movies today arent even worth watching on TV for free

They make original movies every year, it’s just that people keep pouring into the remakes, sequels, etc. Parasite, IMO, was a great and original film.

You can’t blame the studios for continuing with the remakes and sequels because they are guaranteed money.

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movies today arent even worth watching on TV for free

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I get your overall point and by and large, you're right.

That's why I don't see things in the theater anymore.

There was a time it was worth paying money to go to the movies but now? Nope, nothing's that good anymore. Certainly not so good that it can't wait a couple of months so it can be seen on a 70 inch television.

When I watch a movie for maybe 3 or 4 bucks at home, I'm far less inclined to get pissed off about wasting my money. And that's really what a theater has become nowadays, a total waste of money.

It would be a little more worth it though if the projectionist would hit the pause button so I could go take a piss.

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think about it, when was the last time they had a new and original thought and made a movie that was new and interesting?

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I gave it 5 seconds of thought.

Here several original movies that came out in 2019, most of which had wide theater releases:

Parasite
The Lighthouse
Under the Silver Lake
High Life
Midsommar
Knives Out
Her Smell
Us
The Last Black Man in San Fransisco
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Ford v Ferrari
The Art of Self-Defense

All of those were worth seeing in theaters (for me, it's my opinion obviously). They were all original. Several were hits. If more people actually go to the theater to see original movies, instead of complaining about the lack of them, studios will make more.

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TV programming have gotten so good that it feels worthless spending 10 dollars to go see Knives out in theaters

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There is iron in your words.

Upvote forthwith.

We get it boomer.

Back in your day all the movies were blockbusters.

Who still watches movies on cable tv?

Damn it, I hate these arguments. There are plenty of great movies on original material being made, you just need to wander about one step outside of your comfort zone. Yes, there's tons of sequels and franchises... they make a ton of money, which allows studios to lose money on a smaller projects. In a perfect movie ecosystem (which admittedly we don't have), those blockbusters keep everything else afloat.

Original movies (or based on something that's not a franchise) from just last year, and their corresponding popularity rank in imdb, showing that I'm not just scraping the most obscure of the obscure:

1 1917
3 Parasite
5 Once Upon a Time in hollywood
6 Jojo Rabbit
8 Knives Out
9 Bombshell
10 The Irishmen
11 Uncut Gems
12 Marriage Story
14 The Gentlemen
15 The Lighthouse
16 Midsommar
18 Ford v Ferrari
19 Motherless Brooklyn
20 The Two Popes
25 Hustlers


Seriously, get over yourselves. If you can't find good, original movies, you are not looking very hard. And we haven't even gotten into true indie fare like The Nightengale or straight to Netflix stuff like The Highwaymen or Dolemite Is My Name.

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There was a time it was worth paying money to go to the movies but now? Nope, nothing's that good anymore. Certainly not so good that it can't wait a couple of months so it can be seen on a 70 inch television.

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I actually have a stack of free movie passes, and I still don’t go. Would much rather watch with my dog, own snacks and a bowl (when the kids aren’t there) and pause whenever I like.
Here in CA, the homeless will buy a ticket and act weird in the theater. I used to love going to a matinee by myself. Last time I did so was the 15:17 to Amsterdam (or whatever). A disheveled man came and sat right behind me in the middle of the film (in a very sparsely populated theater). He followed me to two different seats before I got up again, looked at him, and said, “stop following me!” A couple of men stood up to stare him down and he left the theater. If it wasn’t an Eastwood film, I doubt I’d come across men willing to help me (I was in the Santa Monica area). That’s enough for me. Unless the movie has a large reptile, I’ll wait for home viewing.

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Who still watches movies on cable tv?

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People who enjoy films instead of bitching about their supposed "unavailability".

99% of the time I can find the movie I'm looking for on one of my streaming services, or on my cable system, or I'll have to wait a day for a Netflix DVD (since they have pretty much everything).

The people who will only watch a film if they can stream it immediately will be the first to be eaten when the apocalypse comes.

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I'd love to hear the reasoning why people still pay for Cable TV

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Because it's convenient and serves it's purpose. Because some people don't want to search out multiple streaming sites when the basic feeds are right there on cable. Because some of us want to watch Better Call Saul without spoilers, or save an LSU game on our DVR, or flip between HGTV and the NBA when we're watching TV together. I can say a movie title into my cable remote and the screen will tell me if the movie is coming on soon, if it's available for streaming on cable, or on Netflix or Amazon. I could look at it as the glass being half-empty all day. "Why am I paying for Spanish channels!?" Or I can look at it as half-full. There's more on cable than I could possibly watch in the time that I have. Turner Classic Movies alone takes up a good chunk of my DVR. It's not like movies on AMC is the go-to reason for getting cable. That's the worst example you could possibly think of.

I always check the cable options first, them move onto the streaming services.