MovieChat Forums > FilmBuff > Replies
FilmBuff's Replies
Sadly, I agree. I think in the not too distant future, theaters will primarily exist as revival houses, showing only older films, with the occasional prestige new feature getting a limited theatrical release. Tickets will be far more expensive for those rare new films.
In the past, you could go to the theater every weekend and see a new movie that was aimed at an adult audience, and numerous options for which film to choose. You couldn't see them all unless you went to the movies several times every week. Films remained in theaters for a minimum of 3 months, and usually spent the next 3 months on the bargain theater circuit.
Now only a few such films are made per year, they're given no promotion whatsoever, and play in theaters for 2 or 3 weeks at most.
I have no problem with blockbuster action films. I understand that's where theaters make the big profits. It's only now that they've shut down production on everything else in order to focus exclusively on dinosaurs, robots, and such that I think complaining is reasonable.
That would make sense if there were a diverse variety of films being made, but in the past decade or so, the movie industry has developed tunnel vision. Long gone are the mid-budget, intelligent films aimed at adults. Instead, all production dollars are being spent on kiddie fare like dinosaur movies, with the hope that kiddie-like adults will flock to them in drove, which they often do.
You're right that we have no power to change this, but it's reasonable to lament about the dumbing down of society, and the way Hollywood is hastening it by ceasing to produce films aimed at intelligent people.
It's like every day is Christmas since January 20th.
With a little Tom Savini mixed in to spice things up.
Until I saw this I didn't realize there had been a previous film, much less three. And it looks like they were all box office smashes. When your first trilogy of films all makes over a billion dollars each you keep churning them out as long as you can, so yes, a second trilogy seems likely, unless the franchise falters at the box office.
This is apparently the 7th Jurassic Park movie. I saw the first two, and I thought there were only 3, maybe 4. So yeah, if they've made 7, they'll keep going until they stop making money. It's like the Fast and the Furious franchise. No one knows who goes to see them, but someone somewhere does, so they stamp another one out every few years.
The penultimate episode was great, with all the shots of San Francisco. I also liked seeing a mix of familiar faces from The Good Place, Brooklyn 911, Nora From Queens, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It sometimes became a bit maudlin, but never by too much, and it was enjoyable throughout. If they really do follow up with the promised second season, I'll watch.
Ring 'Em
Turn This Mutha Out
Let's Get It Started
He was one of the most popular pop stars in the world in the '90s. He started in the boy band Take That, then had a solo career.
Take That didn't become popular in the U.S., but everywhere else in the world they achieved Beatles-level stardom.
In the UK:
28 top-40 singles
20 top-10 singles
17 top-5 singles
12 number-one songs
9 number-one albums
Internationally
56 number-one singles
42 number-one albums
Meanwhile, in the US, as far as I know they only ever had one single on the charts, Back For Good, which made it to #7 on the US top 40 charts in 1995.
The majority of the cuts are the elimination of graft and money laundering, and government payouts to the press in exchange for favorable media coverage. Chelsea Clinton, for example, got $84 million dollars funneled to her through various shell companies. And I fear this is the tip of the iceberg. For decades, politicians, lobbyists, corporate heads, and journalists have been enriching themselves at the taxpayer's expense, and at last an outsider has come into power and is doing something about it.
Remember, when Musk bought Twitter and fired 80% of its employees, many people assumed that the app would stop working, or the company would implode. Instead, it has run problem-free ever since, and is far more widely used now than ever before. It's become the de facto news source for hundreds of millions of people, and helped open the eyes of many to the lies and corruption in the mainstream media. Expect similar of the streamlined government that is the result of DOGE.
Put your partisan feelings aside for a moment and ask yourself-- why are you bothered that Musk is uncovering billions-- likely trillions-- of dollars of taxpayer money that's being used to enrich corrupt people?
Or perhaps having a recognizable, human voice will go a long way towards humanizing the Thing, and making him less of a brutish monster, as he has been in past films, and more of a tragic figure, as he is in the comics.
One can only glean so much from a film's initial teaser trailer. I have no idea what sort chemistry the actors will ultimately have. All I can say at this point is that the trailer has me extremely excited for the film. I disliked the 2005 and 2007 films, and felt they were very generic Hollywood superhero films, and lacked any connection to the comics. Gruffudd looked the part of Mr. Fantastic, but beyond that there was nothing that reflected the personality or vibe of the comics. It was utterly generic, and felt like a movie by committee that threw out everything that made the Fantastic Four unique in favor of tropes the guys in suits thought would play well in multiplexes.
Will this be any better? Who knows? At least it looks and feels like the comics I read as a kid.
Cavill looked the part but the films were terrible. Same with Gal Gadot. Those two were born to be Superman and Wonder Woman, and it's a shame the movies were so poorly made.
It's rare that a trailer leaves me in eager anticipation for a film, but the recent Fantastic Four and Superman trailers both have me counting the days until opening night. The Deadpool and Wolverine film, on the other hand, wasn't something I was all that eager to see. I enjoyed it when I watched it, but the trailer did nothing for me.
I think it looks amazing. It's pretty much exactly what I want as a fan of the Fantastic Four, right down to the '60s-inspired aesthetic. I didn't care for the previous films, and thought Evans wasn't a good fit as Johnny Storm. Alba, too, was miscast. Ioan Gruffudd, on the other hand, was a perfect Reed, though Pascal seems nearly as good, and much better than Krasinski ever could be. I think they more or less nailed it with all four actors this time around.
Fabian is pregnant, though it seems Butch doesn't know yet.
This is the Fantastic Four film I've dreamed of since they first started making Marvel movies.
Pascal's a white guy, just like Krasinksi.
It's baffling that so many people shout Nazi and Fascist at Trump, Musk, etc. when those two are spearheading a move that is aggressively attacking the Fascist elements in our government. People like Chumbawampa almost certainly support the political party that advocates many policies that mirror those of the Nazis, and yet decry Nazism at every turn, and falsely accuse Trump of doing all the things their own side is doing.
Try harder. No one falls for that anymore.