Jason Bailey: 2022 is the year moviegoing didn't die. - NBCNewsTHINK
, choosing instead to go all-in on big-budget product. As a result, audiences began to treat the movies less like art and more like an event — only worth the trouble and expense when spectacle was involved.Then, with Covid-19 lockdowns, the spectacle was gone basically overnight. The year or so of outright shuttering, and the slow and sometimes stumbling return of regular moviegoing,— concerned that going to the movies would go the way of the dinosaur.
Some of what we see in this year’s receipts confirms the preferences of the past — and, if anything, shows that the shutdown period accelerated them. That much is evident when we look at the top 10 box-office attractions, which consist of nine direct sequels (“
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