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No. 2049
ID: 9e2c26
>>2038
The whole "good movies always flop because viewers are morons" thing is getting kind of old. I almost get the idea people just say it because they know their audiences, i.e. the hip, smarter-than-thou Internet kids, eat it up. Plenty of perfectly good movies also performed well at the box office in the past, and unless you're one of those people who takes Idiocracy's premise of the human IQ actually dropping over time seriously, there's no reason good movies can't still do well these days.
I do, however, suspect that maybe audiences are less willing to see movies they're not sure if they'll like or not because the initial investment is absurdly high compared to what it used to be. Let's face it, the way films are distributed is in a pretty desperate need of an overhaul. Having to pay $10 a pop to see a film that will be $20 to own in three months is bizarre enough, but the film being judged solely on how it performs with the people who are willing to do so is even dumber.
On a related note, this is a first for me. I've seen cult classics before, but never one that I got to read about before it hit theaters.
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