Yes but if every movie is copying that template, they’re no longer doing their own thing.

The complaint isn’t about GotG, it’s about everything being the same.

No, Lazenby quit because he thought he was above the role and would have a better career without it.

A couple of them aren’t out yet. A couple I missed, or they just didn’t get theatrical releases here (Australia). Everything else, I Saw in the cinema. Anora, as well, hasn’t come out here yet. The Brutalist. I could go on…

They all had theatrical runs AFAIK.

Saw it theatrically in 2020, when cinemas here put on a lot of older films since they needed something to show and nothing new was coming out. There were some teens there who had evidently never seen it before.

I first saw it on DVD using my computer. Not the ideal experience.

Maybe you just don’t like movies? I’ve seen tons of films theatrically this year, almost none of them mainstream blockbusters.

Yeah, bring back original movies like Hundreds of Beavers, Conclave, Memoir of a Snail, The Substance, A Real Pain, Babygirl, The Last Showgirl, I Saw the TV Glow, Challengers, Wicked Little Letters, Love Lies Bleeding, Origin, The Zone of Interest, The People’s Joker, Kinds of Kindness, Poor Things, All of Us Strangers, The Holdovers, Anatomy of a Fall…

Pretty sure Dead Reckoning was well and truly out of theatres by the time they made the change.

There were people suggesting given the age of Bruce Wayne in Joker, that the Phoenix character probably wasn’t The Joker, merely an inspiration for him. Harley showing up in the sequel would seem to refute this theory.

It’s expensive, often less comfortable than my own home, and I like theatre in which the crowd plays a part in the experience,

This is why I don’t understand the “big action movies need a cinema, small comedies you can watch at home” argument. My home theatre can replicate the big-screen action experience just fine, but a comedy with a crowd is immediately 35% funnier.

…which side of this argument are you on?

“There’s no benefit to physical media.” “Yes there is.” “Why are you defending corporations?”

…what?

This is false. Firstly, because people don’t subscribe to everything forever. But even in some Netflix utopia where everyone has a Netflix subscription, and they keep it forever, then what? Now you can’t make any more money, you’re making the maximum amount of money your business model can make. But you can keep people subscribed to your service by continuing to add new things, while also making extra money from those who would like to own physical copies.

Subscriptions detach income from titles, meaning all the service needs to do is exist and have things on it. There’s no budget to actually create anything special. Physical offers a way to reconnect those, making something that is more expensive and in return making more money.

The ad-based plans everyone is introducing run on the same logic. Subscriptions aren’t sustainable.

You are, in fact, wrong.

No? Words mean things. Enshittification is a deliberately driven business model, you’re using it to describe random happenings.

Enshittification is a specific business model, not just “things becoming shit”.

“Enshittification” has an actual meaning, and this isn’t it.

It’s unambiguous that it’s not a person’s actual name.

Making double your budget is basically breaking even, once you account for marketing costs and the cinema’s cut of the take.

Video evidence is far more convincing than someone’s say-so.