Hollywood is suffering its worst-attended summer movie season in 25 years

I'm sure most of us saw this coming. Curious as to your thoughts?

 

"Make better movies" is what immediately comes to mind.

 

Yeah.
They sucked.

It's as if filmmakers have lost touch with the world outside their echoe chambers and as a result have forgotten that the script software is more important than the vfx software

'Nuff said.

 

Less unnecessary reboots and sequels to garbage which should have never existed (*cough*Paranormal Activity*cough*   )

 

Yeah, we just needed more good movies. Even then, the ones that were good were mostly unsuccessful, which is weird.

 

As I said over in the movie forum, the failure of The Last Knight was the final nail in the coffin that franchise movies will no longer automatically generate a big profit despite terrible reviews and quality. Transformers has been the champion of that, though BVS was the first sign to me that a change was brewing. TLK and Transformers finally falling was the clear last shot in the head.

You also could probably make an argument that more expensive tickets are to blame.. though that's all I got, that you could make an argument. Not that you would win that argument. Who knows. But I'm sure ticket prices aren't helping, not that it could be fixed overnight. Then there's in-home streaming and all.

Most of the films that really succeeded this summer and hell year in general had good RT scores (yadda yadda, bear with me, a good RT score generally indicates the movie was good). Wonder Woman, Guardians, Spider-Man, Beauty and the Beast. I mean it generally says people aren't giving their money to bad films anymore or at least seeing it more than once.

"I know only one truth. It's time for the era of profitable shitty movies... to end."

 

This is the correct answer. Heed it Hollywood.

 

It's clearly not any one thing, but I will add that at least here, we didn't have a summer day over 95 degrees. I went to see ROTF not entirely because I wanted to, but because it was 112 and it was a long movie at Matinee prices; IE, it was a deal to get out of the heat for a long while watching a new movie.

Combine it with "Make Better Movies" and the other factors, and there ya go.

 

Lucky you. Most of ours was over 100.

 

I think the rising cost of tickets and the fact that these are generally on DVD in a few months are also contributing factors. As a family of four we only went to the movies twice this summer. Once was to a Drive IN simply because the kids had never been to one.

Definitely

 

A good summer usually keeps the hits coming week in and week out. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, War for the Planet of the Apes, Wonder Woman, and Baby Driver were all great. That's like one per month. Spider-Man Homecoming was just ok. Really outside of those, I think it's also a sign of anticipated movies getting released at other times of the year. Logan and Kong already came out in March, and they both did pretty well. The Fast and Furious movies have been making a killing in April since 2009. This month we get It and Kingsman, and I think both will perform serviceably at the very least.

 

Better hire more white actors to play minority roles. That oughta fix the problem!  

Astronomically high ticket prices definitely are a big factor (not to mention the extortion level costs of concessions) plus competing forms of entertainment, especially with cheaper on-demand streaming services and the fact that the DVD of the same movies are released so soon following their exit from theaters.

I'm used to paying lower end ticket prices because I'm active duty military and being overseas they play the latest movies at on-base facilities at super cheap prices too ($6.50 per adult by my last estimate), but going off-base and watching a movie in Japanese theaters the wife and I got a bit of sticker shock when we paid over 3800 Yen (over $35, and that was sans concessions) to go see Star Wars: Rogue One. My perspective is most likely skewed but that's kinda pricey for us so we've become much more selective watching stuff off-base.

 

Stop making so many damn superhero movies and stop putting everything in 3D.

 

I blame Sony because they tempted fate and made the Emoji Movie, a plague on existence.

 

The article raises a lot of good points, but this one struck me the most. I see and hear a lot more about GoT than really any movies -- and even then, films always seem to generate buzz because of some dumb controversy or because it turned out to be unexpectedly good. It's not like the entire world's on the edge of their seats waiting to see how a certain saga ends (not that there are "final chapters" anymore...)

 

Yup. MTV awards show were trying scapegoat their poor ratings on Game of Thrones too. I'm not buying it.

 

I'm ignoring your usual brand of optimism but will otherwise agree they should chill with 3D just because at this point it's just unnecessary price gouging, nobody really cares about the gimmick anymore.

Talk about beating a dead horse. One bad movie from Sony totally caused an entire summer of low performing bad films. Totally.  

 

3D is optional. Don't want it? Watch a non-3D version of the film.

I saw Alien Covenant in 2D. 3D ain't the problem.

 

Talk about an out of touch echo chamber.....

China does, your argument is invalid.

 

My theater doesn't do "standard" versions of big films for, like, a month. There's always some kind of surcharge they're tacking on...