A couple of months back, I was at a theatre looking to buy a ticket and was told the same movie only had 3D showings available at a particular time as the regular 2D was sold out. I thought it was just me ( I hate 3D because I already wear glasses ), but the cashier told me that a theatre, when selling tickets for a movie available in both 2D and 3D, will sell about 5 times more tickets to the 2D version.
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Hollywood Blames Rotten Tomatoes for its Rotten Summer
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A couple of months back, I was at a theatre looking to buy a ticket and was told the same movie only had 3D showings available at a particular time as the regular 2D was sold out. I thought it was just me ( I hate 3D because I already wear glasses ), but the cashier told me that a theatre, when selling tickets for a movie available in both 2D and 3D, will sell about 5 times more tickets to the 2D version.
So by this, we can assume you saw Twilight? If so, future film critique from you are set to ignore
I was waiting for someone to pick on it. I go to see many movies knowing they are trash (no need to check reviews), what I can't stand are junk effects and dumb stuff. Even then, I made an exception for Sharknado (Netflix, of course).So by this, we can assume you saw Twilight? If so, future film critique from you are set to ignore
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The original book franchise (Hunger Games) was split for money grabbing... This seems to be a trend I also noticed with the Southern Vampire, Sookie Stackhouse books upon which HBO's True Blood was based.
Some parts of super hero franchises have been good to acceptable, before they implode. In most cases reboots are unwarranted and just a money grab based on past successes, and in a few cases, the original movie sucked and they think they can make a better version in reboot format. For the latter, the Netflix Daredevil series is much better than the movie staring Ben Afleck.
Although not asked for I like volunteering my favorites:
- X-Men 1&2 followed later by X-Men Origins Wolverine.
- Spiderman 1&2.
- Hellboy 1
- The Punisher
- Thor 1
- Men in Black 1
- The Dark Knight
The last three or four books were a pure money grab. She even said so, well not out right, but during her panel at the San Diego Comic Con, it was implied that is what they and she wanted. She was already done with the series but HBO and her agents wanted to keep the show going and since her books were doing so well. If you read them, which I am sure you did, they were utter trash and very disappointing to say the least.
I read them all and was very disappointed in the last books. Not only that , but the HBO series was a perverted version of them, and I'm not referencing the overbearing gay themes, but the deviation from the author's light hearted vision and story lines.
The last two, more like three seasons of True Blood were absolutely horrible! Had nothing to do with the books at all, other than names of the characters. But they deviated so much from the books it wasn't even funny. I blame Mr. Bell for that one.
What is funny, we went to every panel of True Blood when they were at the SDCC, the last three panels when they really went off the charts, Charlaine Harris was no were to be found! She wasn't mentioned, talked about, or even referenced. The last year she was there, her and Bell sat at opposite ends of the panel table. It was kind of odd and you could feel the tension between them. They were no longer her characters and she knew it.
I'd rather wait 2 months and get it for $1.50 on Redbox, versus $15 at the the local AMC.Hollywood has a problem with viewers (customers) not blindly paying for Blockbusters. They’d rather patrons pay first rather than educate themselves on movie quality beforehand. Poor folks.
And you know they realize it, as the worst movies don’t even allow prescreening for critics from fears of awful reviews.
and not rotten movies?!? Silly Hollywood.
Perhaps if regular price tickets were still single digits I'd bother, but high prices, lame movies and disruptive patrons make it easy to wait on cheaper rentals.
At this point I'll probably rent Blade Runner 2049 unless sister wants to see it, so that leaves Thor Ragnarok and The Last Jedi (outside of revivals for me which are worth the money.)
Silly Hollywood.Perhaps if regular price tickets were still single digits I'd bother, but high prices, lame movies and disruptive patrons make it easy to wait on cheaper rentals.
At this point I'll probably rent Blade Runner 2049 unless sister wants to see it, so that leaves Thor Ragnarok and The Last Jedi (outside of revivals for me which are worth the money.)
pretty sure most movies are PG-13 and are very un-sexy. in fact, the erotic thriller genre that once thrived in the 80s/90s is practically dead in US cinema.
Today's PG-13 is unlike the PG-13 of yesteryear. And what thrillers are you talking about? Erotic thrillers have moved to the book market. Romance and its subgenres are top sellers in the industry.
Twilight fanfic ala 50 Shades of Grey is not an erotic thriller.
I'm talking Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct- those were hits! only foreign cinema is making movies like this.
The R rated film market is merely straight genre action and comedy. If Hollywood can't appeal to teenage boys or use franchise-embedded storytelling, they're less likely to make a film.
I'd hardly call those erotic. FSOG is deemed as romantic suspense/romantic erotica in the book market. The movie itself had an overtly sexual theme compared to your examples. Titanic was PG-13 in the US, yet it had multiple instances of sex in it. You can have a nude woman in a film and get it rated PG-13 by the MPAA. R requires male nudity in addition or on its own. You can throw a bunch of F bombs in a PG-13 movie as long as it fits within certain guidelines. Woman in Red, Doc Hollywood, Rush Hour 3, The Fifth Element.
I can name dozens of movies with incredibly suggestive scenes (women wearing very skimpy lingerie) or them being quite nude or showing their breasts for more than a few seconds.
What I've noticed about PG-13 today, is you have the equivalent of R rated movies, you are seeing significant violence, but they have been scrubbed of blood and gore, no holes cut through flesh, completely sanitized, they just fall over like it was back in the 50-60s with screen violence and sex scenes if there is a sex scene, it's in their underwear.
Now the last Wolverine was PG-13 but there was no doubt he was killing people
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I think he was talking about the movie prior to 'Logan', i.e., 'The Wolverine', as an example of a movie where the onscreen actions are "R-rated", but diluted to PG-13 by just leaving out clear visualization of the violence (we know people are getting sliced up, but it's hidden vs. Logan ... where, well, wow
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I think he was talking about the movie prior to 'Logan', i.e., 'The Wolverine', as an example of a movie where the onscreen actions are "R-rated", but diluted to PG-13 by just leaving out clear visualization of the violence (we know people are getting sliced up, but it's hidden vs. Logan ... where, well, wow
Ahhh... Ok. Confused me when he mentioned the "Last" Wolverine movie.