Seriously, can someone explain to me why movies like pic related aren't more common/fail at the box office? It's basically the film equivalent of a Katy Perry song. I could name tons more examples that fit the following description:
>mid budget action flick with A-list stars
>not too brainy or emotional for the average normie
>focuses mostly on being fun to watch, unlike transformers and capeshit, which are written and directed as three hour epic action dramas
>good reviews and overall just wasn't shit
I feel like I caught movies like this all the time back in the early 2000s, when Spiderman and Pirates of the Caribbean were making waves. But now it's very rare, and ironically even the Pirates/Marvel franchises seem to be going in a direction that I just can't explain.
Why do people hate fun movies now?
>>63088608
Because you can watch any old fun movie on your computer now. Going to theaters needs to be a big "movie event" to justify the price of the tickets, so people only do it for movies that promise 165 minutes of BIGGER AND BETTER.
>>63088608
>Why do people hate fun movies now?
they don't, the just torrent them instead of paying to see them, that's why the fail at the box office
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>>63088801
It's unanimous anon.
>>63088868
i wasn't thinking samefag, just that it's not true.
>>63089162
What do you think then
>>63088608
mortdecai , j depp etc 2015,, funny as - good movie -bad reveiw
dunno why --maybe just over their heads
to quote frank zappa "what eva happen'd to all the fun in the world" -
>>63088608
Edge of Tomorrow "failed" because it had a forgettable name and was horrible marketed.
I remember asking people if they seen the new Tom Cruise movie and literally everyone never heard of Edge of Tomorrow.
If you asked me they should have stuck with All you need is kill and up the ultra violence. It would have been entertaining to see Tom Cruise gory death scenes.
>>63089521
>they should have stuck with All you need is kill and up the ultra violence. It would have been entertaining to see Tom Cruise gory death scenes.
Would've distracted from the fun pace that movie had if they spent twice as long making every death gory.
>>63088608
But I like fun movies. Ella Enchanted is still a classic to me :3
