The summer box office haul is officially down 20% from a year ago. Why do you think that is?

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  1. Drew

    Drew Senior Member Thread Starter

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    http://news.yahoo.com/summer-blockbuster-dead-094500628--politics.html

    Too many remakes? Too many comic book movies? Too many sequels? Too many movie about the toys I used to play with as a toddler? Lack of original ideas?

    One summer does not a trend make. The big movie next summer will probably be Avengers 2. I have no idea whats else is coming other than that film and Star Wars VII at the end of the year.

    Discuss...
     
  2. rockclassics

    rockclassics Senior Member

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    I'll say it before the MPAA or someone else here says it.....piracy? Not that I believe that is the cause, but it is what the inudstry likes to blame decreased $$$ on.
     
  3. PHILLYQ

    PHILLYQ Forum Resident

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    Higher percentage of clunker flicks.
     
  4. ellingtonic

    ellingtonic Forum Resident

    It is pretty expensive to see a movie in the theater. DVDs are cheap to buy and you have the option to rent or stream most movies.
     
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  5. FredV

    FredV Senior Member

    Lousy movies.
     
  6. Dave

    Dave Esoteric Audio Research Specialist™

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    A complete and utter lack of any new ideas for believable stories or new ideas. Very much copy and paste with new young faces does not make a good movie for me.
     
  7. Maggie

    Maggie like a walking, talking art show

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    Most of the biggest pictures had mediocre word-of-mouth. Many viewers felt that the trailers misrepresented Spider-Man 2, X-Men, and especially Godzilla; most viewers deemed How to Train Your Dragon 2 a disappointment; and even fans of the series were deterred from seeing Transformers by the terrible reviews.

    On the other hand, other movies (such as Maleficent) which failed to cross the $250 million threshold were nonetheless much more successful than anyone was expecting. So it's kind of a wash.

    To me, the biggest surprise was the failure of Edge of Tomorrow. I really thought that one was going to be a blockbuster, but it was crowded out by Maleficent, The Fault in Our Stars, 22 Jump Street, and X-Men. Also, apparently people were unhappy with the ending.

    I would say that too many movies aimed at too-similar audiences came out too near one another: Godzilla, X-Men, Spider-Man, Edge of Tomorrow, all within the span of a few weeks, all pretty similar in subject matter and tone. I think X-Men, at least, could have done $300 million had it had more room on either side of it.
     
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  8. MLutthans

    MLutthans That's my spaghetti, Chewbacca! Staff

    I've posted this sentiment many times:
     
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  9. The Wanderer

    The Wanderer Seeker of Truth

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    Nothing new, everything derivative
     
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  10. deadbirdie

    deadbirdie Senior Member

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    In addition to what everyone already posted: I know MANY folks who simply refuse to go to the theater because the annoyances in the theater (cell phones, screaming kids, obnoxious teens, etc.) simply aren't worth dealing with vs. watching at home. I think it's another in a long list of answers to your original question.
     
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  11. I personally haven't gone to the movies in 6yrs. No value, imo.
     
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  12. PHILLYQ

    PHILLYQ Forum Resident

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    So your answer would have no connection at all with the question asked.
     
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  13. It's likely a temporary blip that will be forgotten next summer. Executives in Hollywood panic whenever their summer homes in the Hamptons get threatened by sagging revenues.
     
  14. PHILLYQ

    PHILLYQ Forum Resident

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    This all happened in the last year?
     
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  15. Robin L

    Robin L Musical Omnivore

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    Far too much dependance on old formulas, retreads, Comic Book stories, CGI overload. If there's less novelty, less variation then knowing it's gonna be the same old same old leads to "I'll wait 'til it's on cable." And while this has been in motion for a long time, knowing that I will be forced to watch commercials before the movie, grotesquely extended for nearly an hour in some case—you're better off with streaming or premium cable.
     
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  16. g.z.

    g.z. Senior Member

    Or at least until it's out on Blu/DVD for a less expensive
    viewing experience.

    Maybe some people are just weary of being price gouged these days.
     
  17. HGN2001

    HGN2001 Mystery picture member

    One problem for us has been too many choices at theaters. I can think of a couple of times where we wanted to see a movie and were presented with the fact that time that was convenient to us was a "special fork and screen" showing, or a "special enhanced digital theater experience", or a "special 3-D showing". I just wanted a plain, old movie projected onto a screen which I can watch while I eat my overpriced popcorn.

    I don't need wait-persons bringing me food to my seat and interrupting the movie; I don't need the hassle of 3-D glasses and the headaches they induce; and I don't want to pay extra for "special enhanced digital experiences", whatever that's supposed to be. So once those options were foisted upon us, we pretty much stopped going to that theater. Other theater choices are a good bit farther away, so it's easier and better for us to wait for the Blu-ray or DVD.

    Then there's all the CGI crap out there with impossible monsters and spaceships and doomsday destruction scenarios, not to mention all of the sequels and remakes that seem to be all the rage in Hollywood. Sometimes I think a small chick-flick would be a better option than another CGI-fest...

    Harry
     
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  18. I provided a pertinent answer.
     
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  19. deadbirdie

    deadbirdie Senior Member

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    yeah, it did.
     
  20. tommy-thewho

    tommy-thewho Senior Member

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    Bad movies....
     
  21. mBen989

    mBen989 Senior Member

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    Next summer bring us Avengers: Age of Ultron, Mad Max: Fury Road, Tomorrowland, Jurrasic World, The Fantastic Four, Terminator: Genesis, Despicable Me: Minions, Assassin's Creed and Goosebumps.
     
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  22. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits....

    Consumers have other interests
     
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  23. keef00

    keef00 Senior Member

    It is just a bad movie summer from my perspective. So far, there have been 2 films that I wanted to see, and one of those was iffy. I saw How to Train Your Dragon 2, which was very good, and A Million Ways to Die in the West, which wasn't. I am looking forward to Lucy and Magic in the Moonlight, both coming later this month.
     
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  24. joefont

    joefont Senior Member

    What he said!
     
  25. I'm curious about this Lucy, it sounds like a dystopian rewrite of Limitless from a couple of years back.
     
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