Anecdotal, but I went to the movies on a Friday for the first time in probably 10 years last week and it was packed. Even my screening of Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die was 70% full.
JoeXorX on
Not surprised. $120 for a family of 4 is unsustainable.
robotzor on
Damn. All that amc I bought because reddit told me to a long time ago sure isn’t looking like a good idea
Dycon67 on
Less ads could help
Dislodged_Puma on
This may be a local or regional issue, but the theater attendance thing is so cyclical. My local theater used to be really nice when it opened, and now all the seats barely work, the carpets smell, everything feels grimy. If they cleaned it and replaced the seats, I’d probably go more. But, my friends and I can’t find it in us to support them to give them the money to do so.
It feels like it’s just a dying industry that relies to much on everything being perfect when the home watching experience is so vastly better. Sure, I can’t get that same massive epic feeling, and I’ll still brave the theater for the biggest movies, but I just don’t see the cost benefit of going to the theater to watch 90% of movies when my entire experience could be defined by paying upward of $20 for a broken seat, someone talking during the movie, someone on their phone during the movie, the projector not working, the sound not working, the theater being disgusting, etc.
purpleElephants01 on
Well I paid something like $45 for Pretzel bites a small soda and a glass of wine. I get we don’t need concessions, but for us this is the deal breaker. Instead of watching 3-4 movies we just pick 1.
normbryant124 on
I have been to the movies twice in the last year. In my opinion, there’s just not enough good content coming out that makes me want to go. Was going g to see a movie this weekend, looked at what was play and made other plans, nothing jumped out for me.
Empanatacion on
I’ll see a movie at Alamo because of the food, the nice seats, and the entertaining video montage they show before the movie. And they don’t fuck around about not allowing talking or texting during the movie.
But a generic AMC movie experience is objectively worse than watching it at home.
ArcaneMantis on
Been sticking to alamo drafthouse instead of regular theaters because getting an entire 20-30 minutes of normal ads is annoying af.
watertrashsf on
Less ads and better movies
KomradeKrycek on
If I didn’t have A-List I probably would only go once every few months.
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Cinemark is eating their lunch…
Anecdotal, but I went to the movies on a Friday for the first time in probably 10 years last week and it was packed. Even my screening of Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die was 70% full.
Not surprised. $120 for a family of 4 is unsustainable.
Damn. All that amc I bought because reddit told me to a long time ago sure isn’t looking like a good idea
Less ads could help
This may be a local or regional issue, but the theater attendance thing is so cyclical. My local theater used to be really nice when it opened, and now all the seats barely work, the carpets smell, everything feels grimy. If they cleaned it and replaced the seats, I’d probably go more. But, my friends and I can’t find it in us to support them to give them the money to do so.
It feels like it’s just a dying industry that relies to much on everything being perfect when the home watching experience is so vastly better. Sure, I can’t get that same massive epic feeling, and I’ll still brave the theater for the biggest movies, but I just don’t see the cost benefit of going to the theater to watch 90% of movies when my entire experience could be defined by paying upward of $20 for a broken seat, someone talking during the movie, someone on their phone during the movie, the projector not working, the sound not working, the theater being disgusting, etc.
Well I paid something like $45 for Pretzel bites a small soda and a glass of wine. I get we don’t need concessions, but for us this is the deal breaker. Instead of watching 3-4 movies we just pick 1.
I have been to the movies twice in the last year. In my opinion, there’s just not enough good content coming out that makes me want to go. Was going g to see a movie this weekend, looked at what was play and made other plans, nothing jumped out for me.
I’ll see a movie at Alamo because of the food, the nice seats, and the entertaining video montage they show before the movie. And they don’t fuck around about not allowing talking or texting during the movie.
But a generic AMC movie experience is objectively worse than watching it at home.
Been sticking to alamo drafthouse instead of regular theaters because getting an entire 20-30 minutes of normal ads is annoying af.
Less ads and better movies
If I didn’t have A-List I probably would only go once every few months.