Hollywood's Abysmal 2024 in Numbers
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 01:06
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Quentin Tarantino asks himself why see a movie at the theater when it is on TV? | Jan 27, 2025
“That’s a big fucking deal pulling [a play] off, and I don’t know if I can. So here we go. That’s a challenge, a genuine challenge, but making movies? Well, what the fuck is a movie now? What — something that plays in theaters for a token release for four fucking weeks? All right, and by the second week you can watch it on television. I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns. I mean, it was bad enough in ’97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last fucking year of movies. That was a shit deal, as far as I was concerned, the fact that it’s gotten drastically worse? And that it’s just it’s a show pony exercise. Now the theatrical release, you know, and then like yeah, in two weeks, you can watch it on this [streamer] and that one. Okay. Theater? You can’t do that. It’s the final frontier.”
Easy for him to say.
Quintein Tarantino's home theater, complete with rows of movie theater seats.
https://www.tiktok.com/@screenwritinginla/video/7424368952421256491
At least, I'm assuming that it didn't burn down this month.
Fuck you, rich people.
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Quote:I agree, but because rich people overcharge for their crappy movies.
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Fuck you, rich people.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Have you seen Quentin Tarantino’s last movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? Me neither. I stopped after twenty minutes and haven’t gotten back to it in several years. Spoiler alert: In Tarantino's imagination the Mason Family is murdered by their “victims” rather than the other way around.
It’s got all the big names starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie
Made some money, too, but mostly because once you paid for a ticket, you might as well watch all the way to the end, no matter how crappy it is. Once upon a time Hollywood knew how to sell crap to morons.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Once-Upon-a-Time-in-Hollywood-(2019)
#tab=summary
For free, download and watch as much as you can stomach at https://yts.mx/movies/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-2019
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I never saw that one.
I've watched probably half a dozen Tarantino flicks, but it's hard to say because I'm not a cinemaphile and I've been corrected in the past for attributing flicks to him that were actually done by others like Rodriguez.
I've never thought any of his movies that I've seen are trash. Although, they can't all be Pulp Fiction.
I actually watched that again within the last 6 months with my old man, who'd never seen it before. He'd seen something on youtube which referenced it and the dance scene in the diner and asked if I wanted to watch it. Sure.... I haven't watched it in probably 15 years at least.
We had a good time. It was his first time seeing it, so I'm sure he enjoyed it quite a bit differently than I did. Plus, I was about 20 years old getting drunk and high with my friends with a girl who I later dated on her recommendation when I first saw it. I'm sure our first-time Pulp Fiction experience was quite a bit different than each other's were.
It's funny how time can change your perception of things though. If you'd have asked me when I was 25 what my Top 10 movies were, I have no doubt that Pulp Fiction would be high on that list and there's a chance that even Resevior Dogs or Four Rooms would have made their way in there too.
I doubt very much that any Tarantino movie would make my personal list 20 years later.
It's not there were even 10 movies that came out since the mid-90's that were better than Pulp Fiction that bumped it down. My tastes are just way different these days is all.
It's a fine movie. And overall, I'd say that Tarantino's catalogue is quite a bit better on average than a majority of people who have been making films in the last 10 or 20 years.
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Well... That's depressing.
They weren't woke, but I just now noticed that the top three movies in 2024 were all Disney properties.
Good thing we got the double-header of Black Not Captain America and Mierda de Perro en la Nieve Marrón to laugh at.
Oh... BTW...
Lead actor for Blacktain Anti-American just pissed off folk in real life.
Anthony Mackie Faces Backlash Over Controversial Remarks About America
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/anthony-mackie-faces-backlash-over
-173007741.html
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“For me, Captain America represents a lot of different things, and I don’t think the term, you know, ‘America,’ should be one of those representations," he said. Instead, he highlighted qualities such as honor, integrity, and dependability, emphasizing the hero’s moral strength over national symbolism.
Go. Fuck. Yourself.
Your movie was already dead and I doubt this was going to change the minds of the very few college "educated" white people who were going to pay to see it. So I would argue against anybody stating after this crashes and burns that it's your stupid ass that was responsible for it.
But I do hope your career in America is finished after this, Mr. Mackie.
You don't represent shit. You ain't about shit. You ain't shit.
And the world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
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20 million budget and doing ok
Nicole Kidman’s ‘Babygirl’ Crosses $50 Million at Global Box Office for A24
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/nicole-kidman-babygirl-a24-cu
ltural-impact-1236290879/
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Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog 3 grossed $1.79M this weekend (from 2,061 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $233.13M.
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1889045400960811337#m
Daily Grosses
FRI - $407K
SAT - $959K
SUN - $424K
in 2024 earnings were bad
2025 another bad year for Hollyweird
seems Hollywood also risks getting its ask kicked by Hindi film, Spanish and Russian
a Chinese movie is entering top 10 WW, just in a single market!
the South Korean 'cool' market is here to stay as a global selling brand
Korean films ‘Hitman 2,’ ‘Dark Nuns’ reach break-even point, lead weekend box office
https://mb.com.ph/2025/2/9/korean-films-hitman-2-dark-nuns-reach-break
-even-point-lead-weekend-box-office
Dark Nuns surpasses 1.43 million admissions, continues global success
https://www.chosun.com/english/kpop-culture-en/2025/02/03/UMIL5DLACFBV
XPMTNJIYZWDVI4/
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Quote:Disney has a past which is full of drama, ups and downs, abrupt firings and resignations, business successes and failures. Critics were asking in the 1980's "Can Disney make a good movie anymore?" See that history:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well... That's depressing.
They weren't woke, but I just now noticed that the top three movies in 2024 were all Disney properties.
Good thing we got the double-header of Black Not Captain America and Mierda de Perro en la Nieve Marrón to laugh at.
The Death of Touchstone Pictures (Disney only made G rated films. Touchstone was for PG and M-rated)
The Nightmare Before Christmas was released as a Touchstone film, but as soon as it became a cult classic (and thus more merchandisable) Disney reclaimed it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Inside the ugliest Oscars race in Hollywood history
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-inside-the-ugliest-o
scars-race-in-hollywood-history/
A Turn as Trump Made Sebastian Stan an Unlikely Oscar Nominee
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/movies/sebastian-stan-oscars-appren
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Disney has a past which is full of drama, ups and downs, abrupt firings and resignations, business successes and failures. Critics were asking in the 1980's "Can Disney make a good movie anymore?" See that history:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well... That's depressing.
They weren't woke, but I just now noticed that the top three movies in 2024 were all Disney properties.
Good thing we got the double-header of Black Not Captain America and Mierda de Perro en la Nieve Marrón to laugh at.
The Death of Touchstone Pictures (Disney only made G rated films. Touchstone was for PG and M-rated)
The Nightmare Before Christmas was released as a Touchstone film, but as soon as it became a cult classic (and thus more merchandisable) Disney reclaimed it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Touchtone Pictures is missed.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit was amazing. We're going on 40 years now and nobody has come close to replicating it. They just film everything in front of a green screen now and put cheap CGI on top of it.
Everything about Roger Rabbit was filmed expertly. There's not a single shadow out of place. The director got such a great performance out of everyone because they were actually interacting with real things as they were filming a scene instead of just moving around and talking in front of a green screen on a sound stage while pretending their imaginary friend is there doing the dialogue on the other side.
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Despite trying as hard as they can, most of Hollywood's product is crap i.e. "squeezing 10lb of shit into a 5lb bag":
I Watched Rotten Tomatoes’ 40 Lowest-Rated Films To Find Out Which Was Worst
By Rebecca Liu | Sat 8 Feb 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/08/watching-rotten-tomatoes-
lowest-rated-films
In total, I watched too many films to name here, but the theme that emerged was one of brutal downfalls. Hollywood can be a miserable business, where the highs are fleetingly high and the lows can be mercilessly low, and some of the films here proved it. Italian film-maker Roberto Benigni charmed Hollywood with his 1997 triple Oscar-winning Life Is Beautiful. His next project, a live-action version of Pinocchio, bombed in the US, where reviewers were put off by not only the premise – an adult Benigni gallivanting around as a boy puppet – but also the awful dubbing. Chinese director Chen Kaige stormed Cannes with Palme d’Or-winning Farewell My Concubine before making his first English-language production, Killing Me Softly, with Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes, an erotic thriller that plays like questionable fanfiction. And while toy giant Mattel might like us to believe it debuted triumphantly into the world of cinema with 2023’s Barbie, its first attempt – the 2016 superhero film Max Steel – was a washout.
I saved London Fields, the film that led me down this path, for the end. It felt like a poetic conclusion.
“It was the hardest movie I ever did,” Billy Bob Thornton said ahead of its release. “We were squeezing 10lb of shit into a 5lb bag. We didn’t have enough money or enough time […] We hope we do you proud with the film. If we let you down, I apologise in advance, but we sure gave it our best.” It’s a moving quote, all the more so considering the outcome (the director and producers fought for control over the film. As was the case with other films on this list, the director lost, and has distanced himself from the final result.) Some films soar, others fall, but all are sprawling endeavors involving great amounts of work. To have it fail, after all that, is tragically human.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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