Critical Drinker: Why Hollywood Will Collapse
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Hats OFF,,,To The Critical Drinker...Hollywoods FILMS became-- FAR LEFT --WOKE-Feminists _LGBT---TOXIC Man Bashing ---Hero Destroying TOXIC TRASH
You should look into CEI and why it doesn’t matter anymore why companies don’t make money and anger their customers..The game is rigged against you..
The good news here is that this isn't the first time Hollywood has collapsed: Read up on the mid-late 60s, and the disasters that were Doctor Doolittle and Cleopatra
What a bitter human being, if you can call him that. He probably lives in his grandma's garage.
@@anthonywarren9885 Why would someone who's a successful writer and youtuber live at home? He has more money than you.
Is anyone actually sad that Disney is struggling? Nah, me neither.
They shall rot in hell for what they did to Star Wars.
Im Literally happy about it
Li$E A$tIoN MoViE$$$$$$$$$$
I'm only sad that they own so many beloved franchises.
Disney did it to themselves.
So no, not really.
Is it just me or is it harder to connect with movies in this genre these days? I can feel the agenda in all of it and it ruins it for me.. Its hard to tell if im just getting old or if my perspective is valid.
The latter for sure.
Getting old because u hate having something shoved down your throat? No my man you are absolutely spot on right, nobody likes propaganda
Cognitive dissonance plays a part a think. I love experiencing pop culture from different eras and seeing how stories are constantly adapted to the social standards of the current era one way or another. even material that is suppose to be non fiction. it's actually hilarious how different old movies are from the material are based on but when they are remade in the current era without an exclusivity white cast people have an emotional reaction. People will get deeply offended over a change of a characters skin colour but not over various important changes to the original story.
Valid perspective. This idea that because you're "older" is some sort of inability to accurately gauge quality is farcical.
@@inplainview1It's borderline gaslighting in a lot of cases
I'm from Indonesia, and we can feel the agendas forced down our throats. When it does have those in trailers, most of us didn't watch the movie. That's why Hollywood is falling. Don't force American politics to other countries, it has nothing to do with us.
Then don't watch them. I'm from Indonesia as well and i've been away from cinema since No Way Home and it's the best decision ever. I kept some hundreds thousand of rupiah, and i can use the money for something that i enjoy more
@@ShatteredGlass916 the trailers were usually the give aways to see if it's political. So if it is, we don't watch them too.
I'm from the Dutch East Indies too and I agree.
Lmao what
Muslims also force their religion onto other people. You guys shud stop doing that.
My daughter who is 32 now, refused to take my grandchildren to see Aladdin. She said NO ONE can replace Robin Williams. She cringed at the thought of Little Mermaid and was furious about the Scooby-Doo dumpster fire called Velma, which she said ruined her memories of her favorite series as a child. After Aladdin came out she went through my attic to get all of her old Disney DVD's made before 2012. As far as I know, she hasn't taken her kids to see a Disney movie in the theatres since 2019.
Sounds like you did the hard part correctly and I hope that the vast majority of young parents share your daughter's inherited wisdom.
I do not want to deal with the questions, so no more Disney for my kids.
What has been seen cannot be unseen better they never see the new Disney junk.
You raised a good one.
And they are better off for it. My daughter is into these new Disney shows and I just want to barf. We had her growup with the classics Dumbo and Bambi, Toy Story, The animated Cinderella. I avoid this shit like the plague.
As someone who has worked in hollywood my whole life, there are a lot of factors in the decline of Hollywood. I was as FOX when Disney bought us and canned everyone - FOX was really the last studio do do a lot on fresh content - Ford v Ferrari, Bohemian Rhapsody, Last Duel, etc. All the good Hulu content is from the Fox library. That was a big loss. Second, the obsession w/"diversity" over quality in everything from hiring, staffing, etc, has been a huge dagger to the industry - we are seeing the result of so many talented people pushed out/aside as they usher in incompetents that check diversity boxes while possessing little to no real qualifications. I have watched this phenomenon increase over the last few years and believe that cumulatively it has had a devastating effect on the industry.
I lived in Hollywood for awhile during the early 90s, up to the right of the sign, near Griffith Park. It was such a surprise that it was like a big 'small town.' I could walk home in the late evening from just over in LA on Hollywood Blvd and not fear, families would be doing things. I kid not, even the drug dealers and roving young gangs were polite. There was a small grocery store at the end of the street on the main avenue, and it blew my east coast mind at the fruits and vegetables I didn't know existed. The back streets were full of little manors with exotic gardens, often holding open houses for anyone walking past, with bands and small orchestras, and lots of food. Almost every block had a sidewalk cafe'. I recall laughing with my young wife that the very weeds that managed to sprout out on the sidewalks were house plants. I met and got to know people from all around the world. I was not expecting it to be so magical.
I looked in on Google Earth years ago and was shocked at how much had changed. The small market was gone, and it looked very different. Now all I hear is, well, not good. Has it changed so much?
It's called a Competency Crisis. People who made all the good things because they got there on merit are retiring, being fired for being the wrong race, not getting the jobs in the first place, or not even getting into the schools and programs in the first place.
This is evident in entertainment but it's happening everywhere. Software, banking, transportation, medicine, engineering, and the military.
It's happening in Boeing and Lockheed. What will be said when the trains keep derailing, planes start crashing, the electricity goes off, and the water in the tap runs brown?
It's the South Africa model being applied to the west now, and it will end the exact same way.
You can tell in every new release that it has to have diversity even when it doesn't make sense within the story and time period you are trying to represent. Shoved down our throats and lets not forget 1/3rd of every cast has to be gay on top of that. Instead of focusing on a really compelling story worth your time we now get those checkmark boxes on every new film release or we hurt some groups feelings on Twitter.
@@whitebeardskydaddy6756 Caustic political policy destroys faster than anything else can.
@@vulkeg We must protect everyone's fee-fees apparently
Tom Cruise is on a one-man mission to save cinema, the guy knows exactly what the public want - entertainment first and foremost, escapism from modern life for a few hours. That's why the MI movies get such rave reviews, and why Maverick made over $1bn. Baffles me as to how Disney and the other major studios just can't comprehend that simple fact.
They know. They just consider social engineering more important. They want to replace old culture with new culture. It isn't "for the modern audience", it's to create the modern audience.
Disney is the closest thing we have to American ISIS.
How? It’s unrealistic for a 5’2” man to be taking on the huge muscular enemies he’s faced in his movies over the years. But y’all don’t have a problem with that but if it’s a female taking on those men, oh all of a sudden “that’s not realistic”. Give me a break. Maverick? Lololololol he’s too short to be a fighter pilot.
I would rather fund Scientology then Hollywood pedos.
@@DoYouLoveTheSilverHairedGod You're confusing the characters with the actor. The scripts aren't about a 5'2" person beating everyone. They never mention height and the directing downplays the height difference. If Tom Cruise was on a personal crusade to claim that 5'2" were just as strong and capable as anyone and then he made movies to push this ideology, it wouldn't be escapism anymore, and it wouldn't be quite as entertaining.
I'm Asian. I don't live the US. Yet I grew up watching mostly Hollywood movies. Funny because in the past I honestly couldn't care less about the actors' skin color/race, sexual orientation etc or whether the cast is diverse enough. _I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THOSE THINGS._ As long as the story is good and the movie is entertaining, then I'm sold. Being an 80s-90s kid, there was _nothing_ like Hollywood movies back then. I grew up watching classic and iconic movies/franchises such as Terminator, Alien, Jurassic Park, (original) Jumanji, Back to the Future, The Mask etc to name a few; Disney was also still in its _golden era_ (with classic animated movies such as the original Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas etc). But most importantly those movies were ORIGINAL. At the time, the world still saw Hollywood as the #1 place for entertainment industry. From movies to music to TV, Hollywood dominates all.
Nowadays it's _very rare_ to see a Hollywood movie with a solid original story line. It's all either reboots/remakes, sequels/prequels, or another same old, same old superhero movie. I can understand if a lot of people nowadays think there's no more creativity and originality left in Hollywood. And what's worse, most Hollywood movies today are so obviously dripping with "woke" agenda and propaganda it drives people away, including me. Doesn't matter how subtle they try to play, we can all see right through their BS. This is also one of the reasons why I have abandoned movies and theaters in the past few years, starting since the pandemic. I've lost track on all the new superhero characters introduced in every single movie. I think the last time I've watched a Marvel movie was probably around a decade ago. After that I never care to follow the superhero genre anymore. Like, how many superhero movies do we really need in a year??? I guess you can pretty much say that I'm so *done* with Hollywood at this point. Oh and btw a lot of people think Hollywood is no longer the #1 movie industry in the world. Other countries are also starting to catch up with superior movies that have top-notch writing and most importantly an ORIGINAL story line, such as South Korea, Japan, Thailand etc in Asia and France, Spain, Germany etc in Europe.
Well put! I happened to be in India when the massively successful Avengers: Endgame (2019) was released, and went to see it at a giant multiplex with a clutch of film snob friends and a wildly enthusiastic audience who had clearly followed the stories of all these characters (unlike us). I found it okay but mainly remembered that packed theatre's response. Well, ever since then, all I keep hearing is that the Marvel Cinematic Universe died the moment Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr's "Iron Man") snapped his fingers while wearing the Glove Of Universal Power (or whatever it was in that film), sacrificing himself to set a decimated world right. Dumb luck for me that ever since, even the fans have said "The MCU is dead" after one tired, wokified, feminized, blackwashed, dopey, disappointing reboot after another crushed their collective spirit. What's really stunning is the fact that Hollywood did this to itself.
Very true. It was just fun.
Spot on! I grew up with 80s & 90s films, didn’t care about race/gender. Now they have to cram it down your throats and if you disagree you’re a bigot.
Disney was in its “renaissance era” in the late 80s/90s, not in the “golden era”. The golden area would be when it was originally really popular and doing well.
@@j2174 I used to be a Disney fan but not anymore since they gone woke and greedy. Thus I no longer bother to address them in appropriate term, whether it's "golden" or "renaissance" era. I couldn't care less. Sorry that's just how I feel. Bottom line is, I much prefer Disney old classic movies/shows than Disney today.
The live-action remakes were about converting nostalgia into cash. Disney has been holding a garage sale for years, and they finally ran out of old stuff to sell.
Lol, that's actually a really good analogy.
That is a dead accurate comment. Never thought of it that way. Worst remake is the Peter Pan one
The garage sale is an excellent analogy 👍
Oh i hope they have a few left as it is hilarious to see who they have playing the actors in the remake. Comedy gold right there.
casting someone who looks nothing like Ariel is not making me nostalgic.. they only made me pissed for ruining my favorite Disney movie, needless to say they didn’t get any money from me
Besides Top Gun, I have not been excited about movies in years. I don’t even think about going to the theatre anymore when it used to be a monthly thing we did in the 90’s.
We need more 80's type movies. We need todays Chuck Norris JCVD and such!!! FTR Rambo last blood would of worked if he had a bunker in a far off cabin hold by a long time friend just in case the old Rambo needed to be woken up.
Yeah Top Gun felt like a proper Hollywood Blockbuster, I really enjoyed it.
I went to see the Mario Bros. Movie a few months ago. The thing is, that movie was gonna be lowest in terms of common denominators, but I was sorely disappointed still due to the horrendous state of the theatre I frequented to now that I moved back to my hometown. It's disgusting seeing how cold, shallow, and filthy these cinema used to be.
Critical Drinker is a better critic than any of those paid shills
YES. Critical Drinker is a ----Real Movie Buff+ Fan,,,
He knows shit when he see's it on the Big Screen
He also knows what are good and great movies. !!!
Hollywood --- FORGOT HOW TO MAKE GREAT FILMS...
He literally just reviews slop of the day. Why is a grown man who claims to be hyper masculine spending his time paying to watch and review capeshit
100% lad
@@jamesquinn6662 Claims to be hyper masculine? Is there something you want to tell us about your feelings towards the Drinker?
Agreed
I've had friends look at me funny because I told them I only consider the audience score, *not* the critic score.
Audience scores are paid shills too
Consider the critic score FIRST!!! ANY movie the critics HATE is worth looking up the fan based reviews about it!
So you think the Mario movie is a 9 out of 10 then, lol?
@@MagcargoMan haven't seen it and I don't intend to
Frankly audiences are just as bad, sometimes worse. The thing about critics is you're supposed to find a few you like, not view them as one collective thing. If 10 critics all give a movie 6/10 that is a 100% score on RT.
Every time I see Disney lose 100s of millions, it grows my hope for humanity.
I don't think the corporate Disney of today really has the same concerns as in yesteryear. They aren't an entertainment company in the classic sense. They are primarily a propaganda arm.
I think they could lose billions with each movie and then the democrats would refund their losses with tax payer money.
Unfortnately Disney just wrote $500 mill worth of content off by pulling shows like Willow from their streaming services. You and I have to pay our taxes but they just claim it as a loss and conitnue on. It doesnt actually affect them, sadly. They are other big corporations pay little tax. America is corrupt.
Trust me, they *haven't* lost hundreds of millions. Their movies may be flopping lately - The Little Mermaid, for instance - and their Subscribers for Disney+ have plummeted after they lost their India sports streaming exclusivity lol. Buuuut we have to bear-in-mind *merchandise* and *theme parks* etc. The TLM film may not have done too well at the cinema, but it's merch has been flying off the shelves, for instance. Same for the MCU flops. They can just make that money back by selling the comic books, clothing, action figures, etc.
Sound of Freedom costed $14.5 million to make and it looks better than movies Hollywood is coming out with that are $300 million. They have lost a sense of money management.
I hope it sparks a return to small and mid budget films. Less CGI bullshit the better. Focus on character stories
most of it is just money laundering. once that realization hits, then it will all make sense.
It absolutely does not " look " better. It was shot very low budget. It has your political ideology, therefore you love it. Stop it
@kashifsingh791 so a movie showing the evils of child trafficking is political? And therefore you're insinuating that it goes against YOUR political ideology. That says alot about you..
@@kashifsingh791 saving kids from rapists is a political ideology now? And what's your ideology; giving them to groomers to corrupt and destroy?
Endgame was literally endgame.
I heard Disney is remaking "Old Yeller" with a black lab. He gets shot in the end by a Trump like character. Now that is woke.
Yup. No Way Home was like a Marvel victory lap, and it's the last one I've personally seen at cinema. Even with the risk of COVID I needed to see that one. Now I don't really feel excited about anything Marvel. The story finished, the narrative ended.
@@RJALEXANDER777 there are still goood movies. guardians of the galaxy 3 is awesome, deapool 3 will probably be disneys last decent movie. personally im hyped for napoleon and dune part 2. but thats about it.
A month ago when i was on the dentist, the doctor chatted with her asistant about cinema and she said that the changes to these characters are so unnecessary that the change itself take you out of the movie.
Even a regular person with 0 cinema knowledge can see through disney issues
If I could give this a 1000 thumbs up I would
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Smaller, smarter film without CGI will save Hollywood.
CGI FX IS OVER USED IN MOST FILMS,,A RETURN --TO PRACTICAL EFFECTS
LIKE WHAT WAS USED IN JOHN CARPENTERS--THE THING--A CLASSIC. !!!
the drinker without sunglasses is a different vibe
I know!!
Hollywood has nothing I need.
I agree with Richard Dreyfuss. The Virtue signaling, pandering and condescending nature just makes me want to throw up
Do you also agree with supporting blackface like he did?
@@MagcargoManHitler felt bad about testing the cyanide on Blondi
You'd feel bad too, therefore you agree with Hitler
@@MagcargoMan What's that got to do with anything? Are you that much of a child that you can only agree with someone's opinion if you also agree with everything that person has said and done ever?
Let me guess, you're very active on twitter and use words like "problematic"? Icing on the cake would be if you describe yourself as a "male feminist"!
@@MagcargoMan I do. Do you have a problem?
But Dreyfuss worked in this industry for many years..
Why didn't he leave?😎
Part of why more modern movies fail to appeal to me is that they don't feel sincere. By that I mean, virtues cannot be delivered seriously or without being used to push some kind of message.
I always use The Legend of Zorro with Antonio Banderas as a great example. It shows someone working hard to achieve their goals, striving to achieve justice and learning that protecting others is ultimately more important than self serving vengeance, and while it's a very funny film, it knows when to be sincere and the audience is expected to genuinely root for Antonio.
In new movies, virtues like that are always delivered with quips or 'ironically', or the virtue was there ALL ALONG and the protagonist just needed to show off how awesome they were - Hollywood no longer wants to show heroism portrayed in a genuine light. It's not 'cool' to be a good person who works hard, so it's all accompanied by an endless stream of 'ironic' commentary on how meaningless everything is, or how they're being 'cliche'... I CANNOT see a movie like the Princess Bride, with the amazing cliffside sword fight being made ever again because two good people who admire and respect each others capabilities was simply... played straight, and nowadays it would HAVE to include some stupid, sarcastic "Are we FLIRTING right now? Like, are you hitting on me? I know you're HITTING ME but I mean in the other sense..." line. It'd be disgusting.
I rewatched the old Disney Sing Along Songs and I miss when Disney was like that. The studio respected its history and it felt like Disney. It’s so sad that the company is not like that anymore.
I watched them too recently and I feel the same.
I was one of the lucky few who had the Disney Channel when a lot of kids didn’t back in the 1980’s. Long before the Hannah Montana nonsense or the teeniebopper junk that ended up ruining the cable channel.
It was my exposure to a lot of old stuff, some of which probably hadn’t been seen in decades. There was more modern shows, but the point was they knew what the audience wanted.
The commentary around why live action Disney remakes made money are spot on. I’m a 40yr old father of three who loved the Lion King. The live action remake came out. I took the whole family and wasted £70. The film was awful. But the tickets sales were there for Disney.
You're almost better off going to see it on Broadway. Probably a much more memorable experience...LOL
The musical is meant to be amazing. I've been meaning to go watch it.
Saw it on the West End and honestly it’s an amazing show. Go see it.
My condolences.
I watched Simba's father get killed in the animated Lion King movie, back in 1994. That was about as awful as it got.
Never seen Drinker without his glasses. He’s a handsome lad. 💪🏼
I am convinced that Disney is now being run by the sunk cost fallacy. As bad as it is when a movie or show can't make back the money it cost to make, it' even worse if the real cost of releasing it anyway is even more bad press, bad word of mouth, reputational damage all of which results in diminished views for the next few projects, whatever those may be.
Disney consistently puts out movies that can't possibly succeed and are guaranteed to make audiences less likely to tune in next time, and they are shocked their profits have fallen off a cliff after a decade of playing stupid games. They could have learned their lesson from Last Jedi, which still made a profit but killed the Star Wars franchise in the process, at least on the big screen.
I imagine in hindsight a lot of Disney people are wondering why Indy 5 wasn't just quietly axed when the studio found out about the atrocious ending and test screenings. Why waste another 100 million trying to polish a turd with reshoots, why waste an equivalent amount trying to market a polished turd, only for it all to turn into the biggest embarrassment the company has faced in years?
Surely even stockholders can grasp that this is a failure on every level?
What sunk cost? I’m pretty sure the MCU still drives a lot of revenue
@@straybeans6561not like it used to.
@@Stevie8654 so? It’s still making money why would they stop?
@@straybeans6561they arnt "making money". They're playing accounting games, the least of which is equating ticket sales to "making money".
@@MrOgyny Hollywood has been playing accounting games for half a century...but in the opposite direction of what you're implying, if anything they've always overplayed the production costs of quite dramatically to reduce the published profit figures and pay less to the tax man and to all the people whose paychecks are tied to profits.
Rest assured Marvel and Disney are still making shitloads of money. Not as much as they were ten years ago, they're not routinely making 10 figures per film as they used to, but they're still making low 9s which if you were running a business you would not pass up on because some people on the internets are upset about the drop in quality. Even The Rise of Skywalker, despite all the shit it got, still made the studio at least half a billion. Then there's Andor, Mando, Bobba Fett, Obi Wan which were all solid shows. On the Marvel camp you have Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Loki, Wandavision, again solid entries (and just listing the more recent ones). They're still making lots of good content and even when it's bad they still make money - they'd have to be completely retarded to close up shop.
And films like the Little Mermaid *ARE FOR KIDS* , you'd think this point was pretty obvious but they don't care what some 30 year old UA-cam reviewer thinks of it, they care whether kids will nag their parents to go watch it, and kids don't care if there's race swapping and political ideology they just want to see pretty colours and hear catchy songs they can sing along to. In fact I find it ironic and more than a little hypocritical how the people talking shit about these kids films and always going on about how great the original Star Wars were when they watched the original Star Wars when they were like 6 years old and back then they couldn't give two shits about the plot, they just loved the alien costumes and the woosh of the space ships and the magic laser swords. And it's already made them like a quarter of a million in profit, and box office sales are a fraction of that these films earn them on the long run, there'll be blurays and streaming purchases and subscriptions to Disney+ so keep the kids busy watching this crap all day instead of climbing the furniture and action figures and party costumes and an endless sea of merchandise money flowing in for years to come.
Speaking of "young genius" characters.
A fanfic I was writing featured a girl who was tech savvy.
But I scrapped that side of her because I KNEW as an armature who write for fun that her being that way made 0 sense.
Her age, the sources available to her, her parents understanding of machinery.
It was jut a lazy character trait. So I scrapped it.
It annoys me that big movies can make mistakes I try to avoid and get rewarded for it AND defended by the fans.
The girl could have been a savant or a math prodigy whose ability lends itself to being tech savvy.
@@TRAZ4004 Even a savant or math prodigy is going to be limited by what they have access to when it comes to understanding machines and technology. All the reading in the world isn't going to give you the skills required to build a jet engine - at some point you need to be able to work with the actual hardware.
I may be wrong but I think the remake period is fizzling out at least in terms of profitability. They were all the rage in the mid to late 2010s because that's when Millennials finally became aware of the passage of time and tried to recapture the magic, but now they are increasingly seen as cheap soulless money grabs, and people are increasingly more careful how they spend their money and increasingly inimical toward Hollywood
They'll have to keep making live action remakes because they have already fired all the people who knew how to write and produce good movies in the first place.
Most of the movies that came out in the 90s are remakes and they are great and enjoyable. But every remake that has been made after 2010 has been worthless garbage
Don’t think I’ve ever seen drinker without sun glasses on. I guess Tatiana got hypnotized by those blue eyes 😂
The fact that they have hidden the Batgirl movie makes me want to see it more than any movie they've released. I would love to watch that and enjoy it like a cult hit that's just bad beyond relief. They could call it Bad Girl.
It's not worth watching bad cinema because it sends the wrong signals and they think people enjoy trash. The brand damage they would have wrought was not worth releasing it "for the lulz".
Brands are not accidentally brands. They have to maintain a level of quality, or they will fail, and the brand will not be able to carry itself.
People, for some strange reason, have forgotten this.
@@inplainview1 This is DC you are talking about. The brand is so trashed that I doubt they can do enough damage for anyone to notice.
@k53847 I mean true lol but still. That should speak to just how bad it was.
They didn’t “hide” it. The studio realized that movie is so worthless that they are not willing to continue throwing money at it and see that they are better off cutting their losses immediately than continue losing money on it. Disney did something like this too by canceling Willow. The show was so bad that they realized it had more worth shelving it forever in order to write it off as a total loss and get tax breaks.
Attack of the killer tomatoes level
A movie scene I’d love to see: a family touring LA has to flee for the city limits so they don’t get sucked into Hollywood’s studios as they crumple and implode like the house in Poltergeist.
in a modern Hollywood that scene would involve a diverse family (black man, white woman of course) running from collapsing Hollywood and they turn on the radio only to hear "toxic racist bigots have ruined all your movie enjoyment and now Hollywood is gone". Then the black guy immediately wakes up from this nightmare in his bad, all in cold sweat, and he and his strong female wife look at the camera and say "stop being so racist and misogynistic, you toxic assholes".
and then you wake up from the nightmare in cold sweat.
The children get abducted by Hollywood's child sex trafficking ring and are never seen again, parents get offered heroine and tents by government officials and become panhandling street urchins. The end.
That shield started with Ghostbusters. Sort of. It actually started with Fury Road, where they tried to preempt bad ratings by stating there was some kind of MRA boycott on it - you probably even heard this. What was it? A twitter with less than 100 followers. That was it. Then that movie turned out to be critically beloved and they stopped doing that.
Ghostbusters was the one where they tried to make it a political act to see the movie, and use their casting choices as a shield against the fact it was a *terrible* film.
The 2016 Ghostbusters film of course.
The 80’s Ghostbusters with Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd are still great.
@@KratostheThird Oh yes, without saying. This is specific to the 2016 Ghostbusters, not the originals nor even Afterlife
20 years ago, I went to a theater nearby, often. The last movie I saw was "Midway". And that theater is now unoccupied, chained shut so you can't even get in the parking lot. That says it all.
the nearby theater where I live was bought out by some Vietnamese people here and now its just a giant buddha statue in an old movie theater and I see more people going to see that statue then I did see anyone go into that theater its last 6 years of being open
"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made." JRR Tokien
There comes a point when a studio thinks that doing sequels, prequels, reboots, "reimagining" is jumping the shark and people no longer care, want to be preached/virtue signaled to and *PFFT there goes the support. I stopped caring about the super hero genre after seeing End Game as well, I've moved on to old black & white movies (love it!).
Me too. Found the show called The outer limits. I'm watching them all they are pretty good.
And then there's some shows with Boris Karloff being the narrator.
Have you seen all the important stuff ?
The Philadelphia Story
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
So, so many.
@@WinstonSmithGPT no but those sound like good shows so I will look into it. Thanks.
THE DRINKER HAS EYES?!?
Plus nose, mouth and ears... Plus's more!
@@shaz2761 seen those, never seen the eyes
@@Batlafication can I have some of what you're smoking please?
@@shaz2761 I'm sorry I haven't consumed all content the drinker has ever made this catching him without glasses before and I'm sorry about your sense of humour, rip
@@Batlafication so is it pot, snow, shrooms.....?
When talking about the 'critics' it reminded me of an assessor with one of the big auditing firms(KPMG or similar) being asked during the 2008 crisis,why did they publish such positive ratings and figures etc. for the likes of Bear Sterns,Leman Brothers and the like ? she answered--'because if we didn't they'd just switch to a competiter that WOULD and that would cost our company $millions.So even the auditors are compromised !
I love this guy, never seen him out of character... or actually ever seen him at all.
Something i think people miss when saying Alladin made alot of money is there wasnt the kind of awareness and backlash towards disney at that time. The ideas had started to form. Alot of people went, myself included, wanting to see a depiction of the cartoon i had grown up with. Instead we get characters who dont match what they were in the first movie, Finism messaging, and completely rejecting the whole reason i wanted to see the movie to begin with, a GIant live action Cobra scene. I guarantee you if Aladin was to be released today it would not make the same amount of money
I agree with this. Similarly, I think if the Little Mermaid remake was released a few years ago or more, it would have made a ton of box office money.
@@into_play3226 I agree, if the little mermaid was released when alladin did and Alladin was released when the little mermaid was then we would be saying the opposite about each film
@@into_play3226 I think the Little Mermaid would've made more money than it has, but the casting was always going to make it controversial and drag it down.
@@xWriterclarenocturnexx “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
@@xWriterclarenocturnexx You're telling others to ignore what Miss Andry has wrought. Youre telling others to no notice that this IS a new phenomenon.
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
The live action remakes have been an amazing cash cow for Disney, but think they've reached to point of diminishing returns, as are Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Pixar, and the MCU. All these things are on the downswing, possibly because of incompetence, where people got bored of unoriginal, predictable movies too many times. I don't think boycotts for ideological reasons work most of the time, but people just not having as much fun going to the movies will keep them away in droves.
well the politics is definitely a factor, the whole florida stunt they pulled instantly drew a line in the sand politically and thus turned off the opposite side, which so happen to be the right-leaning people which is also ironically enough a large portion of the gamer/nerd community.... the very people most likely to buy the merch and go see these movies multiple times, buy the legos and more. Disney's name has been tarnished greatly by this crap.
however, politics is not the main reason.... it feels like companies are hiring tumblr rejects to safe money because they are willing to work for scale. the writing quality is so bad it actively hurts your viewing experience if you are unable to turn your brain off and mindlessly consume the product. if you are easily manipulated by fast pace in a movie, or the visuals, or the music, or a number of various combos and you can easily shut your brain off, then you probably enjoyed the last jedi and the other trash from phase 4 marvel. if you cannot do that then you will find it very hard to even remotely enjoy anything on screen because the plot keeps taking you out of the immersion due to how stupid it is in an obvious way.... prime example would be mandolorian seasons 1-2 compared to season 3... the quality in the writing is night and day and the special effects were way worse too.... 6+ episodes were mostly filler that didt add much till the plot started around episode 7 or 8.
ESG score is also a huge problem, via trying to secure the massive credit lines these mega corps need to survive day to day, and have to hire political people...
and finally attacking the fans for criticizing something as toxic racists even though id say 98.9% of say the star wars community isnt making racist comments, yet we all get roped into that category. it is never wise to attack and insult the people you need to buy your product...
Spot on comment.
Great show, thanks. Interesting it’s so obvious what they need to,do, except to the studios.
Looking forward to it.
I been listening to the drinker for quite some time. Mostly when he's the character of himself talking about a movie or show on his own. Kinda cool seeing the real him in a very good back and forth that was
The first question is excellent- that is EXACTLY how it has felt for me since Endgame. I don’t even care to care anymore. They’ve completely destroyed the brand to the point I don’t even pay attention other than to watching videos ripping the trash they try to promote as film.
Back in 2016, the all female Ghostbusters got like a 70% or something from critics and that was like the lowest fresh rated movie at the time! RT rushed the ratings so that they had to put that score on that rank just to show that they support women!
It was on that moment I stopped rating my movies by RT and just followed my instincts!
''It's Not About Money, It's About Sending A Message'' - Joker
I dont think anyone has an issue with “strong women”. I grew up with Ripley from Aliens, Sarah Conor from Terminator and Leia from Star Wars…all 3 badasses in non traditional roles. I don’t even care about racial changes to characters in remakes. I just want good entertainment that isn’t beating me over the head with “the message” but these hacks cannot do subtlety.
Person grows up. Person faces challenges. Person gains magic powers. Person uses said magic powers to overcome challenge. Rinse, repeat.
The critical drinker is one of the best movie and tv critic I’ve ever seen. I remember getting hooked when he did a break down of the old ghostbusters movie and the female remake. It was perfect breakdown. I watch him and trust his overall opinion on movies.
Love Drinker and his pov. I will watch all his interviews. ❤
I miss Captain America and the ol gang. Good times...
I believe that Hollywood and Disney value ideologically capturing future generations over short term profit. The problem with that is, that this is a multi decade project and the level of spending required I don't believe can be sustained to be "successful."
The money that funded this ideological crusade at Disney came from a combination of Disney Parks profits, other Disney movies that did make a profit, Disney merchandise and whenever they have sold new stock to investors or borrowed money. However, that seemingly bottomless ocean of money is drying up and is just a large pond now. Find a financial statement for Disney from five or six years ago and compare it to one today. You will be shocked to see how much less cash on hand Disney has today. Something like $10 or $11 billion less.
This will put an end to this wasteful ideological project. Fewer Disney movies are turning a profit. Disney + will be lucky if it ever turns a profit. Business has been down this Summer at most Disney theme parks and this was where most of their profits were generated. (I don't know the reasons for this poor performance, but people; at least in the U.S., are travelling at near record rates again, so this is a really bad sign for Disney.) Disney has made a commitment to buy Hulu which will cost them more money than they currently have on hand, which means heavy borrowing and or selling off assets. Disney can't expect to sell more stock to investors with their currently dismal stock performance and creditors are going to become tighter with their money, charge higher interest and probably make demands on how the money is spent.
I can't predict how this all ends or tell you if or when Disney can find a way to turn this around, but I'm pretty sure a lot more layoffs are coming and I won't be surprised if Bob Iger eventually gets forced out as well. If the CEO goes or even if he stays but is threatened with removal, you can bet he will sacrifice everyone else before he goes down, in an attempt to save his own but. Those people whose movies and TV shows that have cost Disney hundreds of millions in losses, they should be updating their resumes and reevaluating their careers to move into something more appropriate, like teaching women's studies.
You're right. My main complaint was that much of it existed at all, lying there waiting for someone to hail it as a triumphant masterpiece
The Sound of Freedom, a must see.
To be fair, I went to watch The Eternals during the pandemic and I left halfway through because of how terrible the movie is. But we all know using Covid is a scapegoat by Hollywood.
Yeah your right, the Drinker is wrong on this, Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) came out in
the plandemic, and it did fantastic with $1,91 billion worldwide, No Time to Die (2021) also
came out in the plandemic, and also did good with $774 million worldwide, A Quiet Place
Part II (2021) was also a hit, and made $297 million worldwide, Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
also came out in the plandemic, and was a huge hit, and made worldwide 1,5 billion, Sonic
the Hedgehog 2 (2022) also came out in the plandemic, and also did good, and made $405
million worldwide, and i can go on, so NO, that Cruella (2021) was a flop had nothing to do
with the plandemic.
Same!
There's only a few gems every other year that makes me bother going to the movies. Top Gun Maverick was the last one, and Mission Impossible will be the next.
Critical Drinker's recommendations have so far hit the nail on the head for me, so there's that too.
You must have pretty low standards for what could be considered "gems" if you frothed over that average action motion like every other pundit did.
@@MagcargoMan I very much consider it a gem.
And I'd much rather be thought of as a simpleton, than some smug snob who farts out his opinions and portray himself the arbiter of the "correct standard".
@@MagcargoMan Haven't seen the new MI yet, but Top Gun was overrated as hell. Entertaining, but I was unimpressed overall. I liked Edge of Tomorrow and Oblivion more more.
@@0That_Guy0 Lol, not being a sheep who just likes whatever the pundit collective likes makes me a snob? That's pretty rich coming from someone like you, with a profile pic like that.
Disney also had this little movie called Sound of Freedom and refused to release it. It was a low-budget film, but had a great story, was based on almost unbelievably true events, and was very tastefully shot and had phenomenal acting. They shelved it for years and ended up losing the rights (or sold it or whatever) and now it's beating, of all things, their own Indiana Jones movie. Crazy but true!!!
Indiana Jones has already made nearly 5x what Sound of Freedom has made to date. (250M+ vs 50M+)
WHY WOULD PEDOS -- AT DISNEY RELEASE -SOUND OF FREEDOM ????
Ok?
@@Thattasome7 It has although Sound of Freedom is currently doing better at the US box office and has done very well for an independent film without major studio backing. It's also on track to make a profit, unlike Indy 5 which is nowhere near and would probably need to make at least $900M to break even.
Something that Hollywood can't seem to wrap its mind around is the fact that no matter how well a script is written, or how good the acting and production is; if a movie has a message that the audience strongly disagrees with, they're going to pan it and stay away.
That is true, but I think that's really only hitting half the problem
The problem isn't an allienating message in spite of objective qualities, it's the absense of any qualities except for the same repeated message.
Every person's gonna have their opinions on the culutral, political, and/or economic climate around them, and every artist is as equally prone to let their biases mix into their work. In a way, those little intricacies are a part of what makes an artist unique almost as much as any stylistic choice, but it's the sprectrum of how to present ideas where the line in the sand is: On one end is working the idea into a narrative that's engaging and thought provoking for the unconvinced and the believers alike, and then there's the souless and nonsensical insertion of an idea that supercedes any other individual merits.
@@doomdegree2584 I don't want a "narrative" or any other form of overt or subliminal messaging in my movies. I want to be entertained; period. I don't go to movies for political or social lectures.
@@MarkRVillano By all means, to each their own, there is still plenty of totally apolitical art out there if you're lookimg for it. But you did, however, misinterpret my use of the word narrative: not narrative as an ideological filtering of events, but marratove as in a story.
I actually think it’s the opposite. If it’s done well and it’s intelligently presented, I think you can convince many people to consider an ideology they previously didn’t. My favourite stories are the ones that offer a different perspective. The problem is Disney isn’t _inviting_ audiences to consider activist ideas, they’re brute forcing it. “Like it or YOU’RE the problem”. That never wins people over.
Why is that considered a bad thing, though? It's thought-provoking and challenges my opinions. It seems like "anti-woke" people just want all movies to become mindless coping mechanisms because they are so close minded they can't stand people or ideas different from them.
I feel so fortunate to have lived during an era where so many good movies were made. The Die Hards and Terminators and Predators and Aliens and Star Wars and Jurassic Park and The Matrix and the Disney Animated classics. All superb movies. And i've watched every single one of them numerous times, some more than others, because they are just that good that you want to go back and see them again even when you know basically every scene and every line.
And in the early 2000s we were truly blessed with GOOD franchises. Harry Potter had a ton of movies. Lord of the Rings had an amazing trilogy. Even the Star Wars prequels, which I was critical of certain aspects at the time, seem like fucking shakespear compared to what we have today. And again, i've watched every film in these franchises countless times.
And then... What the fuck happened?
Where did it all go wrong?
Franchises that were once good started having shit movies pumped out for cash grabs. Even before the intense messaging Hollywood was going for, there were so many soulless money grabs in the interim period. So many movies that I only watched once because I just never cared to see them again and others I skipped entirely because they looked like crap.
And after the endless bad cash grab sequels, reboots started becoming more and more common, trying to cash in on old classics people loved. And then... We finally transitioned to the woke agenda. It started with little things like casting a black man to play a Norse god then calling everyone racist when they criticized, but most didn't really care, as dumb as it was, because Idris Elba was a cool guy. But it just started happening more and more often that white characters were replaced with black ones, men were replaced with women, christians replaced with muslims, straight characters replaced with gay characters or trans characters, and so on. And even with all that happening, it STILL wouldn't be bad if they did it in a way that added to the story or at least if they prioritized the story, but they don't. They prioritize pushing that agenda over all else.
I remember how annoyed I was with the Sabrina remake. I wasn't an avid fan of the old tv series or anything, but I did watch it sometimes for a laugh when nothing better was on during the era before digital recording everything and live streams, and my favorite character by far was Salem. The black cat was snarky, sarcastic, intelligent, and kind of a terrorist of the witch world now being forced to live as a cat as punishment. He was funny and enjoyable and just interesting. I thought the prospect of a modern remake with a bigger budget could really bring such a character to life.
And then what did they do? They replaced him with a black gay man who was somehow a cousin to the main character. They gave HIM the snarky attitude and sarcasm. They gave HIM the backstory of being a criminal and being punished by being restricted to the home. The cat wasn't even downgraded to side character status, it showed it in like one episode where they basically explained it wasnt going to be involved anymore and couldnt talk, and that was it. And then they added episodes exclusively to have that new character have some gay romance going on just so they tick that box. This character could have, and should have, been a friend and confidant to Sabrina but instead he was put there specifically to push agendas. And then lest we forget the whole moral of the story at the end of the day was "men bad, men oppress women". Ugh. They could have done so much with this show but they always prioritize the message over the story and it ends up making it unwatchable because they have to HURT the story to squeeze in the message.
Thats the problem. They just don't care about making good stories anymore, all they care about are finding new vehicles to push their ideology and messaging down your throat.
"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made." JRR Tolkien
Most of the movies from the 80s had terrible scripts too, and the willingness of the audience to let it slide is precisely what green lit Hollywood to carry on making movies with the same flaws until we found it unacceptable, by which time they'd been making crud for 40 years with no idea of how to revert to quality.
@@PGHEngineer I dont care about what "most" movies were doing. We still had good movies back then. I haven't seen a good movie in probably 10 years. 80s had a bunch. 90s had some. 2000s had a handful. But 2010s? 2020s? It's been nothing but rubbish, and every single year it seems to get worse.
Even if "most" movies weren't great back in the day, once in a while you'd have an amazing one. Now, most movies are shit and more and more common you get movies and TV shows that are the worst kind of god awful shit you could imagine. It's like they're intentionally trying to destroy the entertainment industry.
Where did it go wrong? Well, first those great director's have retired or passed away...then came the liberal Democrats, LGBT, and the feminists to take over all entertainment with their woke political agenda's... it's very sad. Gone are the truly great blockbuster movies....the best movies have already been made and then they will be ruined when they remake them. Great comment by the way...long, but you expressed what so many of us feel.
I think people can no longer afford to go to the movies, or they cannot afford to see everything that comes out and maybe go to one or two movies a year. I had a lot more money to see movies when gas was 2 dollars a gallon and the cost of food was not three times more like it is today. When people have to pay more for necessities they have less for luxuries.
Drinker is the GOAT, always honest as hell with his reviews. very smart dude
The animated Arielle is so much more beautiful than the "real"...
Their has clearly been a decline in the quality of music and movies .
It's just my opinion music seems to have declined after 2010 and movies have really declined since around 2015.
I am not saying their aren't any good movies after 2015 I'm just saying that their seems to be far less really good movies after 2015.
What's so stupid about all of this is that Hollywood has a perfectly good source of examples of how to write strong female characters correctly, yet has ignored it the entire time: anime. I've been watching anime for nearly 25 years, and many of my favorite characters of all time are girls or women, but not because they were lampshaded as being empowered or some such crap. I love them because they're just plain cool, well-written characters, ranging from ones who are physically frail but emotionally resolute to ones who are a one-woman walking army. Just write good characters and a good story, and the profits will follow. This ain't rocket science.
Your example of strong female characters are from nameless Animes... okay
I would hate it if Hollywood would take over my beloved Animes. They have by far the best story lines. They would simply destroy the magic. Hey, Disney even stole the Lion King story from an Anime!
@@kagithkagith There is a lot. A small hint for you. Studio Ghibli. Or the simple one. One Piece. In almost every anime there are strong female characters.
Have you read about the link between ESG scores and financing/interest rates on loan? I wonder if this could be driving some of the decision making at the major Hollywood studios
Most movies nowadays fail to capture the wonder and magic of past eras. 90 percent of new movies today are either superhero movies, unnecessary sequels, or bad remakes of past successes. Where are the new Harry potters, Lotrs, or Star wars
Seems no one has any true creativity anymore. I've always loved indie movies and now I think they'll finally get the appreciation they deserve.
A New Hope: Hollywood collapses. I’m sick of all their classics-ruining content
The economy has changed and the pandemic has had several lasting impacts to the industry. 1st, is decling movie going audience. 2nd, the creation of ultra woke pandemic content the alienates half the audience 3. The cannibalism of streaming for lasting box office revenue 4th, the increasing competition from streaming series that focus more on character and ease of viewing UX experience.
The only thing that never changes is the fact that everything changes
telling a good story is the heart of movie making. how well one did shows at the box office. excuses abound, none worth the box office's losses.
Parents with kids aren’t ‘easily amused’. They’re exhausted.
$20 bucks? I've gone to the theaters and spent $70 for two. Had we only bought movie tickets, it would have been a little less than half of that. I know the numbers because I charged the amount back to a property I was managing and got called out of the theatre before the movie even started due to an emergency. This was before the pandemic. The days of the dollar theatre are dead. I can't imagine the theatres surviving the streaming age.
Good grief, $35 per ticket? Where do you live? lol
@@SpareSomeChange8080 About 1/2 of it was on food. The 35$ was for 2 tickets. And yes the price was high for 2 tickets. As I recall it was a 3D movie.
@@devonboulden2496Movie theaters have been in decline since at least the 2000’s.
The last decent era was the 80’s and 90’s. That was when dollar theaters could still operate without too much of a loss.
In my experience, the films I saw were those of lower budget. B movies that had some good scenes but were otherwise forgettable. Mostly, it was big box office films that already did their run at the first run theater.
Dollar theaters were the preferred option for poor people, people who lived in low income neighborhoods.
It's nice to see Drinker on a Normie's podcast
Am I the only one who has a hard time watching him without his glasses? 😅
@@mallorycarpinski1160 right there with you.
I wanna watch Sound of Freedom. But none of my local cinemas are showing it.
The strike is hilarious
RottenTomatoes edits the viewers scores as well though. I've had reviews published on there when I'm positive about a film, but when I post one that's critical of some woke aspect (without using that term exactly) it just never appears, they just drop it.
The thing about Rotten Tomatoes is the critics' score on any movie or show is really just a percentage of critics who's reviews lean even slightly positively. Theoretically, if every single critic rated a movie 6/10, the Rotten Tomatoes score would appear as 100%.
I wouldn't pay any attention at all to what rotten tomatoes says. Don't judge a movie by other's opinions.
critcs are there so I don’t have to watch every garbage movie to make my on opinion on it. It’s not like I wholeheartedly take their opinion at face value, but it’s more of a guide so I can filter out the trash
@@2spliffs41lifetimeDepends on what you mean. A number can’t be a guide for the reason OP stated. Rotten Tomatoes can’t be a guide because they’re incentivized by studios. A good critic can objectively state what he saw and didn’t see in a movie, and why he liked or didn’t like it. Not all critics are good, meaning not all critics are objective. Rotten Tomatoes isn’t a site serving up objective criticism. It’s a dumping ground for anyone and everyone who has an opinion and calls that opinion a review.
Rotten Tomatoes numeric scores - both critics and audience - are utterly useless. They’re compiling mindless opinions, not the opinions of people who actually understand film. Your best option is to find three or for objective critics (people who understand film and possess a modicum of self awareness about their own preferences), learn what it means when they like or dislike something, and use that as your guide. The idea of using Rotten Tomatoes - as though you could arbitrarily compile aggregate opinions and know anything at all - is silly.
@@marksavage1744 I don't like to spoil myself by looking at trailers or even the smallest description of a plot. I'd rather take my chances by analyzing different numerical values by different systems.
Is this true? Why do Rotten Tomatoes critics give a score out of ten at all? All they need is two big buttons; YES and NO, that they smash with their foreheads. This would give exactly the same results.
Hollywood had a golden age between about 1980 and 2010. That's pretty good. It's now reverting back to mean and just can't compete with all the other entertainment options out there. I think it'll be telling how the SAG and Writer's Guild strikes pan out.
I think the Golden Age began in the 1970s! A LOT of the most iconic, innovative Hollywood movies were made in that time frame!
@@mrconfusion87 Sure the 70s is probably where it started. Just like the decline has been through the 2010s. It's all fuzzy really, but what seems fair to say is they are no longer in a golden era.
Studios don’t get that people are able to tell the difference between inclusion and propaganda.
Honestly, in the past if I heard there was a Writer's strike I was like, Oh now I have to wait for my favorite show. But now is totally different. There are NO NEW SHOWS people really really care about. I doubt they are getting any emails. From anyone other than people in the biz or people whose family are in the biz. I can't see anyone really being depressed over a year or two of no new movies or tv shows. It is like, Who cares??? I can play video games, or watch countless older shows from 10 to 20 years ago and be entertained more.
DC never took off - Aquaaman and Joker each made a billion - that's not too bad I have to admit.
Aquaman was a surprise. I see Joker as DC's Deadpool - a low budget side project that hit out of the park yet not connected to any long term narrative or plan.
Given the infamous incompetence of Warner executives, I assume Joker was too low a budget for them to bother meddling with production.
He was SO diplomatic. 'Not a cinematic masterpiece!'
I think there is an element with critic scores of the critic is looking at the movie as a stand alone movie that serves as an entry point to that story universe. If it doesn't work for them in that role, it's a "bad" movie, but it might work for a fan of the franchise. If it works for them in that role, then it's a "good" movie, even if it doesn't work with the fan base or accurately represents the source material. Doesn't always apply, and probably happened a lot more in the past, but I'm sure it happens.
Now I see why the Critical Drinker wears sunglasses all the time.
One eye is looking straight while the other does whatever it feels like.
That's called a lazy eye. Cheech
One example of bad politically correct casting was when the BBC did a documentary recreating and examining the world of Jane Austen. The show was explaining the importance of events such as balls and the nuances of social behavior.
It had a recreation of a ball such as Jane Austen may have attended. The documentary lost all credibility when black actors were shown as guests at the ball. While there is rare probability of blacks attending social events at London as representatives of various African kingdoms, it is very doubtful if not completely inaccurate that blacks were guests at a country society events that Jane Austen attended
. This was about the level as casting a black woman as Cleopatra on an attempt to claim Cleopatra as black. It's lying about history to appease a very small minority of woke activists.
No one to blame but our selves. 😢
I’m glad to watch anything that includes Critical Drinker
I became disinterested when i saw Black Panther and Endgame. I was done. Infinity War was the last MCU film I genuinely enjoyed. Not counting Spiderman NWH
Tom Cruise films ?
@@rahulray9983 Overrated by pundits.
My daughter, once a huge Marvel fan, hated the last Thor and hasn’t mentioned anything related to Black Widow or any of them since.
Can say I’m disappointed.
I like this channel 😁
Wise words from a movie-fan!
Nerdrotic, The Drinker, Disparou, and MauLer are my goto critics... quite real, a little sour... just great.
I suppose the scene in the Dark Knight is a good symbol for this situation. The Joker has a huge pile of money and he sets it on fire. Hollywood has decided to burn its money and deliberately put itself out of business.
I must confess to a degree of fatique in the Marvel Franchise, where I didn't watch Infinity War/End game. I think Black Panther was showing in a different hall. The lead character lives in one outing, dies in the next. It just brought the lack of consequences into sharp focus. With gods like Loki in that universe it just felt meanless...
The real problem is Disney bit off more than it could chew acquiring both Star Wars and Marvel. Their current DEI model can't handle the IP that they acquired so everything they create from it becomes a soul-less shell of the original themes and ideas. Their greed is their ultimate downfall.
I don't think you can trust audience scores for films either, because who are they polling? I rarely ever leave a review of something I liked, but I'll go out of my way to deconstruct something I disliked. There may not be any pressure to audience opinion directly, but many things I've enjoyed have been trashed by other people, usually because they're mad about something political they read into it, or were told to read into it by another reviewer, that I just didn't see or care about whilst being entertained by it.
audience score is based on rating, not review?
Aquafina voice is enough for me not to watch movies if she's in it
Good interview, trust the audience AND the C.D. ;)
Last movie I saw in cinema was Bohemian Rhapsody. And that was basically a dramatized biography.
The cruela movie was fantastic. The visual artistry of it, especially the use of colors was just excellence
Im not gonna lie I was entertained by it. Some of these other live action films I didn't make it through
I grew up watching 101 Dalmatians so I rather liked this other side view from Cruela. Like seeing villain arcs like Joker, you can feel some sympathy for them before they turned to the dark side.
Think the difference was that it was not a remake but its own movie.
It should have been an original movie. It's so distant from the source material that the actual elements from 101 Dalmations feel tacked on.
Lol Cruela was a Joker knock off.
We're in the Weimar period.
Only missing the hyper-inflation, which is incoming.
2:25 Chalie's face lol looks like he's gonna fight Will
My popcorn is ready!