Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol raked in another $30 million over the weekend, which is certainly good news for lots of people in Hollywood, but the bigger box office picture is a dire one. With a final tally of $10.2 billion in 2011, a 3 percent drop in revenue from 2010, movie attendance was the lowest it’s been in 16 years. Something particularly bad seems to be happening to the …
Reviews aside, it’s been a bad year at the movies
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Batman, Spider-Man, ‘Hunger Games,’ ‘Phantom Menace’ in 3-D, ‘Prometheus’ and more films are on the way.
The Artist: This is the month they release the masterpieces, and that’s what this film is.
Just say meh. 2011 accelerated the troubling trend of hedging all bets in Hollywood: eliminating original content and seeking out prepackaged franchise fodder as if nothing else existed
Assuming the Mayans were wrong and the world does indeed outlive the year, it’s all the more reason to celebrate with a trip to the movies.
If movies really are a popcorn-littered reflection of our times, then 2011 was THE year for bisexual hackers, Muppets, superheroes (just Marvel, though – sorry, D.C.!), sex addicts, houskeepers of color in the 1960’s, closeted G-Men, swashbuckling Spanish cats, and whatever the hell Tree of Life was about.
Talking Movies’ Tom Brook counts down his top 10 films of the year.