>For months, American moviegoers have either been going big or staying home.
>And if they keep behaving that way, 2015 may set new marks for both hits and misses — while leaving a hole in the middle, where Oscars are typically born.
>But in both months, high-profile, midrange films that were being closely monitored as awards prospects flopped — among them Sony’s “The Walk,” Universal’s “Steve Jobs” and Warner’s “Our Brand Is Crisis.” And those joined more commercially oriented wipeouts like “Pan,” “Rock the Kasbah,” “The Last Witch Hunter,” “Jem and the Holograms” and “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.”
>Over all, North American ticket sales so far this year are up 5 percent compared with the same period in 2014, according to the Rentrak reporting service. But the increase does not reflect what has traditionally been considered a healthy movie marketplace — more hits than misses, with films of different sizes and aimed at different slices of the population, chugging toward profit.
>Instead, the boost comes almost entirely from a handful of megamovies: “Jurassic World,” “The Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Inside Out,” “Furious 7” and those fall hits, “The Martian” and “Hotel Transylvania 2.”
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/business/media/hollywood-is-producing-higher-highs-lower-lows.html
All we need to do is kill capeshit and sequels and Hollywood will be finished.
Something else will just replace capeshit.
>>62632488
starshit
>>62632409
lmao who is this slut, what an ugly whore. probably ended up sucking dick at a truckstop
>>62632649
Not okay, Anon.
Not okay.
>>62632409
>Today I have 18 Academy Awards
Still ugly though
>>62632409
They told Bette Davis she was too ugly as well and look how far she got.
meryl streep is overrated af
>>62632409
>>For months, American moviegoers have either been going big or staying home.
Wow, it's almost like this is a natural result of neoliberal economy in all aspects of human existence.
The casting director made the right call to be honest. She doesn't have the look for the female lead of King Kong.
>>62632409
>riding the New York subway in the 70s
Brave lady.
>>62632720
Eat shit, kek.
And thus the tumor exhibits.
>>62632755
It's not like she's in danger of getting raped. Just look at that face!
>>62632793
When you're a nigger high on crack, you'll rape anything that looks remotely female.
>>62632808
What about Amy Schumer?
>>62632409
STOP REMAKING SHITTY FRANCHISES FROM 25 YEARS AGO.
>>62632720
This. She's also proof the women's acting category is a joke
>>62632720
Mmmmuh Alar apples. We mmmust protect the children.
>>62632409
>and those fall hits, “The Martian” and “Hotel Transylvania 2.”
Those are the only successful movies this season?
>>62632824
Especially Amy Schumer.
>>62632824
>remotely female
>>62632755
Charles Bronson was probably on board
>>62632409
That's a fan account. Those are not her words.
>>62632824
Niggers love fat white bitches.
>>62632710
I'm sorry but you got Bette Davis Eyes
>>62633060
that death wish and jeff goldblum.
How did Sicario do? I though that occupied the middle ground and there were a good amount of people at the theater when I saw it
yfw she would have had to do nudity and probably ruined her career
>>62632409
>We Are Your Friends did so fucking badly that people compilling a list of flops can't find out about it
>>62632824
She's more ape than human.
>| never told anyone these things until I could spew them out to an online audience of millions
THINGS CAN ONLY BE EITHER GREAT OR SHIT, BLACK OR WHITE, RIGHT OR LEFT, MALE OR FEMALE, ETC ETC
>>62632488
drivecore
>>62632409
Hollywood is as good as dead. The 2010s are a really, really shitty decade for movies because the movers and shakers in the industry are people who grew up edgy in the 90s and 2000s.
There simply aren't any good movies made anymore. It's all total shit. Sometimes pretentious shit, sometimes hilarious shit, sometimes capeshit, but always shit.
We have the end of 2015 already and in the whole decade, there was not a single movie that had an impact on zeitgeist and pop culture. Hilarious! If you had to do a movie like those "XY movies" in the 2000s today, it would be impossible - no 2010s movie stuck in your head like those movies did, not even super-hyped shit like 50 Shades of Gay.
>>62632409
>18 Academy Awards
And how many Annoying Cunt Awards?
>>62632624
Who's ready for a sci-fantasy boom thanks to the new trilogy?
>>62634634
It will bomb. Screencap if you want.
Hollywood's problem is that it now makes movies the director finds cool instead of movies that the audience finds cool.
>>62632808
are you speaking from experience?
>>62634353
>hating on Based Meryl
pleb tier
>>62634710
>praising old cunt
>not pleb
Get c.u.c.k.e.d. tbfag
>>62634255
Ex Machina, Diary of a Teenaged Girl, Madding Crowd, the Martian and Kingsman were all released this year. only the latter two were hits, but I'll take that over the crop of 2014 where the only good movie I can remember was Whiplash.
Wait what about Straight Outta Compton? I thought that was a hit
>>62634677
>Hollywood's problem is that it now makes movies the director finds cool instead of movies that the audience finds cool.
Except it's the exact opposite. Everything is test marketed to hell and back so there's no room for anything remotely unique or interesting. Creative control is at all time low and groups of ten teenaged retards sitting in front of two-way glass are making most of the decisions.
Jessica Lange was so fucking hot in King Kong
>>62633444
oh god that is disgusting
i hate her even more now
>>62634255
finally another soul who knows how shit everything is
>>62632409
It's almost like the smart people learned to stop going to the fucking movie theater.
All the retards will continue to flock to their capeshit and shit femnazi comedy
>>62632720
nobody rates her outside of the US though
Literally the only ones still making decent "non-blockbuster" "non-hipster shit" movies are the Coens.
>>62632409
She's beautiful inside and out.
I like how the article ignores how every flop this year had over an 9 on imdb, over 90 on metacritic, and 100% on RT... right up until the second they premiered.
It's almost as if people are learning to not trust marketing and are only going by word of mouth from people they know.
im pretty sure no one wants to get shot by some autistic neckbeard
>>62632720
she only gets as much praise as she does because harvey weinstein shills for her all over town
Is it Meryl Streep or Helen Mirren the one who's a total bitch to anyone who beats her at the Oscars?
>>62637029
Probably both
>>62636178
i wish
video games would be pretty damn near dead if that was true
>>62632409
Clearly fishing for compliments on her picture, the twat.
>>62632409
>that pic
*nominations
>>62634828
lol, then why does everything bomb? Unless they test-.show their shit to their most loyal tumblr followers, ending up in a huge circle jerk.
I mean, shit, Spectre, dat Austin Powers ending. Do you honestly think nobody objected to it? Bullshit.
>>62634755
>only the latter two were hits
Yeah, 2010s hits. They were shit, just less shit than the rest.
The 2010s will go down in history as the lost decade of cinema, mark my words.
>>62637125
But they are, have been for some years now.
People thought indie games would save vidya, but no chance.
>>62634828
No, those are the ones that succeed. The flops are the "LOL ART" movies directors make to wank themselves off .The argument just boils down to the intention behind the creation. If you want directors making movies they like and want to make at the risk of isolating everyone else or do you want them making movies everyone wants to see by slightly changing the tried and true? Obviously there is a middle ground but it seams that's being satiated on TV nowadays.
>>62637428
Sure, typically. But the reason the OP article exists at all is because a number of the heavily tested high budget/profile shitfests bombed or underperformed.
>>62637206
They probably had ten or fifteen different generic as fuck endings written and the "austin powers" ending was the only one that got a response.
>2015
>going to the cinema
for what reason?
Only retards that watch pleb tier garbage like avengers enjoy sharing a movie experience with a room full of loud obnoxious people constantly chewing food and looking at their bright cellphone screens.
Smart people watch good movies at home.
>>62632409
The problem is they have made movies cost so much you don't want to take risk to go see a movie if you don't feel strongly about your chances of liking it.
No one wants to go to a movie, have it suck, leave early and maybe even argue to get the ticket price back (the food cost just as much so no refund there). Just not worth it sometimes.
>>62632720
Is she overrated? A Little. But she definitely deserves some oscars and noms she got.
>>62632409
>implying a giant gorilla's going to fall head over heels in love with that boney homely visage
Jessica Lange was just the better choice Meryl, the whole role is "beautiful woman"
>>62637254
have you read the news at all lately?
Fallout 4 is all over the place, more than any movie.
>>62637125
>>62637254
>>62638256
/v/edditors please make your meta comments on /v/ or reddit
>>62632720
OVEREXPOSED
NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ANYMORE MERYL
TWO FLOPS IN A ROW BTW
>>62639435
EL BOMBO
>>62637029
Meryl Streep has won several times, and I think she's been pretty graceful since because she knows they want to give it to other people. Helen Mirren may be less secure about it.
