Have you ever thought why "box office" numbers even matter?
It's basically just a measure of how many zombie npc sheeple who can't think for themselves throw their money at something? Should we really be counting the braindead mainstream masses for this kind of thing?
They can't even think for themselves so why is it a "valid" metric?
ask some “rational skeptic” why morality exists and you’ll get this fallacy every time
>If "billions and billions" have been served, why shouldn't you join in?
gee maybe it's because I'm not a fricking sheep?
You’re a very special little snowflake.
Enjoy your goyslop, cattle.
Enjoy trying to feel cool on an anonymous laotion basket weaving symposium
embarrassing projection
be less inferior
Oh,thank you.
You're so sweet.
It's because they've been brainwashed. Cinemaphile is completely obsessed with what normalgay NPCs do because Cinemaphile has been brainwashed. This is what terminally online Cinemaphile brain does to you
So what’s your story then?
I'm basically sick and tired of seeing garbage on my Cinemaphile.
Cinemaphile was never good.
You didn’t answer my question at all
First prove that you can think for yourself and are not just defaulting to contrary avenues.
A valid metric of what? Quality? I don't think anyone has ever made that claim, and if they have, I haven't heard it.
It has always been a metric of popularity. And it that sense it very much isba "valid' metric. In fact it is the best metric of popularity by far.
Perhaps you're trying (and failing) to ask why people should care what movie is popular and what movie isn't. Well you don't have to care if you don't want, but the film industry is a business, and a movie's popularity will have an impact on what future films are made. For that reason box office is an interesting metric for assessing the possible future direction of the film industry.
But by all means ignore everything I wrote and continue feeling smug and superior because you don't engage with discussions of box office, homosexual.
If it isn't a metric of quality, then why is Cinemaphile spammed with box office threads?
I answered this in the second part of my post. People are interested in the direction of the film industry, and more specifically Cinemaphile is invested in the demise of Hollywood as it currently stands. They wait with bated breathe for Disney to declare bankruptcy so that they don't have to see brown people on their 11 inch laptop screens anymore. They celebrate when a woke film underperforms and they get baited by trolls when a woke film is commercially successful. Sure, it's all pretty cringe, but it's also very understandable. You want kino to succeed financially and you want trash to flop so that you get more kino and less trash in the future.
because trolls are low iq?
This whole board is low iq
cope
Since when has Cinemaphile been about quality anything? Take this thread for instance.
You are such a fricking moron.
You are right in saying that box office discussion is a valid part of the discourse on film. However, box office threads often just dissolve into shit-flinging sessions, which is concerning as it seems to be the only thing people want to talk about these days.
Cinemaphile has really declined
Generally when trying to make a decision on which product to purchase (which movie to see, which car to buy etc.) its often beneficial to first narrow down your choices by looking at whats popular at the moment (list of the highest grossing movies at the moment, some "most popular sedans" list on some car review website etc.). Statistically are likely to enjoy the products that have sold a lot. Nobody is forcing you to watch popular movies but being a rabid contrarian and posting threads like this just makes you a massive homosexual.
The reason I make this thread is because of Cinemaphile. Every day it's always completely swamped and spammed by box office or sales number threads. It's so meaningless and ruins the board.
For you.
How the frick is repeating the same shit about box office profits of any interest at all unless something has bombed super hard or smashed records?
I enjoy not enjoying things. It’s very unsatisfying.
This physically hurt me to read. How old are you OP?
>Have you ever thought why "box office" numbers even matter?
How stupid are you commie?
Yes, it's a serious metric in a culture war because it shows which way the culture is pushing towards.
Social media rewards myopic narcissism with upvotes and retweets. People have been trained to be the cheerleaders for corporations and the commodification of every last element of life. Capitalism won. People arguing in terms of box office numbers as though rooting for a sports team is just one manifestation of that.
This.
You're moronic. See
>THE MORE PEOPLE WATCH MOOBEE THE WORSE MOOBEE IS
This board really fricking hates film, doesn't it?
reviews are fake and gay, and because some people will never admit something is good if it goes against their ideological values, box office is now the only metric of something's value.
But by definition box office is a measure of how much money a movie makes. Money that is given to them by people watching the movie. People who are by definition large brainless masses of normalgays. So why should Cinemaphile care so much?
Every day I always see not just box office threads but twitter screencap threads or other such mainstream normalgays garbage. I came to Cinemaphile over 15 years ago to get away from all that shit. Why then am I forced to still see it shoved in front of my face?
Why is this board so obsessed with what normalgays do?
>Why is this board so obsessed with what normalgays do?
Cinemaphile is under constant barrage by shills, discord trannies, glow Black folk, and the israeli Internet Defense Force, and the mods and jannies are helping them. And I mean constant. Anons fall for rage bait super easily, and they know this. It's why some Barbie shill has been gas lighting Cinemaphile about how we predicted it would flop when nobody predicted that. It's just discord trannies raiding us day after day, hour after hour.
Cinemaphile has truly fallen.
As long as I am posting, Cinemaphile is not over.
Check the archives. Multiple anons swore it would flop. Frick off with your revisionist bullshit just because you we’re hilariously wrong
>hourly chuddy cope thread
Nah. Despising the common main is a narcissistic leftard psychopath trait
You what? Cinemaphile has always despised the mainstream
This is one of the most mainstream websites in the world dude. Dont act like you were here between 04-06
No. We are the everyman, the silent majority. It's just most people pirate their films and television (despite what the israeli MSM would have you believe).
It is the outspoken minority whose tastes and preferences are expressed through box office figures, to the extent box office figures can be trusted (they can't).
God I hate the israeli MSM and the weak people who get brainwashed by it so fricking much.
This. If Cinemaphile downloads everything for free and never is even remotely a factor in things like box office and sales, then why obsess over it so much on the boards?
They don't matter. This isn't the business board moron
They don't so why is Cinemaphile flooded with them at all times then?
>just vote with your wallet bro
Cinemaphile uses the Ad Populum fallacy wrong. Obviously if several people say something is stupid, it probably is stupid. The key word there is PROBABLY. If you have legitimate evidence that the something is stupid, then of course you can't purely rely on numbers.
Until then, yes, listening to other people is logical thing to do. It's literally why we have a rating system. If I need to pick a plumber to fix my sink, I am going to pick the popular 4.8/5.0 one rather than some random 2.3/5.0 one. Of course I would make an exception if I find out something else in my research, but until then it's just not logical to not listen to the majority.
>Ten strangers:RUN FOR YOUR LIFE ANON! YOU'RE GOING TO BE KILLED IF YOU STAY HERE!!!
>Room temperature OP:Hurr sure! Muh ad Populum! I'm not going to listen at all just because other people say something!
>zombie NPC sheeple
This is the problem with you right here, OP. You think you're superior to everyone. You think you're the only person immuned to propaganda and everyone else are brainwashed shills. Please seek help. You're displaying signs of narcissism.
>You think you're the only person immuned to propaganda and everyone else are brainwashed shills.
I mean if you've seen the absolute state of this board and had a brain, you'd come to the same conclusion.
The thing that all these flag-waving fanboys dont bother thinnk about is that with the proliferation of cinemas throughout the globe and thew dramatic increase in humans with access to cinema is gonna have a DIRECT result in net box office numbers.
If Schindlers List (as an example) came out at a time where there were this many people with access to kinoplexes it might be breaking records itself.
The longer things going the higher those box office numbers are going to peak.
Back in my day the kids used to say, "fifty million Elvis fans can't be wrong". And as a Lawrence Welk aficionado I hated Elvis so I knew about this fallacy back then. Back then, Black folk wouldn't dare even look at a white woman. Today that's all you see, mudsharks wheeling little niglets around the neighborhood.
>fifty million [x] fans can't be wrong".
God I hate this saying so much
box office matters since this is a business, if it doesn't make enough you don't get a second one / similar film or the people working on that project might not get a similar opportunity
ah schweet, a somewhat rational comment!
>Have you ever thought why "box office" numbers even matter?
NEVER.
I never use that argument and was dismissing people who do.
>many zombie NPC sheeple who can't think for themselves throw their money at something?
It gets even worse!
We are talking ultra zombies.
Like parents who get nagged by their kids to see a movie and do not even want to be there or give a shit about the movie.
Still did buy ticket!
Still gave these frickers money!
>for themselves so why is it a "valid" metric?
Literally the only valid thing about box office is if the movie made enough money to be successful. Since if they made a box office failure they will never make another movie like it for a long time.
With this out of the way some of my fav movies are really obscure ones or failures who did not make a profit.
it's funnier when you realize studios buy tickets for their own movie, Disney is the most egregious about it. Black Panther in China, The Last Jedi and Captain Marvel after word of mouth got out about how bad those were. all streaming numbers are fake too.
Yeah it just makes the numbers even more meaningless
Box office dollars are as good a measurement as critic reviews are.
I have never seen that on the McDonalds sign. I also haven't eaten from there in a decade.
Lots of people go to see movies because they are interested in seeing them. Big movies are in theaters first for a limited time so these people are forced to cluster together when they want to go see it while it is new.