I’m part of the older generation, I enjoy movies and only ask the bare minimum of them, entertain me. To add to your perspective a third possible reason, myself, and virtually all the people I know in my age group, we have a dislike of crowded venues, particularly indoor ones. Covid gave at least 60% of us a healthy fear of airborne infections, especially knowing that the another 40%
I loved the movie and saw it in the cinema, but it's become pretty expensive to go there and we all have pretty good cinematic setups at home these days. 55" TV's are not even that expensive, and with streaming you get amazing quality of picture and sound. So I think it's more the issue that they take the cinema income as an indicator of how popular a movie is.
Lack of advertising has to play a part in this, the only reason I even know Fall Guy exists is because last year they shut down the Harbour Bridge for one of the stunts which forced me to go the VERY long way round to get into the city
Having said that given Australias cultural cringe and the absolute obsession of Aussie media with being noticed by Americans I am guessing the Aussie Box Office will surpass expectations... "hey theres a Harbour Bridge stunt and Sydney is in it, better get to the multiplex" and morning TV will be all over it no doubt
Why pay to watch a movie when I can watch some guys on YouTube tear apart every decision and explain why it’s a cinematic failure no matter how popular it is? Then I get to have cool negative opinions to share on my socials so I look like a sophisticated dude.
It's probably just that the bar for movies that you must see in a theater has gotten higher. Being an action movie is a plus, but not that much of a plus anymore.
Agreed. There just isn't a reason to go to the cinema to see a movie (rather than see it later at home) anymore **unless** A)cinema is just a pretext (as for romantic pairings); or B)the movie has huge visual effects that are just better on a huge screen (it's not enough to have an action scene: I'd say not even all Marvel movies qualify). (And A has also dropped substantially for independent cultural reasons.)
Hollywood is still stuck on the movies-go-in-movie-theaters model. Seems to me that the future is more oriented towards streaming at home, than attending in person. Though, like you, I am Gen X and so may only be showing my own generational biases here.
(Sorry, old fingers hit send button by accident) of the population as a whole did not believe we needed any protections. Given this dynamic, we can wait till it hits Netflix. By the way, is anyone else pissed off that Prime now contains ads? I can remember when cable didn’t have them.
It's a romcom with fake action scenes. (Fake in that it's revealed to the audience that they are fake.) No appeal at all to me.
I'm a 68-yr-old dude, too old to matter, but I find it hard to believe that my reaction isn't shared by a lot of younger men.
For reference I loved Dune I and II, Civil War, Oppenheimer. Dark Matter, streaming now on Apple TV, is great: a romdrama with real action scenes. That could've been a good theater movie.
my personal take: I was a suburb kid who grew up with a local cinema as the only thing to do around town (seeing a movie twice a month was normal in our house). But I I never go to the movies anymore, and would definitely not pay to see one that is sold to me as "solid and entertaining." I save those kinds of films for watching on my laptop when I'm sick, have a long-haul flight, or movie nights when visiting family.
I live in a big city and movie tickets have become so expensive that they are now in my "arts, culture, experiences" mental category. If I go out to see a movie, it's a special date night, akin to going to the theater or a concert. I want the movie to be something I can talk about with my friend/date over a drink afterward. I want it to wash over me the way a well-staged play or a beautifully choreographed ballet would, because it's competing with those for outside-the-house evening entertainment. Now I've become a pretentious human who pays to see "films" instead.
If it can't be that, the movie should be marketed to me as one that cannot be missed on the big screen. The second Spiderverse movie, for example.
This, Dan, is a question that demands an answer. And damned if I have one--The Fall Guy was great! A perfectly solid and entertaining summer movie. Seriously, what gives?
I’m part of the older generation, I enjoy movies and only ask the bare minimum of them, entertain me. To add to your perspective a third possible reason, myself, and virtually all the people I know in my age group, we have a dislike of crowded venues, particularly indoor ones. Covid gave at least 60% of us a healthy fear of airborne infections, especially knowing that the another 40%
I loved the movie and saw it in the cinema, but it's become pretty expensive to go there and we all have pretty good cinematic setups at home these days. 55" TV's are not even that expensive, and with streaming you get amazing quality of picture and sound. So I think it's more the issue that they take the cinema income as an indicator of how popular a movie is.
Lack of advertising has to play a part in this, the only reason I even know Fall Guy exists is because last year they shut down the Harbour Bridge for one of the stunts which forced me to go the VERY long way round to get into the city
Having said that given Australias cultural cringe and the absolute obsession of Aussie media with being noticed by Americans I am guessing the Aussie Box Office will surpass expectations... "hey theres a Harbour Bridge stunt and Sydney is in it, better get to the multiplex" and morning TV will be all over it no doubt
Why pay to watch a movie when I can watch some guys on YouTube tear apart every decision and explain why it’s a cinematic failure no matter how popular it is? Then I get to have cool negative opinions to share on my socials so I look like a sophisticated dude.
It's probably just that the bar for movies that you must see in a theater has gotten higher. Being an action movie is a plus, but not that much of a plus anymore.
Agreed. There just isn't a reason to go to the cinema to see a movie (rather than see it later at home) anymore **unless** A)cinema is just a pretext (as for romantic pairings); or B)the movie has huge visual effects that are just better on a huge screen (it's not enough to have an action scene: I'd say not even all Marvel movies qualify). (And A has also dropped substantially for independent cultural reasons.)
Hollywood is still stuck on the movies-go-in-movie-theaters model. Seems to me that the future is more oriented towards streaming at home, than attending in person. Though, like you, I am Gen X and so may only be showing my own generational biases here.
(Sorry, old fingers hit send button by accident) of the population as a whole did not believe we needed any protections. Given this dynamic, we can wait till it hits Netflix. By the way, is anyone else pissed off that Prime now contains ads? I can remember when cable didn’t have them.
It's a romcom with fake action scenes. (Fake in that it's revealed to the audience that they are fake.) No appeal at all to me.
I'm a 68-yr-old dude, too old to matter, but I find it hard to believe that my reaction isn't shared by a lot of younger men.
For reference I loved Dune I and II, Civil War, Oppenheimer. Dark Matter, streaming now on Apple TV, is great: a romdrama with real action scenes. That could've been a good theater movie.
my personal take: I was a suburb kid who grew up with a local cinema as the only thing to do around town (seeing a movie twice a month was normal in our house). But I I never go to the movies anymore, and would definitely not pay to see one that is sold to me as "solid and entertaining." I save those kinds of films for watching on my laptop when I'm sick, have a long-haul flight, or movie nights when visiting family.
I live in a big city and movie tickets have become so expensive that they are now in my "arts, culture, experiences" mental category. If I go out to see a movie, it's a special date night, akin to going to the theater or a concert. I want the movie to be something I can talk about with my friend/date over a drink afterward. I want it to wash over me the way a well-staged play or a beautifully choreographed ballet would, because it's competing with those for outside-the-house evening entertainment. Now I've become a pretentious human who pays to see "films" instead.
If it can't be that, the movie should be marketed to me as one that cannot be missed on the big screen. The second Spiderverse movie, for example.
Movies like this are rare, having been relegated to cable. Money's wrecking everything. What's new?
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This, Dan, is a question that demands an answer. And damned if I have one--The Fall Guy was great! A perfectly solid and entertaining summer movie. Seriously, what gives?
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