Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 100

I’ve never even heard of Popstar. Not super surprising as I’m very out of touch with entertainment stuff but it does not ring a bell at all - no previews, cast, commercials, coworker talk... nothing regarding whatever Popstar is. Funny how that works sometimes.

*off to Google it*

 

I didn't know this thread existed

 

It’s my favorite thread

 

That's an unpopular opinion by itself

 

Not an unpopular opinion but RE: Studio comedies, "Game Night" rules.

 

Love that there's a comedy that, for no good reason, has a dope Cliff Martinez score, lol.

 

I remember really enjoying this movie but not actually laughing that much. I think I need to give it another shot

 

Movie studios should just dump movies they know will bomb on Netflix or whatever

 

Back in my day, that strategy was called “straight to video”

 

A lot of stuff, good and bad, will be going straight to streaming from now on. The pandemic has accelerated what was a longterm trend. Theaters will be the place reserved mostly for blockbusters.

 

been saying exactly that for weeks now. y'all said i was crazy for saying bond might go direct to streaming. it's going to happen a lot sooner than we all think.

 

I can’t imagine Bond goes to streaming. It’s one of the safer blockbuster franchises with a low floor in a theatrical release

 

the theater experience is irreplaceable and I feel like theaters being closed is reinforcing that for a lot of people

 

Love going to the movies.

 

Parasite was the last movie I saw in theaters and I’m glad since all my focus is on a movie there. I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed it much watching it on Hulu now at home because I’m too distracted here.

 

Disney/Marvel/Star Wars were hurting the theater experience already, as much as I love going to the theater to see a mid budget studio movie or an indie, I knew that experience is likely looking down it’s last decade.

 

i feel like them being closed is showing how inessential/"replaceable" they are, even if i love them lol

few things bring me the level of joy/excitement as going to the theater. but it's definitely being phased out, unfortunately.

 

movies are gonna be hurt for a while by this, because even if theaters are allowed to re-open (being in NY right now, not something I see happening before fall/winter at the soonest), operating at limited to half capacity means the movies are forced to make less money showing their films in theaters, this might be the event that's needed to make that pivot to streaming happen for a lot of movies/companies. That said, i don't think it would be financially realistic to even keep the major theaters open if they're only going to be getting the big ones 2-3 times a year.

 

it doesn't seem financially realistic to keep theaters open with how much of debt AMC is in/their valuation. i don't think it'll mean they close fully. but if it means they have to close even like 1/5 of their theaters, that's going to have a pretty major impact on the industry

 

Last night I found out the independent cinema in my hometown is closing indefinitely unless they can get a buyer. It’s a shame, saw a lot of good indie/foreign movies there in high school

 

I don't see any blockbuster like Bond going to streaming unless something like Apple or Amazon ponies up a ton of money to rent it through streaming. They stand to make way more money when theaters re-open, whenever that may be. The only reason I think "Trolls" did it is because it's a shitty kids movie that parents will throw on to distract the kids and they already had all of the marketing going by the time the shutdown happened.

Indies and mid-tier dramas and comedies are sadly even more fucked than before, for sure.

 

I am surprised more Way Back/the Hunt/Emma level movies haven’t released on demand for $19.99 since that crop, or maybe I’m missing them?

 

Since we were like a week away from the start of the first big crop of blockbusters ("Quiet Place II," "Mulan," "Bond," "Black Widow"), there wasn't a whole lot I think studios want to throw out on streaming right now.

 

How much money would a studio stand to make by putting a new film on a streaming service? Even though it would assuredly cost more to distribute it to theaters (though what is even distributed to theaters now? Could they not just play a digital file on a projector?), I doubt a blockbuster online would pull in nearly as much money in the opening weeks as it does in theaters

 

That Kumail/Issa Rae movie is the first I can think of that was slated for a theatrical release and moved to streaming