and I don't blame 'em. Get the fuck outta here."

It was definitely Eastwood's best work in a long time.

"I used to stack fucks like you as sandbags in Korea"

 

[Smart]

I'm sorry, but you can't refuse to watch a movie and then bitch and moan that it's not original. Rise of the Planet of The Apes was indisputably original and explored extremely different themes and allegories than the other POAs. Dismissing the movie because it's a sequel is more destructive to original ideas than not seeing it.

Some of the best and most important movies ever were sequels (Aliens, The Godfather: Part 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). If critics and the general public demonstrably love a movie, what should the fact it is a sequel have to do with anything?

 

[HammerDown]

I've heard your ideas many times Dole. Please give it a rest.

He gave me a thumbs down and I got my first really good laugh of the day.

 

[GNG]

I haven't went to see a movie since Gran Torino.

Unless it's something I just have to see, normally I can wait until it's on Netflix or Red Box.

Clint Eastwood was great in that movie. One of the very few good movies of the past 5 years.

 

[Davis_Mike]

And honestly, there have been tons of solid to good movies recently. Just looking at a list of top 20 highest grossing movies this year, I felt I got my money's worth out of:

#2 The LEGO Movie
#5 X-Men: Days of Future Past
#6 The Amazing Spiderman 2
#7 Godzilla
#8 22 Jump Street
#9 Dawn Of The Planet of the Apes
#10 How To Train Your Dragon 2
#12 Neighbors
#19 Edge of Tomorrow

The boldeds are legitimately great movies that shouldn't be missed. It amazes me that none of those movies grossed $1 per American. I feel like everybody should have seen these movies, and yet less than 10% of Americans paid to see any of them. I don't get it.

For the most part, they are basically either remakes or sequels. That is the problem. There are very few original movies anymore. People are tired of watching the same thing over & over for $20+.

 

[GNG]

He gave me a thumbs down and I got my first really good laugh of the day.

 

[Chewbaccer]

I'm a big western fan, and to me the last good, original western was Open Range. They did a good job on remaking True Grit, but being a big John Wayne fan, it just wasn't the same. I don't consider Cowboys vs Aliens or A Million Ways to Die in the West westerns.

 

[GNG]

And honestly, there have been tons of solid to good movies recently. Just looking at a list of top 20 highest grossing movies this year, I felt I got my money's worth out of:

#2 The LEGO Movie
#5 X-Men: Days of Future Past
#6 The Amazing Spiderman 2
#7 Godzilla
#8 22 Jump Street
#9 Dawn Of The Planet of the Apes
#10 How To Train Your Dragon 2
#12 Neighbors
#19 Edge of Tomorrow

The boldeds are legitimately great movies that shouldn't be missed. It amazes me that none of those movies grossed $1 per American. I feel like everybody should have seen these movies, and yet less than 10% of Americans paid to see any of them. I don't get it.

Nothing there I'd care to see.

 

[GNG]

I'm a big western fan, and to me the last good, original western was Open Range. They did a good job on remaking True Grit, but being a big John Wayne fan, it just wasn't the same. I don't consider Cowboys vs Aliens or A Million Ways to Die in the West westerns.

How about "Unforgiven"?

 

[HammerDown]

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