Its been nearly a decade since I went to the movie theatre. Don't really feel like I've missed out on anything. Everything ends up being nearly free on streaming app or Youtube with Ads

Wife and I decided now that everything comes out a couple months later on Prime/streaming we can wait and just watch it at home.

It's no real mystery

Most people aren't willing to shell out $30 bucks a head to see the low effort woke fest garbage Hollywood is churning out these days

Even Snoop has had enough

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What you see is what you see, and they're putting it everywhere," the rapper, 53, said on the Aug. 20 episode of Dr. Sarah Fontenot's "It's Giving" podcast.
Snoop explained that he took his grandson to see the 2022 Disney animated film "Lightyear" and was surprised that one of the characters has two moms.

"They're like, 'She had a baby with another woman.' Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie is like, 'Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She's a woman!'" he recalled.
"'Oh sh-t, I didn't come in for this sh-t," Snoop, born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., remembered thinking. "I just came to watch the ******* movie."'

Snoop said that his grandson, who was confused by the same-sex couple, asked him, "They just said, she and she had a baby they're both women. How does she have a baby?"

"So it's like, fk me, I'm like scared to go to the movies," Snoop told Fontenot. "Y'all throwing me in the middle of sh-t that I don't have an answer for."

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Logos Stick said:

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Girl Boss!

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Yep. I got booed off the Entertainment Board for my critique of girl boss. I fully admit I liked it though.

Case it point. Furiosa absolutely bombed. Just crash and burn. And the thing is, it's really a great movie IMO with a great cast.

It bombed because of girl boss fatigue. Plain and simple. The target audience, young to middle age males, was just fatigued by girl boss and panned it.

As I told the E board, I'm right about this and you know it.

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CGI was horrible and it was nothing like Fury Road

I think I've been to the cinema 6 times in the last 30 years; none in the last 14 and I have no plans to go back. No more than 8 in the last 30. I can't even remember what I saw other than a few flicks.

The interesting thing about that list, to me, was the '85 and '86 years -- with Back to the Future and Top Gun respectively. I have a hard time believing those two summers were low. That is NOT my recollection, but who knows.

I don't have Superhero fatigue, I have CGI fatigue. Man of Steel is an example off the top of my head. It was a great movie and solid storyline until the major fighting started

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If I can pay $20 to stream a first run movie within a couple of weeks after release, and the whole family can view in the comfort of home, with our own snacks, the ability to pause when needed, and not have to go deal with high-priced concessions

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Yeah, if someone is weighing the costs of one trip to the theater vs. months of streaming, it's a no-brainer.

Also, the consolidation of theater locations means there's going to be a decent travel time involved for most people (at least 30 minutes each way for me).

I prefer the theater experience for some movies, mostly because I pay more attention and some movies are better on the big screen, but that only happens once or twice a year when the impulse hits me. And the theater is rarely crowded.

It's the same story for virtually every segment of media, from television, to music, even to video games.

Why do anything when you can scroll the algorithm that has you locked in from the time you get home to the time you go to bed?

Everything they are making today sucks.

Best actors are doing projects for streaming services.

Lots of good points in the previous posts, let me include one more.

Young people have VERY short attention spans now.

Not that long ago different cable channels started doing 15 minute shows like on Cartoon Network. In part because it was easier to hold the attention span of young people. Now most kids are watching lots of short format videos on tik-tok, IG, etc. For them 1.5+ hours is a big time commitment.

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Everything they are making today sucks.

Best actors are doing projects for streaming services.

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Not everything there, there are still some very good movies out there. F1 was fantastic.

But there are some great ones on the streaming services. Especially a lot of the 8 to 10 episode shows including standalone movies.

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Young people have VERY short attention spans now.

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i think this goes for the many olds on this board as well.
A big reason to stay at home is that the bathroom is nearby and you can pause the movie not to miss anything. But also we bored adults can check our phones during the lame rom-com our wives are "forcing" us to watch.

A primary reason I go to Alamo is to avoid adults and especially obnoxious parents during kids' films from being on their phones

I don't know about sequel fatigue. I watched Happy Gilmore 2 twice.

I think it's disingenuous to say it's just wokeness. The overall entertainment industry and all of its options plus changes in culture vs state of the industry in 1981 is so vastly different that comparing them apples to apples is invalid.

Wokeness crap is certainly a factor but it's one of several.

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Exactly. They don't want me as a customer. I've happily obliged.

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I don't know about sequel fatigue. I watched Happy Gilmore 2 twice.

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Did you like it? I thought it was hammered dog *****

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I don't have Superhero fatigue, I have CGI fatigue. Man of Steel is an example off the top of my head. It was a great movie and solid storyline until the major fighting started

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That's why I liked things like James Bond or mission impossible or similar which are heavy on stunts and actual human scenes with actual people doing at least plausible stuff. I agree CGI is overused and some memes and genres have been vastly overused.

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Bondag said:

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I don't know about sequel fatigue. I watched Happy Gilmore 2 twice.

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Did you like it? I thought it was hammered dog *****

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The maxigolf plot was a bit ridiculous, but the cameos and nods to the original were great.

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Exactly. They don't want me as a customer. I've happily obliged.

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I like to go to the movie theaters. I'm not gonna let people who I will never agree with politically, and I couldn't care less about dictate how all of my life. But everybody needs to make their own choice. I choose to do the things that make me happy.

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Bondag said:

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I don't know about sequel fatigue. I watched Happy Gilmore 2 twice.

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Did you like it? I thought it was hammered dog *****

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The maxigolf plot was a bit ridiculous, but the cameos and nods to the original were great.

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John Daly was the highlight of the movie.

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Bondag said:

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I don't know about sequel fatigue. I watched Happy Gilmore 2 twice.

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Did you like it? I thought it was hammered dog *****

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The maxigolf plot was a bit ridiculous, but the cameos and nods to the original were great.

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It was better than the average modern Sandler effort. But like most of his recent movies it felt like the whole thing was mailed in by people waiting for a paycheck. No creative spark.

But yeah the camoes saved it. Without them it would have been really bad.

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It didn't help that he used his kids in the movie. They weren't bad but it added to the mailed in low effort feel of the movie.

Domestic YTD is up over '24, ,'22, and of course '21 and '20.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/ytd/

I don't know if they account for inflation. COVID may have put a permanent hit on how people want to watch movies.

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Impossible. I've been informed by a Hollywood insider that everything is going very well and that Hollywood is back!!!

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There was a massive dead cat bounce when Barbenheimer opened.

The AMC16 in Burbank was hoppin' like it was 2006 again.

But... that was over 2 years ago now.

Rewrite the tax code so that movies that loose money can not be written off the studio's/producer's taxes (at least partially). Let the studio/producers risk a complete loss. Go woke go broke will really mean something.

I actually Would go to a theater to watch a classic movie like Lawrence of Arabia or even a spaghetti western I like just for the experience of it that I never got to have, with movies older than I would have been able to see them in the theater.

MouthBQ98 said:

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I actually Would go to a theater to watch a classic movie like Lawrence of Arabia or even a spaghetti western I like just for the experience of it that I never got to have, with movies older than I would have been able to see them in the theater.

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If you get out to Hollywood, check out the New Beverly near La Brea and Beverly.
https://thenewbev.com/schedule/

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/traditional-tv-suffers-summer-hell-advertisers-scramble

Streaming has now officially surpassed traditional television.

Not to be overlooked is the loss (or abandonment) by more recent generations of the ritual of going to movies.

It wasn't just about the moves themselves. It was about a common activity.

That may never come back.

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agdoc2001 said:

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Impossible. I've been informed by a Hollywood insider that everything is going very well and that Hollywood is back!!!

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There was a massive dead cat bounce when Barbenheimer opened.

The AMC16 in Burbank was hoppin' like it was 2006 again.

But... that was over 2 years ago now.

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Seeing both of those movies in a full theater (with a good number dressed up in some sort of outfit dedicated to the occasion) was an experience I hadn't had in some time. Watching a movie live with a crowd also excited to see the same film is the real magic of going to the movies which unfortunately is a rare experience these days.

My wife and I love going to the movies and are willing to spend the extra money, but there isn't jack sh&t to see. F1 was great though. Saw all the trailers and thought well we won't be back for awhile.

I loved going to the theater growing up. The tickets. Getting popcorn and a Coke. Sitting with a crowd. Waiting for the trailers to start. Lights dimming when the movie starts.

We'll never have it again.

Muy said:

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I loved going to the theater growing up. The tickets. Getting popcorn and a Coke. Sitting with a crowd. Waiting for the trailers to start. Lights dimming when the movie starts.

We'll never have it again.

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Sad, but true. But, at least we got to have it.