People who use the word “Cinema” over “Movies” are finding not much to like in your Deadpool/Twisters/insert big franchise here.
The last film that excited them was Oppenheimer.
No.
The very last time I was in a theater, the woman ahead of me freaked out because she found bugs crawling on her. Movie off, lights on; the chair she was in was covered in lice.
That got me thinking a lot about the environmental conditions of movie theater seats: large crowds of a cross section of society, rotating multiple times a day. And given seat could have had four different people sitting in it by the late night showing. And that, seven days a week. Even if they completely fumigated the entire theater between showings (which they don’t), then you’d only be trading a potential infestation with exposure to chemicals likely to increase your cancer risk.
Nope. No thank you. A decent big screen OLED and sound system, and I’m perfectly happy to wait until I can stream the movie. Plus, you pay once vs once per person.
Conceptually, the cinema is great.
Current day implementation is garbage.
Maybe if you’re going to theaters like AMC. The locally run theaters in my town are great.
Im in the UK - I don’t believe we have AMC. And I havent seen a locally run theatre in a long time
we kinda need to separate the artwork from the activity.
i absofucking love movies, but if i never stepped into a ‘movie theater’ again i would be losing nothing.
It’s expensive, often less comfortable than my own home, and I like theatre in which the crowd plays a part in the experience, in movies the crowd is often detrimental to the viewing rather than the other way round. Additionally upkeep of a lot of the movie theaters near me is dismal and the cost to benefit ratio of waiting to stream the same movie in my own home as many times as I want says no. There is the possibility of me buying a ticket to support a movie I’m really interested in but I’m probably not going to actually watch the movie.
It’s expensive, often less comfortable than my own home, and I like theatre in which the crowd plays a part in the experience,
This is why I don’t understand the “big action movies need a cinema, small comedies you can watch at home” argument. My home theatre can replicate the big-screen action experience just fine, but a comedy with a crowd is immediately 35% funnier.
