SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU — after Saturday update: The last-minute push for The Marvels with an appearance by star Brie Larson on Friday’s The Tonight Show and at a theater in NYC post-actors…
I knew about it, but especially since the pandemic, there’s very, very little incentive for me to go to a theater.
A few reasons for this…
Streaming services supply high quality audio and video that I get a near enough theater experience at home. I’m willing to wait.
As others have stated, with buying snacks, the theater experience is effectively a $50 per person event now. It’s ridiculous. And this whole notion of “well snacks are the only way the theater makes its money” is enough of a justification that perhaps it’s time for theaters to die. For roughly the same price and enjoyment, I can go get a very nice, large steak dinner, or quite a lot of high-quality sushi, or buy a video game.
I don’t have to deal with other people.
So many people and journalists like to lament of the plight of movie theaters, but aside from the pandemic, this is of their own making (well, not my aversion to people, of course). There will still be blockbuster movies, but after Avengers Endgame, it’s going to take a lot for another Marvel superhero movie to get to that level.
In the before times, my partner and I had a monthly subscription at Cinemark. It was great, comfy seats, beer, and good enough food. We would go at least twice a month and easily got our money’s worth. Now that we are still dealing with COVID and the fact that our home theater setup is great, we have zero reason to risk it, even for a night out.
Yeah, ever since the pandemic, I just don’t see any reason to go to theaters anymore. I tried my best to go see Oppenheimer and 70 mm here in Tucson, and found the experience so sub par that it was insulting. Remind me why film is somehow better again? What I saw was absolute garbage.
The movie industry will get what it deserves. After all, apparently the director knows better than everybody else. The customers don’t matter.
I knew about it, but especially since the pandemic, there’s very, very little incentive for me to go to a theater.
A few reasons for this…
Streaming services supply high quality audio and video that I get a near enough theater experience at home. I’m willing to wait.
As others have stated, with buying snacks, the theater experience is effectively a $50 per person event now. It’s ridiculous. And this whole notion of “well snacks are the only way the theater makes its money” is enough of a justification that perhaps it’s time for theaters to die. For roughly the same price and enjoyment, I can go get a very nice, large steak dinner, or quite a lot of high-quality sushi, or buy a video game.
I don’t have to deal with other people.
So many people and journalists like to lament of the plight of movie theaters, but aside from the pandemic, this is of their own making (well, not my aversion to people, of course). There will still be blockbuster movies, but after Avengers Endgame, it’s going to take a lot for another Marvel superhero movie to get to that level.
In the before times, my partner and I had a monthly subscription at Cinemark. It was great, comfy seats, beer, and good enough food. We would go at least twice a month and easily got our money’s worth. Now that we are still dealing with COVID and the fact that our home theater setup is great, we have zero reason to risk it, even for a night out.
Yeah, ever since the pandemic, I just don’t see any reason to go to theaters anymore. I tried my best to go see Oppenheimer and 70 mm here in Tucson, and found the experience so sub par that it was insulting. Remind me why film is somehow better again? What I saw was absolute garbage.
The movie industry will get what it deserves. After all, apparently the director knows better than everybody else. The customers don’t matter.