From Nerdrotic - its a couple weeks old, but good info you don't hear about elsewhere.

I went to one movie in 2022-Top Gun Maverick. I may go to one in 2023, Maybe Avatar. That's a bit off of my lifetime enjoyment of movies and 20 or more most years.

I don't see a path for 'them' to get me back into a seat with the schlock they produce and the gladiator academy going on in the theatre, yelling, etc.

Avatar? Maybe third week mid day, maybe.

There's only 2 ways I'll watch movies:

1. If and when they're on DirecTV for free (not pay per view)

2. When I'm flying somewhere and they're free.

I’m averaging one a year in a theater.

Top Gun in 2022 and John Wick in 2023.

I was going to do Avatar, but James Cameron’s lecturing about women empowerment and talking about how he removed gun scenes from the movie and regretting parts of Terminator has really turned me off from wanting to watch anything he does.

James Cameron says he cut footage including firearms from new ‘Avatar,’ regrets past use

“I’m happy to be living in New Zealand where they just banned all assault rifles two weeks after that horrific mosque shooting a couple of years ago,” he adds as an aside.

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^^^ Agreed concerning Cameron. The only way I'll watch Avatar 2 is when it streams, probably in a few years time. I hope it doesn't break the $2 billion mark in box office receipts given his remarks (and Disney's pathetic wokism) but it looks like it might just do it.

Nope, no Hollywood filth for us here.

I was going to go to Avatar 2 but it's 3.5 hours. That's 2 trips to the head because some egomaniac doesn't know how to edit.

Topgun Maverick and the New Ghost Busters fick were all I could take. I am a big movie guy but Hollywood is lost.

Top Gun 2 was the first time I've been to a theater in probably 10 years. Ticket prices were lower for TG 2 than they were 10 yrs ago. Must be having trouble filling seats. Imagine that.

Hollywood, basically movie studios, streaming services, cable, TV, lost over 500 BILLION dollars in market value in 2022 alone.

Over half a trillion dollars.

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Yes, and to think I was questioning the public's attraction to Maverick.

stupidstupidstupid!

Mister Big Sophisticated Film Buff misses the big picture.

I understand now, though- both the attraction and the implications of it for leftist Hollywood.

Top Gun 2 and Spider-Man were my only trips to the theater in 2022 and only Spider-Man because my kid really wanted to see it.

I don’t plan on seeing anything in 2023 in a theater. I rarely watch any new movies at home either. I do kind of want to check out that Violent Night movie but other than that I don’t even know what’s out.

My wife and I haven't been to a movie theater in over twenty years.

We're subscribed to NetFlix and HBO Max. If it isn't on one of those we won't see it. Exception: Stuff that (seems) truly worthwhile we'll buy on Blu-ray. (E.g.: Top Gun: Maverick.)

We have a fairly extensive DVD/BD library. If we can't find something interesting to watch on NF or HBOM, we'll throw something in from that.

We watch hardly anything on broadcast TV anymore. Mainly Jeopardy, a local 10 o'clock "news" broadcast (mainly for the weather), and my wife watches some stuff on PBS (cooking shows, Ask This Old House, stuff like Call the Midwife and Downton Abbey).

I won't be terribly surprised if both movie theaters and broadcast TV go the way of the Dodo Bird in my lifetime.

I think I have been to a movie theatre twice in the last 20 years.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
I was going to go to Avatar 2 but it's 3.5 hours. That's 2 trips to the head because some egomaniac doesn't know how to edit.

It’s okay! Cameron tells you why you are wrong!

James Cameron defends Avatar 2’s run time: “People forget to put beauty into a film”

With all of the garbage they are spewing out, it is amazing movie theaters are still around.

Open Range is the last movie I've seen in a theater.

I prefer old movies on TV.