>The industry that has seen its worst domestic summer box office in a very, very long time. Almost every one of the major studios’ flagships crashed and burned this summer. From the underwhelming performances of Suicide Squad and the most recent X-Men and Star Trek films to the out-and-out failure of the Ghostbusters reboot, sequels to Independence Day and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and even a family-friendly Steven Spielberg movie (The BFG), it has been a rough ride for many supposed “sure things.”
>Even the ugly sideshow that accompanied the Ghostbusters reboot hasn’t occupied the pop-culture conversation half as much as Netflix’s Stranger Things has this summer. And really, no movie (yes, other than Star Wars) has been so central to internet conversations as HBO’s Game of Thrones. Even last summer’s box office bonanza was led by Jurassic World, a film that remains the fourth highest grossing of all time and yet seems to have been forgotten just weeks after it was released. Ask yourself, when was the last time you told someone that they “had to see a movie”?
thats because it's all cliche bullshit and reboots. there's barely any fresh content anymore
Hollywood did this to themselves by trying to create and follow a cash formula
Leo Adams
>Reboots and sequels that no one wants >Cinema is dying
No
And as soon as studios make sequels and reboots to TV shows that no one wants, they'll bomb too
Wyatt Brooks
The Generation X is already in their midlife crisis and find these modern movies too old to watch while the Millenials don't give a fuck about movies except capeshit.
Lincoln King
Kubo is a fresh idea and thats bombing as well.
The fact is that there are a million ways to consume media these days, most of which are easier and cheaper than going to the cinema.
Noah Miller
>Leave cinema to me
Jordan Hall
>Ask yourself, when was the last time you told someone that they “had to see a movie”?
Hmm.... I tell my friends to watch Mr. Robot and The Leftovers all the time. Not any movies recently...
Jordan Sullivan
Basically humankind needs other sorts of entertainment while they wait to die. Aside form living.
Jason Wilson
>NO i dont have to ask myself a god damn thing; but hollywood ask yourself: when was the last time you had a new revolutionary idea?
Jace Bell
>yfw Lucas and Spielberg were right
David Lee
>Kubo is a fresh idea and thats bombing as well. u wot m8
>tfw still not released here the wait is killing me
Kayden Powell
Civil War did fine
I guess Marvel is behind everyone else failing
Nathan Sanchez
I told a couple people they had to see the TMNT sequel, but mostly because we all shared the same opinion that the first one was too far removed from the cartoons and shit.
The sequel was so rooted in the original stuff it was absurd. If they had gone for that tone from the beginning it would have been absolutely A+.
Fuck do i hate megan fox though
Nathaniel Nguyen
Ghost in the Shell will save hollywood and it will bring the dawn of animekino, silimar to the anime boon of the 90's.
GITS followed by Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rurouni Kenshin, Samurai Champloo, etc.
Brody Richardson
It's been out a week and hasn't made 1/3 its budget but maybe its too early to judge.
Honestly its the only film Ive wanted to see this summer but yeah not out here in Bongland yet.
Hunter Gutierrez
The previous summers have seen huge blockbusters making billions of dollars in the box office.
Now people are sick and tired and the lineup are oversaturated with cookie cutter 300 mill budget "blockbusters" CGI shitfests that do the same shit over and over. Half of them are remakes, the other half are superhero movies.
Shit buckles under the weight of its own shit and they act suprised that people dont want to see the same shit over and over again?
Say what you want about Deadpool, but it showed that people are ready for something new and the studios are to dense to catch on.
Isaac Peterson
I honestly wish we had animeshit instead of capeshit.
Cape movies are all so samey.
Jayden Richardson
If dubs Dunkirk will save modern cinema
Samuel Williams
>Say what you want about Deadpool, but it showed that people are ready for something new and the studios are to dense to catch on.
We all know Deadpools success can be attributed mostly to meme marketing.
Evan Ross
>alienates FUCKING WHITE MALES by race & roastie pandering, turning vapid young adult novels into "epic" trilogies, apologizing for LOTR being too white, casting male actors solely for their appeal to women >biggest revenue source stops putting out >wonders why nobody goes to the movies anymore
lol hollywood
John Campbell
>From the underwhelming performances of Suicide Squad >literally broke box-office records Why is everyone so determined to pretend SS failed? It was hardly a great film, but financially it did well
Landon Cruz
bravo Nolan
Jaxson Torres
WITNESSED
No marketing and not a simultaneous worldwide release?
Brandon Morris
The industry's shit because most of the people working on films are plebs who think Marvel's superhero films are the most incredible films of their generation and that every film should try and emulate them
Bold voices aren't getting funded and anything with depth and substance isn't advertised and is ignored outside of festivals (which are largely just circle-jerking whichever new up-and-coming director acts the most pretentious)
Aiden Wilson
it's going to be really fun these next few years. either: -everyone will continue to try and be progressive despite the constant reminders how unprofitable it can be -everyone will cease all attempts at pandering and flip the bird to anyone who bitches about it
Hudson Hill
Joints are dying. Not that the "fiscal times" would know the difference between joints and cinema.
Jayden Phillips
>Not any movies recently... You have shit taste, that's why.
Landon Reed
...
David Perry
can we make this a bannable offense, or wordfilter any and all of these words so they just come out as 'movie'?
Luis Long
save us jim
Matthew Cruz
Video games won.
Ayden Young
Hollywood keeps making sequels and shitty capeshit blockbusters because that's exactly what people want. When was the last time you saw Sup Forums talking about Nebraska, The Revenant, Room or what have you. 90% of Sup Forums is drowned in reboot/capeshit discussion.
>barely any fresh content anymore I wish I could murder every little faggot that says this. There is so much "original" stuff coming out of Hollywood all the time. I don't know whether these faggots are braindead plebs or deliberately being obtuse.
Ian Anderson
>boo hoo Sup Forums only discussed the revenant for a solid year with the occasional thread still popping up woe is me
Elijah Richardson
The great white hope
Nicholas Parker
People are now watching youtubers. This is where the acting talent is
Lincoln Thompson
But it was pretty much aimed at the already existing fanbase. In all honestly, we are the ones who hocked that movie.That's not a bad thing, it was smart. It was smart on their part because they knew how vocal fans like me are about a rated r deadpool movie actually existing. If anything, this season should show studios that they shouldn't meddle in the movie making process. And to never hire Paul Feig again.
William Edwards
This right here. What the in the flying fuck is with this narrative?
Jonathan Gonzalez
>yfw people will only go to the movies to see Disney ie:Star Wars and marvel flicks.
Bentley Price
Good. Let's let it happen. The world needs a few of these media industries to crumble.
Ian Cooper
Next year is going to be worse.
There's like 20 blockbusters in 4 weeks.
James Campbell
>when was the last time you told someone that they “had to see a movie”?
Her
Well that was 2 years ago...
Colton Sanchez
come hell or high water is good. and sicario.
Chase Johnson
Nolan lacks the courage required to make a great film.
Ryan Rogers
or you make low budget movies that do well like a lot of fucking low budget movies have done this year
Thomas Barnes
>-everyone will continue to try and be progressive despite the constant reminders how unprofitable it can be If Hillary wins.
>-everyone will cease all attempts at pandering and flip the bird to anyone who bitches about it If Trump wins.
If Trump wins we're going to get an 80's style Renaissance.
David Carter
No, it's not the beginning of the end, or some other retarded apocalyptic opinion. Look at the previous years, like 2012, when the SJWs and Millennials were full-on PC mode, so it's not their fault. People are just tired and burnt out by the endless amount of capeshit, reboots, and sequels. Back in 2012, Marvel topped off after releasing the Avengers, which made billions. Hell, even TFA made billions. It generally depends on the flavor of the month and how novel it is. Disney's first Star Wars movie was hyped as fuck unlike random capeshit #234342 or reboot #3423423. It all depends on the novelty, idea, and execution.
Kevin Nguyen
Bring it on. I already listen to synthwave. Apparently that's the kind of music for ancap nazis.
Brandon Brooks
SHOULD HAVE MADE IT AN ALL-FEMALE REBOOT OF BEN HUR
WE KNOW THOSE DO WELL, GURRRLPOWER REALLY SELLS :^)
David Ramirez
Maybe this will be Hollywood's wake up call that remakes/rehashes don't sell.
Anthony Perry
NGE would only work as a tv adaptation, we all know how the rebuilds turned out
Austin Phillips
Hollywood should blame themselves tbqch. They fucked up independence day so much, that movie was supposed to break records. Every single movie is dumbed down and pandering to the fucking chinese. I'm glad they're taking this hit, maybe they'll step it up now.
Wyatt Martin
Suicide Squad did well because it had a hot girl Put more hot girls in things I'm talking slutty hot
Nathaniel Gomez
>tfw haven't gone to the movie theater once this year The only movie I've regretted not seeing in theaters was Hardcore Henry.
Gabriel Martinez
>President sacrificing himself to save his daughter >faces off against the Alien Queen >"Happy Independence Day!" quip before blowing himself up >mfw
Camden Rodriguez
This Slut-punk needs to be a genre
Jordan Barnes
>Bladerunner 2 will be released in time for the Emperor's arrival.
Bentley Scott
Gen X here, I stopped going to the cinema 5 years ago and stopped watching tv 8 years ago. I also despise capeshit and young adultshit.
Grayson Myers
>Cinema=dead
The fucking arrogance on these Hollywood kikes and their cocksuckers to even assume that Hollywood is all of cinema or that blockbusters are even relevant in anyway
Luke Foster
This
Jeremiah Williams
You think this is funny? It isn't, you filthy spic redditor.
Connor Hughes
Great
Brody Ward
fucking right on m8. i knew i could count on big guy
Aiden Jackson
>>yfw Lucas and Spielberg were right
Nathaniel Garcia
So that's why it failed. Okay, everything was done by women.
Isaac Jones
>Meanwhile
Gavin Anderson
is that how it ends? I literally fell a sleep half way through and didn't bother to finish it
Brandon Morales
thanks doc
Brody Gonzalez
Maybe if they stopped shoehorning sjw feel good garbage into every movie more people would go see them, then again maybe not, I stopped going to theaters when I started realizing more and more unfavorables filled the seats.
Bentley Allen
>make shit movie >it doesn't sell
AAAAHH JEW SAVE ME
Angel Ortiz
Zootopia was good though. Jungle Book is obviously bought though, movie was hot steaming shit.
Parker Cruz
Ghostbusters reboot failed because it was a reboot and they attacked the fanbase. Independence Day was ruined by China with shitty quips and young "actors". TMNT2 was a sequel to a shitty movie. The BFG was polarizing because nobody wants to see a movie about a numale beta giant.
Daniel Gray
We're breaking the conditioning Ahhhh
Jaxson Carter
People don't want to leave their house. Is it that difficult to understand?
Most people are closeted autists and the current state of media is bringing them out. Not even normies want to go through the process of paying for popcorn when they can get a pizza for the same price and have sex afterwards.
Easton Myers
Maybe they'll stop making reboots and 20 year old sequels finally. Hopefully capeshit too.
William Stewart
The Matrix probably. Which is sad.
Joshua Murphy
Seems like they're all going the Marvel Comics route, which has basically killed all their interest and sales. Meanwhile, DC sent out a big apology for what they did and are raking in the dosh.
Jack Scott
Hollywood blockbusters as a standard of success is definitely going out. We need an absolute disaster that bankrupts hollywood so that we can move into another age, past the blockbusters.
Andrew Perry
>Some shitty Hollywood algorithm movies aren't making money >But lots of them still are IT'S OVER! CINEMA IS FINISHED!
Cooper Scott
>casuals love Disney: The Kings of Unoriginal Content
wew
Brody Gonzalez
Meanwhile, bought reviewers.
Henry Morris
BRAVO NOLAN R A V O
N O L A N
Logan Lopez
Kubo's also a quirky stop motion film that doesn't draw mainstream audiences
David Johnson
>Ask yourself, when was the last time you told someone that they “had to see a movie”? Civil war, Jungle book, Finding Dory, and probably Rouge one and Bad Santa 2 when they come out. And this is from top of my head, I recon there is more.
Luke Gutierrez
But user he's already made several
Levi Davis
ah I see so you're a massive faggot. At least your massive faggot friends are probably happy with your recommendations
Eli Diaz
Yes, they are.
Jaxson Howard
Why do people like you even post here? Just go to Reddit or anywhere else, it will be better for you and us.
Lucas Gutierrez
>Kubo is a fresh idea and thats bombing as well. that's because Kubo looks like ass and people know to stay away from things that look and smell like ass
Joseph Taylor
Western animation hasn't been that visually interesting in a long time, you stupid pleb.
Hunter Butler
how will libtards explain this?
Alexander White
>Zootopia was good though. Nah man, I know it's a kids film, but it's so cliche and boring. The world it creates hasn't a shred of whimsy like some of the better Pixar movies.
Christian Moore
tv in general is a superior medium. Rushing to tell a short story in 2h is stupid. I want 3-5 12ep seasons with character development.
Christopher Price
YES MORE GENERIC CG PLZ DISNEY
Joshua Fisher
>underwhelming performances of Suicide Squad Considering Suicide Squad crossed $600mil worldwide and is a lock to cross $300mil domestic and hit at least the late $600mil mark, this article is full of shit. Blockbusters are fine, but studios need to realize that people don't want remakes of old movies. Ben Hur, Ghostbusters, Total Recall, Robocop, etc. Those are the blockbusters that are bombing.
Asher Bailey
Not every story is the same user.
Short but sweet sometimes works better for certain stories.
Can you really say Alien would have worked as a 3 season series?
Juan Wright
kubo is litterally asian coroline
Samuel Myers
What about Jurassic World?
Leo Williams
Maybe because families are sick of having to spend £50+ to see a shit film