• @reddig33
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    309 hours ago

    I’d be more concerned that there aren’t going to be any movie theaters left at this rate. The studios own all the streaming channels now — they’re going to cut out the middle man.

    • @roofuskit
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      116 minutes ago

      They tried that during the pandemic and didn’t like it.

    • @[email protected]
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      29 hours ago

      This. There’s little point in seeing most films in a theater when they will be streaming a few months later.

      • @Graphy
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        8 hours ago

        That’s not too different from renting a movie a few months later. Theaters have always been more fun to go to for a movie you actually care about.

        The problem I have with theaters is that the time and money sink is a terrible value these days. For my wife and I it’s always somehow shy of $70 and takes up most the night.

          • @Graphy
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            36 hours ago

            Just threw two tickets in for a local theater and it’s $38 for two tickets after the $6 convenience fee and taxes.

            $20 for snacks and drinks not including tax

        • partial_accumen
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          The problem I have with theaters is that the time and money sink is a terrible value these days. For my wife and I it’s always somehow shy of $70 and takes up most the night.

          The money is bad, yes, but the deal breaker for me is…other movie-goers.

          For 90 minutes, modern movie-goers simply:

          • can’t keep their bright phones in their pockets
          • can’t stop talking to each other above an occasional whisper
          • can’t consistently keep their food and drink off other movie-goers
          • can’t level their infants or small children at home during non-family movies
          • can’t quietly not do any of the above when someone challenges them on it

          Paying for a movie is expensive, but when its regularly ruined by others in the theater it simply stops being worth trying to go anymore. I’ll watch it at home when it comes there.

          • @emax_gomax
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            12 hours ago

            This. Its like people have no sense of decorum anymore. There was a couple chit chatting through every other scene in a movie I watched a while back like they had the whole cinema to themselves. Super distracting.

          • @[email protected]
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            47 hours ago

            I went to see Venom and there was a group of people in the row in front of me - almost 10 people, all adults. They brought a toddler that screamed any time a symbiote was on screen. Which was a lot.