whole system crumbles
Hey, they’re starting to catch on.
We’ve apparently decided that gambling is completely legal in the US again so why not take it a step further and turn all the dying theaters into brothels? They already have lots of individual soundproof rooms and snacks for when you need more energy.
gambling is completely legal in the US again
Yeah that kind of just happened, didn’t it?
If I owned movie theaters, I’d start making my own movies. Hollywood is a dying star, heading towards black hole status.
And at this point, a drooling idiot could make better movies than Disney or most of Hollywood. Always excepting Guillermo del Toro, of course! He’s amazing.
a lot of people dont’ even watch movies anymore.
i have been told may times from people the past few years a 90m movie is ‘too long’ for their attention span. tiktok brain. at best the can do 20m sitcoms where they don’t really have to pay attention to get the jokes.
This is a very narrow view. Between work, commuting, and general life maintenance it can be tough to actually commit 2+ hours to a film, uninterrupted. Tv shows, even long form/miniseries stuff, are just easier to slot. It’s no different from scheduling a meeting at work: scheduling a 150 minute session is something you have to plan weeks in advance, you can get 30 minutes free tomorrow.
a movie isn’t a commitment. it’s entertainment. it’s not studying for a class.
you can also… pause it and come back later.
where do you work that you have 150minute meetings? that sounds insane.
Where do you get those 90m movies? Most of the stuff I see is 120+? I yearn for shorter movies (70-80 has always been my favourite sweet spot)
comedy and horror movies are typically shorter.
all the action epic marvel stuff is the 140 minute run times.
In my country cinemas are already getting closed, because not enough people go. The only time I’ve seen more than half of the seats filled was the Revenge of the Sith 20th anniversary rerun earlier this year. And even then it wasn’t even close to full. Looks like a finished business.
Boo hoo. Every system is crumbling. Join the club
It’s crumbling because of shitty superhero movies and reboots, not mergers.
Superhero movies and blockbusters are what’s keeping theaters alive.
2025 saw lowest box office $ in history, excluding COVID lockdowns.
Hollywood is generating a tremendous amount of shit not worth watching off PirateBay.
and compared to previous years, the super hero movies you mentioned were barely present in 2025…
But putting all that aside, it is not that super hero movies are too shitty and mergers are fine… the more mergers we have, the shittier the movies will be
So you are here saying something like “burns are killing kids, not the people selling fireworks”
next you’ll tell me that spending 1-200m a film isnt sustainable or something, smh
Raising a big eyebrow at the prospect of mega-corporate consolidation of movie theater venues collapsing in the face of mega-corporate consolidation of movie production companies.
I think it should say something that you can stream a thousand different movies at home for $20/mo, but you can’t license a movie for public viewing at less than $300/day. The real big blockbusters can demand north of $2000/day, then demand 50% of the ticket price on top of the licensing fee. If you’re wondering why you can’t get into a theater for less than $20/ticket or why the old 3-5 screen cinemas all died out a decade ago, this is why.
It almost makes me wonder at the prospect of fully off-book unlicensed movie houses. How gangster to set up shop in an abandoned mall and host one-night screenings of pirated films on high end portable projectors? Maybe this already exists and I just don’t know about it.
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It almost makes me wonder at the prospect of fully off-book unlicensed movie houses. How gangster to set up shop in an abandoned mall and host one-night screenings of pirated films on high end portable projectors? Maybe this already exists and I just don’t know about it.
Students at my high school were doing that (with the science classrooms rather than in an abandoned mall) like ~20 years ago. They were watching fansubbed anime though, not Hollywood movies.
We were doing it in the late 80s at university. Showing a bunch of SF/F movies in a lecture hall on the weekend for five bucks. We made an absolute killing on the drinks and snacks, which we used to buy books for the SF/F club library.
The Keanu Reeves film club at NYU in the 90s was on the side of a building so people could throw garbage.
Wait, are you telling me the billionaires who own the theatres and the billionaires who own the movie production companies were too stupid to figure out a path forward so both their industries didn’t collapse?? Color me surprised…
It’s already crumbled.
Good. I took my wife and kid to a movie the other night and spent $150 for stale popcorn, shitty candy and a few sodas plus movie tickets. “nO oNE gOEs tO MOVie tHeATrEs ANyMoRE!!!”
Yeah no shit I wonder why?
Yeah I called bullshit that you got stale popcorn. Considering how fast movie theaters go through popcorn. And if you’re spending $150 then you’re doing something wrong. I mean that means that you spent about 50 bucks per person since it was only three of you. I see in another comment that you mentioned it was $32 each for movie tickets and you’re in New york. I mean that’s simply the case here is that you live someplace that’s very expensive to do anything. And you chose to go to a movie theater that charges quite a bit. You could simply do something like a movie club like Cinemark or AMC’s movie club or something like that which is a whole lot less per month you get free movie tickets and you get discounts on everything. I go to the movies three or four times a month and even with a family of four I typically won’t spend more than $100 in my area. And that’s usually buying the most expensive tickets as well which are usually like IMAX and d-box tickets etc.
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About $32 for tickets
Holy shit, where?? The Jack Loeks sold tickets in 2000 for five bucks. You only needed one bucket of popcorn because it was bottomless. I never bought candy but I assume for whatever reason your region inflated those prices too.
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This was New York
There we go.
Rookie mistake. The movies are still pretty affordable if you plan it right. Go to a matinee or special pricing days. Smuggle in your snacks and drinks. Hell, I’ve walked in with a whole ass fast food meal before.
The rectum can hold a surprising amount of food if buttered.
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I feel like the employees at many theaters these days just don’t care if you bring in your own food.
My wife and I also occasionally see imax movies at a theater that’s part of a furniture store. The store also has an ice cream shop & burger restaurant. That theater is more than happy to let you bring in food from those places.
You need a better theater.
And you realise you chose to buy that stuff, right?
Do you need popcorn and candy?
When I was growing up, and even into adult hood, never bought theater food. Not until I found a theater that has real meals and and their own craft beers.I’m genuinely dumbfounded that you even managed to spend that much at the movies.
Its $10 for a damn soda, and has been for 20+ years (which is about when I stopped going to the theater for the most part).
Eaay to do with 4 people. I have no idea what tickets cost these days.
Y’all don’t sneak in snacks? It’s cold out and it’s easy to sneak in soda bottles in a jacket. I snuck in a KFC meal in my jacket to watch Avengers Endgame.
Isn’t cinema already experiencing agonal breathing?
By the end of four years. Our country will be in ruins. Good job MAGAts.
Now you know how we all feel about the impending AI unemployability apocalypse.
People still go to the movies?
Yeah, there’s a Europa Cinemas network with theaters in bigger cities. They show good movies from all over the worlds. The tickets cost 6€. I visit mine from time to time. I saw really nice Mongolian movie not so long ago.
Yeah! I try to hit at least two a month!
If you can afford it, a lot of the theater chains have “clubs” where for a (imo) reasonable subscription price you get free tickets and discounted concessions. My partner and I spend $20 each on our subscriptions which is why we try to see at least two movies a month, combined with the discount on concessions we break even that way.
Through regal, idk about the other ones, there is also a reward system which I use for free concessions and free “premium” tickets (imax, 4d, etc)
if you’re breaking even on the subscription + discount concessions, wouldn’t it be more cost effective to not subscribe and not feel obligated to go to the movie if you don’t or can’t want to? Also are you limited to 2 free movies a month or could you go more if you wanted to?
I could go as many times as I want, some months I’ll go 5 or 6 times. I few films this year I saw twice because they were that good.
I personally actually like feeling like there is an obligation to break even, as it encourages me to see things I normally wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have gone to see Bugonia if i had to pay for a ticket, but I had a free afternoon and a free ticket so I saw it. I enjoyed myself more than I would have if I’d paid for the ticket.
That’s kind of where I stand with it, if not for the subscription I’d never feel like I could afford to go see some trash I’m pretty sure will be terrible just for the hell of it.
I like movies 😊
To be clear, I am aware it isnt a particularly good deal unless you were already seeing more than 2 movies a month.
That’s awesome, thanks for explaining.
I recently started going a little bit more, because a new one with certified IMAX (but not the biggest screen) popped up around 25 mins from home. It’s technically in another (smaller) city and for some reason not a lot of people know it exists so it’s never full and still very clean. The IMAX tickets on discount Tuesdays are $5, so we try to go to matinee screenings on those days. There’s usually fewer than 10 people whenever we go and there have been times where we had the entire theater to ourselves.
I would otherwise never go if my only options are the AMCs, Cinemarks, and Regals in my area. The only other theater I go to is the stand-alone huge true IMAX cinema that I’m lucky to have in my city, but only for special movies.
I do, but mainly stick to the 2nd run theaters that play older movies. Last movie I saw in a theater was Carpenter’s The Thing a couple weeks ago.
Rarely, because there are very few movies that are worth going to a theater to see instead of just waiting for it to come to streaming.
