I thought piracy was killing hollywood? But this is a 'geek film' - it should appeal to exactly the same demographic most suspectable to piracy. Why is it still raking in the money?
Could it be that hollywood *lied* to us with those claims of billions of dollars of lost revenue and an industry in ruin?
Worth noticing that the first torrent CAM for Endgame hit the interwebs on the 25th. Doesn't look like piracy made any difference whatsoever on the box office.
They've got this one locked up tight. No rips available out there on the torrents. I though I found one but it was a film from another genre: Assvengers: End Games. Worth a watch, though.
Superhero movies haven't been "geek films" since Superman the Movie in 1978. To be honest, it's hard to think of a time when the movies and TV series versions of superheroes were ever stuck in a nerd niche - even before Superman the "niche" was "all children" (or at least all boys.)
Comics are a different thing altogether, but I guarantee you that if you went in the other direction and made a Godfather, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, or Back to the Future, comic book, the people who'd actually buy such a thing would
Superhero movies are "geek films" being geeky is just trendy now and everyone wants to think they are one of us. Mostly though, they've just transformed our cult classics and culture into pop culture.
Pretty much sums it up. Baseball attendance in ALL OF 2019 thus far is pegged at 11M (http://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance). 30M Americans saw Endgame in theaters... last weekend. Avengers is more american than baseball.
Of course they lied. There is a HD telecene (essentially someone scanned a print of the movie) on The Pirate Bay right now and it doesn't seem to have stopped people going to see it.
But this is a 'geek film' - it should appeal to exactly the same demographic most suspectable to piracy. Why is it still raking in the money?
Two serious flaws in your chain of assumptions:
1a- Superhero movies are mainstream, not "geek". This has been true ever since Superman (1978).
1b- Comics themselves have been mainstream for most of their history. That is - until the crash of the early/mid 90's. But the major characters/franchises have remained more-or-less mainstream.
I've seen some really impressive home theaters. Ones I'd much rather go to than a movie theater with a chair that sucks after an hour with two more to go.
I've finally learned what "upward compatible" means. It means we get to
keep all our old mistakes.
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But... piracy! (Score:5, Insightful)
I thought piracy was killing hollywood? But this is a 'geek film' - it should appeal to exactly the same demographic most suspectable to piracy. Why is it still raking in the money?
Could it be that hollywood *lied* to us with those claims of billions of dollars of lost revenue and an industry in ruin?
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Worth noticing that the first torrent CAM for Endgame hit the interwebs on the 25th.
Doesn't look like piracy made any difference whatsoever on the box office.
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They've got this one locked up tight. No rips available out there on the torrents. I though I found one but it was a film from another genre: Assvengers: End Games. Worth a watch, though.
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Superhero movies haven't been "geek films" since Superman the Movie in 1978. To be honest, it's hard to think of a time when the movies and TV series versions of superheroes were ever stuck in a nerd niche - even before Superman the "niche" was "all children" (or at least all boys.)
Comics are a different thing altogether, but I guarantee you that if you went in the other direction and made a Godfather, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, or Back to the Future, comic book, the people who'd actually buy such a thing would
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Superhero movies are "geek films" being geeky is just trendy now and everyone wants to think they are one of us. Mostly though, they've just transformed our cult classics and culture into pop culture.
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Pretty much sums it up. Baseball attendance in ALL OF 2019 thus far is pegged at 11M (http://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance). 30M Americans saw Endgame in theaters... last weekend. Avengers is more american than baseball.
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Of course they lied. There is a HD telecene (essentially someone scanned a print of the movie) on The Pirate Bay right now and it doesn't seem to have stopped people going to see it.
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Two serious flaws in your chain of assumptions:
1a- Superhero movies are mainstream, not "geek". This has been true ever since Superman (1978).
1b- Comics themselves have been mainstream for most of their history. That is - until the crash of the early/mid 90's. But the major characters/franchises have remained more-or-less mainstream.
2- Not all geeks are pirates, not
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"1a- Superhero movies are mainstream, not "geek". "
Geek is mainstream now.
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I've seen some really impressive home theaters. Ones I'd much rather go to than a movie theater with a chair that sucks after an hour with two more to go.