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He's trying to keep the old system in place where movies are watched as a community inside of a movie theater. The problem with that is, no one wants to pay $12-15 a ticket to watch an evening show at a movie theater anymore. Once you factor in a family of four and concessions, you're looking at a $100 bill just to go see a movie on a Friday or a Saturday night. Sitting down on the couch with the family to marathon multiple original films on a streaming site is so much more cost effective.

I refuse to go to the Baton Rouge theaters on a weekend night. Too many trashy people. So I end up never being able to catch a show in theaters. It isn’t about the cost. I really enjoy going to movies.

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Posted by TigerScratch

West Monroe

Member since Oct 2005

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Posted on 3/2/19 at 6:08 pm to lsu13lsu

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I refuse to go to the Baton Rouge theaters on a weekend night. Too many trashy people. So I end up never being able to catch a show in theaters. It isn’t about the cost. I really enjoy going to movies.

It's not just BR - it's everywhere. Over the last 5-10 years, basically since everyone bought an iPhone, theaters are terrible! In the past, it was an occasional crying baby, talking, etc. Now it seems like to 20% or more of the viewers - that the movie on the screen is secondary to whatever else they have going on. Speilberg, Tarrantino, etc have probably not set foot in an average movie theater with average movie goers in the last decade. I'm sure they watch with other industry people ( those people would not dare conduct personal business with SP or QT there ) in private theater settings or premieres at red carpet events that average movie goers cannot attend.

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