has Tenet doomed cinemas to extinction?

i havent seen it yet (too frightened to go to cinema yet) but just thought it was sort of funny that Tenet was being hailed as the cinemas potential saviour yet it turns out it mightve actually damaged the very delicate situation and caused other movies to move to next year (in this guys opinion of course)

hallelujah!

if thats so and its all sort of over.. how apt that just before the pandemic there was the closing instalments of Avengers/Marvel (literally called Endgame.. i know there was Spiderman HC and theres a bunch of future MCUs but EG really was like the finale) and Star Wars (the one that really started the modern day blockbuster) and even Terminator and XMen (although it didnt need covid to kill those off) and that Bond and Jurassic are also due to finish (well Bond would have comfortably already had they not messed about and stuck to Nov 2019)..

all those mega franchises that have been going decades..all concluding right at the point the modern way of life is concluding.. its weird.

and stuff that never looked like it would ever get made like Top Gun2, Blade Runner 2, ID4 2, Mad Max 4, Star Wars VII - made it out before covid came to close the curtain

theres obviously still more biggies coming but how will they be made and released in this new 'covid world' is a big unknown. it kind of sucks that the DC was just getting going and were about to do the multiverse with keaton etc (which wouldve probably led to a 3rd Keaton/Burton bat movie) and that other big stuff like the Tarantino Star Trek, 3rd Alien prequel, Indy 5 etc might not go ahead now

unless studios figure that its only worth doing the big stuff like those as its a guanteed audience whether its cinema or streaming or both at same time idk

Nah. The $200 M or more blockbuster will always be around. It's just temporarily halted due to the pandemic around the world. A producer will always get financing if they have a track record like Christopher Nolan and his new stories, movie making style, and lavish special effects production. This has been the history of cinema. While it's depressing that we have a limited selection of new top cinema, the industry is trying to come back. It isn't just standing still like we've experienced over the summer. That was of time of updating our home cinema library and equipment.

I've been to three big shopping malls since the last week in two major cities in California and it appears the people are going out in greater numbers; That seems to be the trend. I didn't go to the cinema, but saw more restaurants with people in them. There were people in the department stores looking and buying. I mean it wasn't back to the way it was before as there are still closed businesses, but it seemed like a welcome trend back up in terms of people getting out of their homes. It was depressing enough with the wildfires on top of the pandemic, but we just got some clear skies in almost a month, so people and my family are going out. Last night I saw the pizza guy at Round Table working past 8 pm making pizzas for curbside delivery. Before I think he was closed around 6 pm.

I just checked and Tenet appears to be the biggest film out and it's reserved seating so may check it out this weekend ;).

All the best movies are relatively cheap. More money usually equals higher expectations. Plus art is a gamble, you can't buy a good movie, you need passion and skill, even then there are no guarantees.

I think 50-100 mil is enough to make any movie. Most of the time the ridiculous budget is just for paying the stars, like Robert Downey Jr., etc. Just use cheaper actors and they can keep everything else the same while staying under budget.