re: Warner Bros. will release its entire 2021 film slate on HBO Max concurrent with theaters

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Now vinyl is outselling CD's.

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If that’s true it’s because both are now novelties.


Some theatres will survive but I don’t think any of them would be happy if you told them they’d go the way of the CD or Vinyl record.

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Now vinyl is outselling CD's

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this the hill you want to die on?

Good riddance. The movie-going public hasn’t known how to behave for a long time (talking/cell phones/babies in theaters). The fixes the industry put forth to fight audience decline, such as waiter service of crap food and cheesy bars, did not make things any better (I did like the recliners though). On top of that, the prices relative to the quality of film offerings has been abysmal. I don’t need to pay $100 for a date night where we watch studios carefully tiptoe around Chinese mandates (part of why World War Z 2 was never made, why Battleship identified Hong Kong as part of China, and why the Red Dawn remake sold out). Let the Chinese AMC owners pay for the consequences of Chinese cultural “dominance.” I’ll wait to watch on a large screen at home with a healthy meal and maybe a bowl (if the kiddos are with Grandma).

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One knowledgeable source says China’s zombie film ban is the single biggest reason that Paramount wouldn’t greenlight a $200 million David Fincher-Brad Pitt teaming for a World War Z sequel.

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I liked the imax experience

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Theaters should go the way of the video store.

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Why have TVs if we have phones?

I would think this would put a hurt to some earnings for some people in movie industry. I would think we may see some quality go down, but maybe it just stabilizes for movie makers.

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I mean...Tenet is still easily the most ripped of that screenshot

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it's literally the only movie to come out in theaters since covid started and it's still only a few seeders higher than the current mandalorian episode.

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It is the other people in the movie theater. There is now almost always going to be trash in every theater you go to, talking, taking phone calls, on their distracting phones texting, etc. All around awful experience that makes going not worth it.

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Trashy people ruined Dunkirk for me. Maybe that's why I don’t like Dunkirk.

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There also isn't a middle class living room in this country that costs additional money to sit in and watch a movie. A family of four can end up spending over $80 on tickets and concessions. They also can't pause the movie when six-year-old Timothy needs to get up to use the restroom.

With the cost of living increasing by the year, spending that kind of money on the movie theater experience has become less and less appealing to me.

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Several things here:

If you’ve watched Mulan already you dropped $30.

I don’t care what it costs for a family of four, because I go to the movies by myself.

If you want it to be cheaper then stop buying all the concessions and then little Johnny won’t have to piss during the movie.

Pausing a movie 2-3 times at home just takes you out of it. Too many distractions at home.

I will say this, if the studios, theaters, and streaming services work out some arrangement where a big new release is exclusively in theaters for the first 3-4 weeks and then it’s available under the Mulan rent/purchase model after that for $30-50 dollars while remaining in theaters, that will work for me. Only people in theaters will be single folks with no kids (distractions) and old retirees (who show up early and shut the hell up). Everybody wins.

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despite the likelihood that with vaccines right around the corner the theatre business is expected to recover.”

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And there’s the thinking that ensures that AMC will not survive