I recently watched the same movie twice in one week; once at home and once in a packed theater. The film was exactly the same, but the different venues elicited very different responses.
That led to this piece. I suppose the headline speaks for itself.
That led to this piece. I suppose the headline speaks for itself.
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1. AMC is $24/mo in most locations for three movies a week.
2. Most other chains have discount Tuesdays.
3. You can pretty easily time your entrance to miss all previews/ads.
4. You can sneak in snacks.
5. Pick the right time & you can avoid crowds.
- Picture that's dim, unfocused, jittering
- Cropped images
- Scratches or marks on the screen
- Audio that's missing, distorted, popping, etc.
- Stray light washing out the gd picture
Glad to hear your experience is different.
2, bring your own.
3, you can skip ads by coming in later, with assigned seating.
4, if you don't tell people to stop they will behave like punks.
5, no.
Plus, I didn't have to put up with other people, their phones, coughs, crinkling, or BS.
I've actually been disappointed by going to theaters after being spoiled by my home setup.
I can afford to pay $12 for popcorn, $9 for a drink & $8 for a candy. But I refuse to pay these prices for someone to profit.
The people are waking up to capitalism & realizing it benefits only the 1%, an makes slaves of the rest of humanity!!!
#EatTheRich
But exhibition is so fundimentally broken, I'm not confident it can be saved without a hard reset.
Look at online seating charts and you'll see empty auditoriums more often than not.
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The first would be easy to fix, if anyone actually cared.
(None of the big chains give a shit about the moviegoing experience, despite what Ms. Kidman might say.)
1) A thirty-plus-minute barrage of advertisements.
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2) Failure to enforce respectful audience behavior
Sadly, most people who care about watching a movie w/o disruptions have given up, leaving audiences comprised primarly of people who don't.
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3) Chains have built thousands of shitty auditoriums w/ screens & sound vastly inferior to a nice home theater, so big new releases can start every 30 min.
Thereby training audiences to see convenience as more important than presentation. (Making phones the perfect medium.)
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4) A few screens *do* provide great cinematic experiences, but contracts require that they are ALL monopolized by a handful of new releases, despite the fact that other titles (often classics) frequently draw larger crowds.
(fin)