My niece and I were the only 2 in it. Not even 2 weeks out, and it's a done deal. Movie was barely enjoyable. MCU started out so good. They movies get progressively worse and worse. And the shows on Disney are abysmal.
Someone needs to take Marvel and Star Wars away from Disney.
WE HAVE NOT SEEN ALL THE SHOWS...BUT WE REALLY ENJOYED SHE-HULK...THE RECENT MARVEL MOVIES WE HAVE ENJOYED BUT THEY ARE LESSER THAN THE PRIME ERA OF THE MCU...OTHER THAN GUARDIANS 3 WHICH WAS FUCKING AWESOME!...BUT THE EARLY MCU HAS JUST AS MANY SLIGHTY LESSER HITS AS THE CURRENT MCU DOES FOR US.
shareSHE-HULK and the creators of that show made absolute certain to make the HULK out to be a total puss and it shows..
shareaccording to bofofficemojo on monday based on 4030 theatres the average viewers was 21 people per theatre lol. classrooms have more people than this movie did week two. what a disaster
shareWatched the afternoon show today in NJ and the theater was completely full. In fact I got the last seat.
Movie itself was OK but many people laughed at the jokes and seemed to have fun.
While this movie isn't the best Marvel movie, it was alright.
Anyways the point is the theater was basically sold out for the afternoon show
Theatre owners must be like 'let me get this thing out of here so I can get Aquaman!'
shareWent to watch a different movie and the employees were talking about all the empty shows they have for this movie on that evening. The shows for Wish weren't packed, either.
shareHardly any films sell out anymore, and most showings are to near empty theaters. That's just the way it is now.
shareOh no! The Hunger Games movie shows were almost full. Also the Wish movie for that evening (my theater was packed). I don't know about Napoleon though.
shareYes, it isn't as if no theaters are ever full, but the trend this year has been a massive downturn in theater-going. Just as the person above saw The Marvels in a packed theater, there are exceptions, but the norm, sadly, is a lot of empty seats.
shareSome data to back this up:
With the 5-day Thanksgiving opening weekend, Wish made only $31.7 million, and Napoleon a mere $32.5 million.
The Hunger Games film you mentioned had the standard 3-day opening, and made a paltry $44.6 million.
Compare the latter to the opening weekend tallies for the previous four Hunger Games films:
Part 1 - $152 million
Part 2 - $158 million
Part 3a- $121 million
Part 3b - $102 million
Also, consider the 5-day Thanksgiving 2019 box office.
Frozen 2, which had already been out for a week, made $125 million on top of the $130.2 million it made the weekend before. Despite Frozen 2 taking in all that cash, Knives Out opened that weekend and was able to make $41.4 million.
And those are just the top earners. If you go down the list you’ll see that a lot more people were going to the movies before the pandemic. Now many of those people are staying home and streaming movies.
I think it has nothing to do with people not wanting to go to the movie theaters and more about these movies you reference are just bad movies.
The Marvels RT61%
Napoleon RT61%
Wish RT50%
Hunger Games RT65%
So people just seem to be away from subpar movies. And the ones with good reviews in Rotten Tomatoes are the ones of sub-genres that never made much in the first place like Thanksgiving (horror).
Please, do not compare Frozen 2 or Knives Out to crap like the Marvels or the last Hunger Games. Those are average to great movies. And frozen 2 was driven by little kids wanting to see the next chapter of a very popular first movie. While none of your examples have that drive, not even the Marvels.
Mario, Barbie, GotG 3, Oppenheimer, even FX (if you count international) seemed to do well enough. They performed as they should. It is very strange that in the rest of the world where this streaming and other factors are not as ingrained like in domestic box office, these movies are under performing as well.
Good.
To hell with Disney.
I'm not a Disney fan either, though I did enjoy The Marvels. Were the lack of audiences limited to Disney films, I'd be less worried, but I'm distressed by the overall disinterest in theater-going on the part of the general public. This seems like a tipping point that may well lead to movie theaters becoming as common as independent bookstores, or, worse, video rental shops.
shareDitto. I think there were maybe 3 other people in the entire theatre. But that's been my experience with all of the films I've seen this year - very empty - so I don't think this reflects on the film's quality. I personally enjoyed it, it's not a perfect film but it's still a good time. And given that less people are viewing films overall, I don't think ratings can possibly be considered that reliable anymore.
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