The Biggest Movie Flops of 2023 - Diamondbolt

[@tazinboor3913]

To quote Sean Chandler (the film reviewer) who said this about Wish, “When it’s a 200 Million Dollar Disney movie, there are no excuses, you had everything at you disposal, and you just made something mediocre.”

[@gracekim1998]

Well that’s just harsh

[@leviettri3576]

​@@gracekim1998 that ain't harsh

[@sixsaber0039]

​@gracekim25 if you've seen any of the concepts from the art book vs what was actually in the final film, you'd know it's pretty on point.

[@gracekim1998]

@@leviettri3576it is harsh, you’re all awful people 😭 stop being monsters!

[@gracekim1998]

@@sixsaber0039no it’s not, Asha doesn’t need a love interest

[@DrAwe-fi6we]

Illumination's most recent movie "Migration" was thought to be a box office bomb at first, but proceeded to make over double it's budget fairly easily because the movie only cost around 75 million to make. Meanwhile Disney's Wish has only just now made back it's production budget over a month into it's theatrical run and would still likely need to make another 200 million to break even. Remember when people were making fun of Illumination for trying to keep their budgets small?

[@DanteToska]

To be fair, people never complained about the fact that Illumination kept their budgets small, they complained about how their animation style never changes and their movies felt too "safe."

[@missplayer30]

At least they have an excuse for bad, bland and play it safe movies (I stopped caring after wasting money and times on Minions, until Mario, because it's Mario), Disney on the other hand doesn't.

[@Saturnlock]

Except production budget only accounts for making the movie. It doesn't generally account for marketing or distribution. So factoring all that in, movies that double their budget aren't necessarily successful.

[@AntonyDigi]

Disney really need to stop making the animated movies with the same theme

[@devofficialchannel]

Don't most of Illumination's budget get spent on marketing and merchandise? Like even if the movies aren't exactly "great", their merch is very popular (especially among children) so it's kinda why they were able to keep afloat. Plus, their movies play it VERY safe to the extent that it's not exactly "bad", but it doesn't do anything to stand out. So it is perfect for families who just want to spend time watching a movie with a plot very digestable for kids and also why they do well in the box office.

[@jopnop22]

Godzilla Minus One is another example of movies with minuscule budgets that make bank. Less than 15 million usd. Though I’m sure it was hell to work on.

[@GalvyTheTom]

Apparently the reason for the low budget is because generally film workers are paid less in Japan than in the US, but if anyone's going to correct me go ahead

[@Onemanshowoff]

Nah bro that's how it went down@@GalvyTheTom If you thought the US had slave labor, wait till you hear how Japanese animators are treated

[@lssjgaming1599]

​@Onemanshowoff Mappa is prolly the most infamous, but oh lord, it's horrifically bad over there. Gee, sure gotta love having a labor-intensive job that you get paid under minimum wage for and get paid for drawing in numbers that you couldn't even afford a cup noodle for a single drawing 💀💀💀

[@Whyiseveryhandletaken6942]

You know you’re doing badly when people would rather watch a movie about a thick dinosaur destroying Japan, than your movies

[@leepicrandomaa]

Even worse, the director himself claimed that the 15 million budget isnt true with him saying that he wish he had that much money

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

It's incredibly sad to see how badly Marvel has fallen, I just haven't cared about anything they've made apart from Guardians 3 and No Way Home. I can at least look forward to DeadPool 3 eventually. DeadPool and Wolverine was amazing, really funny. NicePool was my favourite character.

[@OffTheHenny]

I pray they don’t fuck that up

[@brya9681]

I'm so sick of this culture of binaries. Something is either the best thing ever made or the worst thing ever. Can shit just be average and enjoyable but not amazing? Worst timeline.

[@SBroproductions]

Coldest take ever, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people just tuned out after Endgame, myself included. It was an amazing finale to a story more than 10 years in the making. Other than Spiderman, I don't really jive with the characters outside of the original core Avengers team. Far From Home was the last MCU movie I saw in cinemas, since I considered it an epilogue to Endgame.

[@myriadmediamusings]

​@@brya9681 its depressing when people sincerely apply the filthy neutrals line from futurama to freaking movies.

[@You-Tube-n5k]

The thing is that I didn't even hate a lot of their recent stuff. But there really is no denying that the way Disney has been doing things has been really hurting their movies and such.

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

The fact that Adam forgot about Ruby Gillman (and migration) just shows how quickly it came and went.

[@NN010]

I mean, to be fair, he didn’t mention Aquaman 2 either, so maybe this was shot before that & Migration came out. But yeah, the fact he completely forgot about Ruby Gillman really does show how quickly that film came and went.

[@bepisthescienceman4202]

​@@NN010 which is sad Ruby Gillman looked interesting

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

@@NN010 TBF I forgot that Adam was Australian for a second, so Migration might be a 2024 release for him. Also I find it so funny how wherever the teaser trailer for RG dropped, people were hyping it as the anti little mermaid remake, Disney k1ll3r, and a grand subversion of expectations. Only for it then to become DreamWorks' biggest box office bomb and one of the most predictable and cliched films of the year. I also forgot to add Strays to the list of box office bombs that Adam forgot.

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

@@bepisthescienceman4202 I was so disappointed with RB, the trailers made it seem like it was going to be an epic kaiju movie with krakens vs mermaids, but instead we got a 2000s teen movie that was left in the freezer way too long.

[@UnderDawg_Prodzz]

@@NN010Migration and Aquaman 2 made more money in the box office then the budget tho

[@keybladeoverlord]

To further the budget problem, Godzilla Minus One released in theaters at a budget of only $15,000,000 and it stomped almost every other movie from 2023 in terms of quality, showing you don't need these ridiculous ballooning budgets to make a good movie that'll sell well.

[@spiderdude5591]

Worst part is, godzilla is STILL kind of a dead franchise!

[@No-OneSpecial000]

@@spiderdude5591it really isn’t

[@overfinch4024]

@@spiderdude5591not even close

[@GodzillaGamer23]

@@spiderdude5591*NO* *JUST* *FREAKING* *NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

[@spiderdude5591]

@@GodzillaGamer23 The last HIGHLY RATED Godzilla movie WAS 8 YEARS AGO

[@frikkie1494]

The sad thing is The new Godzilla just proved again how all these massive movie budgets are basically pointless and just for show and you don't need all that money to make a awesome and great looking movie

[@Spider-Man_234]

The reason the budget was so low is they treat their animators like slaves

[@teamchaos5101]

​@@Spider-Man_234the entire industry does that and they still have overinflated budgets.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

@@Spider-Man_234 Not Toho

[@kitothekito915]

⁠@@teamchaos5101well in Japan labor costs are significantly cheaper than the US

[@noobmasterruben5167]

Its also because the Japanese Yen has less value than a dollar

[@8teenOfficial]

I agree with the budget and ticket prices, 2023 is not a great year for "big budget, superhero, mainstream" movies but 2023 is still a pretty good year for films in general when it comes to quality

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

The insane amount of money sunk into single movies and the amount that big companies lost this Year was just incredible to witness. I'm just hoping that Marvel sticks to its "single movie a year" statement.

[@333arianna]

I’m honestly glad that big budget blockbusters are losing insane amounts of money at the box office - not because I don’t like Marvel and Disney or franchise films in general, I do, but because hopefully the people in charge will realize that audiences are getting tired pretty quickly of low-effort, low-risk and emotionally shallow movies. The reason why other big blockbusters like Barbie, Spider-verse, and even Oppenheimer, were huge successes in theaters is because the interest for mainstream cinema is still there, people are just tired of seeing the same things play out over and over. It’s time for big production companies to start valuing creativity over safety.

[@bleghcat]

Releasing a movie after covid pandemic, the budget cost being higher and swaping race on a character was an disappointment

[@theotherjared9824]

Streaming has backfired for many studios. Sure, it's a constant revenue stream, but not only does content need to constantly be pumped out to keep people coming back, not only does that content have to actually be quality enough to get people interested, but the general public is now being conditioned to skip the theater and wait for everything to come to streaming. Those huge bursts of box office revenue made quarterly reports look good to investors, and those effectively being gone now make studios look anemic.

[@vernaborg1896]

It’s sad that Blue Beetle failed. It was a perfectly solid movie that was just enjoyable and fun.

[@cardrabitt1159]

Was ironically a better marvelesque movie than we’ve had in years lol

[@kaxcommentssomethingREAL]

yeah i heard it was pretty good, doesn't seem like the biggest thing ever but it doesn't need to be

[@elise2892]

Yeah, I watched it on streaming a week ago and it’s tragic how bad it did, it was fun!

[@Archive_7802]

Agreed!

[@FireJach]

Hahaha. Blue Beetle was the most generic superhero movie ever with just cool generic superhero stuff 😂

[@ilikestamps2978]

It doesn't surprise me that Disney movies flop. Their biggest source of income is families, and as a parent, why would you spend 50-100 dollars at the movies when you can just stream it on Disney Plus. I mean movie sales as a whole are down, I don't even remember the last time I've seen a packed theater before, but streaming definitely has taken the key money makers for Disney, if they even care. I also think that today's children don't really care about Disney movies because there are so many other forms of entertainment that those movies get pushed to the wayside.

[@Penguindude1]

I remember seeing a video a while back from Schaffrillas Productions about how Disney's name recognition came back to bite them with Disney Plus.

[@retrocar7761]

One of the main issues is the cinema is flooded with superheroe movies, another issue is the over reliance on sequels and remakes, there just isn't enough originality.

[@EL-uj1pl]

Sequels are not the problem. Spider-Verse proved that. People just want movies that feel special, rather than safe, generic Hollywood schmuck.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

@@EL-uj1pl for years, I’ve seen a couple of reviews on terrible, abysmally boring, mediocre and so bad they’re entertaining Indian movies, regardless of language. Tried and Refused Productions is an Indian web channel that will give you the audacity to mock such movies!

[@SwaggyG_2102]

Back when The Flash was still in theaters, my dad and brother went out to watch it, and when asked if I wanted to come too, I quickly said no because I just knew that shit was going to suck ass.

[@knumnutz75]

As a comic fan, it was awful. Though, as a dumb fun movie, it was enjoyable.

[@jacobrice9059]

Bro same happened here except my mom made me go and yes it did suck ass

[@windows7504]

What did they think of the movie too?

[@toganium4175]

I just refused to watch it because I refuse to support anything with Ezra Miller in it.

[@bibigamer502]

@@toganium4175Ezra is the primary reason I didn’t watch Flash along with Ezra’s “running” and the cgi

[@SnorgYippee]

A good example of a box office hit/incredible 2023 movie not needing a big budget is Five Nights at Freddy's and Godzilla Minus One. Edit Other examples are: Cocaine bear, M3GAN, Oppenheimer, Barbie, Evil Dead Rise, and the Mario Movie

[@kaxcommentssomethingREAL]

we're really needing less expansive movies like these that use its limited assets in creative ways to make the experience even better

[@kylegregory46]

Yessss Minus One was so good

[@FTChomp9980]

Minus One was one of the best movies of 2023!

[@dieselmule2006]

And Sounds of Freedom

[@flarestriker2005]

@@dieselmule2006 I seen Sound Of Freedom a few days ago, pretty good

[@helloworld-jv7nc]

One of the major problems with Disney and specifically, Pixar is that they just spend way too much in movies. You gotta wonder where some of that budget goes sometimes

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

Marketing and merchandising. It's why Oppenheimer and Godzilla -1 have such miniscule budgets in comparison, because they don't pay too much for trailers, toys, and memorabilia.

[@pablocasas5906]

I can imagine, due to the fact that Disney and Pixar are considered the most famous animation studios, that they at least pay their employees much more than other animation studios. But yesterday it was announced that Pixay laid off 20% of their staff, so I don't know

[@AisarShamsul]

​@@LordCrate-du8zmOppenheimer LITERALLY HAVE A 100$ Million Budget.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

@@AisarShamsul wait really? Damn. Still less than half modern Disney budgets.

[@KgEclispe252]

Most of the budget for Pixar just goes to making hyper realistic skin than the movie

[@bonnieplushtuber5517]

Big budget movie: exists Everyone: let’s watch the movie about the guy that made a boom

[@c.d.rstudios4691]

And then a movie about a lizard that made a big boom

[@nickthebabba7767]

“Lalalalala…”

[@AisarShamsul]

I love pepperoni pizza Also Oppenheimer was literally a big budget film. It cost 100$ Million

[@NyaCutie2024]

And then a movie about a female toy!

[@Wowguy233]

It’s not about the budget, it’s about the craftsmanship. Avatar: the Last Airbender, a show widely regarded as one of the greatest shows ever created, had its budget cut multiple times. Its creators cared though. So it turned out really good despite setbacks.

[@ethejumper6568]

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:29 Movies from March 2023 2:29 The Mario Movie does what a Nicolas Vampire Movie and Dungeon´s and Dragons doesn´t do 2:39 GOTG 3 2:45 John Wick 4 2:48 Meg 2 2:56 The Fnaf Movie 3:01 Spiderverse Sequel 3:04 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 3:07 Hunger Games 3:14 Transformers Rise of The Beasts 3:24 Taylor Swift 3:29 Disney Movies 5:17 Pixar 6:09 Wish (2023) 6:37 Indiana Jones 5 & Haunted Mansion 7:01 The MCU 9:11 DC 10:35 Notable Mentions 11:21 Outro

[@_ghozty_]

Lesson of the video: don't spend 200 million dollars on movies constantly or otherwise it will be like 2023 all over again but these are corporations that all they care about is profits and revenues so don't expect them to change in the future.

[@CasualRonin]

I think Spielberg said something 15 years ago about how that the blockbuster bubble will pop and you'll have a bunch of super expensive movies all fail due to their overinflated budgets. He said it would happen around 2019 or 2020. He was only off by a couple of years as we can see. Studios need to start getting their budgets under control and also make sure their movies aren't gonna be total garbo.

[@hunorfarkas6531]

source?

[@CasualRonin]

@@hunorfarkas6531 There's literally hundreds of articles about this from Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Dread Central if you do a quick google search. Just type in Spielberg Blockbuster Bubble

[@SlapstickGenius23]

@@hunorfarkas6531 from the affinity magazine’s website and of course, the world of Cracked. I don’t think I’ll show you the links because the algorithm is a mess!

[@littlemisstfc]

Man, Blue Beetle’s bomb sucks, especially as a Latino who grew up with this Blue Beetle. This movie deserves better. 😔

[@legionbeast]

As an aside, Godzilla Minus One cost $15 million to make, and it was going to be in USA theaters for only one week, but because people kept seeing it and it kept making fat bank they extended it more and more right into january.

[@namecomingsoon9517]

Movies really need to go for the low budget high box office method. Godzilla Minus One was 15 million dollars for a budget and made 90 million back. But it can’t be helped much for the budget when for most big movies the majority of the budget just goes to paying big actors to be in them. The Rom takes 20 million dollars to have him in a movie so if he was in Minus One the budget would’ve been 45 million, half of what they made in box office making them spend 45 million to get 45 million

[@bellbito7318]

3:07 - 3:14 Actually, SAG-AFTRA gave the actors from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes permission to promote the film about a month before its release since Lionsgate wasn't part of the AMTPT (which were who SAG-AFTRA were striking against).

[@The_Ragequit_Cannon]

Godzilla Minus One had a budget of $15,000,000 and it shows at times, but it more than made its budget back. Proving that movies don't have to have six figure budgets in order to even try to be successful

[@Lord_Betty]

Meanwhile, Godzilla Minus One just wrecked everyone's shit.

[@danielbarnes1241]

Some of the movies you listed were a legit flashbang. What do you MEAN a new Hunger Games movie came out????

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

Even though Transformers didn't break any records, the fact that it was actually a solid movie in general was great enough for me. Also the toy sales pretty much made up for the finances which I'm proud of lol

[@eastsidereviews727]

This was kind of a rough year for Superhero movies. Aside GOTG V3 and SpiderVerse 2, they lost money and mostly were trash.

[@caridadcollazo3131]

0:47 every single movie was not good enough, bad or the flash 💀 that had me dead

[@CyberKnightMiky]

And another thing that made these movies bomb: Which is that these people who were meant to entertain the paying customers, began to attack them instead of shutting their mouths. And the aad thing here is that Hollywood in general is a toxic place now where "dreams go to die", and hire the wrong people for the job for the sweet ESG scoring instead of talent.

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

"now"? Hollywood has always been a toxic place, ever heard of what happened with Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe?

[@racingraptor4758]

Exactly! They decided to go for ESG to trick investors to give them money (they dont care at all about all of those minorities etc).

[@SlapstickGenius23]

But it always has been so screwed up, it’s just very recently that we are now more aware of the dangers surrounding any film industry, but especially Hollywood itself.

[@gamerclan2277]

2023 actually had a lot of great movies. It was the first year since 2019 that I actually went to a cinema regulary. Napoleon, Killers of the flower moon, dead reckoning etc

[@justinthomas7222]

Been waiting for Mr. Bolt's take on this year... Thanks for sticking with us!

[@toganium4175]

Blue Beetle was a good film, and I definitely think it deserved to do better than it did. I’ve been seeing a lot of people hate on movies not because they’ve actually seen them and take issue with them, but simply because the movie doesn’t make a big profit. Honestly, if a good movie is a successful one to you, you must be the most boring guy out there.

[@devofficialchannel]

I feel like because of Shazam 2 and The Flash, people kinda lost interest in the DCU and had a sour view on the franchise. So they lost hope and didn't bother to see Blue Beetle.

[@Yoshixandir]

@@devofficialchannelthe director was a bit of douchebag. So people didn’t watch to spite him. Keep in mind he was taunting people and then when his movie was failing he started begging people to give his movie a chance after acting like a prick

[@linhza501]

I just had no desire to see it because of superhero movie fatigue, also the trailers did not do it any favours. It looks like another generic origin story yet again, people are tired of it. I dont have the time, energy nor money to waste on movies like that.

[@solstie]

I can't even believe you didn't bring up Ruby Gillman... Then again everyone keeps forgetting about that movie so I'm not even surprised

[@Mr.Feather130]

And it's basically DreamWorks' attempt on making a turning red like movie but it failed to make money because of the small marketing

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

@@Mr.Feather130 And mediocre... everything.

[@juice3287]

@@Mr.Feather130the movie was also super mid. i went to watch it at the movies, it had some ok qualities but was mid aside from that

[@noobmasterruben5167]

Ruby Gilman was wasted potential

[@Mr.Feather130]

@@noobmasterruben5167 Yeah Since it’s basically Dreamworks’ turning red...but not that great

[@User-ChairBoom4729]

It just felt like every day in 2023, 10+ movies were being reported on for how bad they flopped every hour or every second. Like how did we go from all these franchises making bank at the box office, to barely breaking even? Did everyone just, like, snap before 2023 and decided they were sick of it or something? Because a lot of the films that bombed that year I really liked.

[@otodtag]

I still don't get why Sony is trying to set up their own live action spider man cinematic universe... without spider man.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

I think it’s because Spider-Man’s in such a huge legal limbo, which used to be even worse in the early 2000s.

[@otodtag]

@@SlapstickGenius23 I get that, but besides venom, most of the characters they DO have access to aren't iconic, so why even bother trying if it's almost always gonna lose money?

[@_Micah_Bell]

@@otodtag which characters do they have access to?

[@SlapstickGenius23]

@@_Micah_Bell the rights of Venom, Madam Web and others, at least in live action movies. They’re all mostly owned by Marvel otherwise.

[@themachomanrs]

6:30 I think the problem is people wanna see actually compelling animation and not just “good guy fight bad guy or overcome slight problem for the 1 millionth time” from Disney. And while that can sound like every movie Disney manages to ONLY DO THAT

[@emilrojas7052]

I saw a post that said “a prequel of the live action lion king will be releasing the same day as Sonic 3 which movie are you watching?” And the comments are gold because nobody gives a f*ck about lion king and I love it

[@teneesh3376]

I love how Godzilla beat all of these movies. Showing that it just has to be a good movie to succeed and doesn't have to be too expensive

[@Retrolover03]

9:00 wow, that age surprisingly well

[@flarestriker2005]

I did enjoy seeing Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves, The Super Mario Bros Movie, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, Across The Spiderverse, Rise Of The Beasts, Elemental, Dead Reckoning Part One, TMNT Mutant Mayhem, Gran Turismo, Equalizer 3, Saw X, Five Nights At Freddy's, Trolls Band Together, and Godzilla Minus One last year! Pretty good movies in my opinion.

[@subtheway]

I think this was the best year for movies since 2018 (not exactly monetarily wise) we got ATSV, Mutant Mayhem, Talk to Me, Air, Godzilla minus one, Oppenheimer, elemental

[@flarestriker2005]

FNAF, Mutant Mayhem, and Super Mario aswell

[@noobmasterruben5167]

​@@flarestriker2005eh Fnaf was mid. I liked Wonka more

[@AmethystOrlando]

I saw most of these bombs in cinemas & I did not regret each trip, with The Flash being the only one that annoyed me & made me feel a little dirty afterwards.

[@BostonMBrand]

I think indie cinema had a way better year. Poor Things, Holdovers, Iron Claw, American Fiction, Bottoms, etc.

[@Persona-Joop-157]

Nintendo will probably make many more video game movies and the advertising is almost completely free through Nintendo Directs

[@trentonmoyer5048]

That’s intriguing that you mentioned that you didn’t think “The Marvels” got much marketing in Australia, since we had a ton of ads here in the states (in theaters and on Disney Channel). It’s really interesting how film promotions differ based on locations and world situations (like the strike) sometimes. Also, I’m glad “Elemental” ended up doing better, I thought it was really good! Thanks for the awesome video, your videos and humor are a real bright spot in the day! I hope you keep pulling through and doing better!

[@veryupstandinguy]

The reason why Fast X made even 714 million dollars is because my cousins went to see it 6 times in theaters in one month

[@cliffturbo2146]

Your cousin is a hero.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Your cousins are badasses, dude!

[@aaronkelly1762]

2:52 The reason why The Meg 2 made a ton of money is because China. They love their monster movies over there. Seriously, one of their more recnt and successful movie series is called Snake, and it's about a giant snake, along with other monsters, eating people. Let's not forget the fact that there is a Chinese Sharktopus reboot.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Oh really, the Chinese Mainlanders do love their own monster movies, because they used to believe in fairy tales involving dragons and wild men!

[@Akursedtime]

Admittedly, I enjoyed Elemental. My friend and I were watching it at a cafe and stayed for the whole time. The Boy and the Heron, Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse, Godzilla Minus One and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. Are my top favorites.

[@yisusoflare6225]

streaming services really made a big dent on big office earnings, people aint going to the teather to watch an ok movie they can see at home in a month or two

[@imperialworkshop3437]

Minus one had a 15million dollar budget and as of me writing this has made almost 75 million to 100 million at the box office and is genuinely the best movie I have seen in like 3 years

[@NuggetTheDog9]

I’ll never forget what happened after I left the theater of Indiana Jones because I hated the film so much it made me mad

[@pcb1175]

Just be glad you weren’t in my screening. People actually have it a round of applause when it ended

[@mxfg1535]

You should have talked about Ruby Gillen: Teenage Kraken. The one they pulled out of theatres after only a few weeks.

[@The_LouisVuittonDon]

Another Banger by Diamondbolt

[@TheQukey]

Preemptive banger

[@LKYHGaming]

You know among all the flops Disney has had last year, Elemental being the one that came out relatively successful is one of the most impressive things that's ever happened to a movie ever. Like from a miserable opening weekend to a once again successful pixar movie? That's the biggest comeback of all time and I couldn't be happier for that movie. Im a sucker for love stories and this one did not disappoint.

[@vustvaleo8068]

meanwhile Godzilla Minus One which is not a Hollywood movie made more money despite its lower budget, I guess it depends on who helms the project.

[@douglaskodl2980]

Happy to see you were fair to all these movies (I thought most of them were OK and was worried this was just going to be a video insulting them but glad to see it wasn't) 100% agree that big budgets and streaming are the main issues. They spent so much on these movies that it would be nearly impossible to turn a profit AND put them on streaming while they where still theaters a lot of the time, so it actively feels like they don't want us to see them in theaters (which I guess would explain why the pricing of most streaming services went up too)

[@OPG2081]

I wish I had as much confidence as Adam when he says that all of these films will save Hollywood. God I hope he's right😅

[@metal6948]

Soul, Luca, and Turning Red are getting a second chance via a limited theatrical run, which inspires hope for Pixar

[@pablocasas5906]

Well, the re-issue of Soul grossed an estimated $125k in the U.S. alone on Friday (from 1,350 locations). Those aren't very big numbers. I don't know if this will improve or if Luca and Turning Red will do better, most people have already seen the movie on Disney+, and while seeing a movie on the big screen is a nice experience, theatrical re-issues aren't as popular as they used to, I think they haven't been popular since the VHS became a household item in the 80s. Some people are saying Disney is just re-releasing these movies since they postponed the release of other films like Elio and Snow White to 2025 and they needed something to fill in the gaps. Not to mention that Disney laid off 25% of the staff at Pixar, so I don't think things are doing that great at the studio right now

[@mechmaster315]

More like Pixar getting back at Chapek for how they got handled

[@Captain8ball]

I don’t understand the logic where studios frantically throw away footage and replace it with more expensive footage. Ballooning the budget to unrealistic expectations of making its money back. of course the flash bombed there was no realistic or feasible way they could make back their money

[@juice3287]

1:23 FIREBOY & WATER GIRL THE GOATS!!! used to play that with my sister man… but hey, don’t disrespect them like that :D

[@spinoraptor2561]

Imagine this is the 100-year anniversary of your company and your films make less money than a movie about a big shark and fnaf.

[@Spiderman-wt8hb]

The fact that I liked Indiana Jones 5 and still was happy it flopped says a lot about the state of these studios and their business practices. At least now I don’t have to worry about them rebooting the character anytime soon or making a mediocre Disney+ spin-off show about the guy who flew Indy’s plane in the opening of the first movie.

[@myriadmediamusings]

On a critical level I liked or enjoyed a lot of these flops, and its so annoying that the internet shames anyone who likes these movies. I think regular viewers should have the mindset of Iman Vellani: Box office results are for people like Kevin Feige to worry about and whats important is whether or not you had a good time.

[@SuperDababy2]

I don't know a single soul that like The Flash or Ant-Man

[@dominiccarmona475]

​@@SuperDababy2 I liked the Flash

[@thatguyfromA6915]

​​​@@SuperDababy2 why do people say shit like this "i dont know a single soul that liked this movie" you are just fuckig your self over by saying that because someone will like it it dose not matter how good or bad it is some one will like it

[@Kaika433]

@@SuperDababy2 i liked the flash

[@mungdaal9643]

I liked the Flash

[@MassterF]

2024 actually seems like its gonna be a pretty good year for movies. Im hopeful.

[@TheGodOfFiction]

For Aquaman 2?

[@YeOldeYeet]

You were right about Madame Web, absolute masterpiece 🤩

[@alumlovescake]

As someone who is NOT a movie, I can not relate to flopping.

[@Veritas.0]

The actresses and directors and even some of the c suite at disney kept telling me they don't want me to go to their movies. ...so I didn't.

[@14Ghost14]

Its so sad that blue beetle has bombed and no one has watched him, because is a fun movie it so much mexican and somewhat brazilian representation

[@NujasZ]

a despicable me franchise movie and a fated-to-flop superhero movie this is literally just 2022 2

[@prime7213]

I just gotta chime in and say Mission Impossible 7 was actually a super good movie and did not deserve to make as little as it did. Definitely the biggest victim of “Barbenheimer”

[@melan8ed197]

Blue beetle fell criminally under the radar. That movie was just a casual fun time with a couple heart felt moments, which felt like a breath of fresh air compared to the other 💩 superhero movies lately

[@spider-jeff_101]

The movies that were good didn’t flop Spiderverse Barbie Mario Oppenheimer Guardians 3 The movies that were cash grabs - meaningless sequels, lazy franchise extensions, bad remakes - flopped Edit - mario was beginning a new franchise it wasn’t an extension and actually had to rlly good deep cut reference and felt like a love letter to mario When I say cash grabs I mean smt like the little mermaid which was made for the sole purpose of making money with it feeling it had very little care and uniqueness put into it

[@c.d.rstudios4691]

Godzilla minus one made bank

[@jesterfairy3845]

Mario was a lazy franchise extension and a cash grab but it still did pretty well.

[@flarestriker2005]

FNAF didn't flop to, same with Godzilla Minus One.

[@lucasthehedgehog799]

Godzilla Minus One

[@spider-jeff_101]

@@jesterfairy3845 at least it was fun tho

[@BrandonCroker]

Shame that so many good movies didnt do well

[@lucasthehedgehog799]

9:00 this aged so well

[@TheThingFromMars]

I wish more people talked about the DnD movie because it was great, but it just disapeared the moment it acme out 😭

[@jamesmcgowan1769]

I Don't Trust Rotten Tomatoes Or IMDb, They're Notorious For Giving Crap Ratings To Movies That Weren't That Bad And Because We Live In A World Where People Have Bad Taste And Are SO Dam Sensitive About Stuff That They Don't Always Recognize Good Movies Or TV Shows When They See Them! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😠😠🙄🙄

[@78macka]

12:00 I’ll never see this scene without thinking of that budget number 😂😂😂

[@eqWillibrium]

It’s a shame, I actually really liked Blue Beetle.

[@swordkirbyfilms7747]

My brother and I were talking about this yesterday. How much of the budget actually gets used? Only those involved in the projects and the higher ups know how much is actually used. Whatever is not used is given to the executives.

[@gojifan7976]

You are uhhh forgetting a certain giant monster that came out in December 1st. Please note that I am not talking about it being a failure. I’m talking about it being really good and people loving it too

[@plushrobby]

The movies I enjoyed last year were the Mario Movie, FNAF, ATSV, GOTGV3, and TMNT Mutant Mayhem. I do like other movies from last year but those were my top 5.

[@Spider-Reviews]

let’s hope 2024 isn’t going to become “Box Office Bombs Part.2” High Hopes For Sonic 3.

[@dr_rowby.scramble]

Sometimes I forget movies cost money because my sister works at a movie theater so I get into movies for free. I saw so many films and I don't even really watch films most of the time. I'm gonna talk about some of ky favorites from this year cause I like to ramble. First off, watch Blue Beetle. I may be bias because I loved the comics and Xolo is such a good actor, but I sobbed and cheered in the theater. Go watch it. Haunting in Venice!!!! No one saw this film!!! I really loved the style and a Poriot flick always gets me excited. I did not expect the twist by the way. Across the Spiderverse! Miguel did nothing wrong he's just a silly goober. Also the art book paintings of Miguel scared me. Mutant Mayhem! This is one of the only films I watched twice and I loved it both times. It's just long enough it doesn't drag, and the style is so unique! All the actors did so good and you can feel the connection with the brothers cause of that. Also Donnie is a JoJo fan confirmed. Barbie was good. I cried. Women. Hunger Games. I went to pee before the film, walk back in, and President Snow, infamous child murderer, is naked. Crazy. Five Nights at Freddy's. I saw it twice, loved it so much. I had been waiting for that movie since the 107 fnaf facts video. It wasn't a good film, but it was what I wanted for so long. A campy horror film about fnaf. MARIO. I LOVED IT. I'm a huge video game nerd, so me and my brother were just yelling at the screen the whole time like "HOLY SHIT THAT'S THE PURPLE BUTTERFLY FROM OUTSIDE PEACH'S CASTLE IN SUPER MARIO 64" and that's all the notable ones. Thanks for reading this if you did lmao. Also I ate so many bunch a crunch this year I'm in shock I don't have diabetes. ALSO WATCH ECHOES IF YOU CAN ECHOES LOOKS SO GOOD I LOVE NATIVE AMERICANS I'M ONE OF THEM YEAH WOOOOOOOO!!!

[@DanielKariuki-er5gi]

9:24 I'm not Mexican but I have a lot of Latino friends and I saw a lot of Mexican TV shows and Movies growing up and I LOVED IT! not only did it have great representation of Mexican people and stuff but it was also just a great movie with awesome characters and I loved all of them and the story was pretty good and awesome villain.

[@cesardavidlopezpolicio4559]

I didn't manage to watch it in cinema, but when I watched it in digital, I laughed when "Maria la del barrio" was mentioned

[@SuspiciousCat13]

9:01 this aged INCREDIBLY

[@anthonycuevasproduction]

Fr deadpool saved cinema and so will sonic

[@PennyO_O]

It's honestly really sad seeing how much DC movies are flopping. Not just this year, but overall. It feels like after Suicide Squad and Justice League everyone just decided to never watch another DC release ever again (maybe except for like the first 3), which is a real shame, DC has made some REALLY good movies afterwards like Birds Of Prey, The Suicide Squad and (in my opinion) The Flash.

[@EL-uj1pl]

The problem there comes down to redundancy and reputation. Nobody saw Blue Beetle because Marvel had played out that formula to exhaustion. Nobody saw The Suicide Squad because they hadn't forgotten Suicide Squad.. but people DID show up for The Batman, purely because it's unlike any superhero movie out there, and none of the actors gave them reason to doubt. also, people could tell The Flash was being marketed around Michael Keaton.. which is always a bad sign

[@matthewsengendo6302]

Remember when Aquaman grossed 1.15 billion

[@umbrasyl]

'Cause they suck, The Flash most of all. Terrible casting, terrible CGI, and WTF is that running? Just terrible. I used to be a DC fan, like genuinely (read the comics only), but after the movies I turned away from everything DC-related. Some things can never be unseen.

[@ДимчоДимов-ж7е]

​@@umbrasylThe Flash is a great movie.

[@JohnWall-lj1mx]

Damn bro you have shit taste birds of prey and flash sucked ass the new suicide squad was mid asf

[@Omar_ZX]

I'm not gonna pretend that I watched the whole thing in 2 minutes Edit: oh my god hideo kojima quoted big boss, it's "PRETTY GOOD" 10:22

[@s4b3r31]

1:15 I actually had to grab my enhaler that shit made me laugh so much

[@TheHetzer-xy9lb]

The budgets are the sole reason why. Studios are wasting so much money that many of the movies need to make nearly 1 billion just to break even.

[@nicholasnardone4139]

7:09 "By the guy who now runs their direct competition" DC... Direct Competition Please tell me this was intentional 💀

[@realnova7429]

Elemental was one of the least public appealing movies ever, the only reason it came back is because the movie was suprisingly very good and word of mouth saved it, but the marketing was terrible. Word of mouth also really helped Puss in Boots 2, at the end quality has a certain pull factor, not at the opening weekend but in the long run it's quality that brings people in.

[@1wayroad935]

I don't even think Disney minds all the bombs. The merch sales alone from all their properties would make up for it. It's the hit to their reputation that hurts. It's like the late 90s all over again.

[@myriadmediamusings]

Yeah for real, some act like Disney is all death and decline like its inconceivable and has never happened before. Have these people not even once looked on the web and looked up history?

[@victorhernandez5013]

No the merch isn't saving Disney and most of the new merch haven't been getting sold and the parks also haven't pulled in a lot of money and there rumors that the money they spend was actually even more because of reshoots the only thing that could save Disney is a new CEO that don't care about woke garbage and that's what happening because there's a proxy war between Bob and Peltz and Peltz got some nice people backing him up (Marvel old CEO, George Lucas and Apple) and Peltz warn Bob if Disney doesn't make a good and profitable movie then there might be a takeover but we have to wait and see Also Disney mind the bombs because investors and paying back Hulu and the lawsuits

[@elemomnialpha]

That would be the case if the merch was actually selling, but it's not

[@Santoryu90]

@@myriadmediamusings You expect people to fact check? But seriously it’s annoying some people are acting like this is the end of Disney like they’re gonna go out of business.

[@1wayroad935]

@@victorhernandez5013 Source: Dude, Trust Me

[@kingofspades1576]

I think a big reason that this is happening is because movies are watched by the youngest generation. I can count on one hand the amount of times my parents went to see something at the theatres, that I didn't force them too. Now the youngest generation prefers to watch them on streaming services or they prefer tiktok. But I believe nobody would prefer to go to the theatres and be stuck listening to the opinions of strangers as they talk over the movie you just paid $25 per ticket for. And now the people my age who built a majority of their lives around movies have the money to bring the best parts of the cinema experience to our homes.

[@jacobbehle8998]

I like how Diamondbolt lays the facts straight and says what no one else reviewing movies is saying. The biggest reason why Disney movies are doing so poorly in theaters is because the movies are coming to streaming services shortly after they go through theaters. Most people don’t want to spend money to watch the movies in theaters when they can just wait a few months or less and watch the movie on the streaming service they are already paying for

[@AViewer-oc5hc]

Disneys biggest problem can be summed up well to what my dead said about frozen 2, “it seemed they cared about cramming as many songs into the story instead of having a story with the songs…”

[@I_was_a_Bullfrog]

Man, I was so mad that TMNT took so long to hit Australian cinemas. I had to listen to my American friends talk about it while knowing I was having to wait another month. It's a shame Ms Marvel performed so poorly, I thought it was a genuinely good show, to the point I was disappointed that the character was being pushed into a movie with little hope of a season 2.

[@LRamaekers]

The problem is that companies are spending too much money on making the movies.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Especially super big budget schlock. Yikes!

[@Finamajig]

Maybe The Flash would have made more money if they’d just added a few more CGI cameos of dead actors

[@Dante02d12]

You're so fun to watch and listen! I don't agree with your take that the strike hit the customerbase though. It definitely hit the _quality_ of movies, but why would customers stop going to the cinema because of the strike? The raising budgets are concerning and obviously impact the net worth (is that how we say it?), you're spot on about that. Another issue is the concept of "fatigue". Super-hero fatigue, bad movie fatigue, call it whatever, the point is a lot of people grow tired of cinema. I know I've stopped going. I'm from those who are now very picky about what movie I pay to see. Oppenheimer was the only one I saw on theatres (and it sucked, but that's off-topic).