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| No good deed goes unpunished  |
Same here. I don't go often, but there really is no substitute for seeing a movie that you really want to see in a theater. Also, I would miss TCM Big Screen Classics. They bring classics back to theaters. This month is Psycho and The Shining. | |||
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Maybe drive in movies will make a come back...if they could find any vacant land that isn't covered in cheap housing and apartments. My understanding is those hand full of drive ins that still exist are experiencing full lots of movie goers. It would be great if all the liberal hollywood 'greats' were reduced to doing animated movie voice overs and making minimum scale. | |||
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| Leatherneck |
And here’s the real issue with movie theaters going out of business. Yeah it’s easy to say “fuck Hollywood actors”, but the film industry employs a ton of people. The leftist Hollywood actors aren’t likely to suffer at all. They are still going to be making movies and they will make their money off the guys with the nice home theaters who continue to pay big bucks to stream them. The theaters don’t make much off tickets anyway. The studio gets most, of not all of that money. So you pay 20 bucks to stream it instead of 40 to take your family. Hollywood doesn’t make as much, but once the streaming services are all setup they are hoping that the convenience, along with the money you’re saving by not buying popcorn and soda, means you’ll see more new release movies at 20 bucks a pop. In the end the leftist Hollywood stars are still getting paid millions of dollars and still hating Trump and you. The people who suffer will be the working stiffs. “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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Those involved in the "entertainment industry" have been taking themselves and their jobs (to amuse those with a sufficient amount of income and free time to pay for the luxury) far too seriously for far too long. The influence they have over those they distract is far too great and their inflated egos/work product should have been recognized for the destruction they cause long ago. Even before the communists and socialists fictionalized events to promote their agenda, John Wilkes Booth personified the level of evil some of these people feel they're entitled to do in real life, because their adoring audience "loves" them so much. "I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken." | |||
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safe & sound |
I see it in these threads as well as the Amazon and other online buying threads. Those who don't care about these businesses going under because it "doesn't affect me" are short sighted. When businesses close, it impacts your entire community. People out of work. Employment taxes not collected. Sales taxes not collected. Property taxes reduced. Vendors working for those now out of business loosing business. It's not a good thing. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
I think you missed Pale Horse's and CCR's point... While that's true of many of the actors, producers, directors, and studio execs, that doesn't apply to the dudes rigging the lighting or building the sets, or the lady working on designing the title screen, or the person answering the reception phone at the office, or the kid taking tickets at the theater, or the man who drives the concession stand supply delivery truck, or the guy who makes sure the theater's website stays functional. Those are the ones in the "entertainment industry" who will be hit hard, not the egotistical millionaire Hollywood elites. | |||
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| The Main Thing Is Not To Get Excited  |
I go to a lot of movies. I've got DVDs, CDs, Amazon purchased and stored and I still go to a lot of movies; but that really isn't accurate any more. They, movie makers, have slowly conspired to keep me at home and watch what I can find. The criteria for awards may be the nail in my virtual coffin. 'May be' my butt, it's a dead certainty. I read a lot, I can see that number in the used book stack going up. _______________________ | |||
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This absolutely nails it. I used to manage a theater as a young man. The movies and theater professionalism have gone so fare down hill. Only the technology has improved.
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I did see Pale Horse and CCR's points and do recognize them as valid concerns (my father spent 34 years in television "below the line" as a video tape editor and technical director), but I still think the destructive effects on our culture by these forms of entertainment need to be more closely examined. "I'm not fluent in the language of violence, but I know enough to get around in places where it's spoken." | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
i see you're in the Bay Area. Did you go to the one by highway 4 in Concord? "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| Evil Asian Member |
Bingo! That's my closest one. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
The cinema experience has been destroyed by the leftist imbeciles in Hollywood. Let the whole thing burn to the ground. I go to the theater perhaps once every two years now. There's almost nothing I want to see. The films these days are garbage. The prices- both ticket prices and concessions- have become obscene. They inundate you- assault you at EAR-SPLITTING DECIBEL LEVELS- with twenty or more minutes of not only previews for the trash passing for film these days, but also TV commercials- TV commercials! People are browsing/texting on their phones. Fuck it. The cinema experience is effectively a thing of the past. I hope- I pray- that all these movie theater chains shut down all the way. That's not at all likely, but I'll bet we see quite a few closures, and that's a step in the right direction. And all of this I've written comes from one of the most avid movie buffs you'll ever encounter. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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| What is the soup du jour? |
You would have to pay me to go see a movie in a theater these days. I feel for all the people employed by movie theaters, but the fact is that modern movies are garbage, the concession stands are ludicrous, and discourteous movie goers have ruined the experience. I had given up on theaters in summer 2018, and covid just made it even easier to avoid. That being said, not a single movie in the last 2 years has made me want to revisit. | |||
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| Evil Asian Member |
How about catching older, classic movies at a repertory or arthouse theater? There are quite a few in my area, and I find the theatrical experience much more enriching for many films. Some even truck out full 70mm prints. The theater next door to my buddy's place is a mainstream multiplex that shows old classics in their main theater once a week. I find that catching Lawrence of Arabia or The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly to be a vastly different experience up on the giant screen as opposed to the home experience, even if I sit really close to my HDTV screen. | |||
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I haven't gone in many years & have no plans to start going again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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| I have a very particular set of skills |
What? You mean an industry (Theaters) that is 100% dependent on putting butts in seats is having a hard time when they’re forced to be closed? Shocking. I’m a movie fan and there’s some things that are just better on the big screen. Our local movie theater has been shuttered for months with no end in sight. How long can that go on? I saw a news tidbit that HALF of all bars & restaurants in NYC might close for good. Half! Economically, the worst is probably yet to come. It was 3-4 years after the stock market crash in 1929 before the worst unemployment hit. And yet, sheeple in places like NY continue to vote in incompetents who can’t govern, but who’ll continue to eat quite well when the economy tanks. Boss A real life Sisyphus... "It's not the critic who counts..." TR Exodus 23.2: Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong... Despite some people's claims to the contrary, 5 lbs. is actually different than 12 lbs. It's never simple/easy. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
How about forever? I'm good with forever. | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
I have been to the Castro Theater in SF a number of times, one of the last old Art Deco movie palaces in existence. I'm friends with their former tech director and knew a little about their finances decades ago. Operating that theater was by very slim margins, they don't have the financial backing of a movie studio. I imagine they are closed due to the virus, and I cannot see how they can stay in business, if they even are.  "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Info Guru |
As James Woods said online, the studios are not going to make a movie that is not eligible for the Oscars, so while this has been a de facto standard for several years, it will be every single movie made from now on. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Drug Dealer |
The last movie I saw in a theater was Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood". I never expected to get a chance to see it on the big screen: It was awesome. That's a good place to stop; I'll probably never go to a theater again. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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