Captain America was more busy with explaining the political plot than Cap being a hero, doing hero things. If I want to watch polticial drama I turn on the news, not go to the cinema.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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The movie going price is competing with a frequently equivalent or better experience at home with the proliferation of large and fairly inexpensive tvs. Being annoyed by other movie goers, extremely overpriced popcorn and other snacks, and needing to go at specific times is just not enough to justify a larger screen and louder speakers except in a rare few movies each year.
I go about once a year and the rest of the time I'll just wait for streaming or watch the massive backlog of movies and shows available on streaming. Going to the theater was fun in the 90s when I had a small tv and we still had dollar theaters and other reasonably priced options.
Some of us have also largely stopped going because a crowded theater is a petri dish of communicable disease, especially at this time of year. I only see movies after they have been in the theater for at least a couple of weeks, and I have to really want to see it to even do that.
i think most of these films will do better once they come to VOD.
everyone is pretty depressed as a baseline, so no one is going to the movies during the traditionally roughest part of the release calendar.
summer movies are coming. that’ll be the real test.
Mickey 17 threw a decent amount of what made Mickey 7 good under the bus to make it have a reasonable run time and in turn added in some new themes that simply didn't work (imo). It's particularly grating that they added in new background scenes but cut the history of other colonies. I'd argue it's also an explicit, and typical, Hollywood betrayal of the working man but you need to see the movie and read the book to get into it.
I liked it just fine, overall, but it's no Parasite.
Captain America had a pretty similar problem in that it was just okay for what it was, and just okay doesn't get Disney another billion dollars anymore.
The point is, people can complain about the movie going experience vs streaming at home but the reality is that the movies were just mid in the first place.
They say this every year around this time. They act like consumers are changing when it is really that no one is interested in going to the movies in the first quarter of the year. A large percentage of people are not going to venture through snow to see a movie.
When the snow melts, people will go to the movies again. Film executives are idiots
The Captain America movie sucked tho, so that explains that one.