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
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.
His newest flick was excellent and it bombed, so there’s some disconnect here. I think it suffered a Shawshankian fate though.
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.
The only movie theatres I still go to are pretty much jazz bars. Art Deco interior, very comfortable recliners and sofas, full bar, everyone has their own little table with a lamp and you can order in a cheese plate if you want. The tickets are a bit on the pricier side, sure, but I think it’s worth it. They show both new and old movies and often host events related to them.
So for me, movie theatre’s have never been better, as long as you avoid the AMC owned ones.
I have a local community of owned not for profit art deco era theatre near me. Managers complain the biggest problem is good films are rarer than ever, even in the indie space.
For me to go see a movie in a theatre it needs to be an experience that is enhanced by the theatre.
Action/adventure movies like the Avengers were much better in theatre than on my tv at home because the scale of the image and sound add to the epicosity of the film.
For a comedy or a romance film a theatre only adds to the cost of viewing. Its alright for a date night but theres not really a point otherwise.
Make better films
It’s true, I didn’t want to pay over $14 for one person to go to the theater. If the prices were reasonable I’d be there.
Going to the movies has become unbearable. Even if Hollywood didn’t produce nothing but mindless trash and the whole evening didn’t cost an arm and a leg, there’s always at least one group of assholes in the theater who don’t know that you’re supposed to keep your mouth shut at the movies. I used to go regularly and often, but now I only go on rare occasions.
Mmmm, pay a significant part of my income to go to some shitty badly maintained theatre to watch some slop that even the director or actors couldn’t be bothered to make well while the rest nog the world is burning
Sounds enticing!
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Eventually these types just completely lose any idea how things work for the rest of us. Sixty bucks for two and thirty minutes plus for ads and trailers to watch a movie. They keep taking more time and money from us while spoiled rich little punks like dicaprio think they understand why things are going the way the are.
sixty bucks ? are these dollars ? you guys pay sixty whole dollars for a film ?
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.
It’s almost like people don’t want to pay $20 to sit down in a squeaky, sticky room with a dozen strangers who are invariably inconsiderate assholes, to see the 17th remake of some hit from the 80s. And throw in another $10 if you want a bag of popcorn, $12 for a drink, or trade-in of your vehicle for a box of Milk Duds that actually contains a completely unnecessary plastic bag of Milk Duds to fill the space otherwise occupied by 5 or 6 chunks of candy.
Especially when we’re all just rolling in cash from this new tariff money. Like, what else are we gonna spend that kind of money on - 600mg of ibuprofen from the ER visit where you rolled / suspected broke your ankle??
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
I’m always taken aback by people who complain about the leading ads. Been going to movies 20-minutes late for over 20-years. Yet everyone acts surprised and annoyed that ads lead in.
But yeah, I’d love an Alamo around here. We had a place with $1 movies. You could eat and drink, move your chairs around, all that. :(
Legitimately it may have been that I missed when they decided to make that change as I hadn’t been to a mainstream theatre in years and took my kids to see something.
My gripe, at least with amc is that the ads/trailers start at the “showtime” and are still 30 mins. The “showtime” should be when the actual movie starts. I show up 25-30 mins after posted time to skip most ads. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I’d honestly prefer a trailer free movie experience.
