generally speaking, i only really like the movie theaters for tech demo movies (e.g Avatar) or if the audio experience is one of the largest aspects of the movie, else i dont see much of a reason to go myself.
I want to go to theater. Wife has gone blind over the oast year though and I need to stay home with her.
maybe its time to shutter these large theaters
It cost over $100 to get the whole family in, buy popcorn, etc before greedflation for, what, an hour and a half of entertainment? I can think of a lot of things that are a much better value for family entertainment.
This is it right here. If you have kids, it’s ridiculously expensive, especially if you want to buy popcorn (and who doesn’t?). I’d rather eat popcorn and watch at home on my comfy couch for less than half the price.
I frequent the theater quite a bit and honestly I don’t see or hear much popcorn these days. Although the theater I go to serves real food so that might be part of it.
Bitch nobody wants to go outside do you know what happens out there
Yeah no shit. The theatre experience has been degraded into a capitalist wank fest.
Paying a ludicrous about of money for tickets and some of the worst snacks. To then be bombarded with annoying guests, obnoxious trailers and a sound systems so overwhelmingly base heavy that you can’t hear the dialogue between explosions.
No pausing for more snacks, to use the toilet or have a toke.
Let alone the film quality these days has been degraded to being glorified features length commercials. Nothing worth bearing through that shitshow of an experience, to get to watch something on a slightly bigger screen.
The theatre is arguably a worse experience in every way possible.
Want to watch a movie? Stay at home. Spend that money doing something else outside of the theatres.
I saved money and invested in a sound system, 4k TV, light blocking blinds and nice seating. All, just to enjoy @home
TBH one third of U.S. adults is a good sized addressable market…
Sure, but now make a movie they all like. And then go ahead and order a pizza with their favorite toppings.
And then go ahead and order a pizza with their favorite toppings.
Easy, Pepperoni and Pineapple.
You forgot to add the jalpeños
Sausage, pineapple and banana peppers here
Yes! I get fresh jalapenos too sometimes if my stomach is up to it. I also put mushrooms on mine.
I need to be pretty damn hyped for a movie to get my ass to the movie theater, but only IMAX is worth it so I only go to watch movies with great sound like Dune or Gran Turismo.
Watched gran turismo. The lead actor mumbled the whole way through the film. Not the best sounding film
I was there for the cars, it delivered, my actor was the GT-R.
Got robbed at the academy for best on screen monologue.
“Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, rrrrrrr, pshh, rrrrrrrrrrr.”
I no longer enjoy going to the Movies. The crowds, the rude people, the hassle and the price are no longer worth enduring
Not to mention the 10+ minutes of ads beforehand.
We pretty much only go now when it’s an “event” movie - a Dune, an Oppenheimer, or similar.
Not to mention, they usually feel disgusting. The minimum wage employees don’t care enough to bother, and I definitely don’t blame them.
My wife went with her dad to see Oppenheimer last summer. She texted me 25 minutes in that the previews had just ended.
Fuck everything about that.
Shit… In my country the trailers start BEFORE the scheduled time for the movie, and the room is still partially lit, so the movie starts at its scheduled time.
30 minute drive. Buy tickets at ~£15 each. Buy dry flavourless popcorn and drinks. Sit at the sides craning your neck because that’s the only seats left. Watch 45 minutes of adverts and trailers after the advertised start time. Sit through 3 hours of movie that should have been about 1h45. Miss some dialogue because modern actors mumble and sound mixing is terrible. Go for a piss after two hours and miss something anyway. 30 minutes drive home.
Or, just turn on nice OLED TV and surround system and watch at home. Big sofa. Optimal listening position. Pause when I like. Turn on subs for any action movie by Chris Nolan. Eat lasagne and drink cider while doing so.
If you’ve got a big IMAX thing in your town, then great. But most of us just have a shitty multiplex miles away. The last cinema to close in my town still has a poster for The Woman in Black outside it, and load of homeless crackheads inside it.
sounds like youre going to shitty cinemas- there are really nice cinemas out there with armchairs with footstools or recliners. these kinds of cinemas tend to have full bar service and some have full kitchens with servers bringing your food drinks at the beginning or halfway through the film.
I’m not sure if they have one where you are, but there are two here in Dublin, Ireland and when I was in Boston a few years back we say that shitty star wars ep 9. Terrible film, we almost walked out.
Usually it hits the free streams before the laid streams too
The other third use Radarr.
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The last movie I watched in the theater was dune part 1. I loved the movie but hated the experience. This time around I’ll wait till at the end of it’s run and watch with an empty theater. I prefer to watch all the latest movies on my vr headset.
Opening weekend for Dune 2 but the 10:45 am showing in a Sunday. Only like 6 people in the theater. Alas, one was coughing up a lung mid-movie but even he was far enough away I didn’t feel like I was getting COVID cooties.
Dune 1 I “streamed” via NZB (since they released it to streaming simultaneously) and then went and bought a ticket at the theater and threw it away without ever going in just to vote with my wallet for Dune 2 to happen.
Why did you buy a ticket just to throw it away?
just to vote with my wallet for Dune 2 to happen.
No offense but I have a 100” projector screen, a decent amp, surround and a subwoofer. Versus going to see Dune 2 in the theater recently (admittedly on a much bigger screen) with some guy in the back possibly coughing up an internal organ or just plain expiring mid-movie as the soundtrack to a lot of it.
Why would I want to schedule my entire day around a showtime, arrive early just to stand in line, pay a small fortune, skipping the popcorn and coke (overpriced and gone by the time the ads finish…), sit through 20 minutes of commercials (followed by trailers), for a movie that isn’t even that entertaining, with a sound system that is not particularly good (just loud) on a screen that is big but somehow less detailed than my TV at home?
At home I can pick from a huge variety of movies, start them on my schedule, eat/drink whatever I want. Pause to pee or even stop and watch the rest later. Adjust the volume to my satisfaction. Swap to a different movie if it is bad or doom scroll through the slow parts. If I want the movie theater experience I can just sit real close, turn the volume all the way up, and ban myself from using the toilet.
That said, what I do appreciate about theaters is getting to do something different, and breaking routines. That and the nostalgia factor. I want to like going to movies, but doing so is just a pain and takes more effort and planing than it should.
You’re speaking my mind. My home projector and sound system are the budget versions, and still offer better quality experience than the theater. They already paid for themselves in savings for tickets and the popcorn.
I still go to movies sometimes, but it’s got to be an experience: either a theater packed with like minded fans, or with a group of friends with whom I then go for a few pints over a game of pool.
I really like the movie experience myself. One, it’s nice to go out (I need every excuse I can on wfh days). It’s a nice little event or date night. I also think paying to go out and being with other people forces one to pay attention, talk less, and scroll on phone less. You get more of the artist’s vision and will probably catch more details. Also, my sound system can’t be that good because I live in a condo with neighbors who would complain if I upped my sound system too much. I also love watching movies with other people sometimes. The experience with a good Marvel movie when other people cheer, or with a comedy or horror and hearing other people laugh or jump is pretty great.
To me, the main problem is the money. Movie theaters are just so crazy expensive nowadays. Every theater needs to be a luxury experience to make it worth it. Theaters should be enforcing quiet and no cell phones, because it’s crazy to spend that much doe a night out and have someone’s little phone light or talking ruining it.
God damn I was going to go to the movies later but now I won’t.
I will say I like the occasional movie at the theater near me.
Yes, it sucks that my schedule is bound by their showtimes, but hey, at least it means I’m unplugged and actually “present” for the movie.
The theater has online ticket sales where you pick your seat, you come in sit down in that fairly nice power recliner, wait staff come to take your order and bring decent food, and you can get more at will. The bathrooms are all individual private rooms, and the whole experience has a lot of cinaphile touch, including generally thoughtful “preshow” content. Like for a Disney movie there was lots of history of Disney and classic shorts. For a movie based on a 90s anime they rolled 90s era anime trailers for all sorts of content.
I do see at least some theaters have upped their game and offer a rather premium experience compared to “wait in line, wait in line again for crappy concessions, then walk on sticky floor to hopefully find a well placed seat and then fold it down and just live with it because how Else were you going to see this movie?”
I wouldn’t mind renting an entire small room with a good TV and sound system to watch things, especially with friends, and doubly especially if it had some game consoles and a wait staff.
Something a bit like a Japanese karaoke bar, where you rent a room for a while and can order drinks and food on a tablet. You get to hang out in a nice space with people you’ve invited, instead one big room full of shudder the general public.
