This is true but what are movies without box office? To stop worrying about box office means to stop worrying about theatres? What next? God, I hope theatres don’t die in my lifetime. You can talk that elite shit 100 years later but for now box office is important. Is it a metric to decide a movie’s quality? Fuck, no. But box office will always be important
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I fully agree. I see far too much discourse online about a movie being good because it made a lot of money or has a high Rotten Tomatoes score. Can we get back to talking about the actual quality of films? It’s exhausting.
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Another thought: it’s a real shame how commercially focused all studios are now. Netflix and Disney don’t care about making good films for $10M; all they want is the next “big thing,” and they always chase that with bloated $200M CGI fests with movie stars. Cord Jefferson’s Oscar speech continues to be relevant every time I see some garbage blockbuster being funded.
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This is true but what are movies without box office? To stop worrying about box office means to stop worrying about theatres? What next? God, I hope theatres don’t die in my lifetime. You can talk that elite shit 100 years later but for now box office is important. Is it a metric to decide a movie’s quality? Fuck, no. But box office will always be important
I fully agree. I see far too much discourse online about a movie being good because it made a lot of money or has a high Rotten Tomatoes score. Can we get back to talking about the actual quality of films? It’s exhausting.
Another thought: it’s a real shame how commercially focused all studios are now. Netflix and Disney don’t care about making good films for $10M; all they want is the next “big thing,” and they always chase that with bloated $200M CGI fests with movie stars. Cord Jefferson’s Oscar speech continues to be relevant every time I see some garbage blockbuster being funded.