The Fall Guy to Megalopolis: is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop?
The Fall Guy to Megalopolis: is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop?
Last year’s Barbenheimer was hailed as saving cinema. Now takings are down and even franchises are falling flat. Can Hollywood manoeuvre itself out of this disaster zone?
It's fascinating to contrast this to the myriad of essays about the dead of cinema. This examples fit to tee to the template of reasons to not go to the movies anymore. The model ran out, stars don't matter anymore, streaming is king, scripts are stale, IPs are no longer guarantees, the silver screen is disconnected from the imagination of audiences, but still trying to funnel their wallets with outrageous overpriced projects.
This is adapted from videogame journalism but it fits cinema as well. I want less films, with smaller budgets, that are shorter, that pay their writers, actors and crews better, while telling more creative and original stories, and I'm not joking.
Gladiator 2 will surely turn things around.
I have to admit, Megalopolis looks like my kind of bonkers. This is the exceedingly rare movie I will actually try to catch in the theater.
Megalopolis sounds bizarre, I'm actually looking forward to checking it out. I'm not really interested in anything else coming soon except Deadpool.
When famous directors spend decades on a film, you either get something great like Linklater’s Boyhood or Nolan’s Inception or a massive disappointment.
Megalopolis looks like an expensive masturbatory exercise. If Life of Pi had less of a story line.