As for the possibilities in Hardy’s future, he says of the rumored Mad Max: The Wasteland George Miller project, “I don’t think that’s happening.”
I agree with this. I pass by a theater regularly and my spouse and I just haven’t seen any need to go. Personally, I blame their marketing teams. All the trailers are the same, they either give away the whole story or they don’t tell us anything about the story. It’s all action scenes, they all blend together, and just blech. So I don’t go to the theater anymore.
Then the theaters are gross now, people are rude, staff have just given up, it’s not a fun experience for me anymore. Even Dune 2 I just waited until it was out and watched it at home, and had a much better experience.
So I agree, theaters aren’t dead, but they have fallen into a rut of corporate complacency and aren’t trying hard enough to get out of it.
I do early matinees and avoid a lot of the worst aspects of the theater experience. Far fewer people, tickets are like $6 and when you get out you still have the rest of the day.
I did make an exception for Dune to see it in iMax and it was worth it, though that might just be lucking out with a decent crowd where people are respectful of eachother’s experience. The baseline of respect people have for strangers hasn’t fully bounced back since the pandemic, sadly.
