2011: Fewest Movie Tickets Sold Since 1995
Reviews aside, it’s been a bad year at the movies
January 1, 2012
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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.
PALM HARBOR, Fla. – A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question.