Michael Rooker Defends Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon’ Amid Box Office Defeat: “They’ve Gotta Learn What It’s Like To Watch Real Cinema”

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1. If I want “real cinema” I’m not going to a Kevin Costner movie.

2. Labeling your movie as “real cinema” is a great way to get me to not want to watch your movie.

3. It seems silly to defend something against box office.

   Box office has little to do with how good a film is.

   I loved Furiosa and it also was a bomb. Both are true statements.

4. I love Rooker but “real cinema” come on.

5. – The Bicycle Thieves: 90 minutes
   – The 400 Blows: 100 minutes
   – Citizen Kane: 119 minutes
   – Casablanca:102 minutes
   – On the Waterfront: 108 minutes
   – Midnight Cowboy: 113 minutes
   – All the King’s Men: 110 minutes

   “Real” cinema neen not be three hours long, m’man.

6. Funny to say this when audiences watched and loved Oppenheimer, another 3 hour drama, that earned $953.8 million at the box office. The problem has nothing to do with the movie being “real cinema.” The problem is westerns have never performed well at the box office and the release schedule is so crazy that everyone just wants to watch it at home instead

7. I mean, I heard it’s actually really good.

8. They turned cinema into television, and so far audiences and critics are both like, meh. It might just mean that the zeitgeist has passed KC. I’m all for big epic films, but the one hard rule in Hollywood is never put up your own money, for a reason.

9. Isn’t this guy in some marvel movies with 2 and a half hour run times.

10. I saw this over the weekend and really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next installments.

11. “Real cinema” is a term i don’t agree with as every movie is cinema, however i do think the mcu and other big budget franchise movies have ruined these projects chances of becoming hits, and thats a sad thing

12. If Hollywood understood how much babysitters cost they’d have all their questions answered.

    The $10 a night babysitters for the occasional date night with the wife are gone. The absolutely cheapest I can find charges $17/hour.

    Dinner and a movie doesn’t cost $60 anymore. With everything factored in it’s more like $150.

13. I love that audiences are blamed for movies flopping like there’s something wrong with us instead of accepting the fact that the movie drew little interest for whatever reason: subject matter, casting, rating, etc. There’s no accountability in Hollywood, its stupid

14. Directors have forgotten how to edit their movies. A 12 hour four movie epic is a self indulgent filmmaker and not what I would call “real” cinema.