{"id":15489,"date":"2017-07-12T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15489"},"modified":"2017-07-12T08:36:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:36:11","slug":"cult-movies-are-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/cult-movies-are-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Cult Movies Are Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/071217_1234_CultMoviesA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2017\/06\/30\/does-military-equipment-lead-police-officers-to-be-more-violent-we-did-the-research\/?utm_term=.3fde46a3ac64\">horror movies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2017\/06\/30\/does-military-equipment-lead-police-officers-to-be-more-violent-we-did-the-research\/?utm_term=.3fde46a3ac64\">summer blockbusters<\/a>. Cult movies are also going extinct:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult movie sections used to be lovingly curated by movie store clerks who&#8217;d sell them to movie buyers looking for a recommendation.<\/li>\n<li>Studios used to be more willing to experiment with cult fare back when it was easier to stand out and have even dud movies make a lot of money.<\/li>\n<li>Now even summer blockbusters don&#8217;t always break even and executives prefer to cater for mass audiences rather than segmented markets.<\/li>\n<li>In theory social media should help, but in practice it encourages discussion over a large quantity of topics rather than a sustained discussion of any one thing.<\/li>\n<li>And since movies aren&#8217;t physically shared with friends on DVDs or proudly displayed on shelves anymore, there&#8217;s less of an opportunity to talk up an understated film.<\/li>\n<li>Do not despair: television has become increasingly experimental and the kinds of people who made cult movies now make the same fare for Netflix and HBO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/movies\/2016\/11\/09\/like-the-video-store-era-cult-movies-may-be-destined-to-become-extinct.html\">The Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just horror movies and summer blockbusters. Cult movies are also going extinct: Cult movie sections used to be lovingly curated by movie store clerks who&#8217;d sell them to movie buyers looking for a recommendation. Studios used to be more willing to experiment with cult fare back when it was easier to stand out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/071217_1234_CultMoviesA1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15492,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions\/15492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}