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I just ignore headlines like this now and move on, don't give them what they want - clicks.
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I get ya, I hadn’t even really noticed since the movie was named in the box below.
Exactly. Content creators gotta eat too, so there are levels of 'please click on this so I can eat' that I'm prepared to accept in the landscape of 2024 digital information exchanges.
I’ve mostly stopped going to theaters. Live arts, hell yes.
Otherwise, I have actually started to buy physical media again, as the quality of the sound and visuals are better and I invested in getting a lovely home theatre setup. It is just so much more comfortable and we have better food and drinks at home.
Trailers have sucked for a long time, like, transformers long time.
Trailers nowadays reveal all the major plot points or nothing at all. Sometimes I'll watch a trailer and know how generic it is, and sometimes I'll watch it not knowing a single thing about the movie.
The best way to watch a trailer nowadays is just the first 30-60 seconds. If you don't know what's going on after that timespan, it's not worth watching, but any longer and you'll know too much.
The trailers aren't what made The Fall Guy a mediocre movie, not really worth sitting through. My guess is that's what hurt its box office performance, not the trailers.
I know for me the fact that they force me to watch straight-up commercials before the movie greatly detracts from my enjoyment. Movie trailers at the theater are one thing, but making me watch an M&M or fuckin car insurance commercial definitely kills the vibe. I completely avoid that shit at home. Why would I want to pay $100 to be subjected to it at the theater? I know the average person doesn't give a shit, but people like me do, and it heavily impacts my enjoyment at the theater.
This sentence starts with an unexplained gun fight! I think explosion! that an over reliance on bass boosted explosion! spectacle and attempting to pass off as intelligent story telling while reusing the same basic bass boosted explosion! plots over and over is killing movies. Not to mention trying to leave everything open for a sequel even if it means ruining and otherwise comp
Maybe partially related but I also dislike it when you’re watching a movie and you can just feel the scenes that were shot specifically for the trailer.
The entire industry needs to change, and Hollywood has the capability to do it. Children's movies and adult children sequels/remakes are the only thing making money so the whole business has consolidated around them.
Meanwhile they keep pumping out uninspired "originals" trying to fit the old model such as selling it on the actor or the special effects and blaming the consumers for killing the industry. So instead of a transition into a more modern system such as appealing to more niche audiences with a lower budget (that they can still make a profit on because of the expansion of the market) were going to see an implosion and have to start again from scratch.
This. Man, the best movie I've seen in the theater in a long while was Everything Everywhere All at Once. Low budget, original, entertaining. I had zero expectations going in and loved the movie. More like that, plz.
I went into Furiosa with low expectations. I thought it was just gonna be a cash grab, but it was exactly what I wanted.
Just over the top action and story, with none of the “meta” comedy or taking itself too seriously that other movies suffer from.
It was ridiculous and corny, and was unapologetic about that. It felt like it was doing its own thing, kinda like some movies from the 90s if that makes sense?
That’s kinda part of the downfall tho, the trailer makes it look as ridiculous and corny as it is, but without all the bits around it that makes it all land.
I don't go to the movie theater any more, don't see any reason, nothing has motivated me in the "I gotta see this now way". I wait until they're available on the high seas. When it came to The Fall Guy, the trailer showed me the chemistry between gosling and blunt was non existent (like blunt and the rock before that, i'm sensing a pattern here, blunt and cruise was good though), even though it's not available to download, watched 5 minutes and tapped out, the trailer from Furiosa looked like nothing but bad CGI and I've had more than my fill of that from Marvel for the last 5 years, so, I'll probably check it out when I can download it, but nothing was gonna make be spend $20 and a trip to a theater when there's still no cure for long or short COVID, lol
I don't know if I can put my finger on a reason besides cost, but I just don't want to see movies in theaters any more. When my kids do, I'll take them, but I have no problem waiting 2 months for them to show up on streaming when I can buy them for $20, 1/5 or less than the cost of a movie date with my wife or taking all four of us and getting drinks, candy, and popcorn.
Cheaper tickets, a decent lounge and bar with bar food instead of theater food would help, but there just aren't as many must-see movies any more. I feel like blockbusters used to be maybe 3 or 4 a year, but now everything is epic and so nothing is.
I want to see Furiosa 100%, but it's nothing I can't wait a couple of months to see. Which kinda makes me sad because I used to absolutely love going to the movies.
My point is I don't think it's the trailers. I think audiences are more fickle.
It definitely seems to be Covid partly to blame - people just found it cheaper and more convenient to watch at home. It's the same with pubs - I was talking to the manger of my local and he said there was a contingent who just never came back.
Lockdowns help highlight a lot of "just because it's what you do, not because it's actually good" things for people.
Theatres are generally awful. They are really only good if you want to do an event as a group, and not one has a space big enough to host.
The food costs too much, people make gross mouth noises when eating the expensive food, the seats aren't comfortable, things aren't clean, people talk, people pull out their bright phones, the sound levels are all over the place, you sometimes have a bad viewing angle, you pay a lot of money but still shown 20 minutes of ads at the start, you need to worry about things like bed bugs, you need to plan a specific time to go, people bring their kids to non-kid movies, going to the bathroom is awkward, colour balancing is all over the place, drunk/high people react in distractingly bad ways, and probably many more reasons.
Lockdowns help highlight a lot of “just because it’s what you do, not because it’s actually good” things for people.
Lockdown hit entertainment venues across the board as people found it cheaper and more convenient to just stay at home. The manager of my local pub says a chunk of his clientele just never returned. The cost-of-living crisis has just made it worse as prices soar.
Theatres are generally awful.
I have excellent options where I am - a community-run cinema a few minutes away and a multiplex 15 minutes away (that has reclining seats, good air cin, plenty of space, etc and I have a monthly pass which hammers the price down - I usually cover the cost in a week).
I didn't want to sit there for half an hour or more watching ads, and I'm too paranoid that I won't get a seat or miss the start of the movie if I arrive later.
When I do go to the theater on opening weekend, I prepurchase tickets with assigned seats. But I'm trying to think of the last movie I did that with and I can't remember. Probably Avengers: Endgame. Was Star Wars: TRoS after that? I don't like to mention that one because I hate that movie so much I refuse to acknowledge it exists, but I did in fact see it opening weekend.
I enjoy going to the theater still, but there are so few movies that will motivate me to do so. I saw Dune 2 the opening weekend, same with Honor Among Thieves. I took my wife to see Barbie opening weekend because she was excited about it, and we went to see Everything Everywhere too. But before those movies I can't even remember a movie I was excited to see in the theater. Most movies are fine at home.
It sucks going to the movies, at least for me, so that doesn't help. Then the movie trailers themselves are spammed at me in all forms of media like a pop song getting worm out on the radio. I'm interested in seeing the Deadpool Wolverine movie but there are so many dumb ads about it that I'm already a little turned off now.
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