@@Finamajig Because the person who made that call doesn't know what they're doing but at the same time Amazon has infinite money. They made $575 BILLION last year alone.
The good news is that in spite of it, Paramount has taken the critical reception to heart and will pursue more projects for this universe, albeit with a smaller budge next time.
I am most surprised it wasn't already a thing. Didn't the first ine come out like 20 years ago? Also what happened to the Expendabelles? They definitely announced a female cast movie at some point.
James is spot on about general audiences not giving a shit anymore. It was absolutely a short term gain long term loss investment in streaming. Yes you have a service providing your exclusive content. But why would anyone go see it if I can wait a month? Why keep up with just an “okay” series of movies that feels aimless or worse gets completely dropped when another executive feels like cost cutting.
and that is why netflix won the streaming war before it even started. if these companies didnt get absurdly greedy and launched 10 streaming services at the same time they could have just did what sony did and produce shows and movies to netflix and maybe apple/amazon
Hold your horses buddy, streaming doesn’t account for almost every single film doing poorly, and certain super hero films that supposedly we don’t give a crap about anymore did well like Guardians and Spiderverse.
@@vietimports streaming only really got big because of the pandemic and it’s still in its infancy. If you’re a business you have to throw things out to see what sticks because no one knows the rules yet because it’s so fresh and Netflix never had competition. You can’t make things for Netflix because Netflix will own it, and it will take a cut of the profits, so it doesn’t make sense to give it to them. Making a website isn’t the costly part. We just need to give it time to adjust to a stable model. And you need competition and innovation to do that.
And a lot of these films were actually good and still did poorly. I think the pandemic hit a lot of people, and interest rates are crazy so spending is down generally and yeah people can wait until streaming so that affects it. Films could be better, but they’ve been at the same quality for the last ten years at least and it’s never been this bad.
@@vietimportsDisney+ is the only one who had a huge variety of content to make the platform worth it in addition to netflix imo. The other ones its like you're getting access to a few movies and hopefully some decent shows and the potential of them releasing a new one
It sucks that D&D was a bomb since everyone who saw it in theaters or streaming freaking loved it. I hope the good word does reach the studio and they don’t just look at the numbers and cancel Future installments, because D&D has so much potential as a franchise
My little theory as to why The Flash ended up in George Clooneys universe is that DC has taken all their big flops and made them into their own little movies so by my logic 2011 Green Lantern should be in that universe as well and Steel and Jonah Hex.
This is amazing. Fun note: there is a trashy redrawing / deconstruction of “The Dark Knight Returns” called “Shitty Dark Knight”. I would definitely goto to theatre if they made a film in that movie universe called “Shitty Justice League”.
Maybe its also Mission Impossible fatigue? I loved the first, watched the second, then lost track. A couple of years ago I got free tickets to the one with Henry Cavill in and there was just too much lore, and returning characters and blah blah blah. I dont want to have to go back to rewatch 6 movies to understand whats happening now. I think Daniel Craigs Bond films suffered the same, by the last one there was too much relationship drama and tie ins that I lost track of. I think movies saw the deep success of the MCU’s interconnected movies and thought we should do that everywhere, but there needs to be a balance where its still accessible and standalone if you havent watched them, unless you are something like the MCU building up to Infinity War. For example, right now, I cba to watch any Marvel movies cause I dont want to slog through all the movies and tv shows to get it all. For example, I only watched like 2 episodes of WandaVision so her being evil in Dr Strange makes no sense to me. Dont force me to watch a TV show I wasnt enjoying to understand the movie.
If i remember correctly, they released the movie earlier to not do it during the writer strike, so it had a lot of competition in cinema at that moment
The phrase "vote with your wallet" has never been more prevalent in the spectrum of cinema. People don't have as much money to spend in the first place, and thus, will only spend it on things they find truly worthy. So with that said, Hollywood is actually going to have to start trying again to earn the consumers money. Hopefully the future will find the quality of films more fruitful.
True. Streaming, affordable flat screens & cheap snacks is just a very hard combo to compete against. Not many working class & middle class families want to throw spare cash on something they can get at home.
D&D was a film with a niche fanbase that really appealled to a lot of casual fans afterwards. I feel like if they made a sequel it would get a much bigger response.
D&D the game was in headlines and on Twitter every few months because they were pushing some kind of woke nonsense (wheelchair ramps for dungeons, removing racial traits, removal of monkey race), so why would anybody want to take a chance with the film?
@@maxjones503 ya I was typing out that it was for the franchise/etc, but then it got to be a little long so I left it at what I posted. The complexity of the cost of the movie + success or the movie (or lack thereof) + cost of franchise + potential they could earn off the franchise in the future is what I would say earns it a mention, but not to earn a place on the top twelve list.
@@maxjones503 I know logic is a foreign concept to most people on the internet, but what you've committed here is the most common of logical fallacies: apples to oranges. Star Wars is a massive, merchandising empire (no matter how crappy the content is), and nobody is rushing out to buy their Exorcist: Believer body pillows.
@@maxjones503 Also you can't just say "you committed fallicist fallacy, for every logical argument against your own. You've quite obviously committed to apples to oranges here.
If someone worked at a store and let $35 go missing they would be fired and probably have the police called on them. Half a billion and it’s just 🤷🏻♂️
nobody asked but it's so ridiculous that corporations are treated as separate legal entities from those that own or participate in the corporation. With ZERO liability of course these evil monsters are going to run rampant. A fundamental change to corporate liability would fix a lot of problems.
That was me with The Nostalgia Critic when I got Chikungunya. (That nasty mosquito virus) I just had it on autoplay while I slipped in and out of consciousness
This whole list just throws fuel on the fire for people who believe much of Hollywood is a money laundering scheme. In what world does a movie about a shoe cost 5x more than an apocalyptic cgi lizard???
It was so good. I did not expect it to be that good and I don't give a single shit about DnD at all, yet it ended up as one of my top movies of the year.
D&D fans must be salty because on Amazon this movie has 4 stars of 5 after 6k reviews but all the transformers movies are nearly five stars .. couldn’t believe it, except the first one and maybe the second rest have been trash. Guessing it got review bombed or something. I had more laughs with D&D movie than with any marvel movie post endgame.
It's been a while since we've seen a year with so many box office disasters. That could be a good video idea. What year in cinema history had the most bombs?
2005 is often mentioned as a year with several high-profile box office disappointments, including films like "Stealth," "The Island," and "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D." Similarly, 2015 saw a number of big-budget films underperform, such as "Pan," "Jupiter Ascending," and "Tomorrowland."
Yeah, 2005 is considered a major shift, in a bad way--the "slump", the slide in money from the previous year, with its sequels and *Passion of the Christ* (THE movie that I like to blame every problem in Hollywood on), and a lot of original, prestige movies underperforming (No Best Picture nominee made more than a hundred million), you can say the "Either it's Marvel or A24" dichotomy can be traced to 2005.
@@Dorian_sapiens Basically 2004 was an election year, with the Iraq War and gay marriage being big. Gibson's movie threw a greasefire on the culture war. This resulted in a couple things. 1) A lot of older, Middle American audiences checked out of Hollywood (That got worse after Trump) leaving low concept dramas without an audience. 2) Studios were stuck between a rock and a hard place, where they could "think outside the box" like they did in the early 70's, because "outside the box" could be quite reactionary, (They experimented with more religious films, bot those largely only did well if they were incendiary) which meant Hollywood kept playing it safer and safer. I can also probably draw a line from this to Fox being sold to Disney,
Something a bit weird some films critics noticed is that you could use colour theory to determine which films were going to be successful this year. You have two broad categories, warm colours (oranges, red) and cold colours (teals, greens, blues) and its common for studios to pick one as the main "theme" for trailers, logos and posters. A lot of the films in this bombs list were predominantly warm with lots of orange (i.e. DnD and the Mission Impossible movie), meanwhile the successful movies of this year (i.e. oppenheimer) were predominantly cold. Critic circles have since coined this phenomenon as a "blue harvest" which was coincidentally the working title for the first star wars movie
I actually saw a huge marketing push for Wish. Unlike Strange World last year, there were toys everywhere, I kept seeing ads for it on UA-cam, Instagram, TikTok, etc., and just by chosen genre (Disney princess animated musical) I think they were expecting it to do well.
I've been really heavily using an adblocker this year, and I genuinely didn't know it existed until I started seeing people talking about how it bombed
Normally, in years past, I'd be with you with movie going being my normal, but the "new" hollywood normal just isn't my normal. Abnormally or otherwise. I hadn't even heard of a few of these movies, which for me, isn't normal.
It sucks that DND bombed because it’s easily on of my favourite films of the year. Going up against Mario was essentially box office suicide, probably would’ve done better if it didn’t go up against that. Also, thanks Mason, I’ll always be calling it DND HAT from now on lol.
Was having a really horrible day today. So when I woke up and saw a new vid you guys dropped, it literally changed my day for the better. You guys have such a chemistry together that makes even the toughest days bring a smile outta me. Happy new year!
@@lilblue007 modern film making is all money laundering and creative accounting, and studios wonder why piracy is so rampant. It boggles my mind that ALIENS was produced on a budget of less than $40 million dollars in 1985/86. It's insanity that these modern CGI bukake fests cost 10x that.
I had a discussion the other day with a friend of a friend who had an emotional breakdown over marvel movies being bad now because they’ve gone too woke. I thought he was joking at first. He was not. One racist and sexist tirade later and I just was in shock people can be like this in real life. What a surprise
I am an Indy fan (and also over 35, surprise, surprise) and I enjoyed the movie, but the budget alone was basically begging for a bomb. I saw the movie, really enjoyed it, then looked up the budget and said ," Ha! Good luck, Disney." Absolutely bonkers for a property they didn't really care about or do anything with.
I'm loving everyone showing up for D&D-HAT in the comments. Makes me happy that even if it didn't perform incredibly well, it sincerely connected with a lot of people.
@@DavidBanner-de5om It made more than it’s budget back, while being released the week before some of the biggest films of the year completely demolished all competition. It has very positive word of mouth and has done well enough on streaming to have sequel talks. It’s fine if you personally didn’t like it, but you can also piss off with your negativity 😘✌️
I think it really is the fact that people pay for streaming services and aren't going to go spend money on a movie ticket when they know it will be put on streaming.
I think post covid definitely also is a factor. I used to see about 40-60 movies a year before covid. Then covid happened and something changed where seeing stuff the week of release became less important. The side effect also lead me to me skipping movies if I hadn't seen them after the first 3 weeks because they would normally be hitting VOD in 3-4 weeks so I just figured what's the point. This year I only saw 5 movies in cinemas the week of release and 10 total
The end comments speak volumes to my experiences this year working at a cinema. We had so many movies coming out where so many of us were questioning why it was even made. Other films, mostly comic book movies, were so generic and diluted that audiences consistently stayed away
Literally shocked to see DnD on the list. I thought it was received pretty well. Bummer, it was a good interpretation of the material and a lot of fun.
About Blue Beetle, I remember hearing rumors about it in production from sources and then about November time I heard it was an actual movie being released. Also I liked most of these movies somewhat.
Studios need to start taking chances on movies that are original, and audiences will have to take the chance on these unknown properties. Studios have gotten too comfortable on making movies that people recognize (sequels, reboots, remakes, etc.) to ensure a profit, but that's not working anymore. We need to go back to the 70's , 80's and 90's and start making movies that have fresh ideas. Hollywood didn't run out of ideas, but the people who run Hollywood don't want to gamble with a movie that people don't know, and therefore won't spend money on. It's up to us to support the original ideas when they come out.
When Tom Cruise pitched the bike stunt to Christopher MacQuarrie, one of the director’s main concerns was getting coverage over multiple takes, so he insisted on shooting the motorbike stunt only on days with clear weather, resulting in so much footage of Cruise performing the stunt against azure skies that the film’s editor Eddie Hamilton called the abundance of footage, “a veritable Blue Harvest,” which is also the original working title of Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope.
The WISH one is wild because I just went to Disneyland Paris before Christmas, and there was merch for the film fucking everywhere, and I didn't see a single person with any of it. The core target audience didn't even see it or care about it at all
i just want to take a moment to recognize the tastefully restrained fart sound effect used in this video. a lesser editing team would have chosen something more over the top, but the understated elegance of the fart used here is absolutely perfect
These productions are so unbelievably entertaining. Amazing work. Is much time spend on script or structure, or is it just a free-for-all? Anyway, awesome!
What was weird for Beau is Afraid is that the weekend when it came out there was only one theater in my area playing the film at 7 or 9. No other showtimes anywhere else. Though the audience I was with really dug the film. Felt like it wasn’t really given the chance to prove itself in theaters.
19:16 so bloody true, most of these movies in Marvel and such just dont hook me to go to the cinema to spend £10 on a ticket when i can just wait a few months and watch it on streaming for half the price
I just found out I have been subscribing to this UA-cam channel since late 2015. been listening to you boys for 9 years. better not be like tom Scott and John green decided to take an announce break from UA-cam. happy new years.
Also affecting D&D was probably the built-in fanbase being mad at Wizards of the Coast. Which is a shame, because while I didn't love the movie, it was fun. But with The Flash, I'm glad it bombed. Awful lead actor, offensive cameos, dumb attempt at morals undercut by the superhero nature of the story, it is everything wrong with superhero films.
To an extent too.. I think people are just losing their curiosity in C-tier or below comic chatacters... the big ones like Batman, Spiderman, wolverine, superman, wonder woman, iron man will always have devoted fans and mainstream curiosity.. but Marvel is introducing like 1-2 new obscure superheroes per project and it gets exhausting.. that's what lost me with the comics themselves when I was a kid. It was just too convoluted, and it got to be too much to keep up with, and a lot of the newer heroes simply weren't as interesting. I remember the mcu felt refreshing in the beginning because it was a smaller more focused world that was telling more character-driven stories about iconic characters. The slow introduction of a new hero every once in a while felt like a fun reward to the audience that actually made you want to explore those c-tier players. Now those c-tier characters are just crammed everywhere without setup or reason... they're not even c-tier anymore, it's like e-tier.. Skaar, Cassie Lang, riri Williams, us agent, Eternals, Wican, speed... I think a casual viewer would assume I made some of these names up... makes it a little worse when you think about how little time we've spent with some bigger characters in their rush to introduce new ones.. like Wasp for instance, or heck, it seems these characters are even being prioritized over high profile characters they haven't introduced yet like blade, fantastic 4 and silver surfer. Also, when you think of the numbers in these growing superhero universes and realize there must be more super-powered people in them than there are athletes in entire professional sports leagues, it makes it less interesting.. it's like that villain in the incredibles said "when everyone is special, no one is." So yeah, I agree it's not a political thing, it's a poor planning, poor priorities, over-saturation thing.. I think marvel got overconfident, they had early success with introducing things they were less confident about like ant-man, guardians, black panther, Dr strange, captain marvel... and they just assumed people would always be that open to, or even excited about just any character they tossed into the mix. And that good-will and curiosity soured with bored audiences. The series now feels more like an advanced class on the depths of marvel comics history than escapist entertainment... Casual viewers saw the Captain Marvel and Ant-man trailers and probably thought "oh yeah, Antman and captain marvel were in the Avengers right? I kind of remember her fighting Thanos with iron man, and wow what a great ending for him and captain America, but I'm not sure I remember what happened to her? What was her backstory/powers again? Who are the other characters in the trailer? Were they in the comics? Were they in other movies? Wow, there's a lot of characters that I've never seen before in this, I might have to ask Dan at work who they are...He's really into marvel stuff... oh sh!t that Barbie movie is coming to streaming! And all I need to know about it is that it's about that very famous 100 year old toy I grew up with/around! Much more accessible! Oh... what's a blue beetle? Is that like a marvel or DC thing? Meh, I'll pass...Christopher Nolan's new movie about the bomb looks like an event!"
Box office revenue (i.e. cinema ticket sales) is split between the theaters and the studio. The studio only gets half. That is why a movie needs to make "2 times the budget" at the box office. And that is 2x the _total_ budget, including P&A (Prints and Advertising, or "marketing"), not just the production budget. So if a film has a production budget of $150,000,000 and a P&A budget of $50,000,000, then it needs to make $400,000,000 at the box office to break even. At least for domestic releases and domestic box office. The cut from theaters is even less for foreign markets (mostly around 40%, but only 25% for China). So for big international releases, a film generally needs to make about 2.5 times the total budget (production + P&A) at the global box office, or the studio will not turn a profit at the theatrical release window.
The ones on this list that break my heart are D&D, No Hard Feelings and The Creator. I really enjoyed all of these quite a bit. D&D Hat, was just a blast. I loved the puppets (When the puppet kitten came out of the giant fish just made me chuckle.), the make up, the fat dragon, all of it was great! It definitely had that Pirates of the Caribbean/Guardians type of feel to it and it's a damn shame it under performed. One thing I really loved about it, was the not so great cgi. It just kind of added to the feel of it being a game being played in somebody's dinging room, garage, whatever. Great movie. The Creator just honestly surprised me. Gareth Edwards does this really cool thing with scale. He did it with Godzilla and Rogue One, and in this it was really good as well. It wasn't a wholly original storyline, wasn't breaking the mold or anything, but it was still a solid movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it. No Hard Feelings just reminded me of those Apatow era comedies and I feel like they don't make those kinds of movies anymore. Kind of like The Nice Guys. Damn shame.
For me the big change was having a baby back in March. I’ve seen two films in the cinema since (Spider-Verse and The Creator) because something in my soul NEEDED my first viewing of each to be on the big screen - largely due to either a love of the preceding film or the director respectively. I’d have loved to see more but the drama of arranging childcare and the cost of going at all made me extremely choosy and I had to let a lot of stuff go. Can’t wait til she’s old enough to force my hand into going every week!
I saw from Nerdsync that, apparently, 'the Marvels' was the highest grossing movie directed by a black woman, and I'm shocked and disappointed that no one else is really talking about that. I, personally, DO want to watch comic book movies, I just want to watch good ones, y'know? If a paint-by-numbers movie, from Disney, is gonna come to theaters, and I only have to wait THREE MORE MONTHS until it's on Disney Plus, then I'm gonna wait three more months to see it at home on Disney Plus.
I think DnD HAT should've been released after bg3, bg3 had the public attention for a good few months and I only watch DnD after playing it and it was great
I think an honorable mention should be ‘Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken’, having a budget of 70 million but only making a return of about 45.6 million. A shame too since that was a cute movie and felt it did a better job of what ‘Turning Red’ and ‘Luca’ were trying to do.
Interesting fact, Mission Impossible 7 had a boost in budget because of Tom Cruise's unique diet and exercise plan. Tom tries to eat protien rich, nutrient dense foods that can be hard to come by in places that dont have a tropical environment. To solve this issue, MI7 producers brought in the tools and resources to grow/create the foods Tom needs. While this may sound like a rich guy living extravagantly, the interesting part is the farm Tom needs produces a large anount of nitrogen and oxygen, which replenishes the surrounding ecosystem and tints the sky a beautiful sapphire tone. This led to the working title for MI7 being blue harvest.
Thanks for addressing the “woke” nonsense. I don’t know how people can say that wokeness is killing moves when Barbie is Warner Brothers highest grossing movie of all time and very clearly has feminist themes. People just watch Fox News and assume everyone thinks the same as the talking heads.
Saw MI:DR with my grandparents. Grandpa was asleep the whole time, because y’know he’s 78. Once it ended he woke up turned to me and said not enough action”. Great movie though I liked it
I don't want to pay cinema prices to see something mediocre when I could wait a bit longer and watch it at home in peace on a service I'm already paying for.
All these money geniuses that can't understand why movies aren't bringing in billions anymore are the same money geniuses that are driving the prices of essentials to the highest they have ever been. You would think that money geniuses would understand something that seems to simple and obvious to anyone who isn't a money genius.
The cost of living Crisis hasn't helped much either. Why spend about £40 (tickests/travel/food) on the cinema when you know its going to be streaming in two months.
It's wild to see how many good movies get mentioned in this video, especially when you juxtapose it with shlock like Transformers making the top 10 successes. The Covenant and Killers of the Flower Moon both made my top 5 from last year, and others on this list had some really remarkable aspects.
For the DnD Movie, the Hasbro / WoTC controversies with the license change likely also had a small impact on people supporting it in cinemas. While not something the general public likely care about, a large chunk of the core audience that could have served to bring up hype or bring their families / friends with them boycut it.
I feel crazy for actually quite liking The Marvels. Like I don't feel any attachment to the MCU and I don't really care that it bombed but the biggest failure of the year? Quantumania was so much worse.
It's funny how the start of the year compilations it's just a low effort upload, and yet it gets stuck in my algorithm all year, they get recommended to me throughout the entire year, and I fucking watch them every time.
Surely the biggest bomb this year was in Oppenheimer
Nice one!
nah they had bigger nukes in The Creator
Bloody got em
*Cough* Godzilla Minus One *Cough*
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I know Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are already super rich but swindling Amazon will always always be a good move.
I really liked them in Air.
That bit about them poker facing Amazon out of $160 million was hilarious like how did they get away with that
@@Finamajigseriously that movie should’ve cost like $50 million max. Good on them I guess
Nooo amazon needsthe monmey so their developers can mske apps that function at slight more than a base level
@@Finamajig Because the person who made that call doesn't know what they're doing but at the same time Amazon has infinite money. They made $575 BILLION last year alone.
*The biggest bomb of 2023 might end up being Aquaman 2. So get excited for that
Edit. It passed The Marvels never mind
No it will easily make a profit according to the latest world wide figures
nah marvels and indy 5 are.
hell even that wish movie is gonna end up doing worse than Aquaman 2
i will make the sacrifice and see it 140 times
it's already outperforming The Marvels relative to week since release, so it won't be the biggest bomb
@@nero9105 why would you to that?
Thats like saying ‘I’ll sacrifice myself for world peace by repeatedly punching myself in the nuts’….
D&D was such a a good movie. I wasn't a believer and didn't bother when it was in theaters. Even my 70 year old mother loved it.
It had sooo much heart!!
Almost as much as Vox Machina. It was so fun. :)
It had poor marketing
The good news is that in spite of it, Paramount has taken the critical reception to heart and will pursue more projects for this universe, albeit with a smaller budge next time.
Its the only movie on this list I even saw. So thats something.... Actually I did watch Air. Its was pretty good.
I got to see it in ScreenX, which expands certain scenes panoramic on the sidewalls. It was a fun movie, with likeable characters.
Good for Ethan Hunt to still pay people during covid, what a force of nature.
You could say he's the living manifestation of destiny
He's a mind-reading, shapeshifting incarnation of chaos.
he just loves America too much...
Dude, every film shot during COVID had to do that
I honestly thought it was a joke when they said Expendables 4. I had no idea that was a thing
It's not a thing. Expend4bles is
Expend4bles is quite possibly the worst thing I’ve seen in my life and the worst part is I get no vindication for it because no one else saw it
I am most surprised it wasn't already a thing. Didn't the first ine come out like 20 years ago? Also what happened to the Expendabelles? They definitely announced a female cast movie at some point.
This video was the first time I’d heard it came out, when did this happen? lmao
Wasnt aware of the existence of this movie either until the video
James is spot on about general audiences not giving a shit anymore.
It was absolutely a short term gain long term loss investment in streaming. Yes you have a service providing your exclusive content. But why would anyone go see it if I can wait a month? Why keep up with just an “okay” series of movies that feels aimless or worse gets completely dropped when another executive feels like cost cutting.
and that is why netflix won the streaming war before it even started. if these companies didnt get absurdly greedy and launched 10 streaming services at the same time they could have just did what sony did and produce shows and movies to netflix and maybe apple/amazon
Hold your horses buddy, streaming doesn’t account for almost every single film doing poorly, and certain super hero films that supposedly we don’t give a crap about anymore did well like Guardians and Spiderverse.
@@vietimports streaming only really got big because of the pandemic and it’s still in its infancy. If you’re a business you have to throw things out to see what sticks because no one knows the rules yet because it’s so fresh and Netflix never had competition. You can’t make things for Netflix because Netflix will own it, and it will take a cut of the profits, so it doesn’t make sense to give it to them. Making a website isn’t the costly part. We just need to give it time to adjust to a stable model. And you need competition and innovation to do that.
And a lot of these films were actually good and still did poorly. I think the pandemic hit a lot of people, and interest rates are crazy so spending is down generally and yeah people can wait until streaming so that affects it. Films could be better, but they’ve been at the same quality for the last ten years at least and it’s never been this bad.
@@vietimportsDisney+ is the only one who had a huge variety of content to make the platform worth it in addition to netflix imo. The other ones its like you're getting access to a few movies and hopefully some decent shows and the potential of them releasing a new one
It sucks that D&D was a bomb since everyone who saw it in theaters or streaming freaking loved it. I hope the good word does reach the studio and they don’t just look at the numbers and cancel Future installments, because D&D has so much potential as a franchise
I fell asleep in the first 30 minutes for 30 minutes, but man once they met owlbear girl, that's some good d&d
Fuck D and D, no one put any creative risk into it. It’s actually sad that Beau is afraid bombed
The beginning was boring
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning was fantastic and that last stunt with the train is fantastic. Got buried by Barbenheimer .
Halfling looked really weird and out of place.
My little theory as to why The Flash ended up in George Clooneys universe is that DC has taken all their big flops and made them into their own little movies so by my logic 2011 Green Lantern should be in that universe as well and Steel and Jonah Hex.
They can all team up as the Floptice League
Theory adopted. lol and don't forget Catwoman! I would actually spend a lot to watch a trashy justice league movie like expendables meets DC.
This is amazing.
Fun note: there is a trashy redrawing / deconstruction of “The Dark Knight Returns” called “Shitty Dark Knight”.
I would definitely goto to theatre if they made a film in that movie universe called “Shitty Justice League”.
I'm 49. Everyone in the theater for Dial of Destiny was SIGNIFICANTLY older than me.
I’m 62 and just didn’t bother to go.
My parents (late 60s) saw it and did not like it lol
I was 7 when Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981 and I am almost 51.
Still can't believe how poorly Mission Impossible 7 did considering it was great.
And considering how good Top Gun Maverick was, really thought Tom Cruise's stock was on the rise and people would flock to see his next one..
Yeah, I think it being a two-parter hindered it's performance.
Completely agree, my favourite movie of the year
Maybe its also Mission Impossible fatigue?
I loved the first, watched the second, then lost track. A couple of years ago I got free tickets to the one with Henry Cavill in and there was just too much lore, and returning characters and blah blah blah.
I dont want to have to go back to rewatch 6 movies to understand whats happening now.
I think Daniel Craigs Bond films suffered the same, by the last one there was too much relationship drama and tie ins that I lost track of.
I think movies saw the deep success of the MCU’s interconnected movies and thought we should do that everywhere, but there needs to be a balance where its still accessible and standalone if you havent watched them, unless you are something like the MCU building up to Infinity War.
For example, right now, I cba to watch any Marvel movies cause I dont want to slog through all the movies and tv shows to get it all. For example, I only watched like 2 episodes of WandaVision so her being evil in Dr Strange makes no sense to me. Dont force me to watch a TV show I wasnt enjoying to understand the movie.
If i remember correctly, they released the movie earlier to not do it during the writer strike, so it had a lot of competition in cinema at that moment
The phrase "vote with your wallet" has never been more prevalent in the spectrum of cinema. People don't have as much money to spend in the first place, and thus, will only spend it on things they find truly worthy. So with that said, Hollywood is actually going to have to start trying again to earn the consumers money. Hopefully the future will find the quality of films more fruitful.
The invisible hand of the market is currently giving the middle finger to ESG & DEI, and i'm all for it honestly...
A lot of incredible movies came out this year it’s really just the big budget big studio movies that have been surprisingly awful
What is esg and dei @@teagame1011
True. Streaming, affordable flat screens & cheap snacks is just a very hard combo to compete against. Not many working class & middle class families want to throw spare cash on something they can get at home.
Thank you guys I look forward to these videos every year, here’s for more years and blessings
Thank you IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude
Thank you @incridibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude
Thank you IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude
Thank you @IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude
Thank you IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude
D&D was a film with a niche fanbase that really appealled to a lot of casual fans afterwards. I feel like if they made a sequel it would get a much bigger response.
D&D the game was in headlines and on Twitter every few months because they were pushing some kind of woke nonsense (wheelchair ramps for dungeons, removing racial traits, removal of monkey race), so why would anybody want to take a chance with the film?
Honorable mention: Exorcist Believer. The "budget" may have been $30 million but Universal had reportedly paid $400 for the rights.
@@maxjones503 ya I was typing out that it was for the franchise/etc, but then it got to be a little long so I left it at what I posted.
The complexity of the cost of the movie + success or the movie (or lack thereof) + cost of franchise + potential they could earn off the franchise in the future is what I would say earns it a mention, but not to earn a place on the top twelve list.
@@maxjones503 I know logic is a foreign concept to most people on the internet, but what you've committed here is the most common of logical fallacies: apples to oranges. Star Wars is a massive, merchandising empire (no matter how crappy the content is), and nobody is rushing out to buy their Exorcist: Believer body pillows.
@@maxjones503 please explain where I commit ad hominem?
@@maxjones503 Also you can't just say "you committed fallicist fallacy, for every logical argument against your own. You've quite obviously committed to apples to oranges here.
Holy shit will you two shut the hell up
If someone worked at a store and let $35 go missing they would be fired and probably have the police called on them. Half a billion and it’s just 🤷🏻♂️
Ah, but these aren't people, they're executives.
nobody asked but it's so ridiculous that corporations are treated as separate legal entities from those that own or participate in the corporation. With ZERO liability of course these evil monsters are going to run rampant. A fundamental change to corporate liability would fix a lot of problems.
Movies are costing way too fucking much to make, Indiana Jones should be made for like 80 mill, not 300.
I’ve got the flu right now, and whenever I get sick I always binge Mr. Sunday Movies videos. Thanks for giving me good stuff to watch while sick!
Are you me? You literally described my week
@@kidunderabridge What a coincidence! Two viewer of this channel are ill at the same time? Unbelievable xD
That was me with The Nostalgia Critic when I got Chikungunya. (That nasty mosquito virus) I just had it on autoplay while I slipped in and out of consciousness
I hope you’re feeling better mate
In honor of Maso, DND shall be now only known as Hat, I cant unsee it now.
DAD
HAT
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This whole list just throws fuel on the fire for people who believe much of Hollywood is a money laundering scheme. In what world does a movie about a shoe cost 5x more than an apocalyptic cgi lizard???
The frustrating thing about the holdovers is that it’s a Christmas movie & its not released in the UK until the middle of January.
Agree.
That’s just to add to its sense of melancholic ennui 😸
Dungeons and Dragons was a really good movie, totally recommend watching that. Such a shame it didnt do well
At the box office.
It was so good. I did not expect it to be that good and I don't give a single shit about DnD at all, yet it ended up as one of my top movies of the year.
Yeah but here is the thing. Who is waiting to watch a D&D movie. It’s only played by a bunch of nerds and that’s it
D&D fans must be salty because on Amazon this movie has 4 stars of 5 after 6k reviews but all the transformers movies are nearly five stars .. couldn’t believe it, except the first one and maybe the second rest have been trash. Guessing it got review bombed or something. I had more laughs with D&D movie than with any marvel movie post endgame.
This Movie really wanted you to like Michelle Rodriguez and Her Hairy Armpits.
You guys riff off each other so well I lol’d at “I mean I liked it-I did too, we liked it!” after bashing the flash
Thank you for not saying Oppenheim was this years biggest bomb, I know it took restraint
It's been a while since we've seen a year with so many box office disasters.
That could be a good video idea. What year in cinema history had the most bombs?
2005 is often mentioned as a year with several high-profile box office disappointments, including films like "Stealth," "The Island," and "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D." Similarly, 2015 saw a number of big-budget films underperform, such as "Pan," "Jupiter Ascending," and "Tomorrowland."
@@ThwipThwipBoom I remember the marketing blitz for Jupiter and Tommorowland. They failed on John Carter levels
Yeah, 2005 is considered a major shift, in a bad way--the "slump", the slide in money from the previous year, with its sequels and *Passion of the Christ* (THE movie that I like to blame every problem in Hollywood on), and a lot of original, prestige movies underperforming (No Best Picture nominee made more than a hundred million), you can say the "Either it's Marvel or A24" dichotomy can be traced to 2005.
@@RABartlett A theory about how Passion of the Christ is responsible for every problem in Hollywood sounds interesting, if you'd care to share.
@@Dorian_sapiens Basically 2004 was an election year, with the Iraq War and gay marriage being big. Gibson's movie threw a greasefire on the culture war. This resulted in a couple things.
1) A lot of older, Middle American audiences checked out of Hollywood (That got worse after Trump) leaving low concept dramas without an audience.
2) Studios were stuck between a rock and a hard place, where they could "think outside the box" like they did in the early 70's, because "outside the box" could be quite reactionary, (They experimented with more religious films, bot those largely only did well if they were incendiary) which meant Hollywood kept playing it safer and safer.
I can also probably draw a line from this to Fox being sold to Disney,
All I need from UA-cam is two Australians talking to each other. That's all I've ever needed.
Something a bit weird some films critics noticed is that you could use colour theory to determine which films were going to be successful this year. You have two broad categories, warm colours (oranges, red) and cold colours (teals, greens, blues) and its common for studios to pick one as the main "theme" for trailers, logos and posters. A lot of the films in this bombs list were predominantly warm with lots of orange (i.e. DnD and the Mission Impossible movie), meanwhile the successful movies of this year (i.e. oppenheimer) were predominantly cold.
Critic circles have since coined this phenomenon as a "blue harvest" which was coincidentally the working title for the first star wars movie
god fucking damn it
Nice one, you got me :-)
calm applause. Well played.
This is legit one of the only times I didn't see this coming. You're a master of the craft.
You got me...
I would listen the hell out of a recurring segment that's called "Shut up, just, shut up."
And "shut your hands up" from their Inhumans video
I actually saw a huge marketing push for Wish. Unlike Strange World last year, there were toys everywhere, I kept seeing ads for it on UA-cam, Instagram, TikTok, etc., and just by chosen genre (Disney princess animated musical) I think they were expecting it to do well.
I've been really heavily using an adblocker this year, and I genuinely didn't know it existed until I started seeing people talking about how it bombed
I am normal. Completely normal. Totally normal. Normally normal… I saw almost all of these in the cinemas.
I'm normally the same. In a normal way.
Normally, in years past, I'd be with you with movie going being my normal, but the "new" hollywood normal just isn't my normal. Abnormally or otherwise.
I hadn't even heard of a few of these movies, which for me, isn't normal.
It sucks that DND bombed because it’s easily on of my favourite films of the year. Going up against Mario was essentially box office suicide, probably would’ve done better if it didn’t go up against that.
Also, thanks Mason, I’ll always be calling it DND HAT from now on lol.
Was having a really horrible day today. So when I woke up and saw a new vid you guys dropped, it literally changed my day for the better. You guys have such a chemistry together that makes even the toughest days bring a smile outta me. Happy new year!
Some legitimately good movie flops this year. MI, DnD, Air, and Beau Is Afraid were good.
I raised the question of how AIR costed 160 million dollars when 90% of the scenes take place in an office board room lol
@@lilblue007 It definitely coulda got done for like $25M.
@@lilblue007 modern film making is all money laundering and creative accounting, and studios wonder why piracy is so rampant. It boggles my mind that ALIENS was produced on a budget of less than $40 million dollars in 1985/86. It's insanity that these modern CGI bukake fests cost 10x that.
@@lilblue007Michael Jordan probably got paid 1 million dollars every time his name was mentioned.
25M to make and market the rest went to afleck, matt damon and executives 😂
I had a discussion the other day with a friend of a friend who had an emotional breakdown over marvel movies being bad now because they’ve gone too woke. I thought he was joking at first. He was not. One racist and sexist tirade later and I just was in shock people can be like this in real life. What a surprise
Luckily for me I've never seen anyone complain about that in my real life
I am an Indy fan (and also over 35, surprise, surprise) and I enjoyed the movie, but the budget alone was basically begging for a bomb. I saw the movie, really enjoyed it, then looked up the budget and said ," Ha! Good luck, Disney." Absolutely bonkers for a property they didn't really care about or do anything with.
D&D was one of my favorite movies of the year. It had everything: awesome effects, adventure, great performances. It was also freaking hilarious.
Hilariously Bad You Mean.
I'm loving everyone showing up for D&D-HAT in the comments. Makes me happy that even if it didn't perform incredibly well, it sincerely connected with a lot of people.
For a movie I expected to have to watch through my fingers, I f'n loved it.
It Was Krap.
Complete and Utter Garbage.
@@DavidBanner-de5om Yeah, well that’s just like, your opinion, man.
Boxoffice Backs Up My Opinion.
@@DavidBanner-de5om It made more than it’s budget back, while being released the week before some of the biggest films of the year completely demolished all competition. It has very positive word of mouth and has done well enough on streaming to have sequel talks.
It’s fine if you personally didn’t like it, but you can also piss off with your negativity
😘✌️
The Holdovers was such a wonderful movie. It’s a shame small scale stuff like that doesn’t really have much of a chance these days.
I think it really is the fact that people pay for streaming services and aren't going to go spend money on a movie ticket when they know it will be put on streaming.
I think post covid definitely also is a factor. I used to see about 40-60 movies a year before covid. Then covid happened and something changed where seeing stuff the week of release became less important.
The side effect also lead me to me skipping movies if I hadn't seen them after the first 3 weeks because they would normally be hitting VOD in 3-4 weeks so I just figured what's the point.
This year I only saw 5 movies in cinemas the week of release and 10 total
So less stupid, paranoid people in the theaters?
The end comments speak volumes to my experiences this year working at a cinema. We had so many movies coming out where so many of us were questioning why it was even made. Other films, mostly comic book movies, were so generic and diluted that audiences consistently stayed away
good word of mouth is whats getting me to go to the movies lately, i just dont have any brand/company trust left in me, great video
Literally shocked to see DnD on the list. I thought it was received pretty well. Bummer, it was a good interpretation of the material and a lot of fun.
No It Wasn't.
Hugh Grant Was Phoning It In.
About Blue Beetle, I remember hearing rumors about it in production from sources and then about November time I heard it was an actual movie being released.
Also I liked most of these movies somewhat.
These videos at the end of the year are such a treasure. Much love!!
I have earphones on and every time we hear how much the films made, I’m sure there’s a very subtle little fart noise, and I’m loving it.
Studios need to start taking chances on movies that are original, and audiences will have to take the chance on these unknown properties. Studios have gotten too comfortable on making movies that people recognize (sequels, reboots, remakes, etc.) to ensure a profit, but that's not working anymore. We need to go back to the 70's , 80's and 90's and start making movies that have fresh ideas. Hollywood didn't run out of ideas, but the people who run Hollywood don't want to gamble with a movie that people don't know, and therefore won't spend money on. It's up to us to support the original ideas when they come out.
When Tom Cruise pitched the bike stunt to Christopher MacQuarrie, one of the director’s main concerns was getting coverage over multiple takes, so he insisted on shooting the motorbike stunt only on days with clear weather, resulting in so much footage of Cruise performing the stunt against azure skies that the film’s editor Eddie Hamilton called the abundance of footage, “a veritable Blue Harvest,” which is also the original working title of Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope.
God damn it
I skipped to the end of the comment and I'm proud
The WISH one is wild because I just went to Disneyland Paris before Christmas, and there was merch for the film fucking everywhere, and I didn't see a single person with any of it.
The core target audience didn't even see it or care about it at all
i just want to take a moment to recognize the tastefully restrained fart sound effect used in this video. a lesser editing team would have chosen something more over the top, but the understated elegance of the fart used here is absolutely perfect
It sounded like any number of Sega Genesis sound effects. I enjoyed a little trip down memory lane 😂
These productions are so unbelievably entertaining. Amazing work. Is much time spend on script or structure, or is it just a free-for-all? Anyway, awesome!
Quotation of the year: “Why would I watch “The Marvels” when I can watch “Secret Invasion”?”
Happy new year my friends. My life in the past year has been full of joy because of you😂
What was weird for Beau is Afraid is that the weekend when it came out there was only one theater in my area playing the film at 7 or 9. No other showtimes anywhere else. Though the audience I was with really dug the film. Felt like it wasn’t really given the chance to prove itself in theaters.
Been watching for 7 years, thank you for all the great content
Great year filled with great videos! Have a nice time off, jame and mace
Thank you hip dude!
19:16 so bloody true, most of these movies in Marvel and such just dont hook me to go to the cinema to spend £10 on a ticket when i can just wait a few months and watch it on streaming for half the price
"Just a dreadful, dreadful movie, I mean I liked it!" "I did too!" 😂😂 perfectly sums up the Flash movie
I just found out I have been subscribing to this UA-cam channel since late 2015. been listening to you boys for 9 years. better not be like tom Scott and John green decided to take an announce break from UA-cam. happy new years.
Also affecting D&D was probably the built-in fanbase being mad at Wizards of the Coast. Which is a shame, because while I didn't love the movie, it was fun.
But with The Flash, I'm glad it bombed. Awful lead actor, offensive cameos, dumb attempt at morals undercut by the superhero nature of the story, it is everything wrong with superhero films.
Also Ezra “the assaulter” Miller
Been refreshing Big Sandwich nonstop for this.
That little fart noise for the box office amount got me every time
To an extent too.. I think people are just losing their curiosity in C-tier or below comic chatacters... the big ones like Batman, Spiderman, wolverine, superman, wonder woman, iron man will always have devoted fans and mainstream curiosity.. but Marvel is introducing like 1-2 new obscure superheroes per project and it gets exhausting.. that's what lost me with the comics themselves when I was a kid. It was just too convoluted, and it got to be too much to keep up with, and a lot of the newer heroes simply weren't as interesting. I remember the mcu felt refreshing in the beginning because it was a smaller more focused world that was telling more character-driven stories about iconic characters. The slow introduction of a new hero every once in a while felt like a fun reward to the audience that actually made you want to explore those c-tier players. Now those c-tier characters are just crammed everywhere without setup or reason... they're not even c-tier anymore, it's like e-tier.. Skaar, Cassie Lang, riri Williams, us agent, Eternals, Wican, speed... I think a casual viewer would assume I made some of these names up... makes it a little worse when you think about how little time we've spent with some bigger characters in their rush to introduce new ones.. like Wasp for instance, or heck, it seems these characters are even being prioritized over high profile characters they haven't introduced yet like blade, fantastic 4 and silver surfer.
Also, when you think of the numbers in these growing superhero universes and realize there must be more super-powered people in them than there are athletes in entire professional sports leagues, it makes it less interesting.. it's like that villain in the incredibles said "when everyone is special, no one is."
So yeah, I agree it's not a political thing, it's a poor planning, poor priorities, over-saturation thing.. I think marvel got overconfident, they had early success with introducing things they were less confident about like ant-man, guardians, black panther, Dr strange, captain marvel... and they just assumed people would always be that open to, or even excited about just any character they tossed into the mix. And that good-will and curiosity soured with bored audiences. The series now feels more like an advanced class on the depths of marvel comics history than escapist entertainment... Casual viewers saw the Captain Marvel and Ant-man trailers and probably thought "oh yeah, Antman and captain marvel were in the Avengers right? I kind of remember her fighting Thanos with iron man, and wow what a great ending for him and captain America, but I'm not sure I remember what happened to her? What was her backstory/powers again? Who are the other characters in the trailer? Were they in the comics? Were they in other movies? Wow, there's a lot of characters that I've never seen before in this, I might have to ask Dan at work who they are...He's really into marvel stuff... oh sh!t that Barbie movie is coming to streaming! And all I need to know about it is that it's about that very famous 100 year old toy I grew up with/around! Much more accessible! Oh... what's a blue beetle? Is that like a marvel or DC thing? Meh, I'll pass...Christopher Nolan's new movie about the bomb looks like an event!"
Hey James and Maso thanks for keeping my depression in check 🤙🏼
Thank you MSM team for all the great entertainment! See you next year!
You've got to remember that studios only get ~50% of ticket revenue
Laurence is once again on point with the Succession inserts.
Box office revenue (i.e. cinema ticket sales) is split between the theaters and the studio. The studio only gets half. That is why a movie needs to make "2 times the budget" at the box office. And that is 2x the _total_ budget, including P&A (Prints and Advertising, or "marketing"), not just the production budget. So if a film has a production budget of $150,000,000 and a P&A budget of $50,000,000, then it needs to make $400,000,000 at the box office to break even. At least for domestic releases and domestic box office. The cut from theaters is even less for foreign markets (mostly around 40%, but only 25% for China). So for big international releases, a film generally needs to make about 2.5 times the total budget (production + P&A) at the global box office, or the studio will not turn a profit at the theatrical release window.
Happy new year distinguished Gentlemen x love ya, keep doing what ya doing
The ones on this list that break my heart are D&D, No Hard Feelings and The Creator. I really enjoyed all of these quite a bit.
D&D Hat, was just a blast. I loved the puppets (When the puppet kitten came out of the giant fish just made me chuckle.), the make up, the fat dragon, all of it was great! It definitely had that Pirates of the Caribbean/Guardians type of feel to it and it's a damn shame it under performed. One thing I really loved about it, was the not so great cgi. It just kind of added to the feel of it being a game being played in somebody's dinging room, garage, whatever. Great movie.
The Creator just honestly surprised me. Gareth Edwards does this really cool thing with scale. He did it with Godzilla and Rogue One, and in this it was really good as well. It wasn't a wholly original storyline, wasn't breaking the mold or anything, but it was still a solid movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it.
No Hard Feelings just reminded me of those Apatow era comedies and I feel like they don't make those kinds of movies anymore. Kind of like The Nice Guys. Damn shame.
Didn't see No Hard Feelings, but totally agree on the other two! Genuinely great films.
17:11 glad Maso is here to always verbalize what I'm thinking when I see a movie made less money than it's budget
For me the big change was having a baby back in March. I’ve seen two films in the cinema since (Spider-Verse and The Creator) because something in my soul NEEDED my first viewing of each to be on the big screen - largely due to either a love of the preceding film or the director respectively.
I’d have loved to see more but the drama of arranging childcare and the cost of going at all made me extremely choosy and I had to let a lot of stuff go.
Can’t wait til she’s old enough to force my hand into going every week!
I live for the fart sound when the Box Office number comes up. Thank you.
I just got done watching a movie marathon of completely different genres of movies with my buddies. It’s 5:00am and we started at like 7pm.
Good for you, why are you rambling on about it here?
@@jonsmith5058 idk it was 5am. I was eepy
I saw from Nerdsync that, apparently, 'the Marvels' was the highest grossing movie directed by a black woman, and I'm shocked and disappointed that no one else is really talking about that.
I, personally, DO want to watch comic book movies, I just want to watch good ones, y'know?
If a paint-by-numbers movie, from Disney, is gonna come to theaters, and I only have to wait THREE MORE MONTHS until it's on Disney Plus, then I'm gonna wait three more months to see it at home on Disney Plus.
I think DnD HAT should've been released after bg3, bg3 had the public attention for a good few months and I only watch DnD after playing it and it was great
I think an honorable mention should be ‘Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken’, having a budget of 70 million but only making a return of about 45.6 million. A shame too since that was a cute movie and felt it did a better job of what ‘Turning Red’ and ‘Luca’ were trying to do.
If Disney gets money from UA-cam for every time my daughter has listened to the songs from “Wish,” they’ll have broken even.
Interesting fact, Mission Impossible 7 had a boost in budget because of Tom Cruise's unique diet and exercise plan. Tom tries to eat protien rich, nutrient dense foods that can be hard to come by in places that dont have a tropical environment. To solve this issue, MI7 producers brought in the tools and resources to grow/create the foods Tom needs. While this may sound like a rich guy living extravagantly, the interesting part is the farm Tom needs produces a large anount of nitrogen and oxygen, which replenishes the surrounding ecosystem and tints the sky a beautiful sapphire tone. This led to the working title for MI7 being blue harvest.
Well played
Had us in the first 95% ngl playa!!!🥇
You overplayed your hand at "interesting fact". Nobody has ever given an interesting fact in a UA-cam comment.
Hahaaaa, I knew where this was going in the first sentence, so proud of myself, but it was GREAT!! ;)
@@SimonBuchanNz fuck you're right I knew I should've taken that out
D&D HAT was actually pretty good. Charming cast and funny jokes.
Yeah, Michelle Rodriguez's Hairy Armpits were Hilarious.
@@DavidBanner-de5om Exactly, it's a fun level of detail you don't often see movies bothering to try, glad you enjoyed it:)
Ah yes. My favourite video each year. It’s 5:50am where I am in Canada. Guess it’s time to make breakfast and watch this 😌👌
I watched the Top 10. I would watch almost any videos you two put out. Your banter is incredibly engaging!!
And the editing is hilariously perfect
Love you guys, have a great new year and a whole month off 😠
Thanks for addressing the “woke” nonsense. I don’t know how people can say that wokeness is killing moves when Barbie is Warner Brothers highest grossing movie of all time and very clearly has feminist themes. People just watch Fox News and assume everyone thinks the same as the talking heads.
Saw MI:DR with my grandparents. Grandpa was asleep the whole time, because y’know he’s 78. Once it ended he woke up turned to me and said not enough action”.
Great movie though I liked it
MI7 deserved to do so much better. It was a great movie and a fantastic time at the theater.
I don't want to pay cinema prices to see something mediocre when I could wait a bit longer and watch it at home in peace on a service I'm already paying for.
All these money geniuses that can't understand why movies aren't bringing in billions anymore are the same money geniuses that are driving the prices of essentials to the highest they have ever been. You would think that money geniuses would understand something that seems to simple and obvious to anyone who isn't a money genius.
I'm starting to think that the money geniuses aren't actually geniuses, they might just be morons with a lot of money and power.
Hey sweet! Thanks for sharing this. I built a P Bass Banjo and shared it in my channel. Cheers mate!
I absolutely loved D&D.
Best Fantasy/Adventure movie in a very long while!
DnD: Hat is in a weird situation where it didn't make enough at the box office to turn a profit but still made a lot more than anyone expected it to.
Still A Bomb.
The cost of living Crisis hasn't helped much either. Why spend about £40 (tickests/travel/food) on the cinema when you know its going to be streaming in two months.
The joke about reading the full article was funny but Mason’s reactions SOLD IT😂😂😂😂 9:35
D&D - Hat was a blast, really enjoyable and …well fun, sad to see it make the list but hope they can realize another project equally as fun
It's wild to see how many good movies get mentioned in this video, especially when you juxtapose it with shlock like Transformers making the top 10 successes. The Covenant and Killers of the Flower Moon both made my top 5 from last year, and others on this list had some really remarkable aspects.
For the DnD Movie, the Hasbro / WoTC controversies with the license change likely also had a small impact on people supporting it in cinemas. While not something the general public likely care about, a large chunk of the core audience that could have served to bring up hype or bring their families / friends with them boycut it.
Yeah, if it was released around the same time as Baldur's Gate 3 instead of the OGL debacle it likely would have fared better
This video is the first time I heard of the 4th expendables... I didn't even know there was a third one 😂
I feel crazy for actually quite liking The Marvels. Like I don't feel any attachment to the MCU and I don't really care that it bombed but the biggest failure of the year? Quantumania was so much worse.
It's funny how the start of the year compilations it's just a low effort upload, and yet it gets stuck in my algorithm all year, they get recommended to me throughout the entire year, and I fucking watch them every time.
I really liked the D&D movie, they really put in the work.
You guys still continue to rock my world