The decline of movie theaters.

[BeeKay]

Yes they are, at least outside the US. But 50” TVs and a soundbar are ubiquitous and plenty good enough …

Exactly. Don’t want to have anything beyond 55" in my living room today. Ugly enough when not playing. Also, pretty large enough to watch movies decently. Been to 7.something but back to a TV-integrated soundbar. Too much stuff to care about and having to look at. If anything requires Atmos to be interesting it’s probably a lame or dumb story.

 

[wadude]

Movies and theaters are fun, it’s nice sharing social moments, but the sound is too darn loud! I’ve been taking earplugs, which just seems wrong.

 

[xanalog]

They DOA'd for us, few decades ago.

Those were the years when the evasive species known as "advertisements" took over 10 minutes, before the start of what we came and paid to see.

Recently, we made some small talk that we should go see "F1-The movie" at a real theater, but ended it up watching on apple-TV and it sucked!
So, we spent the savings on some local, high-end espresso bar instead.

 

[EJ3]

That’s good.

Honestly, it’s far too expensive just to see a movie a few months before it hits streaming platforms.

I don’t feel like I’m missing out -I prefer the comfort of watching from the sofa, where I can control the volume and pause whenever someone needs a bathroom break.

A single trip to the cinema for the four of us costs about as much as a whole year of Disney+.

My wife & I prefer IMAX & 3D. So we make a daytrip out of it about once a month.
At home, we have not owned a TV since 2007 & it's not a priority (like having a great audio system, going boating is to us and doing extensive traveling is to us.

 

[xanalog]

At home, we have not owned a TV since 2007

Oy! I admire that you can do so!

I had never owned a #$%^ TV, until I signed our current contract to live together...
Relevant parts of our 1991 agreement to co-habitate included:
*She'd get her #$%^ TV,
but
*My 'whole-house' music stays on, even when she is watching that #$%^ TV,
*The #$%^ TV cannot stay-on for more that 4 hours/day,
*No #$%^ TV commercials will be allowed,
*No shows/series that are older than 1989.

We've had a peaceful and very happy co-existence, via the art of compromise.
Does not mean that -if offered- I'd think twice before taking a baseball bat to the current #$%^ TV.

 

[EJ3]

Oy! I admire that you can do so!

I had never owned a #$%^ TV, until I signed our current contract to live together...
Relevant parts of our 1991 agreement to co-habitate included:
*She'd get her #$%^ TV,
but
*My 'whole-house' music stays on, even when she is watching that #$%^ TV,
*The #$%^ TV cannot stay-on for more that 4 hours/day,
*No #$%^ TV commercials will be allowed,
*No shows/series that are older than 1989.

We've had a peaceful and very happy co-existence, via the art of compromise.
Does not mean that -if offered- I'd think twice before taking a baseball bat to the current #$%^ TV.

No TV was my wife's idea (for me, I considered it nice to have but might not watch it unless it was raining like hell). My wife did not like that there were no porn channels (because that is primarily what she watched) on the Guam cable system when we moved there (there had been on the cable system in Saipan).
And there are none where we usually are (on the cable TV). So, our sex life has been going down because there were no convenient porn channels for her to watch.
The only women that I have ever met that TRULY LOVES porn & it's not so easy to get in the places we reside.
Go figure, my luck's not so good with this.
Except that we don't have a cable bill.

 

[xanalog]

...The only women that I have ever met that TRULY LOVES porn...

Say no more nor add more details.
You may get booted for TMI!

 

[EJ3]

Say no more nor add more details.
You may get booted for TMI!

It's not why I married her, it was an unknown at the time bonus, along with the previously not known great cooking.

 

[phoenixdogfan]

For me the thing that tore it was the rampant rudeness of audience members talking and using their phones during the picture with no attempt by theater management to control that. But also the level contemporary movies are pitched at--they're just for idiots. Stuff like making a movie based on a video game, idiotic plots and dialogue, poor cinematography and sound--you name it. Most times the experience will be terrible. A marked contrast to what American cinema was in the early to mid 1970's when some of the most interesting movies in the world were being made here. Then Hollywood figured out it could make a lot more money on formulaic blockbusters and their sequels, and all that creativity went away.

 

[EJ3]

For me the thing that tore it was the rampant rudeness of audience members talking and using their phones during the picture with no attempt by theater management to control that. But also the level contemporary movies are pitched at--they're just for idiots. Stuff like making a movie based on a video game, idiotic plots and dialogue, poor cinematography and sound--you name it. Most times the experience will be terrible. A marked contrast to what American cinema was in the early to mid 1970's when some of the most interesting movies in the world were being made here. Then Hollywood figured out it could make a lot more money on formulaic blockbusters and their sequels, and all that creativity went away.

That is a benefit of going to the IMAX & the like theaters, most of the people aren't paying those prices so that they can be unmannered imbiciles (even the average naïve knaves are better than what you get at the general cinema's).