1. Cost of the theater
2. It's a musical. A lot of people don't like musicals
3. It will be streaming soon
4. The cast interviews. They're embarrassing to watch.
5. The reviews are great but people are cautious of overhyped movies.
Bonus: 2024 has been pretty awful for theater films. The most successful flicks are sequels.
You do know that it had doubled the budget costs in box office takings a few days after its release, right?
The largest opening for a Broadway musical adaptation ever and the second highest Thanksgiving performance of all time.
People are going to see it, even if you wish they weren’t.
I watched Gladiator II at the theater last night and the place was swarming with little girls and their parents for Wicked. It was like a Taylor Swift concert. It’s an anecdote but I think that movie was making all the revenue at the theater where I was
shareAre you sure it was for Wicked because I just picked up tickets for Bonhoeffer and there were legions of little girls, but they were there for Moana 2.
Yes, I have seen all the green fingernailed and pink headbanded little beasties, but the manager at my local theatre told me Moana was the fav and it is also on almost twice as many screens as Wicked.
No I am actually not sure now that you make that point. These were elementary school girls so they easily could’ve been the audience for an animated movie. Meanwhile Gladiator II was not very good so I might have been more entertained seeing Moana 2 myself
shareThanks for the heads up re Gladiator II. Sorry you had to be the 'canary in the coal mine.' I have noticed your comments and almost always agree with them.
shareThe theaters here have good attendance. But most people I speak with fall into the five reasons above.
shareI won't be going to see it because of the black/green woman. No idea who she is, except a hostile prick who loves to play victim. As well as suffering rampant "racism", she is of course, "queer". 🙄 Another nauseating Hollyweird woketard (she'll have her little Oscar in no time, though).
Just about everyone I've spoken to, whether interested in seeing the film or not, is repulsed by that horrible woman.
3. It will be streaming soon
6. It's 2 hours and 40 minutes long.
shareLol. So true.
shareI saw it last night and the theater was packed! It even got an ovation at the end. I liked the movie, and I'm not the biggest fan of musicals. I don't really care what an actor/actress said in real life. If I didn't watch a movie because they said something I didn't like or agree with, I wouldn't see any movie.
shareThat's fair. Theaters here have good attendance and the reviews are good. I still wouldn't see it. I didn't care to read the book or watch the musical. I wouldn't waste 6 hours to see both movies.
It's a movie for the crowd who saw the Barbie and that's fine just don't call me a sexist or racist because I don't want to see it.
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