Nothing like presenting empty nostalgia in a cynical and empty money grab knowing there’s a swath of the population willing to lap it up. 

Heh.  Yup.

Won’t someone think of the millionaires?!

Came streaming too quickly?

Hasn’t that been the last few things he’s been in?

1. Indiana Jones And The Creator Of Cash

Exactly. Not only have they lost those revenue streams they now have the cost of developing and maintaining a streaming platform. Netflix wasn’t built in a day.  

Absolutely with you. I don’t trust the streaming services not to fuck us all in the long run, so I’ve pretty much bought up everything I would ever want to watch on DVD and blu-ray. Going forward it’s hard though; they’ve already stopped physical release of some stuff I’d like to have. 

I’ve got no problem with sequels and I understand they tried to transition into Shia LeBeouf taking over but there can’t be a huge audience clamouring for an 80-year-old leading an action adventure movie. The original movie was almost 40 years ago and nobody is going to be as believable as an adventurer four decades…

I go to other places, it’s just that a) I have a large library of movies and tv shows because I continuously buy physical media, and I have a home theater set up, and b) the hassle of going to theater isn’t worth it anymore.

make it a double feature with Clint Eastwood arguing with an empty chair

To see a sold out crowd of people with white hair on a Saturday night as oppose to a Sunday matinee to see their hero of yesteryear was cute as fuck. I hope some of them were drinking.

yeah i really haven’t been much either, and pre- COVID i went to see movies fairly regularly.  i think my attention span has gone down, i much prefer watching an hour of a movie at home and then taking a break and finishing later. 

Thing is I think Indiana Jones did exactly what it was trying to do beautifully and I wouldn’t correlate these numbers with the quality of the film if you’re the right audience for it.

Why is this so surprising? At my screening of Indiana Jones on Saturday (night) of the long weekend my Dad pointed out that it was almost a sold out crowd purely of seniors.

I don’t think Phoebe Waller Bridge counts so I’d say there was zero youthful eye candy at all. I’ll say it again the entire film is all haymakers…

i know things have changed and perceptions have been updated, but 130 worldwide opening is terrible, straight up, for something this expensive and important.

I think people just don’t want to go to theaters it can get quite expensive. Also the movies come out pretty quickly in streaming. 

Oh! Pity the poor moguls.

because we’d watch this:

Once upon a time, they could make bank on home media and by selling the rights to other outlets, like HBO, other cable channels and, eventually, netflix.