The Black Hole is a rare mash-up of Disneybtryinf to do Star Wars but the filmmakers wanted to do a haunted house movie.
Watch it back to back with Event Horizon for an interesting experience I think.
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More movie theaters are getting ready to open back up next month. Seating is still going to be limited, but if you want that theater experience when seeing a movie, you have more choices.
For two of Disneyâs upcoming movies, Cruella and Black Widow are going to be in theaters and available to purchase on Disney+ on the same day. The next Pixar movie, Luca, will be available for free on Disney+ on Fatherâs Day weekend. This is on the same day that Warner Bros. announced theyâre going back to a more traditional release schedule.
Some analists are not sure whatâs going on over at Disney with them taking away movies that could be shown in theaters. âYea! Movie theaters are opening back up! Are enough movies going to be available to get people back into the theaters and keep the momentum going? Who knows?â
Next year is when bigger changes are coming. If I read the article on Deadline right, in the UK, there will be 31-day and 45-day windows where a movie is exclusively in theaters and then it goes to PVOD (pay video on demand). I donât remember if thatâs the way it was before. I could see movies leaving theaters altogether right after those two time frames, rather than usual situation where it keeps playing in theaters for a while as it gets ready for a home video release.
If you havenât seen it, Loving Vincent is available on Hulu and can be rented from Netflix.
We watched Speed yesterday afternoon. A great action adventure movie.
We followed it up with Speed 2: Cruise Control. Oh, my god is Sandra Bullock annoying. Sheâs a total Karen and I just wanted to punch her in the face every time she was on screen. It was awful. Iâm sure weâd both seen it before, but couldnât remember anything about it aside from it being on a boat. Iâm going to have to watch Thunder in the Sun just to get my bearings.
1994 was a epic year for movies
- Speed
- True Lies
- Forrest Gump
- Pulp Fiction
- The Chase (donât @ me)
- PCU (I will die on this hill)
- The Crow
- The Lion King
- Airheads (seriously, do not question me)
- Natural Born Killers
- (Rita Hayworth and) The Shawshank Redemption
- Clerks
- Stargate
- LĂ©on: The Professional
- Dumb and Dumber
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I liked the beginning and ending, but absolutely hated the whole middle part where Arnieâs character and his team attack JLCâs character, causing a potentially serious injury in the process when one of them clubs her in the head with his weapon, arrest her, and force her into prostitution and pole dancing for him because he thinks thatâs what she wants. (Remember, she doesnât know itâs him behind everything.) I literally cannot watch this movie because of that. Frankly, if I were her, my first call would be to a divorce attorney and my second would be to a civil litigation attorney. If he even survived long enough after I got my hands on him.
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Agreed with that, seeing it from your POV.
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Watched Capân America (from Marvel).
Then I watched Spider Man : Far from home.
I canât even. It does not feel canon, and feels like a cheapass knockoff.
Have watched it halfway. Will finish watching it tomorrow.
First Marvel movie thatâs not gripping for me.
I am not a Tony Stark fan, for many reasons. And SM: FFH just reinforces that dislike for me.
Finished watching SM:FFH and gave it a score of 2/10.
Teens etc will like it as this specific movie is targeted at them.
/goes off to watch infinity war and endgame
We watched The Mitchells vs the Machines last night. I was expecting it to be really stupid and it didnât disappoint. However, it was really funny and a bit of a sleeper in the drama department. It surprised me a little bit.
The animation was spectacular and clean, but it had a kind of unfinished quality to it as well. I really enjoyed it.
I expected the Dragonlady to sigh and put up with my selection for 2 hours, but she really liked it, too.
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Theaters have opened back up, so maybe weâll have more reviews of movies on the big screen instead of the smaller big screens in our homes. But with that comes a change that will be with the theater industry for quite a while.
I think it was either Roger Ebert or Gene Siskel that was complaining about âtwo weeks and outâ being how long some movies were shown. I know there were many movies that seemed to disappear not long after. The industry standard deal has been theaters got a 90-day window to show a movie before it would go to home video or HBO, Cinemax, etc.
Thatâs now 45 days. Movie theaters have six weeks to earn as much as they can from showing a movie before the studio takes it back.
Thatâs going to be tough. Many movies had a sliding payment system where the studio gets a really high percentage of the box office revenue the first few weeks, and it decreases as it goes on. So theaters might not make any substantial amount until a month or two later. Thatâs why the theater where I used to live didnât show âReturn of the Jediâ until six weeks after it was first released. They couldnât afford it. I think it was 90% went to the studio for the first week, 80% the second, and dropped 10% each week thereafter.
If that sort of payment system is still in effect, and it probably is, cutting the time in half a theater can show a movie makes them even more dependent on concessions sales to make money.
Over the past few years, the number of items being sold increased, offering more variety and enhancing the experience of going to see a movie. During the pandemic, many fast food restaurants pared down their menu to deal with shortages in both employees and ingredients. Thatâs how McDonaldâs changed from a carhop to a hamburger joint in the first place. They got rid of things like BBQ foods so they could focus on what made the most money: hamburgers, cheeseburgers, potato chips, coffee, soft drinks and apple pie.
Candy will still be there. A box of candy has a long shelf life and doesnât take up much space. Popcorn is compact when in storage and expands when itâs cooked. Soft drinks are the same way: syrup from canisters mixes with water or carbonated water at the fountain. The other foods that are time-consuming to make, such as a pizza that has to cook for a while, will be reviewed to see if they bring in enough money or if they have to go.
This next year will show us what survives in the movie-going experience.
We lost three theaters within 15 miles of us. The closest is now 45 minutes away in strip mall hell. But there are multiple drive in movies within the same distance, so I think itâs a no brainer.
Also, we saw the Mitchells vs the Machines and despite my wifeâs rolling eyes at yet another âweirdâ show it was enjoyed by all.
I enjoyed it as well. Made me laugh. (Mitchells vs Machines)
Watched âIn The Heightsâ this weekend. Loved it. Good casting and the costuming was great. Musical theater isnât everyone jam, but itâs good.
We watched The Suicide Squad (2021) last night, and it was better than either of us hoped it would be. The effects were seamless, as Iâve come to expect from modern movies. Sylvester Stalone was an interesting choice as the voice of King Shark.
Jungle Cruise was as good as any, although the lost city thing is getting a tad wearisome by now.
The Mummy (with Arnold Vosloo) is still great after all these years. (The one with Tom Cruise is utter twaddle).
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How about the Brendan Fraser version?
Edit: Nevermind, thatâs the one youâre talking about. So much potential with that cast & idea, could have been a lot like Indiana Jones.
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I really adored the first two films. They stand up very well today.
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