• pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But are those the things that get marketing? I’m with you on loving that content, but none of the main theatres in my area (a city of 7 million) even show them. A couple will put them into the standard screen theatres at oddball times to fulfill their contracts, but the good content is in the local dollar theatres where, of course, the movie gets less traffic.

    I think what they’re saying is that the movies that you’re “supposed” to watch are things like those god awful Harry Potter prequels (literally any fanfic amateur could have written them better), the ten thousandth Marvel movie (seriously, just stop), or those Adam-Sandler style low effort white trash movies that run solely on the recognition of the probably male and supposedly “so talented” lead actor.

    • tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      When most people pick movies to watch in a theatre it’s typically based on which movie no one will object to. So it needs a bit of action, a bit of romance, a bit of comedy… It also needs to have brand/actor recognition. So you get Marvel. There’s nothing wrong with this, but it’s a different market from the one you’re in.