The closest theater to me doesn’t sell or allow alcohol.
It costs something like $14 for one ticket.
There are usually pissants talking during the whole movie.
The seats are terribly uncomfortable.
This is all before the cost of popcorn or anything.
Yeah, I’m definitely not going.
This reads like a green text lol.
I’m totally taking that as a compliment.
Oh for sure, it would have made a wicked green text. Just needed the “be me”
Accessibility is only a tiny portion of it. Most of the US can’t walk to pretty much anything useful.
Lets start looking at ticket prices, and concession prices.
Family of 4 to watch a movie starts at $70 CAD at my local theatre. $10 for a single large popcorn to share, and $5ea per water. Fountain drinks are somehow more expensive than bottled water. That’s $100 for the start of an evening. Take a look at the rest of the economy, and figure out why theatres aren’t seeing the traffic they used to.
Being unable to walk has nothing to do with it. In the UK we can easily access theatres but any screening in my town rarely has more than 10% of seats booked, and in London is max 60%
The one near me is a 5min ride away. I could walk, but that wouldn’t make a difference in going. The parking lot is huge, I see no negative to driving… even if it was 20-30min away.
It’s the content, price, and experience that tends to keep me at my walking distance home theater with 11.2 Dolby Atmos and OLED. Even when it was only 5.1 it was still a better option most of the time. And I can relax, kick back, have a beer, curl up under a blanket, pause to deposit used beer, etc.
The problem is that cinema is not that great of an offer. The main reason for me is the artificial scarcity. Making the only place I can watch the movie, the cinema. If I look forward to the movie, I might pay the extra to watch it straight away. I do this max once a year. Next movie will probably be the last Dune movie.
I have a large OLED and can set the volume at a level I like. I can have subtitles if I want. The couch is bigger and more comfortable. I can pause the movie for a toilet break. I have a wife and pets I can cuddle under a blanket with.
The soda, candy and popcorn costs 1/4th.
It’s just better in most ways. I think the image looks better on OLED than on a cinema screen. I also think the volume at the cinema is too high.
Lastly watching it at home is also 1/4th the price also.
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- don’t have to worry about sitting too close/far away/off center
- no people trying to squeeze through, blocking the view, being noisy
I also like the fact that I can have a beer or two on a Saturday night and not have to worry about driving.
If cinemas changed to be smaller screenings of more movies, it’d be great. Streamings outdated too, when music lets you stream whatever you want from any service youd like It shows how insanely stupid it is to pay like median wage in subscriptions just to watch some of the content out there.
I maybe go to the movies once a year.
Same. I’d go more if my town’s theater had more actually interesting movies. The ones they’ve bothered showing have basically all been A24 vehicles, most other movies being your usual superhero etc slop
I personally love going to a theater. He is right though, there’s not one walking distance from me. There’s a very small one about a 10 minute drive, and a larger one about 20 minutes away. I’d probably go to a theater a lot if I could walk.
I have also put some money into my home theater, but that’s better for hosting friends and talking through a movie you’ve already seen.
I have two in walking distance. I’ve never been to either.
