The Inevitable Failure of 2023 Blockbusters

I liked the flash

Please don't feed into the bullshit... Halle Bailey absolutely SUCKED, just like the rest of the damn cast.... not as hard of course as the chick they got to play scuttle.... but she sucked, she did, and no dipshits, it's not because she was fucking black.... it was because she was in a bad movie, with a bad script and honestly she's just not a good actress.... there I said it...

belonging to shazam, why should I watch a copy cat, whoms comic didn't even made it to my country?

Crap Flash

When your movie costs 50 Mills and you do not break even, with 50 Mills at the box office, than your movie did not cost 50 Mills!

the dnd movie got screwed over by WOTC and their horrible OGL to steal fan content

"Turning Red" Was Hilarious
I Loved It
"Elemental" Was Cute
"The Little Mermaid Remake"
Was Better Than The Original
The OG Film Was About A Horny Who Had A Crush. In The Reake They Actually Dated Before They Did Anything Romantic
"Luca" Was A Film That I Saw That I Was Not The Target Audience
So It Wasn't For Me
But Other People Might Enjoy It

The other problem with Indiana Jones does tie in with what you said, is that it's a single character driven story. Harrison Ford is bout 40 years removed from the first movie, and it just doesn't work. Star Wars has multiple characters that drive the stories

I don't think the problem woth Indiana Jones is that the audience is old. I think the problem os that the audience has standards. The trailer I saw made it clear that they were just going to be making a mockery of the main character, and they lost all trust when they did number 4 so dirty.
If they wanted to make indiana Jones interesting to a younger audience they would have tapped into the D&D style aesthetic of dungeon crawling and talen some notes from the Tomb Raider games.
They relied on Harrelson Ford as marketing, thinking his presence would make people just show up... but they undermined his character not only in IJ4, bit the star wars sequels so everyone knew it was trash when they mocked his character fpr beong old in the theatre.

A lot of these movies lack a sense of genuineness that most people can sense... except apparently the Marvel and Star Wars fans who were willing to put up with being overtly mocked by the movies they paid to see.

Boohoo hollywood aww donate to this already overbloated industry. Piss off

Yeah, Flash, yeah... Supergirl and Batman actors are the only satisfying parts of the movie. Movie lost all point by butchering Flashpoint ark.

Thanks for the vid!

Not astonishing at all. No writing, no plot, no character development, woke AF garbage 😤 You couldn't PAY ME to go to the movies these days.

you are reading to much into this, the movies failed because they were not entertaining to the audience. it really is a simple as that.

Regal costs $22/month and you can see all the movies you want!

Movie makers are dumber than dogshit!!!

WTF thought people would want to pay to see a movie about the Haunted Mansion?

Hey, stop saying 40 years old like it's 90 years old! And yeah, I did watch Indiana Jones in the theatre! How dare you be right and young?

If these big studios and their reality challenged executives have run completely out of new and alternative ideas by now, why dont they just make some sort of big competitions for new scripts from other kinds of people from outside Hollywood with different and refreshing perspectives on things?

Or how about checking all your drawers, cabinets and basement archives again for all those scripts and brilliant books that just got rejected, because they just didn't have immediately obvious blockbuster potential or ridiculous and even intelligence insulting woke content?

I for one would really love to see a modernised, but still faithful version of English author Daphne du Maurriers great and captivating thriller novel "The House on the Strand". 😉

lol you like modern horror films? 🤣

The real challenge would be to make a small budget "blockbuster" with fascinating, "likeable" and believable characters, great acting and a great story line instead of all this overblown, contentless and unrelatable junk that we are mostly getting from Hollywood these days.

And could we please have some hilarious comedy movies or TV-series that take on all the halo polishing, virtue signaling and self appointed woke opinion commissars - being laughed at big time works like kryptonite to these annoying people, who seriously believe it's their duty to constantly tell the rest of us what we can and can't think, feel, write and say or even fire / cancel us for even daring to have the "wrong" opinions from their very narrow minded extreme viewpoints, so that they can feel morally elevated high above us in their seemingly endless "goodness" at the cost of others.

That is what we really, really need these days 😂

Everything is a Sequel or prequel… can we just have something new??? Pleaseee!!!

Damn son....'EndGame' was lucky to be the 2nd part of Infinity War and also the end of the 'Infinity Saga' (phase three) by now that "Thanos Has Left The Building" (and ain't coming back- i think!?)....and Fast X hiring Brie Larson...now tell me Hollyweird aren't taking the P out of cinema goers - obv as long as they spell the name correctly on their pay cheque they will continue to laugh at the fans (all the way to the bank !)

Edit: i think hollywood has just forgotten how to make good movies and are too greedy. A bigger budget doesnt necessarily mean a better movie. They don't put anything into an actual storyline, good production, or even good characters. Godzilla minus one was really good, budget of $10-$15million! that's it! and it grossed over $106 million. I actually went to the theater for this one. It's not a Hollywood movie, and it crushed it. Hollywood needs to cut back on the shitty expensive cgi and go back to telling an actual good story on camera. No one wants to spend money on crap and the theaters aren't cheap.

If you ask me, I think Warner realised that Flash was going to be a train wreck, so they paid all those actors and directors to hype the movie up to no end to get us to watch it.
Besides, Hollywood is run by hacks and money. You really think Tom Cruise would do or say ANYTHING if money wasn't involved?

didney keeps putting the AGENDA that people don't want 😂

Yea, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the woke agenda. Sure.

Houthi's found out....that you can mess with the US, ride out the harsh words and long distance bombing, and end up as the internationally recognized government of Yemen in 12-15 years once Americans lose interest. The Taliban and the Viet Cong hooked them up with the playbook

anybody who watches and waits for a "blockbuster" is a complete idiot

An hour and a half without so much as a single interesting point. Impressive!

Why do I give ANY amount of a fuck about what the director of Shazam does outside the movie? Is it shit or is it good? End of story. Stop being a fucking mark for the life of these people outside the dogshit they produce for the worldwide audience.

I saw Shazam 2 on one of my many work trips on a plane. It was fine like just fine but I wouldn’t intentionally rewatch it

ESG, that’s what went wrong.

They went woke. Then they went broke.

My friend likes the elemental movie because of the kiss scene

I did not go watch MI 7 because its called part one😅

It’s funny how these movie directors are surprised. Literally everyone knows the movies will flop a year before it gets released

WOKE !!! That’s it Folks !!!

$325 is like a fourth of what I make a month. I work 20 hours and make $15 an hour. That is a crap ton of money to go to the movies. I rarely go to the movies anymore, except for a few a year or if I'm invited by friends. It's just a lot of money. And the average ticket price in my area is $13.... very different compared to most places, but still a decent amount of money.

I really loved the DnD movie. It was dumb fun and that’s all it needed to be. I’m still salty it didn’t do well.

Indiana Jones doesn't need to speak to a broad audience. This is fine. Adjust the budget accordingly.

Get rid of the annoying lady you somehow think is going to be the lead going forward and just speak to your demographic. It's not hard Disney.

Please dont use "they/them" to refer to a criminal. You know they/them was originally used by nobility as to differentiate themselves from the common folk? So calling someone they/them is actually a honorific, that puts that person above you and you below that person. Now i know that time changes and for some reason some people want you to call them they/them and i understand if you wish to adhere to the general vibe as to not attract the gremlins but Ezra Miller is a trash person and does not deserve any kind of regard as to what he wish to be called, especially not since he wants to be they/them.

When I revamp the universe, the industries my family will own don't even cost a cent to make a movie due to the Temple of the Jrahn being a civilization in its own right that is far more advance and able to take care of its self without the need for currency, chiefly because the Temple of the Jrahn hosts the Council of Annasyn which will completely brain control its adherents to work religiously and rigorously for freely, plus we have A.I. that is hundreds of years more advance and it literally makes all the script, all of the story and all of the CGI without the need for actors (unless we want them involved), ultimately we will have actors but no extras as those are CGI rendered with A.I. hundreds of years more advance than what we have right now. And because the cost is strikingly low and the quality is so phenomenal that we can make a shit load of profits.

"This is pure evil."

I know. wink

Indiana jones failed because they spent the entire film shitting on and making him seem pathetic. No one wants thier hero made a joke out of. Just to prop up his younger replacement.

As a gen-z that does enjoy Indiana Jones... yeah you aren't totally wrong. I didn't watch the movie until last month, because it was on Disney+ and I was bored 😂
I'm also just a weird child who would sneak up past their bedtime to watch old movies over my parents' shoulders, so I like older movies

I watched The Flash last week and... I. JUST. LOVED. IT. Can't say otherwise... its a solid 4 out of 5 for me. To be 5 out of 5 DC could just have done a live action of the awesome animation Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, that is absolutely awesome IMO.

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While you may be right you have to see why they really aren’t getting the people out there to watch. Some of us do not want to be preached to by identity politics. We don’t like checking off boxes. MCU has become way too DEI as have other movies and shows. People aren’t going to see these movies because of the PCverse.

Yeah I feel bad for kinda liking The Flash. Maybe I'm just glad that the movie actually came out instead of put in a vault somewhere leaving me to always wonder what I'd missed. And I love a trainwreck, and The Flash pretty much lays bare what a trainwreck of a production company Warner Brothers is.