I will never be able to vibe with the contingent that equate film quality with monetary success. I get the idealistic urge to want to attach an easy barometer but it’s such a bogus goal post. Movies have different costs, different audiences, different timelines at finding an audience. Let them live.
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There is more to art than entertainment.
Also, mid- and low-budget horror movies almost always make a profit, by the way. That’s why there are so many of them, I’m told by someone who used to do PR for many of them in LA.
Back in the 80s and 90s, if you were hanging with film buffs & you brought up how well a film did financially, it would be like a blasting an eggy fart into the room.
A Japanese movie in the style of Magnolia or Pulp Fiction with separate storylines intersecting. It is a gorgeous movie abandoned by the market.
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I don't think it impacts the quality of the movie (I love plenty of movies that made no money) but just greatly affects what might come next.
Many great authors works were basic failures at first.
And finally, there are some pretentious, narrowly-targeted films that no one sees simply because they suck.
And you know what shitty films do?
They subsidize good films.
(Somewhere Linda Obst is laughing at my naïveté.)
I feel too few appreciate the Obst-ness, the gratuitous mendacity that prevails in pursuits where those who merely earn can head fake an entire team plus mascot of those who deeply care. Callous is eternal, art ephemeral when art is beeg money.
Especially to someone who mostly watches tv
(I’m tipsy so forgive me please?)
I think you’ve the nail on the head that with such limited marketing opportunities that the most has bc the most important
I wish I had a nickel for every time somebody said, "Well, if they aren't good, they're laughing all the way to the bank!" Like, as if the sole purpose and measure of an art is the profit it yields.
McDonald's has sold the most burgers, despite being nowhere close to the best.
So what. I saw Grease for 25cents.
If you keep making it cost more, those numbers mean nothing.
But in my case, movies only lasting two weeks at most, is part of the issue. Local cinema does not have the smaller movies, and even the big ip movies last shortly if you want them subbed instead of dubbed.
Which means that going to the theather is a
So I have to wait until the movie reaches digital.
And, why are foreign movies so much better?
Literally not enough time for word of mouth.
People say they want new and different things, but I guess they really don't.
A masterpiece that was never meant to be a box office success.