Why is Horizon: An American Saga flopping in theaters?

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• finley@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i’ve never heard of it. maybe that.

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  • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The theaters certainly are not for everyone, but I haven’t experienced your description of a theater in over 5 years. Everywhere I’ve been not has leather recliners and have been generally cleaner. It’s not cheap, but concessions aren’t a requirement and no home theater offers the same viewing between screen and sound like a theater. I think my local place is $15 for the ultra wide, heated leather, Atmos audio screenings. Not something to do all of the time, but the occasional late night watch of an adult rated film is a nice treat sometimes.

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    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m with the other guy. The movie going experience was awful for a long time until I just stopped going. If they’ve made changes, they’ve made them too late for many people, especially when they are charging $20+ in my area. Additionally, regardless of what changes they’ve made to the seats, that doesn’t change how shitty other people are. The noise, lights, running around, spilling food/drinks everywhere, etc creates an environment more akin to a wrestling match than a movie.

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    • finley@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Alamo Drafthouse is the one exception because they 1) serve a full menu of food and booze right to your seat 2) don’t allow children 3) and will kick you out if you pull out your phone or make a sound louder than a whisper.

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    • solrize@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get better sound watching on my phone with 2 dollar earbuds.

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  • Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the way.

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True, it is 2024, and your theater probably has big cushy reclining leather chairs. And why would kids be at this movie?

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• ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just learned that it’s a four part film series.

  3 hours each

  It ls based on the westward expansion of America, a period that is covered to death in media already.

  It presents no unique or compelling twist or angle on this in the trailers.

  It presents not amazing visual that can only be enjoyed in a theater instead of watching this at home like the History Channel.

  I like Kevin Costner, I like westerns, I like history. I pretty much am the target audience. But when I was it was going to be at least 12 hours of content spread over the next 2-3 years, and I still had no hook as to why I should watch this over The Last of the Mohicans or Tombstone or any number of narratives in similar settings. It all feels incredibly low energy.

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  • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And this isn’t even mentioning being stuck in an expensive theatre for 3 hours, that the show in its full is perfectly bingeable over a weekend and that there is a high likelihood that it might get cancelled midway through, which will really sting with a 4 episode mini series.

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    • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The fact you described it as “the show” is absolutely the problem in a nutshell. This isn’t a film, or a film series, it’s a fucking commitment. At least with Avatar, they’re years apart and the most visually stunning graphics on the planet. Or with LOTR these are epic stories and sagas.

      What is the saga of the American rancher Mr. Costner? I need to understand.

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  • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the four part series called The West by Ken Burns is shorter and probably better.

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• theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No one cares about Westerns anymore unless it’s by a Coen Brothers level talent

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was going to ask what it is, since I’m too lazy to look it up, but this answers sufficiently

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I figured it was about the mobile company, similar to the Blackberry movie. This makes more sense. And from the comments, it doesn’t sound terribly interesting.

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  • Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I care, I’ve been waiting for this one.

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    • anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      *A statistically irrelevant number of people…

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also Tarantino. I thought it was implausible that he’d do them well, but Django and Hateful Eight were both excellent.

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    • theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Consider Django more of a Southern than a Western

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  • solrize@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was trying to remember whether the Coen brothers made Blazing Saddles. That’s the level of talent we need.

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    • Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s made by a Coen brother just not the ones you think. Mel Brooks’ real last name is Coen and he is the younger brother of the others. He adopted “Brooks” when he broke into directing so he wouldn’t be accused of riding his brothers coattails to fame.

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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because it’s not that good? A reviewer I like said it felt like the first couple episodes of a TV show stitched together with not much of an ending beyond setting up the planned sequels

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• SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the first I’ve heard of it.

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• ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t like Kevin Costner.

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t go to see movies much, but if I wanted to go see one now, I’d see Inside Out 2.

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• son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I first saw the previews I thought it was a show on a cut rate streaming service. That doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence in the movie.

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• the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The preview looked like shit.

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not playing at my nearest movie theater.

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• BrerChicken@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s made for people of a certain age, and those people don’t go to the movies much I think.

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• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On top of what everyone else has already said, I’d add that (for some reason) when it comes to Kevin Costner, movie-goers have long long memories about his “ego” projects like Waterworld and The Postman.

  Costner went through a phase where he felt that he was big enough to direct, star, and write huge epic films because he was the “only one that could do them right”. And that flopped his career…hard.

  He went on from there to do a lot of smaller stuff that was really well regarded. But not he comes back with this, basically another ego-project.

  Dude is just Neil Breen with a budget, and people are rightfully still skeptical of any so-called epic that is written, directed, and starring him.

  In short, Costner’s epic movies have all pretty much been laughably bad with the exception of “Dances with Wolves”. And Pepperidge Farms remembers that kind of thing.

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