Its2025 wrote:
Leave the comfort of my home to Sit around loud, obnoxious people on their phones non stop…
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Yes, the last time I went to a movie the people in the theater really ruined it for me. I'll never go again.
Its2025 wrote:
Leave the comfort of my home to Sit around loud, obnoxious people on their phones non stop…
Sign me up!
Yes, the last time I went to a movie the people in the theater really ruined it for me. I'll never go again.
Movie theaters are becoming more a premium, purist experience like vinyl. Movies like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Top Gun Maverick in 4DX are meant to be enjoyed in a theater. Possibly while blazed
I love the new nice dine and wine movie theaters in lazyboy seats. Yes, but they are pretty empty too.
movio wrote:
Even on weekend nights, the movie theater is mostly empty. Sometimes they are playing a movie for just one or two small parties. They occupy a significant amount of real estate. How can this be sustainable? Will movie theaters just go away in the near future like DVDs did? Don’t people value the big screen experience and stepping out of home anymore?
I still use DVDs and BluRay disks. There are thousands of very good movies not available on streaming platforms -- and all of the streaming platforms are owned by trash corporations.
The big-screen experience would be grand if there were anything worthwhile being produced. Unfortunately even halfway-decent films are few and far between and $15 isn't worth it for something crap. Last movie my friend dragged me to was Dune 2 -- which was billed as a great big-screen experience. What a joke. Bad acting. Bad script. Aggressive score. Waste of time and money. I wonder what the Jodorowsky version would have been like.
What do folks expect when movies are made by committees of some of the greediest and least courageous people on the planet?
I was interested in seeing the Kevin Costner western, but 'they' pulled it from theaters before I had the chance. I suppose if films get pulled that fast when underperforming either someone has it out for those films, or perhaps movie theaters are in higher demand than one might think.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things wrote:
Movie theaters are becoming more a premium, purist experience like vinyl. Movies like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Top Gun Maverick in 4DX are meant to be enjoyed in a theater. Possibly while blazed
Yo top gun maverick was hella dank
The cost is ridiculous.
Rude-azz idiots talking and using their cell phones.
Crap qualities. Just throw special effects together and presto we have Fast and Furious #34.
The movie theaters near me in Brooklyn are often packed— nitehawk and Alamo. Both serve beer and food and both play a mix of new movies and fun older films. They aren’t luxury experiences the way some AMCs are now and I am sure their highest margin items are drinks.
there is probably more of a future for this kind of theater than there is for AMC.
Les wrote:
People complain about the rising price of movie tickets and for sure they have, but so has everything else. Where I live the price for one adult ticket at the mainstream movie theater is $9.50. The price for a Whopper meal at Burger King is $11.49. If you can afford to buy fast food, you can certainly afford a movie ticket.
wife and 2 kids well over 100$ for a movie. 15 per ticket and even if you only get a drink and share two popcorns each person is spending another 15.
Diamond Zac wrote:
Galaxy 9 here in town is always packed. Some movies like Avatar need to be seen in a theater. Nothing compares to that massive screen and that sound system. If you can't afford the experience that's on you,
If you can't afford your own theatre room in your house that has better equipment and most importantly privacy, that's on you,
ScottEvil wrote:
The movie theaters near me in Brooklyn are often packed— nitehawk and Alamo. Both serve beer and food and both play a mix of new movies and fun older films. They aren’t luxury experiences the way some AMCs are now and I am sure their highest margin items are drinks.
there is probably more of a future for this kind of theater than there is for AMC.
That's because you live in Brooklyn. For folks out in middle America/suburbia these movie theaters don't survive.
Convenience and cost. Anyone that says otherwise is a fool.
Family of 4, go to movies twice a month for two years :
$100 x 2 x 24months= ~5k. For 5k you can get a very good large TV, good surround sound and some reclining furniture to put in a room/basement and recreate 90%+ of the experience of going to the movies. (If you pay more I would argue you can have a better setup at home than a movie theatre, ill take a blacked out room and OLED over a theatre projector any day). And this setup will last well longer than 2 years.
The other 10% you are missing from the experience of being in a movie theatre is easily superseded by the convenience of watching from home.
1) ability to control the temperature
2) ability to pause at any point for any reason
3) no restrictions of food (plus way cheaper)
4) ability to watch at any time
5) library of selection is obviously 1000x bigger than the small selection currently playing in theatres. You can stream almost any movie, or watch any physical media you have.
The biggest con is obviously newly released movies that aren't on streaming services yet. But over time more and more movies have gone to streaming sooner or ability to rent right away for a premium cost. Some movies are only released on streaming services. I predict almost all theatres will be closed in 20 years due to this.