Movies, Box Office. How Important Is it?

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Originally Posted by skatalite

On a personal level, if I like a movie, I like a movie. However, it's nice to see a movie get its just desserts if it truly sucks. Cause then it shows people aren't idiots after all and can spot a piss-poor movie.

But then there are times where "Transformers 2" happens... One big dump of a movie, but scored huge at the box office.

Then again, people like their eye candy and summer fun. Can't blame them. It just sucks that I know a lot of people who only watch movies with big explosions and special effects, yet pass over something like "There Will Be Blood."

I have to agree with your statement, some of the best movies I have ever seen generally do not even break 50mil at the box office but movies like TF2 and Avatar (No flaming needed) rack in huge money basically for their visually effects alone.

People seem to lose focus on story and acting in place of the WOW factor in special effects. So when Hollywood makes crazy money on mediocre films it's sends the wrong message that great screen plays need not apply.

JMO, which should mean EVERYTHING...