Jason143
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Post by Jason143 on Nov 7, 2021 16:20:12 GMT
Na itl be back in a year or so. This trend prediction of people staying home 24/7 is ridiculous. People wont go public gyms because they can have pelatons at home. People wont go back to the office because they have zoom. People wont go to brick and mortar shops because they can order from amazon. People wont go theatres because they can stream. What sad pathetic lives we would lead if we are stuck inside and no need to go out. Going to a gym is "going out". It may be indoors, but it's activity. Going to a theater is "going in". It always was a dead experience. There's no "atmosphere" in a movie theater. Now, a live stage show has "atmosphere", I'll grant that, but seriously, surely you're not saying a movie theater has any atmosphere? But the whiners here don't have to worry. In fact, it will be better for them, when movie theaters are "dead", because then they can be more of a "special group" that meets and has this lonely thing in common, like collectors. It will actually give them a feeling of unity and pride, and why not? Pretty much all of them are already on IMDB where they belong. This will give them a chance to have special get togethers. In time, they'll even have little festivals that new recruits will go to visit. It just means there will be about one tenth the number of movie theaters that there are now, by about 2030. Going out to gyms or cinemas is the same thing, its a social event to get you out of your house.
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Post by spooner5020 on Nov 7, 2021 16:31:18 GMT
Hey hey look it’s the doofus who’s been posting fear porn about theaters. Drystyx is the only user in history who thinks that having a literal pussy as a profile photo makes her tough. Pet lovers aren't tough or manly they're just subservient to inferior not human masters. She also keeps talking about how she “WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO WENT TO SEE THE NEW BOND MOVIE in HER theater”. Yeah same thing happened with me when I went to go see the Playmobil movie. It means NOTHING!!!
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Post by jeffersoncody on Nov 7, 2021 16:42:24 GMT
If the cinema experience in the USA is officially dead it's because most of the movies these days are woke shite.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Nov 7, 2021 16:45:21 GMT
I'm just glad that "X-Men: Apocalypse" (2016) - an epic and brilliant superhero movie - crossed the 500 million dollars mark (543.9 million dollars) and was a big hit all over the world, outgrossing Shang-Chi and Black Widow.
The X-Men movie franchise was the best of the best. Bleak, intense, intelligent and very "sci-fi-like". Blows the MCU and its cartoonish quality away.
Now, the superhero trend is 100% over, and the cinema experience is super-dead (sadly). Thank God, we have the home video releases. Must buy the new X-Men box-set. It's weird that you posted this on multiple boards. It's weird that you're only comparing Apocalypse to pandemic era Marvel movies it outgrossed, as opposed to the what, 20 that destroyed it at the box office? I mean Ant-Man 2 and Thor 2 outgrossed Apocalypse. Oof.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 7, 2021 16:52:31 GMT
I'm glad. That will give me more incentive. Before 2020 I was seeing around 30 movies at the cinema per year. Do you go to the Thursday midnight openings? Sometimes. Here they aren't midnight showings though. They start as early as 6pm on Thursday.
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Post by Wolverine10005 on Nov 7, 2021 17:13:45 GMT
I'm just glad that "X-Men: Apocalypse" (2016) - an epic and brilliant superhero movie - crossed the 500 million dollars mark (543.9 million dollars) and was a big hit all over the world, outgrossing Shang-Chi and Black Widow.
The X-Men movie franchise was the best of the best. Bleak, intense, intelligent and very "sci-fi-like". Blows the MCU and its cartoonish quality away.
Now, the superhero trend is 100% over, and the cinema experience is super-dead (sadly). Thank God, we have the home video releases. Must buy the new X-Men box-set. It's weird that you posted this on multiple boards. It's weird that you're only comparing Apocalypse to pandemic era Marvel movies it outgrossed, as opposed to the what, 20 that destroyed it at the box office? I mean Ant-Man 2 and Thor 2 outgrossed Apocalypse. Oof. Ohhhh. Getting pandemic is the new excuse for the MCU fanboys. They just cannot cope with it. Okay.
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Post by Stammerhead on Nov 7, 2021 17:20:39 GMT
Do you have a link to the official press release?
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Nov 7, 2021 17:31:31 GMT
It's weird that you posted this on multiple boards. It's weird that you're only comparing Apocalypse to pandemic era Marvel movies it outgrossed, as opposed to the what, 20 that destroyed it at the box office? I mean Ant-Man 2 and Thor 2 outgrossed Apocalypse. Oof. Ohhhh. Getting pandemic is the new excuse for the MCU fanboys. They just cannot cope with it. Okay. I don't understand. What's your excuse for making less money than Ant-Man 2?
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lune7000
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Post by lune7000 on Nov 7, 2021 17:58:00 GMT
With all the stimulus money given out, movies should be doing better than they are. Almost every other consumer item has rocketed in sales and there are tons of cargo ships backed up in Los Angeles. Plus with the inflated ticket sale prices the numbers coming out so far should be much higher than they are.
Something is wrong- I don't know what, but something is wrong.
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Post by spooner5020 on Nov 7, 2021 18:08:58 GMT
With all the stimulus money given out, movies should be doing better than they are. Almost every other consumer item has rocketed in sales and there are tons of cargo ships backed up in Los Angeles. Plus with the inflated ticket sale prices the numbers coming out so far should be much higher than they are. Something is wrong- I don't know what, but something is wrong. I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic.
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Post by drystyx on Nov 7, 2021 18:37:04 GMT
Going to a gym is "going out". It may be indoors, but it's activity. Going to a theater is "going in". It always was a dead experience. There's no "atmosphere" in a movie theater. Now, a live stage show has "atmosphere", I'll grant that, but seriously, surely you're not saying a movie theater has any atmosphere? But the whiners here don't have to worry. In fact, it will be better for them, when movie theaters are "dead", because then they can be more of a "special group" that meets and has this lonely thing in common, like collectors. It will actually give them a feeling of unity and pride, and why not? Pretty much all of them are already on IMDB where they belong. This will give them a chance to have special get togethers. In time, they'll even have little festivals that new recruits will go to visit. It just means there will be about one tenth the number of movie theaters that there are now, by about 2030. Hey hey look it’s the doofus who’s been posting fear porn about theaters. "Fear porn about theaters"? I like that. Makes it sound larger than life. I can't take credit for it, though. Not sure how it can be "fear porn about theaters". Unless I post this: Now, I'm posting FEAR PORN ABOUT THEATERS, bwah ha ha!
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Nov 7, 2021 19:36:59 GMT
I have to say that there has been a noticeable change in my movie-going habits. Before the pandemic it was common for me to go to the movies four or five times a week. I would watch not only the big releases in the multiplexes, but many "minor" movies as well. Now I don't do that anymore - not because I am afraid of going to the movies or something, just because I got used to spending more time at home.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Nov 7, 2021 19:58:12 GMT
In Shah Allah!
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lune7000
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Post by lune7000 on Nov 7, 2021 23:16:46 GMT
I have to say that there has been a noticeable change in my movie-going habits. Before the pandemic I was common for me to go to the movies four or five times a week. I would watch not only the big releases in the multiplexes, but many "minor" movies as well. Now I don't do that anymore - not because I am afraid of going to the movies or something, just because I got used to spending more time at home.Anyone interested in the future of movies should read this quote. The change in behavior described here has happened to millions of people. The only way I can see it reversing is if theatres take big losses and offer films for $1 or something plus free food for a while to entice people back. The theater "habit" has been broken.
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Post by Lux on Nov 7, 2021 23:29:21 GMT
I have to say that there has been a noticeable change in my movie-going habits. Before the pandemic I was common for me to go to the movies four or five times a week. I would watch not only the big releases in the multiplexes, but many "minor" movies as well. Now I don't do that anymore - not because I am afraid of going to the movies or something, just because I got used to spending more time at home. Not a lot of people unless you're cinema staff or a film critic would go to a cinema four or five times a week every week anyway just once or twice a week depending on releases. So your post pandemic behavioural change was the norm for most people pre pandemic anyway.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Nov 8, 2021 4:00:26 GMT
If the cinema experience in the USA is officially dead it's because most of the movies these days are woke shite. Sure. Be patient. John Wick 4 is in production. LOL. But seriously, after watching the worst "western" I have ever seen (it is on Netflix) I feel the way I do. At the end, it reveals that a tiny black lesbian gal is the fastest gunslinger in the West (not that it looks or feels like the west). Not only is the film poorly made and badly acted (Edris Elba phones in his performance and looks like he would rather be somewhere else), but the ill fitting anachronistic soundtrack truly sucks. The film - which drags on forever, is called THE HARDER THEY FALL and should be avoided like the plague by anybody who loves films and especially the western genre. If you really need to see a picture called THE HARDER THEY FALL make sure it's the one starring Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Nov 8, 2021 4:33:59 GMT
LOL. But seriously, after watching the worst "western" I have ever seen (it is on Netflix) I feel the way I do. At the end, it reveals that a tiny black lesbian gal is the fastest gunslinger in the West (not that it looks or feels like the west). Not only is the film poorly made and badly acted (Edris Elba phones in his performance and looks like he would rather be somewhere else), but the ill fitting anachronistic soundtrack truly sucks. The film - which drags on forever, is called THE HARDER THEY FALL and should be avoided like the plague by anybody who loves films and especially the western genre. If you really need to see a picture called THE HARDER THEY FALL make sure it's the one starring Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger. America went through the same conundrum when Sammy Davis Jr showed up. Bull-fucking-shit PaulsLaugh. Watch THE HARDER THEY FALL, and you will understand.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Nov 8, 2021 9:36:09 GMT
LOL. But seriously, after watching the worst "western" I have ever seen (it is on Netflix) I feel the way I do. At the end, it reveals that a tiny black lesbian gal is the fastest gunslinger in the West (not that it looks or feels like the west). Not only is the film poorly made and badly acted (Edris Elba phones in his performance and looks like he would rather be somewhere else), but the ill fitting anachronistic soundtrack truly sucks. The film - which drags on forever, is called THE HARDER THEY FALL and should be avoided like the plague by anybody who loves films and especially the western genre. If you really need to see a picture called THE HARDER THEY FALL make sure it's the one starring Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger. They can and do make plenty of straight white boy entertainment. America went through the same conundrum when Sammy Davis Jr showed up. Then how come I enjoyed, for example, FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES, BUCK AND THE PREACHER and TAKE A HARD RIDE so much PaulsLaugh? Please don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining, I have seen well over 11 000 feature films from right across the spectrum and spent much of my life working in Film Exhibition and Distribution. I do not say things lightly. I am also one of the last white persons living in Gaberta, Central in SA and that's because I am color blind and believe in non-racialism.
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Post by jonesjxd on Nov 8, 2021 10:27:29 GMT
I'm not prepared to make such a declaration while The Batman and Jurassic World: Dominion are waiting in the wings.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Nov 8, 2021 11:19:53 GMT
Then how come I enjoyed, for example, FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES, BUCK AND THE PREACHER and TAKE A HARD RIDE so much PaulsLaugh? Please don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining, I have seen well over 11 000 feature films from right across the spectrum and spent much of my life working in Film Exhibition and Distribution. I do not say things lightly. I am also one of the last white persons living in Gaberta, Central in SA and that's because I am color blind and believe in non-racialism.These lesbian gunslingers look like internet influencers to me, all styled up in frontier drag. I wouldn’t take this movie too seriously. It’s as contrived as The Gunfire at the O.K. Corral. The Harder the Fall is billed as a “revisionist western,” so they are not hiding what they’re doing. And the western is generally a romantic ahistorical genre anyway and this one is for the 21st century, millennial gaze. While African Americans played a huge role in the development of the Pioneer West, they were rarely depicted as such by Hollywood. I see this film as pandering to black peoples’ fantasies much the same way as hundreds of Hollywood Westerns have used John Wayne to fulfill the white hero gaze. I also grew up in a post-apartheid culture. And being colorblind is hope, not a condition. You just complained about a black revisionist western meant to appeal to a black audience as ruining your film going experience. My smartass line is about white people no longer being the sole demographic who go to the movies tailored for them now. Expect more of these movies and it is not being driven by Woke culture so much as Hollywood seeking new revenue streams. So it is capitalism causing this, not the liberals. You may be right, but it will kill the cinema-going experience stone dead, and it will soon be a case of No Bucks, No Buck Rogers. The numbers never li, so please don't talk utter drivel about "capitalism causing this" - it's the studios listening to a handful of woketards and trannie activists on social media causing this . BTW. What do you think Black cinemagoers in SA have wanted to see in the years since Democracy arrived? THE HARDER THEY FALL was directed by a young Black British singer songwriter who previously made a barely released 51-minute long piece of mediocre shit called They Die Before Dawn. So, on the strength of his utterly failed first film, Netflix gave this dickhead millions of dollars to realize his dream of making an totally crap, unrealistic and pathetically scored, acted and scripted woke western? Giving mediocre, inexperienced black filmmakers money to make rubbish is not going put bums on seats. BTW, The Oscar winning classics UNFORGIVEN and DANCES WITH WOLVES are genuine "revisionist" westerns. I wonder if you even know why PaulsLaugh?
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