"summer of garbage blockbusters."

[DrLeftover]

Analysts are predicting that R.I.P.D, starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, will become the fourth such film in as many weeks to underperform.

The costliest failure so far has been The Lone Ranger, starring Johnny Depp, which cost $250 million (£165 million) to make, and had a huge marketing budget. It was savaged by critics as a "bloated, unfunny, sometimes downright bizarre train wreck" amid a "summer of garbage blockbusters."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10188980/Hollywood-facing-summer-crisis-with-multiple-big-budget-flops.html


And yet, they keep filling the screens with crap year after year

 

[Bryd0]

I know... bad, isn't it? That's why I've stopped going to the cinema.

 

[Evil Eye]

It's what they know.

 

[DrLeftover]

no end in sight

Gruesomely grotesque and pathologically pretentious, a diabolical horror called Only God Forgives may not be the worst movie ever made, but it is unquestionably in the top five. It reunites the usually reliable Ryan Gosling with the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, whose work I admired (prematurely, it seems) two years ago in the moody, shocking and perversely fascinating Drive. There is nothing remotely compelling about this one. I should have suspected as much. Premiering in May at the Cannes Film Festival, Only God Forgives was viciously barbecued by the critics after the film was booed so loudly that Ryan Gosling didn’t even show up for the red carpet. Now I know why.

http://observer.com/2013/07/unforgivable-only-god-forgives-is-one-of-the-worst-movies-ever-made/

 

[McConnaughay]

Honestly, I watched The Lone Ranger in theaters, and it was basically what I expected it to be. I know that Rotten Tomatoes amongst other places have critics and ranted and raved about the movie until the cows came home, but I was entertained. So far this year, I've went to the movies to see ten movies this year, including Warm Bodies, Evil Dead, Iron Man 3, The Great Gatsby, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Fast and the Furious 6, Now You See Me, Man of Steel, World War Z, and The Lone Ranger. I went to see the movie with three friends, and we all came out with a similar consensus. The movie wasn't anything that should be referred to as great, but it was mindlessly entertaining, especially for the last thirty or so minutes. As for "Only God Forgives," it's hardly a blockbuster, and I think that I'll give it a chance regardless of what critics think. Critics aren't anymore intelligent or knowing than your casual viewer, and thus, seeing that they didn't like it, only tells me that it's not for everyone.

 

[DrLeftover]

True enough.

But when I look at the ticket prices, the popcorn and drink prices, and the twenty minutes of commercials BEFORE the movie even starts and consider that for me and my wife to go to the theater to see something is going to be at least a thirty dollar and Three Hour investment, not to mention having somebody two rows back yapping into their phone for half the movie....

What was on the screen had by God better be at least 'entertaining' and not a disgusting mess.

Not every movie is going to be as good as last year's Les Misérables, indeed, very few are... then again, watching 'Tonto' walk around in whiteface with a dead bird on his head isn't going to make me happy about going either.

 

[Bryd0]

...not to mention having somebody two rows back yapping into their phone for half the movie....

I thought people weren't allowed to use mobile phones during the screening... at least where I am. When I saw Flight months ago, I had to put up with some moron smacking his lips for half the time

So far this year, I've went to the movies to see ten movies this year, including Warm Bodies, Evil Dead, Iron Man 3, The Great Gatsby, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Fast and the Furious 6, Now You See Me, Man of Steel, World War Z, and The Lone Ranger.

I never got the hype of that film I put in bold, especially when it was in production and I was sick of people not shutting up about it. It got the excessive amount of hype solely because Glasgow's George Square was transformed into downtown Philadelphia, in case you didn't know. Why do that when the film can just be produced in Philadelphia? To me it was just a waste of money, and a very stupid idea that either Brad Pitt came up with or someone else in the production team. That's another reason why I don't like films of this generation, because of silly and unneeded things like these.

 

[McConnaughay]

That's another reason why I don't like films of this generation, because of silly and unneeded things like these.

I don't like it whenever people say things like "This generation," and "That generation," because it makes me feel as if they're just remembering the good of the previous generation, and ignoring millions and millions of flaws that were had. This generation may have things that are silly and unneeded, but not any more than yesterday's work. At least that is in my opinion.

 

[DrLeftover]

And on that point, we agree.