Theater Chain Death Watch? Chapter 11s inc
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The only reason I liked going to the theater, on occasion was for popcorn and shit. I didn't go to movies too often. But hitting up the cinema is a pretty fond pasttime for most people.
Thank you Rona for killing it. I'm sure its for the greater good and will save lives or something.
Thank you Rona for killing it. I'm sure its for the greater good and will save lives or something.
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Same here I think the last movie I saw at the theatre was the first of the latest Star Wars trillogy at Christmas time. Before that it was Winter Soldier? Cant even remember, lol. Last Christmas I wanted to go again for the other Star wars movie but the kids noped out, I guess they dont give a shit about star wars or movies?
Honestly I would rather watch movies at home. Yeah, I do like the big screen and 3D IMAX shit they have going, but regular movie screens just dont do it for me anymore.
But I will add that I dont want the experience to just disappear.
Honestly I would rather watch movies at home. Yeah, I do like the big screen and 3D IMAX shit they have going, but regular movie screens just dont do it for me anymore.
But I will add that I dont want the experience to just disappear.
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McCheese
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The general public are such animals nowadays that the theater experience has been ruined irrevocably. Even without the insane prices of theaters, the fact that there would be at least a few assholes using their bright phones, talking, smelling like poop, trying to take your seat, etc. just ruined it. In a world without courtesy and respect the movie theater experience is dead. Good riddance.
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and of COURSE, this depends on the local demographic.
For me I can't go to a movie theater anymore that does not have full recline seats, so that does not bode well for me and the small mom and pop independent theaters unfortunately. I'm not sitting upright and uncomfortable for 2 hours and paying for the privilege.
Drive ins I take full recline lounge chairs to.
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I'm generally an upstanding citizen, but the fine denizen's of my local theater have resulted in me tossing sodas at people or coming in behind them and dumping a soda into a lady's purse, getting into multiple verbal arguments, cussing people out in public, physically throwing a kid out the door and doing petty things like sneaking into the seat behind someone and kicking their seat all movie long. Personal favorite is chewing on gummy bears and then throwing the wet lump at people's faces across the theater.
They all deserved it.
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What did you just watch a movie about movie theaters in the 60s or something? Literally I’ve been going to movies for almost 40 years and have never seen a home do any of that.
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You've never had a movie where people are having a conversation at a normal level of voice the entire movie, and ignored multiple attempts from people to get them to shut the fuck up? I'm going to guess there's less taco shops in your town than mine.
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The local theater I go to while a bit expensive serves a full dinner service, alcohol, has assigned seating which are fully reclineable comfortable leather seats, this prices out certain demographics which alleviates many of the complaints you are dealing with, but still since the COVID shit on top of the other things it makes theaters not worth it in the slightest.
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That's a lot of direct-hit jobs. All these sectors are not "super-fringe" economic players. It's not like "oh damn, all the stores that sell Guatemalan shoelaces are closing!"
A time of change = a time of opportunity to do it again but a lot better.
That is what I keep telling myself so I don't get too freaked out. Demand still exists. It's just technological advances + coronoanoa = hyper-accelerated change.
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spronk
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Regal is temporarily closing theaters, not permanently. Its more the fact that there are basically gonna be zero movies coming out for a few months now, only thing scheduled at end of Dec is Dune and Wonder Woman 1984 and both will get delayed.
sometime in 2021 or 2022 theaters will return to some level of normalcy, after vaccines and treatments are widespread, until then movie theaters, concerts, Las Vegas, vacation travel, Disney Resorts, etc, etc are all going to realize its cheaper shutting down and not paying staff than staying open and running at 10-30% capacity.
No matter how much you wanna argue about 0.001% mortality rate, mask fraud, hoax flu, etc at least 50% of people aren't gonna go see a movie in theaters and you need to change their mind. This definitely accelerates the death of movie theaters but its probably not the killing blow.
sometime in 2021 or 2022 theaters will return to some level of normalcy, after vaccines and treatments are widespread, until then movie theaters, concerts, Las Vegas, vacation travel, Disney Resorts, etc, etc are all going to realize its cheaper shutting down and not paying staff than staying open and running at 10-30% capacity.
No matter how much you wanna argue about 0.001% mortality rate, mask fraud, hoax flu, etc at least 50% of people aren't gonna go see a movie in theaters and you need to change their mind. This definitely accelerates the death of movie theaters but its probably not the killing blow.
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I suspect the Mulan experiment didn't meet expectations. Reports are Bill&Ted made a respectable profit, but the budget for that film is estimated to have been only around 25 million, so they didn't have a massive bar to clear like Mulan did (which estimates around a 200 million budget).
Fact is, if they were seeing numbers that correlated with what they drew from theaters, we would be seeing a lot more PPV/virtual rentals
Fact is, if they were seeing numbers that correlated with what they drew from theaters, we would be seeing a lot more PPV/virtual rentals
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just to interject, but theaters have been dogshit since i was a little kid long ago in the early 80s. or even earlier, my dad said they were like that in the 60s as well. they had people talking. people doing shenanigans. pee smelling theaters, people throwing shit at the screen. i put up with it because back then it was either see it in theaters. or wait 6 months before you could potentially rent a VHS copy or wait a year and a half before it came to cable. as that wait window closed down to just a few months and TVs got better you realize you dont have to tolerate that dumb shit in theaters anymore and you can just stay home because fuck that place.
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TBT-TheBigToe
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Theatres should have one night a month or week or whatever where the audience is encouraged to yell at the screen, meme, and all that shit.
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