The moviegoing public has only so much money it can spend on an overpriced theater ticket, so they are taking reviews on RottenTomatoes very seriously. Hollywood studios are responding by not allowing advance screenings for the critics until hours before its public debut.
Better solution—> Don’t make crap.
ht/ fdr in hell
they ran out of ideas and stunts long ago, no more creativity, only greed and political statements that alienate people
if i were a director, i would ditch the new technologies and break out the old, get back to basics, go back 40 or so years and reset
Last movie I saw at a movie theater was the original Star Wars. Not sure what the actual name was.
I was stuck to the seat with bubble gum. Luckily I had old pants on.
Had that happen before with melted candy.
NEVER AGAIN
All they do is push the progressive agenda
💢 STAR WARS: The Force Awakens 💢
It was a cut and paste of all of the other Star Wars movies. How is it that Rey is the only person with a British accent? How does she keep it?
💢 Dumbkirk 💢
The most pathetically boring “action” movie I have ever seen in my life. How about a little exciting backstory for people who don’t know what Dunkirk was all about fellas?
💢 Transformers 💢
A movie series in which the dull, boring, powerless humans control everything and the robots are secondary characters. Remember that in the animated series? Me neither!
💢 Marvel’s Infinity Gauntlet Series 💢
Heads-up! Thanos finds all of the gem stones for the gauntlet in the comic books through the Infinity Pool. No need for any of these movies, unless of course Marvel wants to make a few billion.
Who need Rotten Tomatoes? ALL the movies suck!
1991 the last time I went to a movie theater and that was to see Raul Julia (RIP). Haven’t watched a DVD in close to 2 years because Sherman chewed through some wire and we haven’t bothered fixing it.
Took my grandparents to see Tombstone in 1993. First time I had been to the theater in years and was the last time I went. I almost never watch a movie at home because 99 percent of them suck.
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I rarely go to movies, but just saw Baby Driver and it was pretty darn good.
But I hate the remakes, CGI, and complete lack of originality in most movies today.
In 2007 a friend and I had the rare opportunity to see a movie that wasn’t for children (our kids are the same age). Neither one of us had been to the movies to see a grown up movie in over a decade. We consulted the local lineup and decided we both like Tommy Lee Jones, and Woody Harrelson was okay, too.
Relaxed in our theater seats, all the buttered popcorn you could want and an afternoon free from children. What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing at all, except two Church Ladies watching in stunned silence, mouths agape as four or five brutal murders are committed in the first seven minutes past the title, that’s what! No Country For Old Men, that’s what! We couldn’t stop laughing, and it’s a tribute, I guess, to the Cohen brothers that we couldn’t get up and walk out, either. It was like reading The Grapes of Wrath. It never got better than the opening scene.
It reminds me of the time I booked a ski vacation in Big Sky, but bought transportation to White Fish.
…I play it real safe nowadays. I’m a late ’20’s, 30’s and some 40’s movie fan. I watch all I want on TCM or YT. Those precode films are dynamite, and you can watch most of them with your kids.
If Hollywood has determined that people actually take heed of what the critics say and limit the advance screenings then what’s to stop the same people that are heeding the critics from waiting a single day for the review that they rely on to come out. Pissing the critics off is no way to sell a movie. To be fair though, I think the last movie I went to a theatre to see was The Patriot so I might be a touch behind the times.
Don’t go to movies. The Freaken bastards are prejudice. Against my gun. My G19 is now in therapy. I hope those bastids are happy.
The one thing Hollywood stupidly forgot was that they need us, we don’t need them.
Bollywood is the way to watch. Did we have this discussion recently?
Lonesom Dove, beautifully done. And I got to speak with Ricky Schroder on the phone a few mos ago, found him to be pro military, pro NRA, very decent guy. He will play Dolly Parton’s dad in an upcoming special about her life.
Last movie I saw at a theater was Dinesh D’Souza’s America. It also was the first time I had been in one since just before 911. I do watch movies at home. AA, +1. Watched Sabrina (Hepburn) last night.
Probably has something to do with the content – going to a theater anymore has taken on all the charm of taking public transportation. In contrast, every once in a while it changes. The audience at the D’Souza movie was extremely normal.
I haven’t seen previews of anything that I would even consider spending money on in the last ten years.
Way too much CGI in movies today, you’d think with all the tech, they’d be able to do something about the blue-gray tones in these worthless flicks. I guess they’re trying to distract the viewing public, from how talentless the actors are.
Can’t stand the loud mouthed, hypocritical, elitist, Hollywood bastards in ‘real’ life, why would I pay to see them?
Telling me that I’m deplorable, then wanting my support of their CGI crap, horrible editing, and etc. The ‘art’ of movie making has been graffitied over by the progressive agenda.
We average a movie about every 18-20 months, it’s rare, very rare. We’re liking the straight to video scene a heck of alot more.
IMDB is also junk for ratings.
Last film I saw in the theater was “The Fifth Element” and worth every penny.
The only films I’ve seen in a theater in the last 15-20 years have been D’Souza’s 2, An American Carol (BUYcott, so to say). When overseas, only “cult” type films, and then only if friends recommend them.
Spoiler alert….. They’re all crap
Why pay to go to a movie when you can fall asleep just as easily in your own chair in front of the TV?
I love film–I truly do! Nut since my desktop is down (4 mos now, haven’t seen a thing. The DVD went kaput a couple years ago–I have a number of great DVDs…ah well. Desktop is going on for repair next week…so I can watch my DVDs AND get back to shooting w/my Nikon and doing Photoshop…ah, great!
Insofar as seeing film in a theater, it’s been since 2004. I did Christmas decor for a mall here in the City of Chicago, so was allowed to see any- and everything for free. Couldn’t tell you what I saw, but I walked out on most of them–just garbage!!!
I seem to be on the once a years schedule; Dunkirk, 13 Hours in Benghazi, American Sniper, Lone Survivor.
Notice a pattern?
why pay to see:
a movie that is overly violent instead of having a real story to tell
a movie filled with profanity instead of dialog
a movie that has been made several times already
a movie in a crowded theatre next to diseased third world invaders who smell and talk loudly through the show.
a movie that insults my intelligence with it’s propagandizing
a movie that is way overpriced for the content involved
a movie that will be on tv in a year
a lot of Americans have home theatres now
no real reason to go anymore
Netflix & etc are going to eat establishment studios lunch in the same way home video made drive-in theaters go away.
TCM and occasionally AMC also play some of the old favorites no other network plays anymore.
I don’t go to the cinema a lot but we do go, and very rarely pay full price. Tuesdays are the deadest, when they have $5 nights to drum up business, and as a secret shopper you can get paid to watch movies. We also have a place called Bear Tooth: pizzeria that brews its own beer and you can get it served as you watch a flick, tickets to which cost $3. They’re doing a lot of anniversaries now and we watched Casablanca on Valentine’s Day (free), Cool Hand Luke, even Lawrence of Arabia. (LoA had tech issues and they comped everyone tickets on our way out.)
Also DVDs from the library, which also can get titles from other branches/systems within the consortium. Look up a title in your library’s online data base and utilize the service (if yours offers it) to bring it to the branch of your choice.
Title Wave, a really great local used bookstore (very fussy what they will accept for trade, one scratch it’s a no go), has been instrumental in the buildup of my son’s Blu Ray collection, and he scours the sales (here and elsewhere) like nobody’s business.
I’m not a film aficionado (I like them enough though), but my son is and he has a great eye for direction and ear for dialogue, which is how we came to find that there really are very many opportunities to watch and acquire films at way reduced rates.
I use the DVR to record TCM classics to watch when we want to. Also, when there is a premium free preview weekend for HBO or one of the others, I record a few for watching on our time. We also use iTunes or Netflix and watch via Apple TV.
Kicking the movie to a large screen HDTV with the surround system is like the theater experience without the crowds.
Also, freeze frame allows bathroom breaks – theaters don’t include that option.