I’m amazed that movie theaters are still a viable business these days.
Went to the movies today (me, the wife and kid) for a 2pm showing, two of their smallest drinks, and two of the smallest popcorns. Over $100.
I always liked going to the movies but we don’t go very often anymore and this will likely be the last time. It’s just so much money and, frankly, it’s a better experience from my own living room. I thought that the Dolby experience would be better, but it wasn’t. The picture was blurry and a mess at times. Ironically, the 5 minute commercial promoting Dolby during the trailers was good, but not the actual movie. Basically, aside from being able to see the movie a little earlier, I gained nothing from going to the theater. And the 5 year old kid a couple of seats down from me never stopped talking and was running all over the row.
What say you? Any theater-lovers still out there?
I would imagine it was like that back in the day as well. Most of the movies coming out were 'meh', with a few blockbusters thrown in
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Its true, must of the post-COVID movies have been crap.
I would imagine it was like that back in the day as well. Most of the movies coming out were 'meh', with a few blockbusters thrown in
100%, lots of bad movies in every era we just didn't have the internet back then (or social media) to critique everything to death.
COVID definitely messed with the industry as a whole though, but its slowly starting to creep out of that financial hole. Peak boxoffice was 2018 where 35 movies made over $100m - so far in 2022 there have been 12 and I think we will see that rise to 20-25 by years end with a bunch of big releases set between now and the holidays. Latest projections seem to be upwards of $8b as a whole which is about 25/30% of peak (2018) - that's a good sign heading into 2023.
I think the last time I was actually excited about a movie coming out (based off of the trailer) was maybe ... The Hangover? That was 2009 or so.
But my wife and I will go maybe once every few months, I like it more than her probably, but shes always in for the snacks!
It starts and ends with the cash they make. Producing a movie is high risk so new IP is hard to come by. As a result you get comic book movies because that demo will pay to see them repeatedly. And I don't even understand the issue people have with them - I no longer watch them but they are infinitely better than the crap that was made 20 years ago. We just grew up and don't care anymore.
We can all argue how much better or worse movies are now , but there were over 800 movies made in 2018 and 99% of them weren't comic book movies. There's been a boom in indie movies that dominate the drama genre and they simply don't get the theater time because wide release is super expensive.
If it has become too risky to do so and comic book heros are an easy payday so that's where the industry wants to put its efforts, then so be it.
Same conclusion - the industry has been in a big decline...
I guess the latter fell a little short of an expected Best Picture nomination by the Academy :-)
Not to hijack the thread but talking about a large screen anyone else old enough to remember going to the movies at Radio City? Especially around the holidays, you would get the entire Christmas show with the Rockettes plus a movie.
Not to hijack the thread but talking about a large screen anyone else old enough to remember going to the movies at Radio City? Especially around the holidays, you would get the entire Christmas show with the Rockettes plus a movie.
Sure, Mary Poppins and Sound of Music, to name two, when I was very young and we still lived in the city.
Some years later, Fiddler on the Roof, on a school field trip from upstate.
The RCMH theater had 6,000 seats!
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Not to hijack the thread but talking about a large screen anyone else old enough to remember going to the movies at Radio City? Especially around the holidays, you would get the entire Christmas show with the Rockettes plus a movie.
Sure, Mary Poppins and Sound of Music, to name two, when I was very young and we still lived in the city.
Some years later, Fiddler on the Roof, on a school field trip from upstate.
The RCMH theater had 6,000 seats!
Where upstate did you move to?
look at all the old people, what movie was that, Cocoon?
Where upstate did you move to?
Southern Dutchess, Hopewell Jct.
We used to in elementary school, great field trips. They just tore it down though, part of a big railroad and bridge project along the water.
In any event we usually bring in our own candy and water. Theaters have priced themselves out of providing snacks.