I read that director Ridley Scott is blaming millennials for the failure of his latest movie The Last Duel, starring those hot millennial stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Millennials may be the ones to blame for some things, but I don't think it's their fault this movie failed. No one seemed to want to watch this movie: boomers, Gen X, millennials, Gen Z...no one and that's why it bombed. Ben and Matt playing Europeans? Get real. Plus, their schtick is tired. Who cares about these guys anymore? Neither one has had a box office hit in a while. The movie also featured a woman being raped on screen. Who wants to see that? The market has changed, Mr. Scott. Old guys like himself may enjoy watching a woman being attacked on screen, but I have to assume a lot of millennials (and others) don't want to watch someone being raped as a form of entertainment. Then you add Covid into the mix, and you've got a recipe for disaster. If someone is going to venture to a theater to see a movie these days, I have to assume they'd have to really want to see it. Otherwise, they'd just wait for it to show up for home viewing via On Demand.
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