WOKE Lousy Movies Drive Box Office Down 21 Percent over Last Year

[Intestinal Fortitude]

Nolte: Lousy Movies Drive Box Office Down 21 Percent over Last Year

With the year nearly a third over, the domestic box office is down 21 percent from last year, and last year's box office stunk.

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Lousy Movies Drive Box Office Down 21 Percent over Last Year​

With the year nearly a third over, the domestic box office is down 21 percent from last year, and last year’s box office stunk.


Box Office Mojo shows the 2024 domestic box office at $1.935 billion as of today, April 23. This same time last year, the domestic box office had grossed $2.449 billion.


Already, 2023 was considered a disappointment. Two full years out of the pandemic, the year still fell 16.2 percent behind 2019, the last full pre-pandemic year.


But this year is shaping up to be a full-blown catastrophe, and despite what the sycophants in the entertainment media tell you, it has nothing to do with the strike or the pandemic or weather or marketing or anything other than what the science tells us: people are falling out of love with the movies. People are rejecting the movies. After some seven years of woke garbage, gay sex, grooming, DEI, and the politicization of absolutely everything, by a margin of 2-to-1, Normal People say the movies are worse today than in past decades.


Last year was the year of Barbie, Super Mario Bros. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Oppenheimer, The Flash, plus another Little Mermaid, another John Wick, another Indiana Jones, another Creed, another Mission: Impossible, another Hunger Games, another Fast and Furious, another Scream, another Transformers… Throw in some Pixar, two Marvels, two DC flicks, and Taylor Swift….


Disney’s first-look trailer for Wish (Walt Disney Animation)

Ezra Miller as The Flash (Warner Bros. Pictures)

The result? Nineteen percent down from 2019.

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This year, we have already had another Dune, another Kung Fu Panda, another Godzilla/Kong, another Ghostbusters, another Mean Girls, another Omen, a Lady Spider-Man, and what should have been a couple of peak weekends from Big Films released in late December: another Aquaman and another Color Purple.


The result? Down 21 percent over 2023, which ended up being down 19 percent over 2019.


The bottom line is that there is no shortage of product… There is only a shortage of product that Normal People want to see.


By my count, there have been close to thirty wide releases already this year. That averages out to nearly two new wide releases each week.


The crybaby box office apologists will say, but there’s no Avengers: Endgame, Toy Story 4, Frozen II, Spider-Man: Far From Home. Top Gun: Maverick or Joker this year like there were in 2019.


To which I will reply…


Exactly! Thank you for making my point! The movies you just listed are movies Normal People wanted to see. So excuse me while I repeat myself: “There is no shortage of product… There is only a shortage of product that Normal People want to see.”


How bad are things at the box office this year? Pretty bad when the current Big Box Office Success Story is Civil War, a movie that’s only managed to gross $49 million WORLDWIDE over two weekends.


Last weekend, we had three new wide releases. Something called Abigail, something called The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and something called Spy x Family Code: White. All three movies combined grossed around $25 million … total. Is that a lack of product or a lack of audience interest?


Alan Ritchson in ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’. (Daniel Smith/Lionsgate)


Hollywood has insulted, demeaned, attacked, condescended to, and alienated half the country, all while attempting to “queer” and groom our kids. This has not only cost the industry audience goodwill but also destroyed the art itself. Movies suck today, and that keeps the other half of the country from showing up.


Even leftists reject this leftist garbage.


The science on that issue is settled.

 

[Intestinal Fortitude]

Hollywoke wood is dying

 

[Squid]

Hollywoke wood is dying

The wound was self inflicted.

When I don’t go to movies because even movies I might wish to see have the ‘messages’ and ‘special characters’ to help nudge my tiny fly-over country brain to radical leftist right think, all I can see is F Hollywood and all the losers in the business.

Really don’t have time to stop and look at the accident that is modern cinema, got a life to live.

 

[energy_wave]

It's a shit box. Nothing worth watching. Dune sucked, couldn't even watch it. I'm watching old movies for now.

 

[Dash]

I took my kids to see the new Ghostbusters a few weeks ago. For the three of us it was over $100 for a matinee & snacks. And it was terrible. It was disappointing because it had much more of Ackroyd & Murray than Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which I liked.

We probably go to the movies twice a year. It’s hard to justify the expense of seeing a movie in the theater when it will be on a streaming service the next month. Hollywood needs to do better to get people to want to go to the theater and spend that kind of money.

 

[packyderms_wife]

I'm 57, a lot of my friends my age are buying a new dvd player and are pulling out movies from their dvd collections to watch and I can't say that I blame them one bit. We recently bought a 43" ROKU tv, to replace our dying 12+ year old smart tv, and a Sony Blue Ray dvd player and couldn't be happier. I've been digging through my DVD stash for some of our favorites to watch... this weekend it'll be Pow Wow Highway.

 

[packyderms_wife]

The wound was self inflicted.

When I don’t go to movies because even movies I might wish to see have the ‘messages’ and ‘special characters’ to help nudge my tiny fly-over country brain to radical leftist right think, all I can see is F Hollywood and all the losers in the business.

Really don’t have time to stop and look at the accident that is modern cinema, got a life to live.

This^^^ and in spades! It's also why my friends, like myself, are watching dvd's now... several have noticed that some of the older movies that are currently streaming have been "doctored" when it's compared to one on DVD that's decades old. Yeah they're actually altering old movies to fit the new narrative.

 

[TerriHaute]

It's been years since we watched a current movie and at least 15 years since we went to a movie theater. We used to be avid watchers of current movies and TV programming like NCIS, Dancing with the Stars, Longmire, Justified. But the content gradually got worse and worse and we simply quit watching. Although DH watches a few retro TV programs, we have mostly gotten out of the habit of watching anything, even on DVD.

 

[Redleg]

That and inflation eating away at the extra money makes people think before wasting money on a movie that is crap.

 

[packyderms_wife]

That and inflation eating away at the extra money makes people think before wasting money on a movie that is crap.

Agreed! When it's a choice between food on the table and watching a potentially crappy movie at the theater, I'm going with food on the table. Last weekend we watched Second Hand Lions and had dinner at home, he made us faux big macs that were absolutely delicious.

 

[LightEcho]

I can't tell you how many movies or partial movies I watched on free sites, after which I said:
"I am sure glad I did not pay to see that crap!" Even the time wasted was too expensive.

 

[ainitfunny]

I too have ceased going to movies since the woke crap
STARTED some 15 or so years ago! No more movies where the emphasis is sympathizing with the weirdo or the criminal or the criminal wins.
I dont go to the movies to make my blood boil with anger.
How hard is that to understand!
My money is there for movies, but the movie makers have an agenda that doesn't include pleasing me, or other NORMAL people.
The "fringe" people of Society is tolerated as long as it REMAINS the small "fringe"! When it tries to TAKE OVER control of normal people it must be severed from Normal society!
And, that's gonna HURT THEM.

 

[Phelan]

I can't tell you how many movies or partial movies I watched on free sites, after which I said:
"I am sure glad I did not pay to see that crap!" Even the time wasted was too expensive.

QFT!

 

[barbarossa58]

The wound was self inflicted.

When I don’t go to movies because even movies I might wish to see have the ‘messages’ and ‘special characters’ to help nudge my tiny fly-over country brain to radical leftist right think, all I can see is F Hollywood and all the losers in the business.

Really don’t have time to stop and look at the accident that is modern cinema, got a life to live.

Like everything in life, dreams are best kept dreams, when they come true, resentment often ensues...

 

[Firebird]

Virtually 100% of what comes out of Hollywood is dreck

 

[SouthernBreeze]

We haven't been to a movie theater in over 20 years. The last time we went, we swore we never would go back. The sound was so loud that you couldn't enjoy the movie, teenagers holding their cell phones up in the air blocking our view, and the floor was a mess with garbage all over it. Later, we found out that same theater had an infestation of bed bugs with people showing up in the local ER for the bites they were so bad.

Now, we only watch older DVD's and old series that we like on streaming tv. Who needs the hassle or the expense of going to a theater, especially if it turns out to be a movie that you would ask for a refund for, because it was so bad.

 

[Intestinal Fortitude]

Nolte: Jerry Seinfeld Says the ‘Movie Business Is Over’

Nolte: Comedian Jerry Seinfeld told GQ Magazine that the “movie business is over,” and he's right.

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Nolte: Jerry Seinfeld Says the ‘Movie Business Is Over’​

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John Nolte23 Apr 202419

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Comedian Jerry Seinfeld told GQ Magazine that the “movie business is over.”
It most certainly is.

Seinfeld is out promoting his directorial debut, Unfrosted, a Netflix film that arrives on May 3. It’s the story about the creation of the Pop-Tart in the early 1960s. Unfrosted is also the first time Seinfeld has starred in a live-action movie.

Directing a movie was “totally new to me,” he told GQ. “I thought I had done some cool stuff, but it was nothing like the way these [movie] people work. They’re so dead serious! They don’t have any idea that the movie business is over.”

When asked if he had told them the movie business was over, Seinfeld said he had not but explained his reasoning: “[F]ilm doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives,” he said. When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked.”

Referring to all the content today, he added, “Now we’re walking through a fire hose of water, just trying to see.”
When asked what replaced movies in the cultural imagination, he said:

Depression? Malaise? I would say confusion. Disorientation replaced the movie business. Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, What’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now? … Audiences are now flocking to stand-up because it’s something you can’t fake. It’s like platform diving. You could say you’re a platform diver, but in two seconds we can see if you are or you aren’t. That’s what people like about stand-up. They can trust it. Everything else is fake.

There’s no question stand-up is blowing up to the heights we saw back in the 70s and 80s. When Seinfeld says audiences can “trust it,” he is exactly right. Seinfeld, Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, etc., are the only people telling the truth anymore. “Everything else is fake” is also exactly right.
Movies and TV lie and lie and lie, and I don’t mean with fantastical stories.

The lie is how the characters behave, converse, interact, and act.
The lie is in a 90-pound woman taking a punch from a 200-pound man.
The lie is that everyone is gay.
The lie is that everyone is obsessed with identity over merit.
The lie is that America is a racist, sexist, homophobic culture.
The lie is in transsexuals and fetishists portrayed as normal and heroic.
The lie is that it is healthy to groom little kids into questioning their sexuality and gender.
The lie is that there’s something biological in between male and female when the truth is that it’s only personality.

It really does seem as though the only place we can go to be entertained with the truth anymore is through stand-up—and nothing is more entertaining, memorable, or moving than being told the truth. The truth has been so smothered and perverted by today’s movie and TV industry that watching Ricky Gervais or Dave Chappelle is more than entertaining; it’s cathartic.

What Seinfeld says about the movie business being “over” is also accurate.
Hollywood’s cultural influence is pretty much gone.
The only thing about movies that still brings everyone together is complaining about how awful and irrelevant they’ve become.

The left-wing studios worked overtime to alienate, offend, insult, lecture, and condescend to half the country, which has resulted in movies so terrible that the other half — leftists — also choose to stay away in droves.

Most movies and TV have become propaganda, which has no shelf life and no lasting impact.
Universal themes and ideals bring us together.
Instead, we are lied to and scolded.
Exploring what it means to be human captures our attention.
Instead, we are lied to about how identity trumps our shared humanity.

This is also why decades-old shows like Friends, Suits, The Office, Gilmore Girls, Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, Seinfeld, etc., have dominated the streaming charts over hundreds—literally, hundreds—of brand new streaming shows. The new stuff is all shit.

I’ll probably never see Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart movie, but at least he cares about the only thing a comedian should care about: The Funny.

 

[ArisenCarcass]

Dune sucked, couldn't even watch it. I'm watching old movies for now.

I dislike the new Dune, especially the changes they made.
The Best Dune is the 2000 miniseries with William Hurt....It is the most perfect book-to-screen adaptation I've seen.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

That and inflation eating away at the extra money makes people think before wasting money on a movie that is crap.

The home theater makes watching movies at home a vastly better proposition than ever. And it's long been a lot cheaper too, overall.

 

[Repairman-Jack]

This is also why decades-old shows like Friends, Suits, The Office, Gilmore Girls, Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, Seinfeld, etc., have dominated the streaming charts over hundreds—literally, hundreds—of brand new streaming shows. The new stuff is all shit.

I’.

I like older NCIS episodes but have heard newer ones have gone a bit woke.

This past winter started watching Grey's...first few season we okish and then it just turned to dog sh!t.

Recently I've been enjoying my DVD/Blu Ray collection and Tubi, they have a decent collection of Giallo, Grindhouse, Horror movies.

 

[packyderms_wife]

The home theater makes watching movies at home a vastly better proposition than ever. And it's long been a lot cheaper too, overall.

And safer if truth be told! I don't have to worry about OC and I getting mugged late at night leaving the theater to go home, or out for a late dinner, if I watch movies at home. And then there's the filthy theater conditions with roaches, bed bugs, and who knows what else is lurking under the chairs.

 

[Josie]

I might go with a grandchild or two to a movie but it's always the very early matinee when it's cheaper. One of them is a Mario fanatic and he wanted to see the Mario one. I guess it was okay. He loved it! The last movie hubby and I went to was "Sound of Freedom" with Jim Caviezel. I thought that one was pretty good, but it was made at Angle Studios and not one of the major studios. There is nothing new being put out by those one-time giants. They just keep producing remakes of good movies with either weirdo messages or crappy actors.

 

[Tex88]

Specifically just movie theaters:
no driving there, no parking there, no getting your car damaged, no other people to distract me, I can pause whenever to use the bathroom or get me a much cheaper snack and drink from the kitchen and our TV is plenty large and the attached Bose speakers have plenty of boom to make going to the movie theater as pointless as a party line or an AM radio.

I don't need to "own" a movie. If I buy or rent it from one of the several stores, or get it included from one of the several streaming services, that's good enough. Much better picture quality than DVD. I used to "own" VHS tapes and still have DVDs but I got nothing to play the former on and I'm too lazy to dig out the disks.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

And safer if truth be told! I don't have to worry about OC and I getting mugged late at night leaving the theater to go home, or out for a late dinner, if I watch movies at home. And then there's the filthy theater conditions with roaches, bed bugs, and who knows what else is lurking under the chairs.

Quite true. The only problem I have is that it's going to cost jobs. All those young folks who take tickets and sell popcorn...what of them?

 

[packyderms_wife]

Specifically just movie theaters:
no driving there, no parking there, no getting your car damaged, no other people to distract me, I can pause whenever to use the bathroom or get me a much cheaper snack and drink from the kitchen and our TV is plenty large and the attached Bose speakers have plenty of boom to make going to the movie theater as pointless as a party line or an AM radio.

I don't need to "own" a movie. If I buy or rent it from one of the several stores, or get it included from one of the several streaming services, that's good enough. Much better picture quality than DVD. I used to "own" VHS tapes and still have DVDs but I got nothing to play the former on and I'm too lazy to dig out the disks.

The reason to own old dvds is that the studios are changing old movies and shows via AI to be woke. So be informed, soon you will own contraband!!!

 

[SSTemplar]

I will be going to the movies to watch the 2nd part of last years Mission Impossible. It will cost me 9 dollars for each of us. So be it.

 

[Landcruiser]

We also use a projector and large screen to get the drive in experience that we no longer have in our area. And that setup cost about as much as taking the family to the movies once.

 

[Intestinal Fortitude]

And safer if truth be told! I don't have to worry about OC and I getting mugged late at night leaving the theater to go home, or out for a late dinner, if I watch movies at home. And then there's the filthy theater conditions with roaches, bed bugs, and who knows what else is lurking under the chairs.

 

[Griz3752]

I took my kids to see the new Ghostbusters a few weeks ago. For the three of us it was over $100 for a matinee & snacks. And it was terrible. It was disappointing because it had much more of Ackroyd & Murray than Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which I liked.

We probably go to the movies twice a year. It’s hard to justify the expense of seeing a movie in the theater when it will be on a streaming service the next month. Hollywood needs to do better to get people to want to go to the theater and spend that kind of money.

Ackroyd & Murray aren't worth the price of admission; can't remember either doing anything truly noteworthy/likely to stand the test of time

Just my opinion

 

[Kathy in FL]

We also use a projector and large screen to get the drive in experience that we no longer have in our area. And that setup cost about as much as taking the family to the movies once.

Got hubby this for Christmas. Haven’t had time to set it up yet but between that and the supreme collect we are growing over in TB2K’s media threads, I have no reason to really step foot in a theater these days. Hubby will want to see the Mission Impossible movie but even then we rarely see it as a first run.

 

[packyderms_wife]

What the hell?

 

[packyderms_wife]

Got hubby this for Christmas. Haven’t had time to set it up yet but between that and the supreme collect we are growing over in TB2K’s media threads, I have no reason to really step foot in a theater these days. Hubby will want to see the Mission Impossible movie but even then we rarely see it as a first run.

If you have the huge screen then you won’t need to see MIP in the theater.

 

[ainitfunny]

Packyderms wife said: And safer if truth be told! I don't have to worry about OC and I getting mugged late at night leaving the theater to go home, or out for a late dinner, if I watch movies at home. And then there's the filthy theater conditions with roaches, bed bugs, and who knows what else is lurking under the chairs.

It NEVER occurred to me that theater seats could have BEDBUGS! I will never go to another theater again!

 

[Tex88]

The reason to own old dvds is that the studios are changing old movies and show via AI to be woke. So be informed, soon you will own contraband!!!

Studios have released chopped movies since forever. Like the US release of Highlander for instance bears no resemblance to the Euro theatrical release and makes no sense whatsoever. The German release of Casablanca made no mention at all of Nazis and was about a crazy death ray scientist.

It's a rabbit hole

 

[Bubble Head]

Ackroyd & Murray aren't worth the price of admission; can't remember either doing anything truly noteworthy/likely to stand the test of time

Just my opinion

Murray did Ground Hog Day. We watch it every Feb 2. Never go to the movies. Just our own DVDs or read.

 

[nomifyle]

I have not been to a movie threatre since December 2011.

 

[Bad Hand]

After working on one so called survival show and being on one and talking to friends that were on them I can't stand to watch them. A lot of it is staged and edited for drama.

 

[Griz3752]

Murray did Ground Hog Day. We watch it every Feb 2. Never go to the movies. Just our own DVDs or read.

My wife loves that one because, in her mind, it's how her work life goes; long story.
With you on going to movies/theatres. The really good stuff is on TCM & other oldies channels, NetFlix& a few others.

 

[Griz3752]

I have not been to a movie theatre since December 2011.

Except for a very few movies I don't think you've missed a great deal.