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ghjm t1_ixilo7o wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Amazon to invest $1 billion yearly to produce movies for theaters by Familiar-Turtle

It could also buy you twenty or thirty mid-budget movies that are driven by characters and stories rather than by CGI effects.

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JarvisCockerBB t1_ixj43l9 wrote

You mean like TIL? Which no one saw. Or She Said? Which also no one saw. How about Emily the Criminal, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Death on the Nile, Nightmare Alley, The Card Counter, Worst Person in the World, Tar. You make it seem like there's this huge audience for these films when the truth is, barely anyone is even watching these stories in the theater.

And fwiw, I've seen 7 of those films all in the theater to barely anyone around.

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raltyinferno t1_ixk35f4 wrote

Do they say anything about viewership?

No one is denying the big cgi blockbusters have higher viewership, but that doesn't change the fact that that budget can cover a lot of good character films.

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