Appetite for movie theaters? Sure.
Appetite for overpriced tickets, garbage movies, snacks at 1200% market prices and 30 minutes of ads? No thanks.
I pay 6€ for cinema tickets and just don’t buy any snacks and drinks. The fact that you can’t pause the movie, or check your phone, is worth it for me, I just get distracted too easily when watching movies at home. And ads are easy to avoid by just showing up 20 minutes late.
I do avoid big Hollywood productions mostly though, and try to stick to indie productions or documentaries.
The only major annoyance I have is that I frequently get patted down because they assume I’m smuggling in my own food from outside
get patted down because they assume I’m smuggling in my own food from outside
If my local theaters did this I would never return. Its not a fucking airport.
If my local airports did this I would never return. Its not a fucking church.
You go to a church that does patdowns? Where’s the faith?
I have faith that I’ll get to receive a patdown.
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Yeah our theater is so understaffed that they hardly ever check for tickets. Matinees are still affordable once in a while at around $10.
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Hollywood churns out mostly dogshit quality movies, reboots, and sequels, of which a single ticket is around $20.
A family of 4 could easily spend over $100 just to see one mediocre movie.
Either Hollywood movie studios works with theaters to change that reality, or theaters die, and studios get acquired by streamers without any fear of antitrust to hold them back.
The only change I can see them making is increasing their ticket and concession prices.
Theatres aren’t helping with their inane markups.
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Leo should love Blu-rays.
You can actually own them, and they’re 19 years old.Nothing about the movie theater experience draws me in anymore. The exception being Alamo Drafthouse. Last time I went to a Regal theater they had legitimately 15 to 20 minutes of straight up fucking commercials before the showing, before the trailers. I’m already paying out the ass for the ticket and food and you’re still showing me commercials? Nah. That alone is enough to turn me off to it. Alamo Drafthouse on the other hand may be a little more pricey, but it’s god great food and drinks and no fucking ads. They also have a high respect for no talkers in the theater and adults only on most showings or require an adult with them. End rant.
Alamo Drafthouse FTW
Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Nolan (another theater advocate) should come to a rural town and watch a third-run movie on a screen that feels barely bigger than your living room TV. Sure, it’s like 10 times bigger, but between that, the Coke stuck to the ground, the popcorn stuck to the Coke, and the sticky stuff on your seat you hope is Coke… I think they’d agree that most Americans are just fine watching movies at home. They go to these exclusive, high class theaters with the best of everything and they think we can all get an experience like that. We can’t.
I don’t care about artsy-fartsy movies or Marvel/superhero movies (or Avatar). I mean both are okay, I don’t hate them or anything, but I’m not generally going out of my way to see them. (I did see last year’s Superman on IMAX. Even though I don’t like Superman, I knew that would be a unique experience, and I was right.) I like indie movies that fit a certain niche, and I like Japanese movies (especially anime movies, like stuff from Shinkai and Hosoda). I try to support these movies, but usually we get like, the worst screen. It’s fine, we used to have to drive for hours to get the worst screen. Now we can get the worst screen just up the road. I support the films marketed to me and my niche. I’m not gonna spring for every DiCaprio or Nolan movie, they usually make a billion dollars anyway. I have no sympathy for the occasional one that doesn’t.
Quality of Hollywood films is the main reason people avoid theatres. No one is paying those prices to watch 11% rotten tomatoes films.
There are films I get angry with even after torrenting.
Tron: Ares has entered the chat. Wtf was that trash
Yeah, if the cost of seeing a movie for my family of 4 is $80, if instead of going to the movies I take that and save for a TV, staying at home 4-5 times gets me a 75 inch 4K TV.
If I’m going to watch some unimaginative retread of an established IP, I’d rather do it on my couch, drinking a beer, and eating my own popcorn.
My wife and I used to go to the movies every Tuesday for like $5 a ticket. Didn’t matter if there was something we were really interested in, we would take the chance on something. If that price tracked with inflation, it’d be $7 a ticket and we’d probably go with kids a couple times a month still. But it’s more than double that and so are the snacks, so we instead go maybe twice a year.
But, yeah, some executive with an MBA knows best how to price empty goddamn seats.
I’d pay thrice the price if seating was good, volume was 75% of current levels, talking was policed, Mary Jane was finger banged in a car instead of the row behind me, popcorn weren’t thrown around, phones were off, commercials didn’t last 25 minutes before the main showing started, I could press pause and go to the bathroom or for a snack.
Everything you said was completely reasonable and actually practiced in many theaters except that last part.
I was definitely being facetious 😄
My point is partly that not only do cinemas have to deal with managing all these people in there, they also have to compete with significantly better AV setups in people’s homes. Screens are much bigger, OLED, with surround sound at home. And at home I CAN press pause.
When cinemas were a big thing, people were lucky and wealthy if that had a 40” plasma at home. Now, you can get a 55” screen for the price of taking the family to a cinema 4 times.
That’s a very valid point. I think it’s more about the experience of going there with your friends, ordering popcorn etc.
I’ve been to the cinema alone, but that’s usually only if I reeeally want to see the movie ASAP and it’s not out anywhere else in the seven seas (if you know what I mean). Other than that it’s always been about going there with friends. Kind of like music festivals - I enjoy them for every reason except the music part :D (with exceptions)
I can’t take the commercials after paying 50 bucks. This is why I only attend rep cinemas. They once tried to project a single commercial and a large group of us pounded on the door of the now ex manager.
Theatres are meant to be places to watch movies, and movies are an art form. The garbage Hollywood is putting out these days is designed-by-committee bullshit. Not art. So yeah, theatres will probably die because they’re not making art anymore.
My local theatre shows some new artsie movies. We go to see them, and some are great.
But the theatre is usually close to empty.
I don’t think expunging the bland, mass market movies would save theaters, even if they did.
I’m not sure I understand this take. Are you specifically talking about Hollywood vs. indies? I would consider PTA a part of Hollywood and I thought One Battle After another was fantastic. Same for people like Zach Cregger, Yorgos Lanthimos, or Danny Boyle.
I might be in the minority but I actually really, really enjoy the movie theater experience. I just can’t afford it more than every so often.
I saw a movie 2 days ago, it cost 34 dollars for 2 tickets and was preceeded by over 25 minutes straight of ads before any trailers. Leo is completely out of touch, and I don’t think anybody asked him for his fucking opinion on this in the first place.
Leo wouldn’t be able to compute what 34 Dollars mean to people in the first place.
That’s like a whole banana?
I’d go to the cinema far more often if there were films to watch.
What, you don’t like the latest MCU superhero movie about the trans innuit in a wheelchair? I’m cool with inclusion, but does EVERY film HAVE to follow THE AGENDA.
Oh gosh I’m a yuropean, I don’t care about any agenda, or superhero nonsense either.
I used to love it. But there are more important things to spend the $50 bill on.
I like movie theaters, but most of the movies coming out aren’t very interesting. I don’t like superhero movies or COD/John Wick-y movies where the plot consists of people getting punched in the face and going on car chases for 15 minutes.
I miss movies like Interstellar. Weapons was the last movie I saw and really liked in theaters.
john wick has more to it than that, come on
What? Keanu Reeves’ “acting”?. It’s two hours of brainless violence. 439 deaths in 4 films.
