As original films like "Novocaine" and "Mickey 17" struggle and "Captain America" and "Paddington" sequels fall short, when will the box office rebound?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26952001

As original films like “Novocaine” and “Mickey 17” struggle and “Captain America” and “Paddington” sequels fall short, when will the box office rebound?

  • Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    11 hours ago

    This is a general rant.

    Pretty much everything that I used to enjoy now feels like work.

    At some point, comic books went from $2.00 to $7.00. I went from having one cheap streaming service to having five expensive ones. $20.00 to see a movie and don’t even talk to me about seeing live music.

    • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 hours ago

      It’s all income inequality. Start talking about taxing the rich. You don’t even have to do anything super active, just passively agree with and educate yourself on taxing the rich. We can fix society and go back to (or forward depending on who we’re talking about) better economic realities for the vast majority of people simply by taxing the rich.

  • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    8 hours ago

    How quickly stuff comes to streaming and how expensive theaters have gotten means that for mid stuff, people are content to wait. Brave New World got really bad word of mouth, hence the huge dropoff after opening weekend. Meanwhile Mickey 17 is pretty bizarre and probably with limited appeal so probably not a good example to use.

  • Taco2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 hours ago

    It’s a lot of different factors and unfortunately the movie industry has just been going on inertia and greed for years and this is the result of that.

    Another commenter mentioned prices. Prices for everything have risen but when it costs more for a month of a streaming service than the price of one movie ticket it makes the movie ticket harder to justify.

    Speaking of streaming, it’s obviously far easier to stream a movie at home rather than make the effort to go to the theater. Add the cost and complexity of child care if you’re a parent and a night out at the movies is expensive and a headache.

    Take those two factors out and you’re still up against the issue of time and marketing. This is the more personal one for me so these examples below are my personal thoughts and feelings.

    Before the night of the Oscars, I had only heard of two of the nominees for best pictures and only had the chance to see one in theaters. I see the advertisements but I’ll be honest unless the ad really piques my interest, I don’t know where to watch said movie. Is it streaming? What service? I don’t know they showed the logo at the end but I wasn’t paying enough attention. Is it in the theater? It is? Ok, let’s go see it, oh it was only in the theater for two weeks but you can stream it now on Amazon for $20. I don’t want to stream it and I wanted to see it in a theater. And if I want to see it badly enough, I don’t want to pay Jeff Bezos the money to do that so I’ll wait until it’s on one of the ones I subscribe to. Or it’s a movie like Mikey 17. I’ve never heard of that movie anywhere except on this website and about half the times it’s been mentioned, it was in articles like this saying, “why isn’t anyone going to the movies?” Same shit happened last year with “Fall Guy”. Movies used to be allowed to grow and find their audience, now it’s all the bottom dollar and extracting that value as soon as possible.

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
    111·
    11 hours ago

    This is attributable to movies not being interesting or good, given there have been 3 billion dollar movies over the past year and Disney had its biggest opening weekend ever with Moana 2. People want to go to the movies, they just aren’t willing to go to the movies for movies that aren’t interesting

    • J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      10 hours ago

      I thought Miki 17 was solid, part of the story felt a bit all over the place, but IMO it’s more tolerable for a satirical black comedy.

      To be fair, I really like Sci-fi and Bong Joon Ho (discovered him via Memories of Murder way back when), so I am biased.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I read the original novel and mehed out early on. I heard the movie will be streaming soon anyway, so I’ll give it a try.

      • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Yeah I honestly hadn’t even heard of this movie before today. Maybe there’s also a marketing issue

        • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          9 hours ago

          I’ve been wondering how continued cord cutting is playing a role in the movie business. It seems like live TV was one of the more aggressive marketing avenues for upcoming movies, but with fewer and fewer people watching traditional TV (and the ads they bring) there is bound to be some level of collateral damage.

  • ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.orgEnglish
    41·
    10 hours ago

    Good, I hope American cinema never recovers. Who cares about nazi culture? Not me.

    Who the hell is still spending money on visual media? Why?

  • Nora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    33·
    10 hours ago

    Capitan america civil war was so bad. I’ve never felt like leaving a movie midway through before.