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Can't even get it on my laptop! This is it approximately

I've never seen Hurstville Vmax basically sell out before, and this is at 10:40pm. Might go to a late session somewhere if I'm not too tired.

Still nothing has changed. It's genuinely catastrophic at this point, >500m behind last year and we're not even two months in.

So far so right, Jan down ~16% from last year, worst since like 1990 in admissions.

It's accurate for year or quarter overall, but not for individual films. Also, fyi, quarterly ticket prices only apply from Q4 2009, everything before that is just the yearly average price, probably also based on quarterly, but we just don't know it. If you're interested in each quarterly price: 2009 ???? ???? ???? 7.61 2010 7.95 7.88 7.70 8.01 2011 7.86 8.06 7.94 7.83 2012 7.91 8.12 7.78 8.05 2013 7.94 8.38 7.84 8.35 2014 7.96 8.33 8.08 8.30 2015 8.12 8.61 8.25 8.70 2016 8.58 8.73 8.51 8.79 2017 8.84 8.95 8.93 9.18 2018 9.16 9.38 8.83 ????

I'm also ready for this 15 year pattern of two down years followed by an up year (in admissions) to end, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. Notice also how each up year doesn't quite reach the heights of the previous one. There's a constant, inexorable downward trend

I'm always prepared to be surprised, but it looks like we're in for another slow year at the box office, because nothing is jumping out at me as a hit, particularly in the first quarter. It gets a bit better as you go, but not by a lot.

A 10m Friday for Spider-verse doesn't seem great?

Honestly, if no one said anything about leaks on this forum, I wouldn't even know they were a thing.

Perhaps I'm just being crazy, but maybe they just waited too long. 2015 feels like a completely different time to me compared to now. Much more different than 2012 was from 2015 somehow. Or maybe JW left not much of an impression on me?

Actually, if we're in the habit of sharing videos about opinions of TLJ, here's a good one

I hope not!

Oh gosh, back when we first got the SW movies on DVD, after ROTS came out I devoured the making of features. Multiple times even. They are really good and really comprehensive. You've probably seen Empire of Dreams, but if you haven't, you absolutely need to.

I suppose the silver lining is that there won't be another Star Wars film until next, next December, which is ages away. I'm feeling the distance already.

This is a silly take because the fact is that it is a big deal if there's a gay protagonist (or any other LGBT protagonist). Love Simon, released just this past March, was the first studio film to have a gay main character. It would be a huge deal if an event film sure to be a success (although maybe not as much now) would have a gay character. In the midst of a constant heteronormativity, one film doing something different is going to make waves.

Didn't they but they were caught?

But we've yet to have a gay protagonist in Star Wars, and there was a whole scene in TLJ where the rich people got their rich asses handed to them? And sure, America itself has got social problems, but what exactly do you want Lucasfilm and Disney to do about it? In the mean time, I certainly want representation in movies. Like, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

OK, I'll bite, (we can take it to the RTM thread if you want), but what new concepts and elements did they introduce that were done in the worst way?

I haven't seen any Nolan film for a while, but Interstellar is probably my favourite because of the lovey dovey sentimentality about it.

You'll watch IX, you won't be able to resist. Even I give in and watch Marvel movies every now and then.

Come on dude.

Honestly read that as Justice World.

What?

But it's, true?

Yeah, but Star Wars ain't dying either.