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remember when films like this were a big deal...

posted 4 years ago by bozo_500 (13384)
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Seems like a thousand centuries ago..

You'd read about them in movie magazines.. the build up,early pics, trailers.. then the 5 star review.. and they'd be on the cinema (not Netflix as a 10 part streamer)

Just big stars, big directors, big themes, big budgets, and could be about anything.. just..anything.. the corrupt Tobacco industry, Scottish freedom fighters, pontificating pop culture referencing hitmen, an intricate crime thriller set in 50s LA, Roman generals turned gladiator, a 500 years in the future flooded Earth, an AI VR dreamworld kungfu scifi epic, a german expressionist/film noir murder mystery on a floating city in space full of alien abductees, HueyLewis and the news loving psychotic serial killers, narcoleptic split personality bare knuckle fist fighting anarchists , a 200m Romeo & Juliet love story set on Titanic, along with the occasional Star Trek, Bond, Batman and the constant tease of another Superman film (along with Spiderman Hulk XMen.. lol they'll never get those made!)

But hey now we getting all the superheroes we could ever dream of (even the old ones coming back) and endless Star Wars movies! (just like we all wanted in the 80s and 90s).. Hollywood knows what people want now!

[–] Jones70 (6862) 4 years ago

Yeah I kinda do actually.

[–] [email protected] (2042) 8 months ago

Superhero, covid, and streaming destroyed cinema. Even before covid, I used to go to theaters weekly, sometimes 2x a week depending if there was a good film. Streaming for me destroyed rentals and buying physical discs. But the theatre experience was still there. I'm from the Philippines, and here covid killed theatres for 3 years and today, it's not even 10% of how it was pre-covid. People got used to not going to theaters and realized life was livable without it. I probably go just once a year to the cinemas now.

The only 2 films I saw in the cinema? Elvis and Oppenheimer.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8857) 15 days ago

I still go to theaters about twice a month on a average. It's my go-to thing to do if I just want to get out of the house but have nothing specific to do and it's still the way that I want to see big movies first.

I also still buy movies on disc. If you're dependent on streaming, then you're letting it be up to the streamers which films you have access to. And that's not to mention the lack of special features.

You're right, though: The combo of streaming, covid and the over-reliance on tentpole movies by studios has done a lot to hurt theaters.

[–] AnthonySocksss (1564) 15 days ago

Movies were garbage long before Covid

[–] PaulIsAlive (464) 15 days ago

Unfortunately, yes.

[–] letess (1810) 15 days ago

And yet Crowe did not get an Oscar for this one.

[–] MartyMoose1977 (225) 6 days ago

They still make serious drama's with great actors. I just watched Conclave last night and it was great.