I said earlier writing about sports is demanding. Writing about movies seems fun and frivolous, even if some people that do it have no idea what they’re talking about. Saving Private Ryan getting a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes means SEVEN PERCENT of critics gave it a negative review. That’s like the sportswriters who think Greg Maddux shouldn’t be a unanimous first-time HOFer, right? Like what’s the point of RT/HOF if you have jabronis to staff your selection committees? With all respect, if you watch movies for a living and watch SPR and determine that is a below-average movie, you should be forcefully reassigned from your job.
Anyway I don’t have a lot of sympathy for this:
With its latest Tenet announcement, Warner Bros. finally acknowledged reality: The U.S. is simply not ready for big films to return, and the country has lost its position as the most important movie market in the world.
I know you spent a lot of time writing your article and pulling stats together. The first part, that the U.S. is not ready, is probably true! That is a good statement. Then you kind of, throw in that the U.S. has lost its position as the most important movie market in the world. So, lets do 30 seconds of research to see if that’s the case.
WORLDWIDE Box Office, 2019 (Country of Production):
- Avengers: Endgame (USA)
- The Lion King (USA)
- Frozen II (USA)
- Spider-Man: Far from Home (USA)
- Captain Marvel (USA)
- Joker (USA)
- Star Wars 9 (USA)
- Toy Story 4 (USA)
- Aladdin (USA)
- Jumanji: The Next Level (??)
See if you can guess where #10 was produced – I didn’t include it on purpose. Seriously, take a guess! I can’t overemphasize how much shitty throwaway sentences ruin an article. Like arguing 9 months of theater closures will move the balance of power in film. Do I even finish your article knowing you make a grandiose shitty point and want me to, like, suspend reality? No. No you do not.
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