Box Office Week: The Conjuring 2 broke the recent sequel curse coming in #1 with $40.3 mil. Warcraft has weak #2 opening with $24.3 mil but soars in China where it has earned a record $156 mil in just five days. Finally, Now You See Me 2 opens at #3 with a solid if underwhelming $23 mil.

A good movie stands the test of time. There has been a serious lack of these types of films in the past decade. Quality over Quantity is key. Will you be remembering Fast and Furious 43? Or How about Transformers 14? Or wait, Kung Fu Panda VI: The Prequel? Debate this topic with any REAL movie critic and they will agree with me 100%, that movies have been on a severe decline.

The standards for everything these days is trash. I don't mean to sound like a pessimistic and condescending human being but it's nothing short of true. Look at household appliances and televisions. They used to last decades, now shit breaks overnight. There's something called planned obsolescence, look it up if it fancies you. This goes into anything in life these days, it's all quantity and zero quality. I mentioned appliances, did I mention video games? 90% of released games are broken and people still purchase them.

Now go to movies. Look at all the insanely hyped up movies in the past decade, now look at the movie releases in 1999: The Matrix, Star Wars I, Fight Club, American Beauty, Sixth Sense, The Mummy, Toy Story 2, The Green Mile, Austin Powers, Office Space, October Sky, Entrapement, Blue Streak.. This is only a few... from 1999. The There's 0 comparison. I'm one of the biggest Star Wars fans in the world and I can safely say the new movie wasn't any more than mediocre. The movies that have been released thus far in 2016 are mostly depressing. How about the last Oscars? Nothing short of comical.

http://oscar.go.com/news/winners/oscar-winners-2016-see-the-complete-list

Honestly I forgot Mad Max won so many awards. This proves my point exactly. In my honest opinion Mad Max was just another action movie. Not to mention it's nothign new, it's just a respin of the old Mad Max. Look at Fast and Furious, the first 3 were great and now the franchise is garbage. But seriously this past Oscar's is just, sad.

I go into all movies with an open-mind, but lately the status quo of the movie industry is abysmal.

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