Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
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spronk
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whats sad and very "its collusion, innit" is how there are literally no big movies coming out for the next like 2-3 weeks. The next big movie is Mickey 17 not out until March 7th
i had some time to kill this week and wanted to finally go see a movie and there wasn't fuck all to see except old releases and this turd
I think Disney has a stranglehold too on IMAX/Dolby/etc screens, like if theaters want to show their movies on IMAX they have to agree to minimum exclusive windows and shit. I miss the days when we'd get at least one big ass movie every week, sometimes even 2. Now we get one big movie every like 3-5 weeks.
i had some time to kill this week and wanted to finally go see a movie and there wasn't fuck all to see except old releases and this turd
I think Disney has a stranglehold too on IMAX/Dolby/etc screens, like if theaters want to show their movies on IMAX they have to agree to minimum exclusive windows and shit. I miss the days when we'd get at least one big ass movie every week, sometimes even 2. Now we get one big movie every like 3-5 weeks.
Merrith
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Aren't January/February specifically considered "Dump Months" in the movie industry?
Harshaw
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DickTrickle
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They used to be but I don't think that really applies anymore because they realized, oh yeah, not having competition is pretty nice. January is still a little on the slower side, since December is so heavy with releases, but February/March definitely is not.
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The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for October 7, 1994
Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of October 7, 1994
Forrest Gump
Timecop
The Shawshank Redemption
Clear and Present Danger
Speed
True Lies
Jurassic Park
or if you wanted to wait til the next weekend to see a movie:
The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for October 14, 1994
Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of October 14, 1994
Pulp Fiction and Wes Craven's New Nightmare
The week after? Stargate. Then Interview with a Vampire.
We had no idea how good we had it in the 90s.
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Merrith
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On this date you could go to a multiplex and choose from some of the following:The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for October 7, 1994
Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of October 7, 1994www.the-numbers.com
Forrest Gump
Timecop
The Shawshank Redemption
Clear and Present Danger
Speed
True Lies
Jurassic Park
or if you wanted to wait til the next weekend to see a movie:
You could add to your choices:The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for October 14, 1994
Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of October 14, 1994
Pulp Fiction and Wes Craven's New Nightmare
The week after? Stargate. Then Interview with a Vampire.
We had no idea how good we had it in the 90s.
That's actually crazy.
Ok oK ok!
My take movies were better in the time period you are talking about. Why not discuss how this has changed without speaking of "Go woke go broke"
Movies suck now because of nepotism and streaming and post covid attendence figures.
Most movies suck and i simply won't pay to see them. This is a simple one sentence description. Now tell me why they suck, not mentioning woke....idiots.
My take movies were better in the time period you are talking about. Why not discuss how this has changed without speaking of "Go woke go broke"
Movies suck now because of nepotism and streaming and post covid attendence figures.
Most movies suck and i simply won't pay to see them. This is a simple one sentence description. Now tell me why they suck, not mentioning woke....idiots.
moonarchia
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The entire industry bring woke is a large part of why current movies suck. But you can ignore that if you want to, whoever the fuck you are.
Fadaar
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Chris
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Woke is part of the nepotism.
Best description I've heard is the term "purse puppies" to describe "diverse" people being put on show by their woke patrons. These trophy people take up space that would have gone to talented newcomers, it's much easier for nepobabies to compete though.
Covid only broke the movie habit because the movies had been shit for a while and the same slop could be found with direct to streaming movies or last months box office failure being available.
If the movies were good then that wouldn't have happened.
Fucker
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Yeah. Even then, there was a steady stream of movies all year. Smaller/medium budget movies all year long. I don't recall seeing huge holes with nothing at all to see like we have now. There's nothing at all for months...this is completely insane. Looking at the roster for the rest of 2025, and there's only a handful of movies that I'd go see in a theater. Not even a handful, two. I used to go see movies a few times a week.
Studios have fucked themselves and theaters with streaming. We no longer get a steady flow of movies because they'll just toss it on streaming a week after it hits theaters. Theaters can't survive without movies to show.
Streaming has also ruined television. Memba when we used to have set release schedules? A fall line up, spring line up, summer line up? Now, seasons are years apart, so far apart that people completely forget about them.
It's weird to see Hollywood digging its own grave, and making the same set of mistakes over and over.
Burns
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Yeah, movies have been 90% shit since at least 2015. Up until 2010 I was probably watching 10+ new movies a year, and while it was a slow decline, by 2015 I was watching 2 or 3 new movies per year. Now, it's years per new movie.
I've never really liked the theater experience outside of IMAX, so I am mostly indifferent to their decline, other than a bit of schadenfreude for the big conglomerations that had anti-consumer business practices getting their just reward of bankruptcy (hopefully).
Cybsled
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Although Shawshank actually bombed in the theater initially - people didn't really discover the movie until after its original theatrical run.
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Yeah can you imagine movie theaters so stacked that shawshank, widely recognized as one of the greatest films of all time, ends up bombing because of all the choices people have?
And not like, underground fave that became a cult classic in certain circles due to home video rental, some cheesy guilty pleasure film that ends up being beloved due to word of mouth. No a legitimate contender up there with citizen Kane, the godfather, seven samurai, etc.
And not like, underground fave that became a cult classic in certain circles due to home video rental, some cheesy guilty pleasure film that ends up being beloved due to word of mouth. No a legitimate contender up there with citizen Kane, the godfather, seven samurai, etc.
DickTrickle
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Going back to 1993 isn't really an apples to apples comparison. Movies stayed in theater way longer back then; it's not like most of those October weeks a lot of money was being made but there wasn't really a viable alternative revenue stream so they stayed. The turn around time to be able to rent was also much longer and VHS owning was not as common because many new releases were still being rental priced at close to $100, even in 1993. DVD also shortened the average time in theater and streaming cut it down even more to the point so many low to mid budget films just go straight to streaming.
