@@Finamajig Because the person who made that call doesn't know what they're doing but at the same time Amazon has infinite money. They made $575 BILLION last year alone.
The good news is that in spite of it, Paramount has taken the critical reception to heart and will pursue more projects for this universe, albeit with a smaller budge next time.
James is spot on about general audiences not giving a shit anymore. It was absolutely a short term gain long term loss investment in streaming. Yes you have a service providing your exclusive content. But why would anyone go see it if I can wait a month? Why keep up with just an “okay” series of movies that feels aimless or worse gets completely dropped when another executive feels like cost cutting.
and that is why netflix won the streaming war before it even started. if these companies didnt get absurdly greedy and launched 10 streaming services at the same time they could have just did what sony did and produce shows and movies to netflix and maybe apple/amazon
Hold your horses buddy, streaming doesn’t account for almost every single film doing poorly, and certain super hero films that supposedly we don’t give a crap about anymore did well like Guardians and Spiderverse.
@@vietimports streaming only really got big because of the pandemic and it’s still in its infancy. If you’re a business you have to throw things out to see what sticks because no one knows the rules yet because it’s so fresh and Netflix never had competition. You can’t make things for Netflix because Netflix will own it, and it will take a cut of the profits, so it doesn’t make sense to give it to them. Making a website isn’t the costly part. We just need to give it time to adjust to a stable model. And you need competition and innovation to do that.
And a lot of these films were actually good and still did poorly. I think the pandemic hit a lot of people, and interest rates are crazy so spending is down generally and yeah people can wait until streaming so that affects it. Films could be better, but they’ve been at the same quality for the last ten years at least and it’s never been this bad.
@@vietimportsDisney+ is the only one who had a huge variety of content to make the platform worth it in addition to netflix imo. The other ones its like you're getting access to a few movies and hopefully some decent shows and the potential of them releasing a new one
My little theory as to why The Flash ended up in George Clooneys universe is that DC has taken all their big flops and made them into their own little movies so by my logic 2011 Green Lantern should be in that universe as well and Steel and Jonah Hex.
This is amazing. Fun note: there is a trashy redrawing / deconstruction of “The Dark Knight Returns” called “Shitty Dark Knight”. I would definitely goto to theatre if they made a film in that movie universe called “Shitty Justice League”.
I am most surprised it wasn't already a thing. Didn't the first ine come out like 20 years ago? Also what happened to the Expendabelles? They definitely announced a female cast movie at some point.
It sucks that D&D was a bomb since everyone who saw it in theaters or streaming freaking loved it. I hope the good word does reach the studio and they don’t just look at the numbers and cancel Future installments, because D&D has so much potential as a franchise
D&D was a film with a niche fanbase that really appealled to a lot of casual fans afterwards. I feel like if they made a sequel it would get a much bigger response.
D&D the game was in headlines and on Twitter every few months because they were pushing some kind of woke nonsense (wheelchair ramps for dungeons, removing racial traits, removal of monkey race), so why would anybody want to take a chance with the film?
If someone worked at a store and let $35 go missing they would be fired and probably have the police called on them. Half a billion and it’s just 🤷🏻♂️
nobody asked but it's so ridiculous that corporations are treated as separate legal entities from those that own or participate in the corporation. With ZERO liability of course these evil monsters are going to run rampant. A fundamental change to corporate liability would fix a lot of problems.
That was me with The Nostalgia Critic when I got Chikungunya. (That nasty mosquito virus) I just had it on autoplay while I slipped in and out of consciousness
The phrase "vote with your wallet" has never been more prevalent in the spectrum of cinema. People don't have as much money to spend in the first place, and thus, will only spend it on things they find truly worthy. So with that said, Hollywood is actually going to have to start trying again to earn the consumers money. Hopefully the future will find the quality of films more fruitful.
True. Streaming, affordable flat screens & cheap snacks is just a very hard combo to compete against. Not many working class & middle class families want to throw spare cash on something they can get at home.
It was so good. I did not expect it to be that good and I don't give a single shit about DnD at all, yet it ended up as one of my top movies of the year.
D&D fans must be salty because on Amazon this movie has 4 stars of 5 after 6k reviews but all the transformers movies are nearly five stars .. couldn’t believe it, except the first one and maybe the second rest have been trash. Guessing it got review bombed or something. I had more laughs with D&D movie than with any marvel movie post endgame.
It's been a while since we've seen a year with so many box office disasters. That could be a good video idea. What year in cinema history had the most bombs?
2005 is often mentioned as a year with several high-profile box office disappointments, including films like "Stealth," "The Island," and "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D." Similarly, 2015 saw a number of big-budget films underperform, such as "Pan," "Jupiter Ascending," and "Tomorrowland."
Yeah, 2005 is considered a major shift, in a bad way--the "slump", the slide in money from the previous year, with its sequels and *Passion of the Christ* (THE movie that I like to blame every problem in Hollywood on), and a lot of original, prestige movies underperforming (No Best Picture nominee made more than a hundred million), you can say the "Either it's Marvel or A24" dichotomy can be traced to 2005.
@@Dorian_sapiens Basically 2004 was an election year, with the Iraq War and gay marriage being big. Gibson's movie threw a greasefire on the culture war. This resulted in a couple things. 1) A lot of older, Middle American audiences checked out of Hollywood (That got worse after Trump) leaving low concept dramas without an audience. 2) Studios were stuck between a rock and a hard place, where they could "think outside the box" like they did in the early 70's, because "outside the box" could be quite reactionary, (They experimented with more religious films, bot those largely only did well if they were incendiary) which meant Hollywood kept playing it safer and safer. I can also probably draw a line from this to Fox being sold to Disney,
That's for the franchise though, not just the movie. By that argument the Force Awakens would be a huge bomb because Disney paid like 4 billion on Lucasfilm but only made half that on the film. That said it was probably still a bad investment.
@@maxjones503 ya I was typing out that it was for the franchise/etc, but then it got to be a little long so I left it at what I posted. The complexity of the cost of the movie + success or the movie (or lack thereof) + cost of franchise + potential they could earn off the franchise in the future is what I would say earns it a mention, but not to earn a place on the top twelve list.
@@maxjones503 I know logic is a foreign concept to most people on the internet, but what you've committed here is the most common of logical fallacies: apples to oranges. Star Wars is a massive, merchandising empire (no matter how crappy the content is), and nobody is rushing out to buy their Exorcist: Believer body pillows.
@@Psilocybin77And I guess this is a fallicist's fallacy (and a bit of ad hominem sprinkled in there lol). The fact is contains one doesn't really impact the point I'm making at all. It wasn't an attempt at an apples to apples comparison, just a deliberately exaggerated example of why it isn't a direct translation, which it isn't.
It sucks that DND bombed because it’s easily on of my favourite films of the year. Going up against Mario was essentially box office suicide, probably would’ve done better if it didn’t go up against that. Also, thanks Mason, I’ll always be calling it DND HAT from now on lol.
I actually saw a huge marketing push for Wish. Unlike Strange World last year, there were toys everywhere, I kept seeing ads for it on TH-cam, Instagram, TikTok, etc., and just by chosen genre (Disney princess animated musical) I think they were expecting it to do well.
I've been really heavily using an adblocker this year, and I genuinely didn't know it existed until I started seeing people talking about how it bombed
Maybe its also Mission Impossible fatigue? I loved the first, watched the second, then lost track. A couple of years ago I got free tickets to the one with Henry Cavill in and there was just too much lore, and returning characters and blah blah blah. I dont want to have to go back to rewatch 6 movies to understand whats happening now. I think Daniel Craigs Bond films suffered the same, by the last one there was too much relationship drama and tie ins that I lost track of. I think movies saw the deep success of the MCU’s interconnected movies and thought we should do that everywhere, but there needs to be a balance where its still accessible and standalone if you havent watched them, unless you are something like the MCU building up to Infinity War. For example, right now, I cba to watch any Marvel movies cause I dont want to slog through all the movies and tv shows to get it all. For example, I only watched like 2 episodes of WandaVision so her being evil in Dr Strange makes no sense to me. Dont force me to watch a TV show I wasnt enjoying to understand the movie.
If i remember correctly, they released the movie earlier to not do it during the writer strike, so it had a lot of competition in cinema at that moment
This whole list just throws fuel on the fire for people who believe much of Hollywood is a money laundering scheme. In what world does a movie about a shoe cost 5x more than an apocalyptic cgi lizard???
@@lilblue007 modern film making is all money laundering and creative accounting, and studios wonder why piracy is so rampant. It boggles my mind that ALIENS was produced on a budget of less than $40 million dollars in 1985/86. It's insanity that these modern CGI bukake fests cost 10x that.
Normally, in years past, I'd be with you with movie going being my normal, but the "new" hollywood normal just isn't my normal. Abnormally or otherwise. I hadn't even heard of a few of these movies, which for me, isn't normal.
The WISH one is wild because I just went to Disneyland Paris before Christmas, and there was merch for the film fucking everywhere, and I didn't see a single person with any of it. The core target audience didn't even see it or care about it at all
I think post covid definitely also is a factor. I used to see about 40-60 movies a year before covid. Then covid happened and something changed where seeing stuff the week of release became less important. The side effect also lead me to me skipping movies if I hadn't seen them after the first 3 weeks because they would normally be hitting VOD in 3-4 weeks so I just figured what's the point. This year I only saw 5 movies in cinemas the week of release and 10 total
The end comments speak volumes to my experiences this year working at a cinema. We had so many movies coming out where so many of us were questioning why it was even made. Other films, mostly comic book movies, were so generic and diluted that audiences consistently stayed away
I am an Indy fan (and also over 35, surprise, surprise) and I enjoyed the movie, but the budget alone was basically begging for a bomb. I saw the movie, really enjoyed it, then looked up the budget and said ," Ha! Good luck, Disney." Absolutely bonkers for a property they didn't really care about or do anything with.
Was having a really horrible day today. So when I woke up and saw a new vid you guys dropped, it literally changed my day for the better. You guys have such a chemistry together that makes even the toughest days bring a smile outta me. Happy new year!
Literally shocked to see DnD on the list. I thought it was received pretty well. Bummer, it was a good interpretation of the material and a lot of fun.
To an extent too.. I think people are just losing their curiosity in C-tier or below comic chatacters... the big ones like Batman, Spiderman, wolverine, superman, wonder woman, iron man will always have devoted fans and mainstream curiosity.. but Marvel is introducing like 1-2 new obscure superheroes per project and it gets exhausting.. that's what lost me with the comics themselves when I was a kid. It was just too convoluted, and it got to be too much to keep up with, and a lot of the newer heroes simply weren't as interesting. I remember the mcu felt refreshing in the beginning because it was a smaller more focused world that was telling more character-driven stories about iconic characters. The slow introduction of a new hero every once in a while felt like a fun reward to the audience that actually made you want to explore those c-tier players. Now those c-tier characters are just crammed everywhere without setup or reason... they're not even c-tier anymore, it's like e-tier.. Skaar, Cassie Lang, riri Williams, us agent, Eternals, Wican, speed... I think a casual viewer would assume I made some of these names up... makes it a little worse when you think about how little time we've spent with some bigger characters in their rush to introduce new ones.. like Wasp for instance, or heck, it seems these characters are even being prioritized over high profile characters they haven't introduced yet like blade, fantastic 4 and silver surfer. Also, when you think of the numbers in these growing superhero universes and realize there must be more super-powered people in them than there are athletes in entire professional sports leagues, it makes it less interesting.. it's like that villain in the incredibles said "when everyone is special, no one is." So yeah, I agree it's not a political thing, it's a poor planning, poor priorities, over-saturation thing.. I think marvel got overconfident, they had early success with introducing things they were less confident about like ant-man, guardians, black panther, Dr strange, captain marvel... and they just assumed people would always be that open to, or even excited about just any character they tossed into the mix. And that good-will and curiosity soured with bored audiences. The series now feels more like an advanced class on the depths of marvel comics history than escapist entertainment... Casual viewers saw the Captain Marvel and Ant-man trailers and probably thought "oh yeah, Antman and captain marvel were in the Avengers right? I kind of remember her fighting Thanos with iron man, and wow what a great ending for him and captain America, but I'm not sure I remember what happened to her? What was her backstory/powers again? Who are the other characters in the trailer? Were they in the comics? Were they in other movies? Wow, there's a lot of characters that I've never seen before in this, I might have to ask Dan at work who they are...He's really into marvel stuff... oh sh!t that Barbie movie is coming to streaming! And all I need to know about it is that it's about that very famous 100 year old toy I grew up with/around! Much more accessible! Oh... what's a blue beetle? Is that like a marvel or DC thing? Meh, I'll pass...Christopher Nolan's new movie about the bomb looks like an event!"
Something a bit weird some films critics noticed is that you could use colour theory to determine which films were going to be successful this year. You have two broad categories, warm colours (oranges, red) and cold colours (teals, greens, blues) and its common for studios to pick one as the main "theme" for trailers, logos and posters. A lot of the films in this bombs list were predominantly warm with lots of orange (i.e. DnD and the Mission Impossible movie), meanwhile the successful movies of this year (i.e. oppenheimer) were predominantly cold. Critic circles have since coined this phenomenon as a "blue harvest" which was coincidentally the working title for the first star wars movie
What was weird for Beau is Afraid is that the weekend when it came out there was only one theater in my area playing the film at 7 or 9. No other showtimes anywhere else. Though the audience I was with really dug the film. Felt like it wasn’t really given the chance to prove itself in theaters.
About Blue Beetle, I remember hearing rumors about it in production from sources and then about November time I heard it was an actual movie being released. Also I liked most of these movies somewhat.
I think it really is the fact that people pay for streaming services and aren't going to go spend money on a movie ticket when they know it will be put on streaming.
19:16 so bloody true, most of these movies in Marvel and such just dont hook me to go to the cinema to spend £10 on a ticket when i can just wait a few months and watch it on streaming for half the price
I'm loving everyone showing up for D&D-HAT in the comments. Makes me happy that even if it didn't perform incredibly well, it sincerely connected with a lot of people.
@@DavidBanner-de5om It made more than it’s budget back, while being released the week before some of the biggest films of the year completely demolished all competition. It has very positive word of mouth and has done well enough on streaming to have sequel talks. It’s fine if you personally didn’t like it, but you can also piss off with your negativity 😘✌️
For me the big change was having a baby back in March. I’ve seen two films in the cinema since (Spider-Verse and The Creator) because something in my soul NEEDED my first viewing of each to be on the big screen - largely due to either a love of the preceding film or the director respectively. I’d have loved to see more but the drama of arranging childcare and the cost of going at all made me extremely choosy and I had to let a lot of stuff go. Can’t wait til she’s old enough to force my hand into going every week!
Studios need to start taking chances on movies that are original, and audiences will have to take the chance on these unknown properties. Studios have gotten too comfortable on making movies that people recognize (sequels, reboots, remakes, etc.) to ensure a profit, but that's not working anymore. We need to go back to the 70's , 80's and 90's and start making movies that have fresh ideas. Hollywood didn't run out of ideas, but the people who run Hollywood don't want to gamble with a movie that people don't know, and therefore won't spend money on. It's up to us to support the original ideas when they come out.
Box office revenue (i.e. cinema ticket sales) is split between the theaters and the studio. The studio only gets half. That is why a movie needs to make "2 times the budget" at the box office. And that is 2x the _total_ budget, including P&A (Prints and Advertising, or "marketing"), not just the production budget. So if a film has a production budget of $150,000,000 and a P&A budget of $50,000,000, then it needs to make $400,000,000 at the box office to break even. At least for domestic releases and domestic box office. The cut from theaters is even less for foreign markets (mostly around 40%, but only 25% for China). So for big international releases, a film generally needs to make about 2.5 times the total budget (production + P&A) at the global box office, or the studio will not turn a profit at the theatrical release window.
The ones on this list that break my heart are D&D, No Hard Feelings and The Creator. I really enjoyed all of these quite a bit. D&D Hat, was just a blast. I loved the puppets (When the puppet kitten came out of the giant fish just made me chuckle.), the make up, the fat dragon, all of it was great! It definitely had that Pirates of the Caribbean/Guardians type of feel to it and it's a damn shame it under performed. One thing I really loved about it, was the not so great cgi. It just kind of added to the feel of it being a game being played in somebody's dinging room, garage, whatever. Great movie. The Creator just honestly surprised me. Gareth Edwards does this really cool thing with scale. He did it with Godzilla and Rogue One, and in this it was really good as well. It wasn't a wholly original storyline, wasn't breaking the mold or anything, but it was still a solid movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it. No Hard Feelings just reminded me of those Apatow era comedies and I feel like they don't make those kinds of movies anymore. Kind of like The Nice Guys. Damn shame.
I think DnD HAT should've been released after bg3, bg3 had the public attention for a good few months and I only watch DnD after playing it and it was great
on the topic of giving audiences a reason to go to theaters - before streaming the only way you could watch a movie was to go to the theaters or wait for the vhs/dvd. so just to consume entertainment media, people had to go to the theaters. now with streaming we have hundreds of thousands of shows and movies available to us 24/7 without even the barrier of having to wait for them to show up at specific times. theaters and studios need to realize they no longer have a monopoly on our time
Also affecting D&D was probably the built-in fanbase being mad at Wizards of the Coast. Which is a shame, because while I didn't love the movie, it was fun. But with The Flash, I'm glad it bombed. Awful lead actor, offensive cameos, dumb attempt at morals undercut by the superhero nature of the story, it is everything wrong with superhero films.
When Tom Cruise pitched the bike stunt to Christopher MacQuarrie, one of the director’s main concerns was getting coverage over multiple takes, so he insisted on shooting the motorbike stunt only on days with clear weather, resulting in so much footage of Cruise performing the stunt against azure skies that the film’s editor Eddie Hamilton called the abundance of footage, “a veritable Blue Harvest,” which is also the original working title of Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope.
i just want to take a moment to recognize the tastefully restrained fart sound effect used in this video. a lesser editing team would have chosen something more over the top, but the understated elegance of the fart used here is absolutely perfect
These productions are so unbelievably entertaining. Amazing work. Is much time spend on script or structure, or is it just a free-for-all? Anyway, awesome!
Thanks for addressing the “woke” nonsense. I don’t know how people can say that wokeness is killing moves when Barbie is Warner Brothers highest grossing movie of all time and very clearly has feminist themes. People just watch Fox News and assume everyone thinks the same as the talking heads.
Maybe it's just me, but I haven't been to a theater since 2019. It just feels like we're just being fed "stuff" or "products to consume" the past few years and it just isn't worth going anymore. Especially since that "stuff" is remarkably lackluster. Obviously Covid was a factor in not going anymore for a while, but with a few exceptions like Guardians 3 or Spiderverse, unless you're coming out with something everybody is already looking forward to, it feels like movies are just going to theaters to die, and then die on streaming, and then are removed if they don't make enough and never see the light of day again for tax purposes. On top of the fact that movies aren't based on how good they are or what people think of them-but are judged entirely on how much money it made. It feels so cold and transactional and it feels like all of the fun of seeing a movie is gone.
Interesting fact, Mission Impossible 7 had a boost in budget because of Tom Cruise's unique diet and exercise plan. Tom tries to eat protien rich, nutrient dense foods that can be hard to come by in places that dont have a tropical environment. To solve this issue, MI7 producers brought in the tools and resources to grow/create the foods Tom needs. While this may sound like a rich guy living extravagantly, the interesting part is the farm Tom needs produces a large anount of nitrogen and oxygen, which replenishes the surrounding ecosystem and tints the sky a beautiful sapphire tone. This led to the working title for MI7 being blue harvest.
I saw from Nerdsync that, apparently, 'the Marvels' was the highest grossing movie directed by a black woman, and I'm shocked and disappointed that no one else is really talking about that. I, personally, DO want to watch comic book movies, I just want to watch good ones, y'know? If a paint-by-numbers movie, from Disney, is gonna come to theaters, and I only have to wait THREE MORE MONTHS until it's on Disney Plus, then I'm gonna wait three more months to see it at home on Disney Plus.
The cost of living Crisis hasn't helped much either. Why spend about £40 (tickests/travel/food) on the cinema when you know its going to be streaming in two months.
I think an honorable mention should be ‘Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken’, having a budget of 70 million but only making a return of about 45.6 million. A shame too since that was a cute movie and felt it did a better job of what ‘Turning Red’ and ‘Luca’ were trying to do.
I suspect they could have made money with the Dungeons & Dragons film by making it low budget. I think D&D players would have wanted to see it because it was D&D, regardless of whether it had name actors--and, conversely, Hugh Grant wouldn't have brought in people who would go to see Hugh Grant in a romance. If they wanted names, they should have had people like Wil Wheaton or someone who was on Buffy. Also, a lot of older people who would want to see the D&D film have fond memories of low-budget sci-fi and fantasy from the past. Someone who likes Doctor Who or original Star Trek isn't going to hate your film because the sets looked a bit cheap. They'll probably interpret it as a loving homage.
I think it's also important to note that Guardians 3 and Spider-Verse are sequels to established and critically acclaimed films. James Gunn spun gold from fucking straw making the Guardians movies, and Spider-Verse was the movie which gave Disney the middle finger and set a new standard for 3D animation in Hollywood. Audiences knew ahead of time that they could expect good movies because there had been that audience trust established. Let's be real, Captain Marvel and Ant-Man were nobody's favourite MCU movies. Their popularity and audience interest only existed relative to the wider MCU. You can't look at Deadpool 3 or Guardians 3 and call them the standard for comic book movies, because they're not. Without the trust that comes from critically acclaimed previous movies, general audiences either don't care about new comic book movies or they're outright tired of how oversaturated the genre is becoming. That's exactly what happened to Blue Beetle, though the lack of marketing also likely hurt it somewhat. Blade and Superman Legacy are the two movies that are going to determine whether or not there is any hope for the comic book movie genre going forwards, I think. Blade is a somewhat familiar name with the Wesley Snipes movies, but he's a complete newcomer to the MCU sphere. Superman is, of course, Superman. If DC can't succeed with a Superman movie, then they've just got absolutely no hope trying to make anything other than more Batman movies. If Blade flops, then the MCU has officially lost its ability to get audiences invested in new properties and new stories.
I feel that should D&D ever get a sequel, the recent popularity of Baldur's Gate 3 could very well give it the push into the mainstream that HAT was missing.
I had a discussion the other day with a friend of a friend who had an emotional breakdown over marvel movies being bad now because they’ve gone too woke. I thought he was joking at first. He was not. One racist and sexist tirade later and I just was in shock people can be like this in real life. What a surprise
Saw MI:DR with my grandparents. Grandpa was asleep the whole time, because y’know he’s 78. Once it ended he woke up turned to me and said not enough action”. Great movie though I liked it
I just found out I have been subscribing to this TH-cam channel since late 2015. been listening to you boys for 9 years. better not be like tom Scott and John green decided to take an announce break from TH-cam. happy new years.
For the DnD Movie, the Hasbro / WoTC controversies with the license change likely also had a small impact on people supporting it in cinemas. While not something the general public likely care about, a large chunk of the core audience that could have served to bring up hype or bring their families / friends with them boycut it.
Not me a 22 year old watching this video next to my framed raiders of the lost ark poster with my cat named Indy. That part couldn’t have caught me more off guard
@@titusmccarthy lol no, but if you do a tiny bit of reading, you will find there is amazing research into the study of psychedelics in treatment of depression, addiction, end of life therapy, recidivism, and other mental health conditions. I don't know why people keep commenting on my name as if it's some terrible thing, because they've been brainwashed to think psychedelics are some awful scourge. In my city I have a friend who is studying at my countries top psychiatric university to enter this field. Without psychedelics we wouldn't have SSRIs and other treatments of depression, PTSD, and anxiety. Interesting stuff. I recommend the works of Charles Grobb, and Stanislov Groff to start.
I know Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are already super rich but swindling Amazon will always always be a good move.
I really liked them in Air.
That bit about them poker facing Amazon out of $160 million was hilarious like how did they get away with that
@@Finamajigseriously that movie should’ve cost like $50 million max. Good on them I guess
Nooo amazon needsthe monmey so their developers can mske apps that function at slight more than a base level
@@Finamajig Because the person who made that call doesn't know what they're doing but at the same time Amazon has infinite money. They made $575 BILLION last year alone.
*The biggest bomb of 2023 might end up being Aquaman 2. So get excited for that
Edit. It passed The Marvels never mind
No it will easily make a profit according to the latest world wide figures
nah marvels and indy 5 are.
hell even that wish movie is gonna end up doing worse than Aquaman 2
Oaft
i will make the sacrifice and see it 140 times
it's already outperforming The Marvels relative to week since release, so it won't be the biggest bomb
D&D was such a a good movie. I wasn't a believer and didn't bother when it was in theaters. Even my 70 year old mother loved it.
It had sooo much heart!!
Almost as much as Vox Machina. It was so fun. :)
It had poor marketing
The good news is that in spite of it, Paramount has taken the critical reception to heart and will pursue more projects for this universe, albeit with a smaller budge next time.
Its the only movie on this list I even saw. So thats something.... Actually I did watch Air. Its was pretty good.
I got to see it in ScreenX, which expands certain scenes panoramic on the sidewalls. It was a fun movie, with likeable characters.
Surely the biggest bomb this year was in Oppenheimer
Nice one!
nah they had bigger nukes in The Creator
Bloody got em
*Cough* Godzilla Minus One *Cough*
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James is spot on about general audiences not giving a shit anymore.
It was absolutely a short term gain long term loss investment in streaming. Yes you have a service providing your exclusive content. But why would anyone go see it if I can wait a month? Why keep up with just an “okay” series of movies that feels aimless or worse gets completely dropped when another executive feels like cost cutting.
and that is why netflix won the streaming war before it even started. if these companies didnt get absurdly greedy and launched 10 streaming services at the same time they could have just did what sony did and produce shows and movies to netflix and maybe apple/amazon
Hold your horses buddy, streaming doesn’t account for almost every single film doing poorly, and certain super hero films that supposedly we don’t give a crap about anymore did well like Guardians and Spiderverse.
@@vietimports streaming only really got big because of the pandemic and it’s still in its infancy. If you’re a business you have to throw things out to see what sticks because no one knows the rules yet because it’s so fresh and Netflix never had competition. You can’t make things for Netflix because Netflix will own it, and it will take a cut of the profits, so it doesn’t make sense to give it to them. Making a website isn’t the costly part. We just need to give it time to adjust to a stable model. And you need competition and innovation to do that.
And a lot of these films were actually good and still did poorly. I think the pandemic hit a lot of people, and interest rates are crazy so spending is down generally and yeah people can wait until streaming so that affects it. Films could be better, but they’ve been at the same quality for the last ten years at least and it’s never been this bad.
@@vietimportsDisney+ is the only one who had a huge variety of content to make the platform worth it in addition to netflix imo. The other ones its like you're getting access to a few movies and hopefully some decent shows and the potential of them releasing a new one
My little theory as to why The Flash ended up in George Clooneys universe is that DC has taken all their big flops and made them into their own little movies so by my logic 2011 Green Lantern should be in that universe as well and Steel and Jonah Hex.
They can all team up as the Floptice League
Theory adopted. lol and don't forget Catwoman! I would actually spend a lot to watch a trashy justice league movie like expendables meets DC.
This is amazing.
Fun note: there is a trashy redrawing / deconstruction of “The Dark Knight Returns” called “Shitty Dark Knight”.
I would definitely goto to theatre if they made a film in that movie universe called “Shitty Justice League”.
Good for Ethan Hunt to still pay people during covid, what a force of nature.
You could say he's the living manifestation of destiny
He's a mind-reading, shapeshifting incarnation of chaos.
he just loves America too much...
Dude, every film shot during COVID had to do that
I honestly thought it was a joke when they said Expendables 4. I had no idea that was a thing
It's not a thing. Expend4bles is
Expend4bles is quite possibly the worst thing I’ve seen in my life and the worst part is I get no vindication for it because no one else saw it
I am most surprised it wasn't already a thing. Didn't the first ine come out like 20 years ago? Also what happened to the Expendabelles? They definitely announced a female cast movie at some point.
This video was the first time I’d heard it came out, when did this happen? lmao
Wasnt aware of the existence of this movie either until the video
It sucks that D&D was a bomb since everyone who saw it in theaters or streaming freaking loved it. I hope the good word does reach the studio and they don’t just look at the numbers and cancel Future installments, because D&D has so much potential as a franchise
I fell asleep in the first 30 minutes for 30 minutes, but man once they met owlbear girl, that's some good d&d
Fuck D and D, no one put any creative risk into it. It’s actually sad that Beau is afraid bombed
The beginning was boring
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning was fantastic and that last stunt with the train is fantastic. Got buried by Barbenheimer .
Halfling looked really weird and out of place.
Thank you guys I look forward to these videos every year, here’s for more years and blessings
Thank you IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude
Thank you @incridibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude
Thank you IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude
Thank you @IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude
Thank you IncredibleDude11 you really are an incredible dude
D&D was a film with a niche fanbase that really appealled to a lot of casual fans afterwards. I feel like if they made a sequel it would get a much bigger response.
D&D the game was in headlines and on Twitter every few months because they were pushing some kind of woke nonsense (wheelchair ramps for dungeons, removing racial traits, removal of monkey race), so why would anybody want to take a chance with the film?
If someone worked at a store and let $35 go missing they would be fired and probably have the police called on them. Half a billion and it’s just 🤷🏻♂️
Ah, but these aren't people, they're executives.
nobody asked but it's so ridiculous that corporations are treated as separate legal entities from those that own or participate in the corporation. With ZERO liability of course these evil monsters are going to run rampant. A fundamental change to corporate liability would fix a lot of problems.
Movies are costing way too fucking much to make, Indiana Jones should be made for like 80 mill, not 300.
I'm 49. Everyone in the theater for Dial of Destiny was SIGNIFICANTLY older than me.
I’m 62 and just didn’t bother to go.
My parents (late 60s) saw it and did not like it lol
I was 7 when Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981 and I am almost 51.
I’ve got the flu right now, and whenever I get sick I always binge Mr. Sunday Movies videos. Thanks for giving me good stuff to watch while sick!
Are you me? You literally described my week
@@kidunderabridge What a coincidence! Two viewer of this channel are ill at the same time? Unbelievable xD
That was me with The Nostalgia Critic when I got Chikungunya. (That nasty mosquito virus) I just had it on autoplay while I slipped in and out of consciousness
I hope you’re feeling better mate
In honor of Maso, DND shall be now only known as Hat, I cant unsee it now.
DAD
HAT
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The phrase "vote with your wallet" has never been more prevalent in the spectrum of cinema. People don't have as much money to spend in the first place, and thus, will only spend it on things they find truly worthy. So with that said, Hollywood is actually going to have to start trying again to earn the consumers money. Hopefully the future will find the quality of films more fruitful.
The invisible hand of the market is currently giving the middle finger to ESG & DEI, and i'm all for it honestly...
A lot of incredible movies came out this year it’s really just the big budget big studio movies that have been surprisingly awful
What is esg and dei @@teagame1011
True. Streaming, affordable flat screens & cheap snacks is just a very hard combo to compete against. Not many working class & middle class families want to throw spare cash on something they can get at home.
Thank you for not saying Oppenheim was this years biggest bomb, I know it took restraint
The frustrating thing about the holdovers is that it’s a Christmas movie & its not released in the UK until the middle of January.
Agree.
That’s just to add to its sense of melancholic ennui 😸
Dungeons and Dragons was a really good movie, totally recommend watching that. Such a shame it didnt do well
At the box office.
It was so good. I did not expect it to be that good and I don't give a single shit about DnD at all, yet it ended up as one of my top movies of the year.
Yeah but here is the thing. Who is waiting to watch a D&D movie. It’s only played by a bunch of nerds and that’s it
D&D fans must be salty because on Amazon this movie has 4 stars of 5 after 6k reviews but all the transformers movies are nearly five stars .. couldn’t believe it, except the first one and maybe the second rest have been trash. Guessing it got review bombed or something. I had more laughs with D&D movie than with any marvel movie post endgame.
This Movie really wanted you to like Michelle Rodriguez and Her Hairy Armpits.
It's been a while since we've seen a year with so many box office disasters.
That could be a good video idea. What year in cinema history had the most bombs?
2005 is often mentioned as a year with several high-profile box office disappointments, including films like "Stealth," "The Island," and "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D." Similarly, 2015 saw a number of big-budget films underperform, such as "Pan," "Jupiter Ascending," and "Tomorrowland."
@@ThwipThwipBoom I remember the marketing blitz for Jupiter and Tommorowland. They failed on John Carter levels
Yeah, 2005 is considered a major shift, in a bad way--the "slump", the slide in money from the previous year, with its sequels and *Passion of the Christ* (THE movie that I like to blame every problem in Hollywood on), and a lot of original, prestige movies underperforming (No Best Picture nominee made more than a hundred million), you can say the "Either it's Marvel or A24" dichotomy can be traced to 2005.
@@RABartlett A theory about how Passion of the Christ is responsible for every problem in Hollywood sounds interesting, if you'd care to share.
@@Dorian_sapiens Basically 2004 was an election year, with the Iraq War and gay marriage being big. Gibson's movie threw a greasefire on the culture war. This resulted in a couple things.
1) A lot of older, Middle American audiences checked out of Hollywood (That got worse after Trump) leaving low concept dramas without an audience.
2) Studios were stuck between a rock and a hard place, where they could "think outside the box" like they did in the early 70's, because "outside the box" could be quite reactionary, (They experimented with more religious films, bot those largely only did well if they were incendiary) which meant Hollywood kept playing it safer and safer.
I can also probably draw a line from this to Fox being sold to Disney,
You guys riff off each other so well I lol’d at “I mean I liked it-I did too, we liked it!” after bashing the flash
Honorable mention: Exorcist Believer. The "budget" may have been $30 million but Universal had reportedly paid $400 for the rights.
That's for the franchise though, not just the movie. By that argument the Force Awakens would be a huge bomb because Disney paid like 4 billion on Lucasfilm but only made half that on the film.
That said it was probably still a bad investment.
@@maxjones503 ya I was typing out that it was for the franchise/etc, but then it got to be a little long so I left it at what I posted.
The complexity of the cost of the movie + success or the movie (or lack thereof) + cost of franchise + potential they could earn off the franchise in the future is what I would say earns it a mention, but not to earn a place on the top twelve list.
@@maxjones503 I know logic is a foreign concept to most people on the internet, but what you've committed here is the most common of logical fallacies: apples to oranges. Star Wars is a massive, merchandising empire (no matter how crappy the content is), and nobody is rushing out to buy their Exorcist: Believer body pillows.
@@Psilocybin77And I guess this is a fallicist's fallacy (and a bit of ad hominem sprinkled in there lol). The fact is contains one doesn't really impact the point I'm making at all.
It wasn't an attempt at an apples to apples comparison, just a deliberately exaggerated example of why it isn't a direct translation, which it isn't.
@@maxjones503 please explain where I commit ad hominem?
It sucks that DND bombed because it’s easily on of my favourite films of the year. Going up against Mario was essentially box office suicide, probably would’ve done better if it didn’t go up against that.
Also, thanks Mason, I’ll always be calling it DND HAT from now on lol.
I actually saw a huge marketing push for Wish. Unlike Strange World last year, there were toys everywhere, I kept seeing ads for it on TH-cam, Instagram, TikTok, etc., and just by chosen genre (Disney princess animated musical) I think they were expecting it to do well.
I've been really heavily using an adblocker this year, and I genuinely didn't know it existed until I started seeing people talking about how it bombed
Still can't believe how poorly Mission Impossible 7 did considering it was great.
And considering how good Top Gun Maverick was, really thought Tom Cruise's stock was on the rise and people would flock to see his next one..
Yeah, I think it being a two-parter hindered it's performance.
Completely agree, my favourite movie of the year
Maybe its also Mission Impossible fatigue?
I loved the first, watched the second, then lost track. A couple of years ago I got free tickets to the one with Henry Cavill in and there was just too much lore, and returning characters and blah blah blah.
I dont want to have to go back to rewatch 6 movies to understand whats happening now.
I think Daniel Craigs Bond films suffered the same, by the last one there was too much relationship drama and tie ins that I lost track of.
I think movies saw the deep success of the MCU’s interconnected movies and thought we should do that everywhere, but there needs to be a balance where its still accessible and standalone if you havent watched them, unless you are something like the MCU building up to Infinity War.
For example, right now, I cba to watch any Marvel movies cause I dont want to slog through all the movies and tv shows to get it all. For example, I only watched like 2 episodes of WandaVision so her being evil in Dr Strange makes no sense to me. Dont force me to watch a TV show I wasnt enjoying to understand the movie.
If i remember correctly, they released the movie earlier to not do it during the writer strike, so it had a lot of competition in cinema at that moment
This whole list just throws fuel on the fire for people who believe much of Hollywood is a money laundering scheme. In what world does a movie about a shoe cost 5x more than an apocalyptic cgi lizard???
Some legitimately good movie flops this year. MI, DnD, Air, and Beau Is Afraid were good.
I raised the question of how AIR costed 160 million dollars when 90% of the scenes take place in an office board room lol
@@lilblue007 It definitely coulda got done for like $25M.
@@lilblue007 modern film making is all money laundering and creative accounting, and studios wonder why piracy is so rampant. It boggles my mind that ALIENS was produced on a budget of less than $40 million dollars in 1985/86. It's insanity that these modern CGI bukake fests cost 10x that.
@@lilblue007Michael Jordan probably got paid 1 million dollars every time his name was mentioned.
25M to make and market the rest went to afleck, matt damon and executives 😂
I would listen the hell out of a recurring segment that's called "Shut up, just, shut up."
And "shut your hands up" from their Inhumans video
I am normal. Completely normal. Totally normal. Normally normal… I saw almost all of these in the cinemas.
I'm normally the same. In a normal way.
Normally, in years past, I'd be with you with movie going being my normal, but the "new" hollywood normal just isn't my normal. Abnormally or otherwise.
I hadn't even heard of a few of these movies, which for me, isn't normal.
The WISH one is wild because I just went to Disneyland Paris before Christmas, and there was merch for the film fucking everywhere, and I didn't see a single person with any of it.
The core target audience didn't even see it or care about it at all
The Holdovers was such a wonderful movie. It’s a shame small scale stuff like that doesn’t really have much of a chance these days.
I think post covid definitely also is a factor. I used to see about 40-60 movies a year before covid. Then covid happened and something changed where seeing stuff the week of release became less important.
The side effect also lead me to me skipping movies if I hadn't seen them after the first 3 weeks because they would normally be hitting VOD in 3-4 weeks so I just figured what's the point.
This year I only saw 5 movies in cinemas the week of release and 10 total
So less stupid, paranoid people in the theaters?
D&D was one of my favorite movies of the year. It had everything: awesome effects, adventure, great performances. It was also freaking hilarious.
Hilariously Bad You Mean.
The end comments speak volumes to my experiences this year working at a cinema. We had so many movies coming out where so many of us were questioning why it was even made. Other films, mostly comic book movies, were so generic and diluted that audiences consistently stayed away
I am an Indy fan (and also over 35, surprise, surprise) and I enjoyed the movie, but the budget alone was basically begging for a bomb. I saw the movie, really enjoyed it, then looked up the budget and said ," Ha! Good luck, Disney." Absolutely bonkers for a property they didn't really care about or do anything with.
Was having a really horrible day today. So when I woke up and saw a new vid you guys dropped, it literally changed my day for the better. You guys have such a chemistry together that makes even the toughest days bring a smile outta me. Happy new year!
All I need from TH-cam is two Australians talking to each other. That's all I've ever needed.
Literally shocked to see DnD on the list. I thought it was received pretty well. Bummer, it was a good interpretation of the material and a lot of fun.
No It Wasn't.
Hugh Grant Was Phoning It In.
To an extent too.. I think people are just losing their curiosity in C-tier or below comic chatacters... the big ones like Batman, Spiderman, wolverine, superman, wonder woman, iron man will always have devoted fans and mainstream curiosity.. but Marvel is introducing like 1-2 new obscure superheroes per project and it gets exhausting.. that's what lost me with the comics themselves when I was a kid. It was just too convoluted, and it got to be too much to keep up with, and a lot of the newer heroes simply weren't as interesting. I remember the mcu felt refreshing in the beginning because it was a smaller more focused world that was telling more character-driven stories about iconic characters. The slow introduction of a new hero every once in a while felt like a fun reward to the audience that actually made you want to explore those c-tier players. Now those c-tier characters are just crammed everywhere without setup or reason... they're not even c-tier anymore, it's like e-tier.. Skaar, Cassie Lang, riri Williams, us agent, Eternals, Wican, speed... I think a casual viewer would assume I made some of these names up... makes it a little worse when you think about how little time we've spent with some bigger characters in their rush to introduce new ones.. like Wasp for instance, or heck, it seems these characters are even being prioritized over high profile characters they haven't introduced yet like blade, fantastic 4 and silver surfer.
Also, when you think of the numbers in these growing superhero universes and realize there must be more super-powered people in them than there are athletes in entire professional sports leagues, it makes it less interesting.. it's like that villain in the incredibles said "when everyone is special, no one is."
So yeah, I agree it's not a political thing, it's a poor planning, poor priorities, over-saturation thing.. I think marvel got overconfident, they had early success with introducing things they were less confident about like ant-man, guardians, black panther, Dr strange, captain marvel... and they just assumed people would always be that open to, or even excited about just any character they tossed into the mix. And that good-will and curiosity soured with bored audiences. The series now feels more like an advanced class on the depths of marvel comics history than escapist entertainment... Casual viewers saw the Captain Marvel and Ant-man trailers and probably thought "oh yeah, Antman and captain marvel were in the Avengers right? I kind of remember her fighting Thanos with iron man, and wow what a great ending for him and captain America, but I'm not sure I remember what happened to her? What was her backstory/powers again? Who are the other characters in the trailer? Were they in the comics? Were they in other movies? Wow, there's a lot of characters that I've never seen before in this, I might have to ask Dan at work who they are...He's really into marvel stuff... oh sh!t that Barbie movie is coming to streaming! And all I need to know about it is that it's about that very famous 100 year old toy I grew up with/around! Much more accessible! Oh... what's a blue beetle? Is that like a marvel or DC thing? Meh, I'll pass...Christopher Nolan's new movie about the bomb looks like an event!"
"Just a dreadful, dreadful movie, I mean I liked it!" "I did too!" 😂😂 perfectly sums up the Flash movie
Something a bit weird some films critics noticed is that you could use colour theory to determine which films were going to be successful this year. You have two broad categories, warm colours (oranges, red) and cold colours (teals, greens, blues) and its common for studios to pick one as the main "theme" for trailers, logos and posters. A lot of the films in this bombs list were predominantly warm with lots of orange (i.e. DnD and the Mission Impossible movie), meanwhile the successful movies of this year (i.e. oppenheimer) were predominantly cold.
Critic circles have since coined this phenomenon as a "blue harvest" which was coincidentally the working title for the first star wars movie
god fucking damn it
Nice one, you got me :-)
calm applause. Well played.
This is legit one of the only times I didn't see this coming. You're a master of the craft.
You got me...
What was weird for Beau is Afraid is that the weekend when it came out there was only one theater in my area playing the film at 7 or 9. No other showtimes anywhere else. Though the audience I was with really dug the film. Felt like it wasn’t really given the chance to prove itself in theaters.
good word of mouth is whats getting me to go to the movies lately, i just dont have any brand/company trust left in me, great video
About Blue Beetle, I remember hearing rumors about it in production from sources and then about November time I heard it was an actual movie being released.
Also I liked most of these movies somewhat.
I think it really is the fact that people pay for streaming services and aren't going to go spend money on a movie ticket when they know it will be put on streaming.
19:16 so bloody true, most of these movies in Marvel and such just dont hook me to go to the cinema to spend £10 on a ticket when i can just wait a few months and watch it on streaming for half the price
I have earphones on and every time we hear how much the films made, I’m sure there’s a very subtle little fart noise, and I’m loving it.
These videos at the end of the year are such a treasure. Much love!!
That little fart noise for the box office amount got me every time
Hey James and Maso thanks for keeping my depression in check 🤙🏼
I'm loving everyone showing up for D&D-HAT in the comments. Makes me happy that even if it didn't perform incredibly well, it sincerely connected with a lot of people.
For a movie I expected to have to watch through my fingers, I f'n loved it.
It Was Krap.
Complete and Utter Garbage.
@@DavidBanner-de5om Yeah, well that’s just like, your opinion, man.
Boxoffice Backs Up My Opinion.
@@DavidBanner-de5om It made more than it’s budget back, while being released the week before some of the biggest films of the year completely demolished all competition. It has very positive word of mouth and has done well enough on streaming to have sequel talks.
It’s fine if you personally didn’t like it, but you can also piss off with your negativity
😘✌️
You've got to remember that studios only get ~50% of ticket revenue
For me the big change was having a baby back in March. I’ve seen two films in the cinema since (Spider-Verse and The Creator) because something in my soul NEEDED my first viewing of each to be on the big screen - largely due to either a love of the preceding film or the director respectively.
I’d have loved to see more but the drama of arranging childcare and the cost of going at all made me extremely choosy and I had to let a lot of stuff go.
Can’t wait til she’s old enough to force my hand into going every week!
Studios need to start taking chances on movies that are original, and audiences will have to take the chance on these unknown properties. Studios have gotten too comfortable on making movies that people recognize (sequels, reboots, remakes, etc.) to ensure a profit, but that's not working anymore. We need to go back to the 70's , 80's and 90's and start making movies that have fresh ideas. Hollywood didn't run out of ideas, but the people who run Hollywood don't want to gamble with a movie that people don't know, and therefore won't spend money on. It's up to us to support the original ideas when they come out.
Box office revenue (i.e. cinema ticket sales) is split between the theaters and the studio. The studio only gets half. That is why a movie needs to make "2 times the budget" at the box office. And that is 2x the _total_ budget, including P&A (Prints and Advertising, or "marketing"), not just the production budget. So if a film has a production budget of $150,000,000 and a P&A budget of $50,000,000, then it needs to make $400,000,000 at the box office to break even. At least for domestic releases and domestic box office. The cut from theaters is even less for foreign markets (mostly around 40%, but only 25% for China). So for big international releases, a film generally needs to make about 2.5 times the total budget (production + P&A) at the global box office, or the studio will not turn a profit at the theatrical release window.
The ones on this list that break my heart are D&D, No Hard Feelings and The Creator. I really enjoyed all of these quite a bit.
D&D Hat, was just a blast. I loved the puppets (When the puppet kitten came out of the giant fish just made me chuckle.), the make up, the fat dragon, all of it was great! It definitely had that Pirates of the Caribbean/Guardians type of feel to it and it's a damn shame it under performed. One thing I really loved about it, was the not so great cgi. It just kind of added to the feel of it being a game being played in somebody's dinging room, garage, whatever. Great movie.
The Creator just honestly surprised me. Gareth Edwards does this really cool thing with scale. He did it with Godzilla and Rogue One, and in this it was really good as well. It wasn't a wholly original storyline, wasn't breaking the mold or anything, but it was still a solid movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it.
No Hard Feelings just reminded me of those Apatow era comedies and I feel like they don't make those kinds of movies anymore. Kind of like The Nice Guys. Damn shame.
Didn't see No Hard Feelings, but totally agree on the other two! Genuinely great films.
I think DnD HAT should've been released after bg3, bg3 had the public attention for a good few months and I only watch DnD after playing it and it was great
Been refreshing Big Sandwich nonstop for this.
on the topic of giving audiences a reason to go to theaters - before streaming the only way you could watch a movie was to go to the theaters or wait for the vhs/dvd. so just to consume entertainment media, people had to go to the theaters. now with streaming we have hundreds of thousands of shows and movies available to us 24/7 without even the barrier of having to wait for them to show up at specific times. theaters and studios need to realize they no longer have a monopoly on our time
Also affecting D&D was probably the built-in fanbase being mad at Wizards of the Coast. Which is a shame, because while I didn't love the movie, it was fun.
But with The Flash, I'm glad it bombed. Awful lead actor, offensive cameos, dumb attempt at morals undercut by the superhero nature of the story, it is everything wrong with superhero films.
Also Ezra “the assaulter” Miller
When Tom Cruise pitched the bike stunt to Christopher MacQuarrie, one of the director’s main concerns was getting coverage over multiple takes, so he insisted on shooting the motorbike stunt only on days with clear weather, resulting in so much footage of Cruise performing the stunt against azure skies that the film’s editor Eddie Hamilton called the abundance of footage, “a veritable Blue Harvest,” which is also the original working title of Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope.
God damn it
I skipped to the end of the comment and I'm proud
This video is the first time I heard of the 4th expendables... I didn't even know there was a third one 😂
I just got done watching a movie marathon of completely different genres of movies with my buddies. It’s 5:00am and we started at like 7pm.
Good for you, why are you rambling on about it here?
@@jonsmith5058 idk it was 5am. I was eepy
When you mentioned Expend4bles... I genuinely didn't realise that movie existed. I thought it was still in the rumours category.
MI7 deserved to do so much better. It was a great movie and a fantastic time at the theater.
I live for the fart sound when the Box Office number comes up. Thank you.
Been watching for 7 years, thank you for all the great content
Quotation of the year: “Why would I watch “The Marvels” when I can watch “Secret Invasion”?”
i just want to take a moment to recognize the tastefully restrained fart sound effect used in this video. a lesser editing team would have chosen something more over the top, but the understated elegance of the fart used here is absolutely perfect
It sounded like any number of Sega Genesis sound effects. I enjoyed a little trip down memory lane 😂
Happy new year my friends. My life in the past year has been full of joy because of you😂
These productions are so unbelievably entertaining. Amazing work. Is much time spend on script or structure, or is it just a free-for-all? Anyway, awesome!
Laurence is once again on point with the Succession inserts.
Thanks for addressing the “woke” nonsense. I don’t know how people can say that wokeness is killing moves when Barbie is Warner Brothers highest grossing movie of all time and very clearly has feminist themes. People just watch Fox News and assume everyone thinks the same as the talking heads.
Maybe it's just me, but I haven't been to a theater since 2019. It just feels like we're just being fed "stuff" or "products to consume" the past few years and it just isn't worth going anymore. Especially since that "stuff" is remarkably lackluster. Obviously Covid was a factor in not going anymore for a while, but with a few exceptions like Guardians 3 or Spiderverse, unless you're coming out with something everybody is already looking forward to, it feels like movies are just going to theaters to die, and then die on streaming, and then are removed if they don't make enough and never see the light of day again for tax purposes. On top of the fact that movies aren't based on how good they are or what people think of them-but are judged entirely on how much money it made. It feels so cold and transactional and it feels like all of the fun of seeing a movie is gone.
Great year filled with great videos! Have a nice time off, jame and mace
Thank you hip dude!
Thank you MSM team for all the great entertainment! See you next year!
Interesting fact, Mission Impossible 7 had a boost in budget because of Tom Cruise's unique diet and exercise plan. Tom tries to eat protien rich, nutrient dense foods that can be hard to come by in places that dont have a tropical environment. To solve this issue, MI7 producers brought in the tools and resources to grow/create the foods Tom needs. While this may sound like a rich guy living extravagantly, the interesting part is the farm Tom needs produces a large anount of nitrogen and oxygen, which replenishes the surrounding ecosystem and tints the sky a beautiful sapphire tone. This led to the working title for MI7 being blue harvest.
Well played
Had us in the first 95% ngl playa!!!🥇
You overplayed your hand at "interesting fact". Nobody has ever given an interesting fact in a TH-cam comment.
Hahaaaa, I knew where this was going in the first sentence, so proud of myself, but it was GREAT!! ;)
@@SimonBuchanNz fuck you're right I knew I should've taken that out
Ah yes. My favourite video each year. It’s 5:50am where I am in Canada. Guess it’s time to make breakfast and watch this 😌👌
D&D - Hat was a blast, really enjoyable and …well fun, sad to see it make the list but hope they can realize another project equally as fun
I saw from Nerdsync that, apparently, 'the Marvels' was the highest grossing movie directed by a black woman, and I'm shocked and disappointed that no one else is really talking about that.
I, personally, DO want to watch comic book movies, I just want to watch good ones, y'know?
If a paint-by-numbers movie, from Disney, is gonna come to theaters, and I only have to wait THREE MORE MONTHS until it's on Disney Plus, then I'm gonna wait three more months to see it at home on Disney Plus.
The cost of living Crisis hasn't helped much either. Why spend about £40 (tickests/travel/food) on the cinema when you know its going to be streaming in two months.
I think an honorable mention should be ‘Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken’, having a budget of 70 million but only making a return of about 45.6 million. A shame too since that was a cute movie and felt it did a better job of what ‘Turning Red’ and ‘Luca’ were trying to do.
I suspect they could have made money with the Dungeons & Dragons film by making it low budget. I think D&D players would have wanted to see it because it was D&D, regardless of whether it had name actors--and, conversely, Hugh Grant wouldn't have brought in people who would go to see Hugh Grant in a romance. If they wanted names, they should have had people like Wil Wheaton or someone who was on Buffy.
Also, a lot of older people who would want to see the D&D film have fond memories of low-budget sci-fi and fantasy from the past. Someone who likes Doctor Who or original Star Trek isn't going to hate your film because the sets looked a bit cheap. They'll probably interpret it as a loving homage.
I think it's also important to note that Guardians 3 and Spider-Verse are sequels to established and critically acclaimed films. James Gunn spun gold from fucking straw making the Guardians movies, and Spider-Verse was the movie which gave Disney the middle finger and set a new standard for 3D animation in Hollywood. Audiences knew ahead of time that they could expect good movies because there had been that audience trust established.
Let's be real, Captain Marvel and Ant-Man were nobody's favourite MCU movies. Their popularity and audience interest only existed relative to the wider MCU. You can't look at Deadpool 3 or Guardians 3 and call them the standard for comic book movies, because they're not. Without the trust that comes from critically acclaimed previous movies, general audiences either don't care about new comic book movies or they're outright tired of how oversaturated the genre is becoming. That's exactly what happened to Blue Beetle, though the lack of marketing also likely hurt it somewhat.
Blade and Superman Legacy are the two movies that are going to determine whether or not there is any hope for the comic book movie genre going forwards, I think. Blade is a somewhat familiar name with the Wesley Snipes movies, but he's a complete newcomer to the MCU sphere. Superman is, of course, Superman. If DC can't succeed with a Superman movie, then they've just got absolutely no hope trying to make anything other than more Batman movies. If Blade flops, then the MCU has officially lost its ability to get audiences invested in new properties and new stories.
I feel that should D&D ever get a sequel, the recent popularity of Baldur's Gate 3 could very well give it the push into the mainstream that HAT was missing.
Happy new year distinguished Gentlemen x love ya, keep doing what ya doing
I had a discussion the other day with a friend of a friend who had an emotional breakdown over marvel movies being bad now because they’ve gone too woke. I thought he was joking at first. He was not. One racist and sexist tirade later and I just was in shock people can be like this in real life. What a surprise
Luckily for me I've never seen anyone complain about that in my real life
Saw MI:DR with my grandparents. Grandpa was asleep the whole time, because y’know he’s 78. Once it ended he woke up turned to me and said not enough action”.
Great movie though I liked it
I really liked the D&D movie, they really put in the work.
I deadset had not heard of Wish until I saw this video.
My reaction to this video was "They made another Expendables?"
I knew it was coming out but never saw a trailer or knew it had released
I guess you could say that particular entry in your to-watch list is pretty...
(I don't even gotta say it I've put the sunglasses on you get it)
I watch every video. How else would I stay current on the layers and layers of impenetrable lore and in-jokes?
I absolutely loved D&D.
Best Fantasy/Adventure movie in a very long while!
I just found out I have been subscribing to this TH-cam channel since late 2015. been listening to you boys for 9 years. better not be like tom Scott and John green decided to take an announce break from TH-cam. happy new years.
For the DnD Movie, the Hasbro / WoTC controversies with the license change likely also had a small impact on people supporting it in cinemas. While not something the general public likely care about, a large chunk of the core audience that could have served to bring up hype or bring their families / friends with them boycut it.
Yeah, if it was released around the same time as Baldur's Gate 3 instead of the OGL debacle it likely would have fared better
You should have said DAD HAT 😂 it was the perfect opportunity
Shame for Mission Impossible. It was a very good movie, and you got to appreciate Tom Cruise's dedication.
Waiting for them to make the rest of the movie before seeing it
Not me a 22 year old watching this video next to my framed raiders of the lost ark poster with my cat named Indy. That part couldn’t have caught me more off guard
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@@titusmccarthy lol no, but if you do a tiny bit of reading, you will find there is amazing research into the study of psychedelics in treatment of depression, addiction, end of life therapy, recidivism, and other mental health conditions. I don't know why people keep commenting on my name as if it's some terrible thing, because they've been brainwashed to think psychedelics are some awful scourge. In my city I have a friend who is studying at my countries top psychiatric university to enter this field. Without psychedelics we wouldn't have SSRIs and other treatments of depression, PTSD, and anxiety. Interesting stuff. I recommend the works of Charles Grobb, and Stanislov Groff to start.
Your cat is named Indy?
"Indy? The dog's name is Indy"
Jeez, man. Get it together.
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This made me feel dirty for how I laughed at EACH AND EVERY FART/RASPBERRY NOISE.
D&D HAT was actually pretty good. Charming cast and funny jokes.
Yeah, Michelle Rodriguez's Hairy Armpits were Hilarious.
@@DavidBanner-de5om Exactly, it's a fun level of detail you don't often see movies bothering to try, glad you enjoyed it:)