Personally, I went to see the Fall Guy in the theater as it's the type of movie I want to see more of - big dumb fun and though it's based on IP you really don't need to know anything about the 80's tv show to watch it. As for Furiousa, and as much as I love Ana Taylor Joy, I'm just not that interested in that series.
I think a lot of people probably feel that way. Fury Road was a mild hit. It only made 379M globally in 2015. It had a budget of 150M. So then they greenlit a prequel that had an even higher budget of 168M. That's where this is starting to become untenable. Either the actors have got to start taking less or the studios have to throttle back the budgets and of course we all suffer when they do this because they will take the easiest way out that's available to them, more CGI and AI.
I suppose I’m part of the problem- quite fancied both movies, but I never actually went to see them.
For one ticket? That's insane. I'd say my wife and I can both go together for under $40 and that includes all of our snacks.
Yeah, my wife and I went recently and it was $60 just for our two tickets. Totally insane.
I will say that my wife and I subscribe to the Cinemark Movie Club. So it's $10 a month for one movie credit and then once you run out of credits, any additional tickets are also $10. So it's never more than $20 for both of us to go but more often than not we've already pre-paid. And then we also get a discount on concessions.
Regal has a similar program.
I came to it third-hand; the cohost Michael Hobbes used to cohost You're Wrong About, a similar deep-dive podcast concerning historical events we collectively misremember. He fractured off to do Maintenance Phase, which is a similar format though it concerns diet culture and fad eating. But currently Hobbes is hosting my favorite iteration of this format, If Books Could Kill, which addresses pop science and political writing from the last few decades; it's a good crash course on media literacy and often the hosts articulate opinions I've struggled to find words for.
It's weird: I feel more optimistic about movies and moviegoing than I have in a while. Remember Dune II was pretty huge. And remember Furiosa is a rated-R, offbeat action movie; as much as Fury Road paved the way (ha ha) for Furiosa, the audience is narrow. The high-profile, big-budget releases are getting attention for their inability to pull in profits, but midsize and low-budget features released by entities such as A24 and Neon are doing better than ever.
All we have here is AMC now, unfortunately. But they have a program like that too. It's only $21 a month and you can see 3 movies a week. It's a wild deal and pays for itself incredibly easily. It's also pushed me to go to the theater more this year.
I would do this but the Sacramento area is the first place I've lived in California where we have no AMCs.
