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The price of movies is too damn high to go out and watch them. My system at home is far more comfortable and costs barely anything.

Hmm, either Oppenheimer or Poor Things I think. I support new IPs in Hollywood in concept, but a lot of them just don’t interest me is the problem. Looking forward to Nosferatu this month tho!

Went to see Flow in the theater this last weekend. It was really good.

That said I don't really go to the theater much; the last one I saw before that was The Northman two years ago.

Memoir of a Snail at a theater a few weeks ago. It was a good movie and my partner and I enjoy going to the theater, I regret nothing.

Dune if adaptions allowed. The Creator if completly new. In cinema of course.

Hundreds of Beavers.

And I watched it by just sort of holding my eyes open while the video file played on my computer screen.

One new IP coming right up!
Here you go... Rebel Moon
Enjoy

(jkjk I love new IP but not all of them are bangers)

I used to say "if you're gonna remake a movie, you should remake a bad movie but do it better."

Then they remade The Crow. "Dude I said do it better. 🤦‍♂️"

This year I would've loved to see A Real Pain but it was only showing at one theater near me and only for one showing that I couldn't make. For original movies I actually had access to in theaters, last year I saw Dream Scenario, American Fiction, Polite Society,, Theater Camp, Zone of Interest, Problemista and Poor Things. All great. I also watched Rotting in the Sun on Mubi's app and it was just okay.

a Serbian film.

The Wild Robot in theaters. Not a sequel or a remake. It is based off of a novel though.

2024 was apparently the first year where all the top-10 highest grossing movies were sequels. List doesn't include Moana 2 and Gladiator 2 which are expected to make a lot of money as well.

There was a theory somewhere that this is about power play. If you produce Spiderman 245, power shifts away from the director and towards the production company. Less artistic freedom, more money management. If you let the director create their own movie, they are mostly in charge of how things go, movies become more artistic and less focused on money (alone).

I have nothing to confirm this and don't remember the source I have that from except "the internet"

wtf have they done to the book

Movies and shows that I have watched this year in no particular order and not all released this year:

The Beekeeper

Iron Claw

Say Nothing

Altered States

The Substance

Oppenheimer

Peaky Blinders (rewatch)

Kneecap

In The Name of the Father

The Batman

Lord of the Rings (rewatch)

The Departed (rewatch)

Deep Space Nine (haven't finished)

The Devil's Own

Sicario

Additionally, my wife has recently started watching Gossip Girl but I only catch glimpses of that show. Did anybody actually like that show when it came out?

Y2K. It was better than I expected!

Also, I remember walking out of Everything Everywhere All At Once and being angry because it probably wouldn’t do well in theaters or win any awards, despite being one of the best original movies I had ever seen.

I was happy to be wrong on that one.

Red One. It was shit. Don't recommend.

People want to watch good movies. With remakes people want to see the original but with different actors and usually studios fuck them up by trying to fix what wasn’t broke.

Heretic in theatre. Was pretty good

I'm not against sequels/prequels, just need some more than "it's the sequel to that one you liked".

OK, but why does it need a sequel? Can you make me interested in it aside from the fact it's a sequel? Is it any good....?

Not a movie or fully original, but I watched Arcane and I loved it. It was good without knowing about the game, and those who know the game say it's better if you do. That's what a sequel/remake/adaptation should strive for.

The adjective "good" needs to proceed "movies".

People want original without taking the risk of watching an unknown movie that might be bad

Does Barbenheimer count?

Poor marketing and limited theater releases is why and studios can blame themselves.

The Banshees of Inisherin

i watched it in a theater, because i've heard the movie was good. Didn't read up much on it beforehand and enjoyed watching it, albeit not fully getting it i guess.

It felt worth going to a theater for. Contrary to the last 3 or so Marvel movies i've seen in theater because friends dragged me and i ended up falling asleep every time.

It's to the point right now that a young person 20 years of age could spend a decade just watching all the old classics from the past 80 years to enjoy great films. If they stopped making movies tomorrow, there's more than enough content now for people to watch.

My wife wants to keep watching the latest stuff but if it were up to me, I'd just take the time to watch at least all of the AFI top 100 films.... last I checked I think I've only seen about 30 of them and I thought I watched a lot of films. My last rough count of watched films that I could list was over 1,500 films. And I still have a waiting list of hundreds more I want to see.

I'm a Trek fan and I thought I watched lots but I've only seen about half of all the TV series and most of the films.

That's also not counting all the other TV series I'd like to see from the past ... MASH, All In The Family, Adam's Family, The original Batman series, The Munsters, X Files, Walking Dead, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Office ...... and on and on

If my spouse wasn't so stuck in watching the latest stuff I'd probably be happy just spending my time catching up on everything I wasn't able to see for the past 30-40 years.

Just get Nick Cage to be in your movie, that seems to be the secret ingredient

Define "people." The biggest box office hits have been underbaked trash.

The Substance

The reason I believe sequels are doing good is:

1. movie theaters have been perverted into massive and expensive hype fests
2. in strong opposition, past movie theaters were not expensive to go to and got you entertained in a social setting
3. due to the rise of large chains, small and cheaper theaters have died out.
4. assumption: the price to rent a movie for your theater will probably be horrendous by now
5. sequels have kind of a known quality which lowers the hurdle
6. that means new movies could be watched in smaller theaters and would have to be sustainable for those

How original we talking?

I have seen The Substance (good) in theaters and I saw the TV glow (hated it). I also watched Megalopolis (weird) in theaters and if we want something really original I even last year watched the Onyx the Fortuitous movie in theaters (enjoyed the heck out of it)

I will likely watch Nosferatu in theaters and any smaller movie that puts the effort in and deserves my money.

But I am not paying for the movies that they make just to make money. I don't reward that kind of bad behavior and that afront to art and story telling.