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Thing is, the ratings are irrelevant. Someone is paying to see these movies, else executives wouldn't approving them to be made. It's all about money, and brainless, rehashed, sequel nonsense makes tons of it. You want someone to blame? Blame the public. It's not Rotten Tomatoes or the Movie Industry. The latter is giving everyone exactly what they want.

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The Mummy made $403,814,493 with a 16% !!

Poor turnouts at the theater are due entirely to home streaming services. People don't want to leave their houses to go sit with a bunch of strangers anymore. It doesn't have anything to do with garbage movies. There has always been tons of crap in the theaters.

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Did you read the article?

This whole line of idiotic finger-pointing was kicked off because the movie business had the worst overall box office revenue in 20 years.

But they aren't that's the point, this is some of the worst turnouts for movies ever.

I thought The Mummy was pretty good. I mean, it didn't change my life, but as an action/adventure type I liked it as much as the typical superhero or whatever movie.

I would go to see movie, if there would movie that I would be interested to see. Crickets,nothing, just sameness I have already seen hundreds times or comics/star wars or other old franchise I never cared about.

There's lots of good movies out, are they not showing anywhere near you?

Examples?

Logan Lucky looked really good, vanished from theaters before I could see it. Baby Driver was very good. Dunkirk. And those are just the big productions.

I have seen baby driver, it was ok except large plot holes (especially around his girlfriend and boss behavior which made little sense to me by the end of movie). Dunkirk does not seem my thing, but I will check Logan, thanks.

The last few years have been a kind of mini-golden-age for low- to mid-budget horror, if that's your thing, and especially if you like your horror a little off-kilter. It Follows, The Babadook, The Conjuring (kind of a low-key superhero movie blended with very not-scary horror, in many ways, but well acted, plotted, paced, and put together), Train to Busan, You're Next, The Void. The new Evil Dead. Some others I'm sure I'm forgetting right now. I've heard Girl with all the Gifts and Get Out are excellent, but haven't seen them yet.

There are serious stinkers to avoid (It, Insidious series, many others) of course, so it's a bit of a minefield, but worth the effort if you enjoy that kind of thing.

Thanks! Bookmarking this, this sounds like it might be my thing.

Baby Driver, made no sense, I have yet to see any reasonable explanation for the drawn out and confusing ending. Did serve as a good subaru commercial though.

I skipped Dunkirk because a friend told me it was disappointing.

The full-sized IMAX screen helped (we have one of the very few here in Indy), but overall I found it to be quite good, particularly once I figured out the interleaving of the stories.

I'm also a sucker for movies that don't have a lot of dialog. Thanks Pixar!

Logan Lucky was good. One of those much more care was put into the making of this than had to be sorts of movies. Caught me way off guard at one point, which is rare for that sort of film. Didn't over-explain or signpost everything (see: catching me off guard). Solid flick.

Recently I've seen Wind River, mother!, limehouse golem, american made, Dunkirk, the big sick, Spiderman, War for the planet of the apes, wonder woman, baby driver.

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