Movie theatres are cooked. What will it take for you to go back to the cinema anon? And why did you leave? https://variety.com/2025/film/news/exhibition-execs-traditional-moviegoing-less-than-20-years-1236435893/

>>211974659 (OP)
There isn’t anything you can do.

Most people have streaming and the internet to watch movies.

And Zoomers and Gen As/Bs only care about watching Tiktoks/youtube-videos/instragram-reels on their iPhones. They don’t even have the attention span to watch anything longer than five minutes (especially if it isn’t shot vertically with meme music in the background).

Movies and Television are dead.

>>211974812
FPBP

>>211974659 (OP)
I blame Mike Stoklasa and Red Letter Media for killing theaters. Just like they killed Star Wars.

>>211974659 (OP)
Not going anywhere where thera are subhumans so figure it out.

I'm going to see 28 years later in an hour.

>>211974659 (OP)
Make good movies or pay me.

>>211974812
/thread

>>211974891
That's because you're stupid.
>>211974893
No more movies for russia.

>>211974812
/thread

also you forgot that it doesn't help that most recent movies are trash and the general public is suffering from fatigue of things like capeslop

>>211974659 (OP)
>execs think
lol

>>211974812
I see more adults dead scrolling on TikTok than I do kids. Like people in their 30s. Especially with women.

>>211974812
YouTube allows the newest movies to be uploaded on youtube shorts so hollywood is at fault here for not stopping this

>>211974659 (OP)
The fact that theaters survived covid makes me think these theaters are dying stories are bs

>>211975031
60 year olds and older use Facebook and tiktok all the time.

They as always built these things too damn big. Banks? Multiple floors of nothing for a single ATM and 1 teller. Shuts down later because it's costing more than it's worth, building bulldozed for paeking lot. Malls? Empty space for 1 or 2 anchor stores, shuts down and gets bulldozed for parking lot. Movie theaters? 12 screens for 1 profitable film at summer season that gets shutdown and bulldozed for parking lot. Restauraunt? Whole building of 56 tables in a nation of fast food and delivery. Bulldozed for parking lot etc. Most of these things would be less risky and easier to maintain had they not been built to fuckhuge sizes, and they wouldn't be bulldozed if they were small enough to easily convert. But since they weren't and have nothing around them but parking lot, you end up with a Scooter's with 100+ parking spaces around it

We’re moving towards a world with absolutely no novelty at all. The average person in 100 years is seriously going to be doing what the average person is doing nothing but with nothing exciting to look forward to like ever.

>>211974659 (OP)
I go to the movies at least once a month
But I have free tickets lol

>>211974812
>if it isn’t shot vertically
This shit is fucking retarded.
Smart phones can rotate, why would you not want the thing to be larger horizontally.
I see YT vids that are just small boxes in teh middle, with subtitles which are clearly intended for these zoomer retards.

Cinema is dead though. Internet killed it.
Though theatres will still be open as the novelty will still be there, I just expect the industry to get smaller.

>>211974659 (OP)
you really can't do 5 seconds of cropping for an OP image? maybe theaters are dying because of lazy people who are terrified of having to go somewhere they're not getting paid to be at.

Low energy societies. Most people over the age of ~25 in the middle class are just too tired to do anything these days beyond go to work (if that), then return home to veg on the sofa while mindlessly phone browsing, watching something on a streaming service, or playing videogames. When they do muster the energy to go to a movie, it's probably only going to be one time a month, so once you have an 80mil+ opening weekend, you can count on the next few weekends being flops.
The remaining markets are the non-working poor, who can't afford to see many movies to begin with, and the mid/late zoomers + Gen Alphas, who don't tend go to movies for other reasons. The only way you can convince them to go is with memes, so you better have a Barbenheimer or CHICKEN JOCKEY moment to get them to go.

>>211975067
True
I'm amazed and disturbed at how many people watch several clips from a movie but never watch it full and then act like they watched it full

>>211974812
it's funny because the short attention span thing is intentional. youtubers and such follow certain guidelines if they want their videos to succeed. it came back to bite them in the ass, such as many other things these clowns do in attempt to brainwash the masses.

Just make them whites and japs only, while forcing studio's to make good movies. And drop the forced 3D and so called 4D crap.

>download movie for free
>on my self hosted streaming server
>turn on my 85' 4k television
>hit play
>enjoy my cheap snacks, drinks, and can fuck my gf from the comfort of my own home
Why would I bother going to the theatre? The same experience there would cost me at minimum $100 for 2 people and I can't get my dick sucked.

>>211974891
Agreed. Mike Stoklasa should be raped by death by blacks for ruining the world.

>>211975236
Holy sh*t bro, you have a girlfriend to do the sexy sex stuff with? Fricking epic.

>>211975110
It's no coincidence that everything is getting shittier the browner we get. The end game will be some massive civil war of some kind all around the world.

>>211974659 (OP)
>Pay an entire days income to take wife to the movies
>The very best movies now are a 6 out of 10 at an extreme stretch
>Whole theater is filled with ethnics talking on their phones
>Doors are open with sound from next door coming in
>45 fucking minutes of ads
It just makes no sense. I can watch it at home in fantastic quality and comfort and I have a better range to choose from
Someone mentioned the predicted box office for this year and listed out the movies. Out of curiosity, I went and looked at what came out 30 and 40 years ago (95/85) when tickets were MUCH cheaper and the general experience MUCH higher quality. The quality of films was insanely higher with much more range to choose from. On one night you could pick from The Usual Suspects, Seven, Casino or Toy Story. In 85, on one weekend you could pick from Back To The Future, The Return Of The Living Dead, Gremlins or To Live And Die In L.A.

You'd be hard presses finding one worthwhile movie a month now.

>>211975110
if AI continues at the pace it has been going, there'll be a man made mass extinction event, and the remaining few elites will have private AI personalized movies

>>211974812
it doesnt help that tickets at around where im at are 20 bucks and upward for straight garbage films

>>211974659 (OP)
When someone uses VR to simulate a theater, real theaters are dead.

>>211974659 (OP)
>What will it take for you to go back to the cinema anon?
Nothing could get me back
>And why did you leave?
My home setup is nicer, I don't have to pay $20 a ticket, and I don't have to deal with the general public

>>211975538
fugggg
I hadn't thought of this

>>211975378
Just to re-emphasize that. We won't have one movie this year aimed at adults as good as Seven or Casino, nor any family films as good as Toy Story or Back To The Future. It's one thing to raise the prices and lower the quality of the venue, but then you add in a complete lack of quality content to encourage people to even go, you're doomed.

>>211975538
>DLC "he cute" sound package

>>211975147
>triggered by a not cropped image
Zoomers nowadays are so fragile

>>211974659 (OP)
Hollywood types would have to stop funding the destruction of their host nation.

>>211975538
>>211975587
They already have it. It's still pretty rusty and the headsets aren't comfy for watching kino in. It DOES however feel like a real screen

>>211975566
>and I don't have to deal with the general public
as someone who has basically been isolated from society since 2012 I have to say, doing things with other people around you isn't so bad.

>>211974659 (OP)
>What will it take for you to go back to the cinema anon?
Actual good movies + no uppity types + decently priced food and drinks + better loyalty programs + more robust rerelease schedules.
I only go to the kinoplex as much as I do because I'm a wagie working at one who gets to see free movies at every location and a 25% off discount and double the awards for every purchase.
>>211974812
>And Zoomers and Gen As/Bs only care about watching Tiktoks/youtube-videos/instragram-reels on their iPhones. They don’t even have the attention span to watch anything longer than five minutes
I'd say this is true for ~60% of us (definitely higher for Alphies though), but there's definitely enough for it to continue being viable.
I really think that theaters will have to go back to what they were like before the 80s where small, 3 theater comfy spots will do better than the plexes given cinema will become something more akin to live music or the plays that are a more niche thing.

>>211975769
I'm trans by the way

>>211975147
Will look at Mr fancy pants being able to afford Cropwizard 2.0

>>211975750
You don't know how lucky you are. I have taken to planning my week around how to best avoid human contact, especially with strangers.

Op here. My thoughts. The first movie I saw in the cinema was star wars. I watched big by traveling to London by myself. I had my first kiss in the cinema watching tango and cash.
I love movies but only 25% of them are any good. I used to buy VHS and then dvd and then Blu-ray until I realised this is all bullshit and I torrented everything.
I actually have had a free pass to watch movies a the cinema for the last 11 years. I literally only go 4 times a year for big blockbuster movies. The rest my home setup will do.
I used to go to the cinema with my friends but my circle of friends that I was tight with has died through one thing or the other. So I no longer visit as I used to. I probably would do to an independent cinema house like the price Charles theatre in Leicester square, but even then I'd think do I really need to spend the money when I could just torrent it at home for free and lounge in my underwear.
Dickheads talking eating, playing with Thier phone annoyed me when I used to go to evening showings so I only go to early morning shows usually between 9 and 11 am.
I have no kids. So I'm not taking them to the cinema to watch the latest movie and pass on my tastes. I do take my younger cousins occasionally and taking three kids, paying for food, parking tickets etc is just expensive.
So yeah I think cinema is cooked. Th shows I do go to are almost empty. I literally have an IMAX theater to myself.
Thing is do I really care anymore. Wokery bullshit fucked up everything. If I compare releases year by year from things now to pre 2005 there no comparison. Plus I've pretty much seen most things. The rest I can torrent. And TV shows now have such great production values they are essentially long form cinema.

>>211975787
There's quite a few trannies at my work. Pretty much everybody puts up with them and secretly dislikes them immensely with the exception of some of the fags.
One of them is literally built like picrel.

>>211975902
>I had my first kiss in the cinema watching tango and cash.
Based, my first good kinoplex date was Flight Risk :)
>TV shows now have such great production values they are essentially long form cinema.
10 years ago this was true, sadly it's gotten far worse since then due to streaming.

>>211975887
don't get me wrong, I'm very introverted so I enjoy my alone time. I get where you're coming from. I hold no resentment to people, I just need my alone time.

>>211974659 (OP)
The movie going experience isn't as good as it used to be. Too expensive, too many niggers, and too many people on their phones.
Not to mention the fact that movies are on streaming a month later. Nothing is worth seeing day one.

>>211974659 (OP)
i got a local art house theater that screens older, cult classic movies all the time. as long as they can keep doing that, they'll stay in business. the place is usually packed unless they're showing something made more recently, then it's a fucking ghost town.

>>211974659 (OP)
Maybe if Zoomers didn’t act like literal faggots and throwing food and trash everywhere and flooding bathrooms than more people would go to theaters.

>>211975750
I'll say, that's probably the least concern given how dead theaters generally are, but the people in my town are mostly dickheads.
Ever since COVID people seem to have forgotten how to behave in public

>>211974659 (OP)
Studios didn't want me to go to the theater, so I stopped going. Now they bitch about me not spending money on their movies when I'm just doing what they told me to so fuck the studios & fuck Hollywood. I can get entertainment from anywhere on the fucking planet in seconds, I don't need them anymore

>>211974659 (OP)
I stopped going when they were completely fucking shut down for like 2 years.
I then realized that I didn't miss it very much and that there wasn't anything I couldn't wait to see.

>>211976836
honestly, the last time I went to a theater was to watch avatar 2 and everyone there was on good behavior. no one was acting out, everyone was on their best behavior. I also live in a city where there's a lot of "minorities" and it's nothing at all as how people try to make it out to be. ffs I was sitting next to and behind black women and they were just enjoying the movie, too.

>>211974659 (OP)
>theatres
>cooked
Gen Alpha nigger slang has made it all the way to the UK now?

>>211974659 (OP)
Let me smoke in the theater and I might consider it.

>>211976928
The best thing is now that I haven’t watched anything for years everything that comes out on free streaming is new to me. I realized this a long time ago, and then if I go to some chicks place with a streaming service I can just watch the few good things then. Not paying for shit is actually a better tactic than buying slop and having nothing to watch .

>>211977146
>Gen Alpha nigger slang has made it all the way to the UK
Anglosphere + large and growing black population

>>211977223
The last thing theaters need is more nigger behavior being tolerated

>>211974659 (OP)
I know this is a radical idea that will be difficult to comprehend, but perhaps they should try to make good movies.

>>211974659 (OP)
Get rid of the fucking adverts and trailers. How the fuck is it that I'm paying the monthly fee for a streaming service to watch one movie and I literally can't skip this shit. Speaking of paying, ticket prices should be half what they are now. And loud smelly minorities should be banned, but since they can't do that legally, have showings of actually good movies that aren't for children and ban the sale and consumption of snacks for those showings. Also have cult film nights.

Arcade games, pinball, no children, no foreigners. Play classic movies, because modern ones are shit.

>>211974659 (OP)
>What will it take for you to go back to the cinema anon?
going this weekend for the first time in years. got to get one of these

>come up with new technology to disrupt an industry
>make it cheap as shit so people actually use it
>successfully disrupt industry
>try to increase prices
>no one wants to put up with it anymore
>both industries die
LOL how many fucking times does this have to happen, did every single exec everywhere get their degrees from wolf of wall street videos or something

>>211974659 (OP)
>What will it take for you to go back to the cinema anon?
Having a girlfriend to go see them with. I don't. So I pirate virtually everything and never leave the home. Comicbook superhero movies suck. Lots of movies suck now.

>And why did you leave?
No gf, no reason to go. I mean look at all the stupid girl-centric stories. Every single popular 80's icon getting shoved aside so a know-nothing girl with low sex appeal takes over and kills the franchise. I hate it. It's the kind of crap right up a chick's alley. I don't have one so I'm not capitulating.

>>211977880
Make you wonder about cycles of time, doesn't it? Feels like we're all on mark for this stuff to just fall apart and be done with. It's cosmically ordained somehow.
People are going to start frolicking in fields and playing the flute again, because we're all so done with technology.

>>211974659 (OP)
>And why did you leave?
18 euros a ticket, not counting drinks or snacks. Movies being almost 3 hours long now. No breaks, so 3 hours straight in a chair. Dolby Cinema Atmos not really adding anything of value to some movies. The mainliners are nothing original, remakes mostly that are upgraded to match political mindsets nobody cares about. The same film comes out on stream 2 months later where you can watch it in the relaxing environment of your personal home. Where you can pause and take a break whenever you want to and eat dinner or have whatever snacks you have without breaking the bank.

Going to have to lower the cost. I think most people like going to the movies but the cost isn’t worth it. Got a family, you’re dropping over a hundred bucks easy. In the past, you could go to all the new releases without breaking the bank. Now you have to be more picky

I just want smol comfy theaters back. I hate this shit with giant reclining seats so some amorphous blob of lard can wallow around in their own filth with a plate of nachos and a Mega Gulp full of their favorite flavor of corn syrup.

My kids are not even 5 yet so this should be more enough to give them the kino experience I had as a kid.

In the coming era we're just going to see film and other artistic pursuits return to being the forte of weirdos, much like they were for the prior 10,000+ years of human history. The masses and third worlders will consume AI-generated content pumped out by corporations and the only people able to turn being an artist into a career will be the weirdos making movies about things that mainstream, high-end AI models won't be able to legally generate and monetize, like graphic rape or animal torture, or bestiality, or movies about conspiracies that don't just debunk them in the end.

>>211977682
Your requests are at a fundamental contradiction with the current cinema chain model. I can say that as I am currently a jaded cinema wagie myself.
>Snacks/concessions are the primary revenue system for cinemas, not film tickets. There will never, EVER be showings prohibiting these outside of the rarest circumstances
>Ticket prices only go down if there is a systemic operational overhaul, usually born from fresh competition entering the market. The eventual equilibrium of this cyclical business model is overpriced food AND tickets, and chains going out of business due to greedy corporate overreach being massively out of line with the reality of an average customer's wallet
>Loud smelly minorities are stupid and wantonly spendthrift. The ultimate customers. They are often accompanied by hordes of hungry, stupid children that will plead with their parents to buy tons of popcorn and sweets, all in the largest size
>Adverts and trailers often run at a more or less set rate for every one of that particular theatre's showings. You can basically avoid the majority of ads by asking the crestfallen wagie behind the tills when the feature itself is due to begin
>Contrary to what the average /tv/ kino connoisseur might expect, reshowings of older classics very rarely engender the same degree of footfall as new releases. It's really only the hyper-zeitgeist definers like Star Wars or Lord of Rings that generate noteworthy momentum. From my observations alone, it's also been made apparent that these types of films rarely reap the type of traffic that are likely to splurge out on concession items

Simply put, the best way to make usage of your local two-bit kinotorium is to know never to buy any of the slop they sell, always go in the daytime on weekdays if you can (they'll be open, and no one will be there), and know how long the ads and trailers for that cinema's showings tend to be so you can avoid the majority of them.

>>211974659 (OP)
i paid 4.99 to see avatar in 3d in 2009, i don't see a reason why i would pay more than that

I have no money to go to the movie theater and nobody is hiring.

>>211975031
>dead scrolling on TikTok
what is "dead scrolling"?

>>211977438
you do understand that smoking lounges used to be a thing in america in the past, right?

>>211974659 (OP)
when jews are either gone or stop fucking up cinema.

>>211974659 (OP)
I won a bunch of cinema tickets in a competition last year. Ended up expiring before I used any of them.

>>211978663
The past was fucking awesome. Pay a couple of cents for a pack of smokes, buy a nice home on minimum wage, have a wife that knows how to cook and clean and raise kids, drink as much as you want whenever you want, drive in a car the size of a battleship, live in a nice safe neighborhood with blacks kept safely segregated away and be employed for life at the factory downtown.

>>211975109
Zoomzoom? It's partly real estate investment scheme/scam, partly outdated mode of thinking. Before online banking, online shopping/delivery, WFH and Covid, you really need these huge spaces for banks, restaurants etc. because people had to go there in person as a customer or as staff. Covid bred a whole generation of people who learned that doing everything online is much easier, faster and less hassle. Another reason for the huge real estate is that many companies build or buy them as investment speculation. The businesses that operate there are irrelevant. The building owners are hoping to sell off their real estate at a profit a few years later, taking rent payments just to pay the monthly bank loan.

>>211978663
Anon, "smoking" in 2025 refers to pot, not tobacco. Nobody under the age of 50 consumes tobacco in America.

>>211974659 (OP)
>Hmmm should I go drive 20 minutes in this blistering heat to buy a ticket for $20 and pay $15 for some popcorn and a drink, go get a shitty seat, have to sit next to some annoying Zoomers that yell and scream at everything, all to watch a mediocre movie?
>Nah, I think I'll just chill here at home and stream it and if it sucks just move on.
It's that simple

>>211978547
Makes sense. As a kid in the 90's I'd always go to the local cinema with mates to see everything that was on and mostly did that during the week, even back then we'd sneak food and drink in because it was so much cheaper. I guess the fatass loud family with brats with diabetes that clog places at the weekend are the ones cinemas need to survive.

>>211974659 (OP)
It’s sad to think, because I really do enjoy the theatrical experience (as long as there aren’t any niggers around), but I’ve accepted that it’s on borrowed time, and will come to be discussed as a historical artifact, like vaudeville or serialized radio dramas.

>>211974659 (OP)
I do go to movie theatres. Small ones, playing arthouse kino from around Europe (new ones too).
Perks of living somewhere where they exist I guess.
But big cinemas in the malls? Well I'd go if there was anything worth watching playing there.

>>211975293
don't you have another 40 year old virgin thread to make, chuddie?

>>211974659 (OP)
>What will it take for you to go back to the cinema anon?
Good movies at reasonable prices
>And why did you leave?
SHIT movies at EXORBITANT prices
also I HATE FRANCHISE SLOP THERE'S EVEN FRANCHISE SLOP IN THE PICTURE
I WOULDN'T EVEN PIRATE THIS TRASH
FUCK ALL MOVIE FRANCHISES
BAN SEQUELS FOREVER

I blame women's rights, and the rise of feminism.
Taking a girl to a date out to see a movie is not feasable anymore. They want DINNEER.
Taking your family to see a movie is not feasable anymore. There is no more nuclear family.
If a man can't take a women and can't take a kid to the theater, are this niggers expecting men to just go by themselves?
Movies are not to blame, but they also didn't help.

>>211979146
The only thing I miss, and I don't even have kids, is kids calling their dad "dad" on the regulat, and "sir" when being asked directly.

>>211974659 (OP)
it's because people hate each other more than ever, thanks for the diversity

>>211974659 (OP)
>What will it take for you to go back
Never going back.
>And why did you leave?
Ten years of girlboss slop, gender and race changes for no reason, and anti-white messaging in films while pushing faggotry and you have to ask?

Since Hollywood hates normal white people so much, they can move to Bollywood and do gay porn with all the shitskins they want.

>>211975092
It'll just be the new grift, kinda like how drive-in's are all dead now too, but if you actually looked you could find one or two near you.

>>211974914
should've saved your money
>muh dutch angle
>muh editing
>muh dv
>muh prosthetic penis
>muh alpha
>muh jimmy
alex garland is a hack and danny boyle has always been a meme director.

>>211974659 (OP)
I can't speak for anyone else but the big theaters in my town generally don't play good movies unless there's an anniversary screening happening. The independant theater has a better selection on a given day but it's generally lacking when it comes to niche and foreign cinema.

>>211974659 (OP)
make it easier to cruise for gay sex in the bathrooms

>>211974659 (OP)
>What will it take for you to go back to the cinema
Movies I am interested in watching, and theatrical windows that mean I am not going to miss seeing it in the theater because I had shit to do opening weekend.

>>211981311
See if there isn't a film preservation society or the equivalent in your town.

>>211974812
>And Zoomers and Gen As/Bs only care about watching Tiktoks/youtube-videos/instragram-reels on their iPhones
Even 30-40 year olds do this now btw
grim

>>211974659 (OP)
just make good movies. thats it. anyone doomposting about muh zoomers is retarded. they all showed up for cringe shit like the minecraft movie. we had that stupid ass barbieheimer summer and plenty of people saw wicked despite the dogshit casting. fucking anime movies preform better than any other animated film thats not a disney sequel and they usually dont have blockbuster releases. its the endless capeslop, reboots and nigger loving movies that are killing the theaters.

>>211981730
>just make good movies

>>211975293
t. Incel

>>211974812
China has perfected tik tok in reducing attention span of youths for years. Unleashing it in US was a boom to Chinese boxoffice outpacing Hollywood eventually.

>>211974659 (OP)
It's all by design. immobile, quarantined, 15 minute city type existence with "wearable" devices monitoring you at all times. But you feel free bc the mobile screens beam you gooning, cooming, or Stephen Graham content.

>>211974659 (OP)
I have very rarely gone to actual movie theaters and I'm a millennial.

>>211974812
>>211974659 (OP)
They just need to make lower budget movies that are good and release them more frequently. Like the third Dunc film incoming out in 2026 when it should have been out in 2024.

>>211977303
Just cash in free trials with random streaming services. You can usually bounce from one to the other over the year and catch anything worth watching. Just remember to set the membership to not renew.

>>211977997
They don't call that Uncle Ben's anymore it's now Ben's Original because teh racism.

>>211981516
The Goodbye Dragon Inn Strategy

>Avengers 500 comes out
>Wait in line
>$45 a ticket
>$35 for food and drink
>50 endless previews for movies you'll never see
>Kids screaming, phones out, can barely hear the movie if a character from the fucking trailer appears
>To be continued


I'll give theaters credit Avengers Infinity War was great but I'd rather just watch it from the comfort of my home

>>211978595
I guess he means scrolling to new videos on your phone endlessly. Honestly I see everyone doing it nowadays from teens to old ladies.

They cost way too much even for one person, nevermind if you're bringing your family or friends, and there's fuck-all worth watching getting made.

>>211974659 (OP)
>ban disruptive audience members permanently (talking, cell phone, annoying kids being loud, etc)
>stop relying entirely on new movies, play more classic films (Hollywood doesn't make anything worth watching anyway)
>stop raping people with concession prices
it's that easy

>>211975236
some films are better with the big screen and sound system. i saw Princess Mononoke in IMAX and it was incredible.

>>211978547
>always go in the daytime on weekdays if you can
You're alright for explaining how the kike cinema model works, I worked at one for a short time(fucked off pretty quick cause I got tired of the literal kike manager using us as slave work doing the cleaning) and yeah I couldn't have explained it better than you.
The weekday thing though, I don't know about cinemas near anons but the ones near me due to penny pinching all stopped doing weekday daytime showings like 15 years ago and a good chunk of them only have a fraction of their screens working on nights outside of weekends, mostly on Thursday nights.
I remember watching The Phantom Menace as a kid with the whole cinema for myself on a weekday morning, didn't make it much better but it somehow still made it more special kek.

>Keep making crap movies.
>Why aren't people digesting the slop we put in theaters?
It's a real mystery there. Maybe make movies that are good that they want to see it in the theater? If it isn't good enough to do that then people will wait the 45 days before it arrives on streaming sites. Also, rein in your budgets. You can't expect every movie to be a billion dollar hit to just break even.

The trick is to live in a town/city that's large enough to have a decent cinema but small and poor enough that they have to price tickets aggressively.
>cheapest tickets (shit seats) are £5/$7
>best seats are £8/$11
>allowed to take your own snacks and drinks as long as they're cold and not alcoholic, don't even need to sneak them in
People mostly seem to behave. I haven't had any movie-ruining issues.
This month alone I've seen M:I, Ballerina, and 28 Years.

>>211975378
>Doors are open with sound from next door coming in
What the fuck??

>>211983202
5$ tuesday you cheap slut

>>211974659 (OP)
>What will it take for you to go back to the cinema anon?
Movies that aren't made exclusively for Indians, Chinese, and low IQ whiteoids

>And why did you leave?
Movies became exclusively for Indians, Chinese, and manchildren.

>>211974659 (OP)
>>211974812
Honestly think cinemas are just done as a mass thing. They will just have to switch to being a more niche thing for people who really appreciate seeing something on a big screen, and just make that work economically somehow.

>>211984869
not before they try to make the studios stop putting new movies on streaming services/bluray as quickly

>>211974659 (OP)
>>211984869
"Unviable" just feels like classic "number must always go up" horseshit.
The numbers might not be as high as they once were, but they're still BIG numbers. It's still a huge fucking business and not going anywhere.

>>211974659 (OP)
Maybe movies should try being good

>>211985634
>Those admissions numbers
That's the real existential isse here.

>>211974659 (OP)
Make good and fun movies
And reduce the prices so its affordable
And reduce the amount of commercials
I know they will do the opposite of all of this, which is why I rarely go to movie theaters anymore

>>211985634
Its only ever sustained by artificially holding movies back so the cinema gets them for months first though. Things releasing straight to streaming is the threat thats unlike anything before.
Cinemas would have died out as soon as the TV was invented if it wasnt for exclusivity time. Given the choice, the vast majority of people will just watch something at home

>>211974659 (OP)
>What will it take for you to go back to the cinema anon?
Regularly showing something good for a decent price. In the town I used to live in the local theater had a classic film feature every week. I went almost every week and could by a ticket, popcorn, and soda for less than $20.

The problem with movies, and theaters is that they each played their end against the middle. Movie studios started chasing the global market with dumb CGI extravaganzas leading to fewer good middle brow movies. And at the same time the theatre owners just kept chasing revenues by upping the price of tickets and concessions. So now we have fewer movies which are worth watching (much less paying for), and going to the theater is so expensive that it is now an event to go.

Except as a value proposition, I don't think streaming has anything to do with it; TV was never a problem, after all.

>>211975031
Not gonna lie I often find myself reaching for the mobile when watching TV. Hate myself for it.

>>211985741
The only kind of movies that are worth watching in a movieplex in the age of streaming are big budget action shows.

Sadly there aren't 20 Top Guns to fill all the screens so theaters are fucked.

>>211974659 (OP)
Two more weeks!

>>211975031
my mom is nearly 60 and OBSESSED with TikTok. i'm glad she has something she enjoys but damn it just looks like something that would wear me out after a few minutes. My attention span is fucked bad enough from YouTube on a laptop

>>211987176
just get a hobby that doesn't take much thought, do papercraft/origami or something else kinetic

>>211975031
This is the sad but true fact. People on this board like to separate things based on generations. Saying "only boomers use fb" or "only teenagers have TikTok" when everyone of all age demographics have all the social media apps on their phone and use them constantly. My mom, who is 61, shares shit from TikTok with me.

>>211987742
My gf is 22 and browses Instagram/FB reels more than anything. But its all the same shit.

The studios streamed themselves out of business.

>>211974659 (OP)
They shut down the daytime theater I ride the the bus and it doesn't run at night

>$300 million dollar budgets for blockbusters that now need to clear $750million just to break even
>IPs thoroughly fucked and exploited into unrecognizable slop
>Loss of understanding of product market fit. Catering to alleged audiences that don't exist
>Most new releases now hit streaming services in 30-45 days
>Pandemic turned Zoomers into shut-ins
Cinema is failing, yeah what do you think happened?

I don't know, it's too unique an experience to replicate at home so easily, unless you're rich enough for a theatre room I don't believe theaters will truly die out anytime soon. The only thing killing theaters are these DOGSHIT BACK TO BACK releases and remakes
Me and my friends were active moviegoers, but the very last thing we bothered to watch together was Minus one. We literally talk about wanting to see something all the time but that there is literally NOTHING worth watching.

>>211975769
>I really think that theaters will have to go back to what they were like before the 80s where small, 3 theater comfy spots
I think this tracks with the trend of big box stores where, yeah, they either create a more curated, comfy experience or they shut down. Probably why places like Alamo Drafthouse are doing well since if you're going to pay a shitload of money to see a movie you might as well get table service too. Alternatively you roll the dice on what's playing at a local theatre for half the price

There has to be a term for this, but I don't know what to call it. It's like a shared mutual destruction. Where they know their business model is not viable and they are each killing their industry, but at the same time everyone is streaming and nobody can afford to be the outlier.

>>211988714
Tragedy of the commons I think

There's not a single movie worth enough to spend over $40 for. We get our escapism straight from our phones or computers who needs a theater anymore

>>211974659 (OP)
Yes thankfully the lugenpresse is collapsing.

>>211990891
What third world shithole do you live in where a movie ticket costs $40?

>>211974659 (OP)
> nothing but prequels, sequels, remakes and adaptions of previous works
> nothing playing in general that attracts people en mass to the movies anymore (barbenheimer was the last one)
> dirty, shitty theaters with equally dirty and shitty people
> dei/woke killed creativity and risk taking
> movies are expensive and people are broke
> phones, internet, streaming, gaming are all either cheaper and/or immediate. even tv is dying
> gen z and gen alpha who mostly stick to the three things in the previous point
> movies come out on streaming/youtube in like a week or two of release nowadays which give people even less of a reason to go to the movies


i wonder why movies are dying