Movie Attendance Collapses 48% over Four
Very Woke Years
Breitbart Entertainment,
by
John Nolte
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
1/7/2023 1:02:11 AM
Between 2018 and 2022, movie theater attendance dropped in half, and I do not want to hear any excuses about the pandemic.
People will go to the theater to see a movie that appeals to them. Spider-Man: No Way Home proved this last year. Top Gun: Maverick proved it this year. Avatar: Way of the Water is proving it right now. And those are just the blockbusters.
People also crept out of their homes to see Everything Everywhere All at Once ($69M), Elvis ($151M), Uncharted ($148M), Nope ($123M), Where the Crawdads Sing ($90M), The Woman King ($67M), Free Guy ($122M), The Lost City ($105M), and Ticket to Paradise ($68M).
Reply 1 - Posted by:
leonardo 1/7/2023 1:57:37 AM (No. 1372735)
Hollywood deserves exactly, EXACTLY what America is giving it. Can we do it to POLITICIANS NEXT???
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/7/2023 2:35:59 AM (No. 1372745)
Last I heard, Avatar was still a billion dollars in the red and is described as a 3-hour yawner in 3D but overall Nolte is accurate, hollywood insulted us with their politics, wokeness and poor quality entertainment so we shut them out. I can't even tell you who the popular actors are these days because I no longer watch the programs, the commercials, the movies or the back-scratching awards shows. Who else is stupid enough to charge $20 for a drink and popcorn except professional sports, which I shut out decades ago.
Amen to politics, #2. If Nobody voted we would get the same results but they would lose the illusion of being somehow useful.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NotaBene 1/7/2023 2:55:03 AM (No. 1372752)
I do not go to the movies anymore because when you least expect it they impose on you an LGBTQ sexual pervert character.
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I am tired of the inflated egos of those who consider themselves "stars" preaching to the rest of us about what we should think, how we should vote, and calling us racists and ignorant when we have differing opinions to theirs. They have this exalted opinion of themselves and really most of them are dumb as a box of rocks, prime examples are Whoopi Goldberg, Bette Midler, and Adam Baldwin and on and on. They need us more than we need them!
Then too, most of the stuff they make these days is not even worth a trip to Redbox.
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When a old salt accused Churchill of ruining Royal Navy tradition, a frustrated, indignant Churchill responded: 'And what are these traditions, sir? Rum, sodomy and the lash.'
We might adopt the same tone and ask: what is movie attendance now?
-Eye-watering ticket prices. As with live music, electronic ticketing has unleashed the worst instincts of the ticket sellers in constant inching up of pricing along with 'convenience' & service fees etc. Inflation used to be measured occasionally by cinema prices: $5 then $7.50 then $10 etc. Now it's off the leash. Many cinemas have eliminated human-staffed box offices entirely in favor of phone apps or kiosks at the entrances.
-Jokes about concession prices are old and legion but $12 for a Coke and $15 for popcorn are still a very bad joke. Cinema operators moan that they don't make any profit from exhibiting films to which my father would say flatly 'That's not my problem,' especially when we hear about this or that film taking in $400M. The money's going somewhere and a lot of it. At one point there was a tug-of-war between patrons bringing snacks and drinks inside their bags and cinema owners searching for this contraband but that was a PR disaster. And now the cinemas can't recruit or pay staff to do it. A win for the customer at least.
-Stadium and reserved seating is nice but big chairs mean fewer chairs especially in small auditoria. A last-minute decision to see a film is usually met by the discovery that it's sold out.
-Ads. Ads, ads ads. 20-30 min of commercials blaring at a volume much higher than the actual film. Appalling.
-The same old problem: other people. Other rude people, that is. Talking. Eating loudly. And...all together now...using their phones. Ringtones, sound effects and bright glows from screens.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jinx 1/7/2023 7:20:55 AM (No. 1372811)
Why pay for trash when you can see it on the news every day.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/7/2023 7:27:15 AM (No. 1372816)
Top Gun Maverick was the exception. It was very good.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
PostAway 1/7/2023 8:02:13 AM (No. 1372838)
The author is right: forget the movie theaters. These days they are dedicated to 14 year-old boys who crave special effects but would rather play Xbox or elitists who don’t go to the movies anyway. When I consider the films that have won best movie at the Academy Awards the last three decades even the movie industry crowd doesn’t watch their own dreck. All the same, I seem to find plenty of entertainment to satisfy my 1-2 hour/night TV watching custom. Excellent programs abound according to taste. Many of them throw in gratuitous sex scenes which are nothing but filler but that has been true since the ‘60’s and everyone needs a bathroom break. I have found quite a lot of them to be engrossing to watch and earnestly dedicated to storytelling. Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Game of Thrones, Oz, Dexter, Six Feet Under, Lilyhammer, Ozarks, The Sopranos, Yellowstone, etc., etc. Many are the times when I’m sorry a series is over. Big box movie theaters are becoming relics just like indoor shopping malls.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Daisymay 1/7/2023 8:18:48 AM (No. 1372844)
I live in an "over 55" Community. The favored pass time is Golf, but after that we have a lot of free time to fill. We have three Beautiful Movie Theaters, all with nice Leather, Rocker Seats. Unfortunately, only ONE of those Theaters is now open! We have over 140,000 people in this community and they tell us they can't fill their Theaters unless they force all of us into one! That says a lot because Seniors have the time, and money, to go to a Movie for entertainment once a week if they like! Unfortunately, there just are NOT enough Movies worth seeing these days. Top Gun and Elvis did get me there, but that has been it for this year!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TJ54 1/7/2023 8:48:34 AM (No. 1372870)
Less money for the lefties!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 1/7/2023 9:06:54 AM (No. 1372876)
The movie industry started courting China and the woke BS years ago. When they start making decent movies that people want to watch, then people will pay money to watch them. Latest example is Top Gun Maverick.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
franq 1/7/2023 9:19:13 AM (No. 1372884)
All the great movies have already been made. There are only so many themes. Don't get me started on re-makes and sequels. Some of the movies I enjoy did have sequels, but Star Wars was not one of them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mobyclik 1/7/2023 9:49:06 AM (No. 1372916)
FTA: ''Everything Everywhere All at Once ($69M), Elvis ($151M), Uncharted ($148M), Nope ($123M), Where the Crawdads Sing ($90M), The Woman King ($67M), Free Guy ($122M), The Lost City ($105M), and Ticket to Paradise ($68M).''
Other than Elvis, I've not heard of any of those movies and the titles alone tell me why. I bought and watched Top Gun: Maverick about 10 times on DTV and totally enjoyed it. Not a bare breast at all, only a few F bombs where it is somewhat reasonable. If you enjoyed Miles Teller singing Great Balls of Fire, see the ENTIRE scene filmed for the movie on YouTube. Great!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/7/2023 9:49:44 AM (No. 1372917)
The movie theater has alot of competition these days. Why leave the safety and comfort of one's house for an expensive dirty movie theater? Something I have come to realize is there is alot of talent our there producing free stuff online that is fun to watch and has nothing to do with big budget Hollywood.
I will stay home, thank you.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 1/7/2023 9:59:59 AM (No. 1372926)
Hollywood hasn't had an original idea in decades. Everything is either a sequel, prequel, remake or reboot. Everything else is comic book superhero movies made for grown, male nerd children.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 1/7/2023 10:10:44 AM (No. 1372936)
No problem here...they put out lgbt crap they should expect to lose money...the only power we really have is our pocketbooks....
And I'm seeing ads for LINGO, a Ru Paul quiz show....something else I won't be watching...glad I've got an extensive CD collection...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
franq 1/7/2023 10:14:32 AM (No. 1372942)
Of course the line of demarcation is arbitrary. Mid '80's? Post Back to the Future II? The only "recent" films I mildly enjoyed were Sully and The Finest Hours, both watched at home. I have an enormous collection of DVD's with my favorites. My usual bedtime dose is a Perry Mason episode. There were 271 episodes, so it never gets old.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 1/7/2023 10:23:16 AM (No. 1372949)
I can't remember the last time I went to a movie theater, even though there is a huge cineplex within a few miles of my house. I'm not interested in gay "rom-coms," cartoon superheroes, special effects, wildly improbable characters (i.e. 100 pound women who physically best muscular men twice their size), and so on. Every movie and TV show has a "diverse" cast, with the white males being the stupidist characters, routinely outsmarted by their fill-in-the blank minority cast mates. It is just too depressing to watch. I read books and watch reruns.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 1/7/2023 11:58:31 AM (No. 1373059)
I haven't been for years. The last I remember attending was Top Gun. The cost of admission and any treats is exorbitant but worse than that is forced to sit in the same auditorium with any of the animals that talk, shout, and use cellphones.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 1/7/2023 4:14:12 PM (No. 1373245)
Hollywood filth is becoming more vomitous.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 1/7/2023 10:26:23 PM (No. 1373407)
When the only form of entertainment comes via over-entitled screeching poe-faced UGLY psychopathic malignant narcissists who defecate on beds and plot for the day when they are one plane crash away from the throne...
and comes via scrawny pencil thin boys who look like theyve spent too much of their teen age years being coddled and protected by their cougar mothers who give them soy for food...
and the directors verbally attack and abuse fans who protest they are not happy with the "subversion of the expected"...
Then I just have three little things to say:
B*** Hollywood DOWN. ALL of it. Its over. Time for Americans to rediscover old ways of entertainment or even finding ways to entertain more locally. We dont need yacht girls and the dead-eyed flaccid faces of talentless "ACK!tors" using their sudden 15 mins to pontificate when they can barely manage to read a book, much less understand a subject.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
RWPollock 1/8/2023 7:17:00 AM (No. 1373499)
Movies make it to Netflix, Prime etc so fast now why bother leaving the house to go to a theatre.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/8/2023 11:08:29 PM (No. 1373955)
I dumped theaters back in the early 1970's...nothing was worth watching and it would be on TV in a few months...Who needs $5 Popcorn?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Faithfully 1/9/2023 11:37:04 PM (No. 1374764)
Is it possible that intentionally bad Hollywood movies are a form of money laundering?
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Go woke, go broke!! Why would I spend a LOT of my hard earned cash to sit in a dark room for two hours, eating oversalted popcorn and having my beliefs insulted??