I'm not a big movie guy but I had a peek at the Oscars this year and it seems like action movies are completely dead now... All the popular movies from 2020 were some indie-looking films based on life. No more Marvel or any of that. So is that what movies are like in the 2020s? The movies seemed kind of boring but I guess that's how it is these days.

I am happy the superhero movie trend is dying though.

The key reason why the current available to view recent movies is that the distributors are holding back on the blockbusters for when the cinemas re-open when restrictions are lifted. The three major films I can think of are Steven Spielberg's remake of "West Side Story", Disney's live action "Cruella" (the younger teenage years of Cruella), and the next James Bond "No Time to Die".

On the whole I was not impressed of the Academy Awards films I had seen, but enjoyed "Soul" (Best Animation Winner), which is available on Disney+.

Who knows what movie theaters will look like in the 2020's, what do you guys they'll look like?

Pretty much straight to streaming HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. The box office on the big screen as we knew pre-pandemic has become a thing of the past. Major titles are fewer such as recent ones like Godzilla vs. Kong, Mortal Kombat, Without Remorse, Tom & Jerry, etc. You can't compare movies of now to the past, they are just not the same. At the same time I'm also glad the Avengers era is over. I am looking forward to the new Batman though, of course.

I'm not a big movie guy but I had a peek at the Oscars this year and it seems like action movies are completely dead now... All the popular movies from 2020 were some indie-looking films based on life. No more Marvel or any of that. So is that what movies are like in the 2020s? The movies seemed kind of boring but I guess that's how it is these days.

I am happy the superhero movie trend is dying though.
There is at least one superhero film based on the Marvel Comics characters due to be released, "Morbius" it is scheduled to be released in the United States on January 28, 2022, delayed from an initial July 2020 date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

...btw, I saw some of the location shooting here in London, back in 2019.

I saw a bunch of the Oscar nominees on Netflix, and literally the only one  I hated was The Midnight Sky (VFX). Impressive LED rear projection (which they also use on The Mandalorian), but it was painfully boring, like watching paint dry. I almost bailed.

:o @ all the superhero hate in here. One of the greatest movies to be released this year was, in fact, a superhero movie, one that I feel elevated the genre, all four hours of it. ;) ...Which actually just breeze by.

I saw MORTAL KOMBAT the other day (2021) -- What a piece of senseless trash!!!!!

I saw MORTAL KOMBAT the other day (2021) -- What a piece of senseless trash!!!!!
Rotten Tomatoes agree with you, they give it 54%.

Pretty much straight to streaming HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. The box office on the big screen as we knew pre-pandemic has become a thing of the past. Major titles are fewer such as recent ones like Godzilla vs. Kong, Mortal Kombat, Without Remorse, Tom & Jerry, etc. You can't compare movies of now to the past, they are just not the same. At the same time I'm also glad the Avengers era is over. I am looking forward to the new Batman though, of course.

I think when theaters die out, more people will be doing more streaming.

I think when theaters die out, more people will be doing more streaming.


You've got it backwards. Theaters are dying out because people are doing more streaming.

I saw MORTAL KOMBAT the other day (2021) -- What a piece of senseless trash!!!!!


Thank you. I won't have to risk wasting 2 hours of my life on it. One thing I noticed is the quality of movies has gone downhill. Especially during the pandemic the production has been relying more on CG than live action/stunts. Movies like Godzilla vs Kong and WW84 almost look like animations. I watched the 2020 film Tenet recently and it was ok, not Nolan's best work. It was an interesting concept though, it felt like a 3 hour long boomerang video on Instagram, lol.

Theaters are dying out because people are doing more streaming.
With a life of living in and out of cinemas, that is the day I am dreading.

You've got it backwards. Theaters are dying out because people are doing more streaming.


Will there still be movie theaters in the mid 2020's?