POSTED Start Time vs ACTUAL Start Time!!! Regularly 25-33 Mins of Ads and countless trailers - Terrible!! Should be 10 mins Tops! For a 7:00 Start Time Movie Run any Product Ads BEFORE the start time. 7:00 - 7:08 - THREE Trailers. Max. 7:08 - 7:09 - Turn off your Phone/Thanks for Coming 7:09 - 7:10 - Imax/Dolby Ad 7:10 - Feature This will make the movie experience So Much more enjoyable!!!
I do home theater. Love it so much I build my own speakers too. However I refuse to stream. I refuse substandard audio and video from streaming companies.
I can’t imagine how the traditional model of movie theater operation could continue. It’s not worth it. As someone who grew up in the 90’s and loved the idea of going to a movie theater as an event, it’s just an anachronism in today’s day and age of modern entertainment.
Yes. The ada are already long enough. And now regal starts putting ads between trailers?! Like wtf. A 2.5 hour movie is long enough. I don’t wanna spend the entire afternoon or evening in the theater.
I have all of these problems my people are rude, I am losing happiness when I go but I still will go, the theaters I go to are not taken care of very well, it hurt me to see people not wanting people to go
Just watched it last night and came out of it smiling/laughing. You sadly dont get movies like this anymore. I may just watch it twice. That scene with the son in law alone is worth the ticket both hilarious and action packed.
I went to see Bad Boys send had a really tasty yet expensive hot dog lol I enjoyed my experience but almost $12 for a hot dog and cheese sauce is ridiculous
Our society is filled with apathy now. People that can't be bothered to appropriately dress themselves when going to the grocery store or who play music loudly on the golf course are not going to be quiet in a movie theater.
Easy watch, funny and different. I prefer movies that try something new and fail, than stale "moral of the story- for kids" formula. Each to their own.
It's interesting to see that concession prices have only kept up with inflation, but that doesn't change the fact that they were overpriced to begin with. Theaters only got away with it before because people still loved going to the movies. They should adapt now to make the theater-going experience more appealing. I never even consider buying concessions, but if they were more fairly priced, I would not only buy them but it might encourage me to go to the theater more often. Have any theater chains tried this? It seems like a no-brainer.
I think the last time I genuinely enjoyed AMC for being an AMC was 2016. I saw Civil War and Moana in Dine-In Theaters and they were great; the cocktails were awesome, food tasted great for what it was, the staff was nice, the seats were clean, I tipped extra. I'd enjoyed the Dine-Ins a couple times; twice in 2014 and again in 2015 for Age of Ultron. I haven't gone to a Dine-In since probably 2017/2018 now, and I'm afraid to go today. Regular theater suck, so lord knows what the restaurants and bars are like now.
Also movies are too long! Amc shows like 25 minutes of trailers which means i either have to rush from work and skip dinner to see a 6pm showing or go to a 9 pm showing and be ther until midnight. So many movies run way over 2 hours these days.
I go to the theater pretty often, twice later this week and twice next week. I’ve got a subscription to AMC A-List and also Alamo Drafthouse, because I’m fortunate enough to have an easy side hustle that funds them and I have good theaters in my area. But… yeah, neither is gonna be the case for everyone. If I go to the show with someone I’m getting all the tickets and snacks cause shits expensive and I’m the one that can afford it. All the points here were good, but the bummer of it is that the one that’s not necessarily on the theaters is the one that feels like the biggest hurdle. They could make things cheaper, but not knowing their margins makes it hard to know how much that can help. One thing I think could be an interesting strategy is to ape the concert model and go back to the road show for more movies. Tour from market to market, make seeing something theatrically feel special, that kinda thing. Hell, A24 tends to have good and interesting movie specific merch at their store, maybe incorporate that. I’d definitely buy a shirt now and then if they had them for a movie I went to see, and they could probably incorporate what they make in merch sales into what the movie made in its theatrical run.
Yeah I'm with you Dan and the commenters also, surprised by the super high buzz this movie has received. Although I didn't mind the relationship so much because they were both fucked up people, not sure we meant to fully root for them.
lol rare case of me loving a movie for the same reason you disliked it. I thought it was quite subversive of what I was expecting "Oh I bet they are going to get that punishment for doing the bad thing now"... oh wait no, nice.
I mostly agree with your review but the emotion really landed for me so I loved it. I thought the score was incredibly charming as well. I’m recommending my friends with kids to go see it
When i saw fury road i was rhe only person in the theatre and it was pretty good movie, i feel like a 7.5 or 8.0 out of 10.. only nitpicks are its too long for a mad max movie unless its george millers last film cause dude is 79 i dont expect him to keep going... I feel like the theatres are more comfortable than ever which is also bad because now they have more expensive seats and carpets and nicer things jn the theatre that cost more, people not buying the overpriced popcorn probably hurts them too
Mr. Murrell, I love your consistency and always digging into the details. I also agree with your decision to drop videos earlier. I’m a huge fan! One thing I might add (but feel free to totally ignore my suggestion), on your “Road to Recovery” chart. It would be neat if you had total for each line (like a year-to-date total). i.e. At this point, 2015-2019 was at $3.8 billion versus 2021-2023 was at $1.7 billion. And, if you wanted to break out the year-to-date weekly average box office, you could simply divide that total figure by 23….or whatever week you happen to be on. P.S. I’m totally guessing at the numbers in my example. But, I just thought that might be a neat stat for some of us uber-nerds within the community. I wish you well Sir! I genuinely get excited about your videos every week. Keep up the great work!
P.S. You could simply run those stats on a different excel tab (in order to keep your chart clean). But, the information would be there if you ever wanted to mention it, or if it brought insight into how drastically everything has changed over the years. You are the best!!
The inflation comparison doesn't really work. Especially with older films. There is a LOT more competition these days compared to back when there was only 1 big movie out at any given time. Movies practically had months to themselves. The further back you go they may have been the only movie in theaters when they they released.
With Furiosa I guess I was thinking of it a bit like Dune versus Dune Part Two or maybe Into the Spider-Verse versus Across the Spider-Verse, i.e. you have an acclaimed but relatively low grossing antecedent which builds an audience for the film at hand. Like, I'll be honest I got burnt by both ATSV and Dune Part Two because I didn't expect either of them to build on the grosses of the previous movies to anywhere near the extent they did. However, I didn't realise just how old Mad Max Fury Road is at this point, it came out in 2015... Furiosa is practically a legacy prequel. That makes it more or less 2024's version of Blade Runner 2049: legacy follow ups to cult movies don't have a good track record. I guess the question for Hollywood at this point is whether the problem is that they didn't follow up fast enough (they failed to make hay whilst the sun shines) or if cult hits that flopped/bombed (Fury Road, Blade Runner) are forever going to be cult movies... the audience simply isn't there to make follow ups succeed in the first place.
That seems like a sharp drop from Fellowship to Towers? Did that many people not want to return? Towers is a good movie, worth going for the Helm's Deep siege alone.
The funniest part is that all the MAGA think the movie is to represent Biden as president... No. It is Trump or the idea of a president like Trump who would not leave office and attack Americans with the military.
Most who give this movie a poor review had some part of their delusion of what America is shattered. This is war. Just like the news, war is not to entertain. The government is not a spectator sport. When good people who act like adults and take responsibility for the actions run the show it is America as we know it. When you believe in false promises from incompetent people who just want money in their pockets and to have their ego's stroked this is what you get. Watch it and if you do not think this can happen here, you are not paying attention to all of human history.
Even having a great home movie experience, I there is so too much content. I am overwhelmed. There is no way i will ever have enough TIME, forget money to see it all. I think a great part of the problem has do with with the most basic of reasons. VIABILITY. With so many options, is is even viable anymore? Is it financially feasible to have ANY market with ANY product that has flooded the market? Even products like oil that are high in demand will stop production when it becomes less viable to have in the market. That is regardless of how well or bad the economy is doing.
I think this was the FIRST video that I've seen that really did touch on why movies are not doing well other than saying dumba-s talking points like "Women, Gays, Diversity", is why films are not making money. All of which I think is bull💩, just like with "adult films", it's an audience out there for everything/one it's just about finding your audience! Bravo, good sir, you actually made sound points without making it about why you personally don't enjoy films today. #SideNote I feel like you only touched on big reasons why, but MONEY & just really BAD films/remakes I think is an understatement! $30 person for someone like me "A family of 4", that's $120 & if it sucks that's a LOT of money to spend on a bad product. Anyway, it's a great video. Thank you for just giving your opinion as opposed to talking as if your opinion is why many of us have stopped going to the theater.
Going to the movies is to high of a cost across the board. People would be more willing to take a chance on a film before reviews now it's a high risk to your wallet
I never watched the old cartoon, or read comics, saw a few movies never been the biggest fan but my god 97 is amazing!! Some of the best stuff I’ve seen in years!
Bitter sweet I guess. Good some money is being made but bad boys being an undeniable hit means studios will continue low effort nostalgia movies. And Will Smith is further rewarded for slapping a colleague ON STAGE! It's the wildest thing!
Another reason is studio's are doing so many remakes reboots and sequels and stuff like that because Hollywood has run out of ideas for new movies and tv shows
Unfortunately they've lost their audience. The whole fanbaiting, fan blaming, telling people who don't agree to not watch, etc. kinda attitude has destroyed their reputation with the audience. We saw it happen with comic and now it's happening with other media. People went and watched old LOTR movies this past weekend which are readily available at home. It's not that people don't want to go to the movies. They don't wanna go to movies that tell them they're dumb and push immoral or annoying messages and they don't wanna go movies made by people that hate them and think they need educated rather than entertained. The hiring process has been infected to hire on everything but merit too so that's largely the source of a drop in quality. If something good slips through the cracks it's unfortunately effected by this largely hateful industry and creators to barely be noticed many times.
