Warner Bros Kills U.S. Movie Going Experience…do I care? Do you care?
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Some of my fondest memories are of going to see movies with family and friends. Part of the experience was the shared emotion by the patrons of a full theater, and it’s something that you just can’t replicate at home, no matter how large a TV or fancy a sound system that you have.
But I agree that going to the theater has lost it’s magic mainly because of the politically laden, preachy films they’re putting out nowadays.
The other thing I’ve realized as I’ve gotten older is that spending time doing something constructive is a much more fulfilling than watching a movie.
With respect to the movie theaters themselves, I do have a level of sympathy for the owners. The business model they face is a difficult one in that they only get to keep a portion of the ticket receipts, most of their profit comes from the concession stand. This move by the production houses to online/streaming services is fueled by greed and constitutes a slap in the face to those who stood with them throughout the years. Some might say “business is business” but it’s downright disgusting if you ask me.
I had a friend who actually screamed during Fellowship of the Ring when Blibo goes possessed face for a half second and grabs for the Ring around Frodo’s neck right before they leave Rivendell. She screamed…really loud…and it totally pulled me out of the moment…
Oooo, you’d hate going to the movies with me, i scream and laugh like a maniac 😁
Then there are the people who are always asking questions to me, cuz they can’t follow along fast enough.
I am definitely not one of those people, well, i was sometimes as a kid, but now i’m the one always getting asked the questions, but i have a really high concentration level for movies, so i’m unfased by this
And back in the day, if you were behind a tall person (before stadium seating mind you) you were fucked. Enjoy the back of their head for two hours.
This i can relate to, even with statium seating, i’m tiny, but thankfully, people seem to hate the front row seats where i am, so unless it’s a massive movie like Endgame, i don’t even need to book online, they’re always there, free, waiting for me
But back when i was a kid, my folks were obsessed with gettin the “best seats in the theater”, which were near the back (and even more expensive), and without fail, every time i found a wookie sitting in front of me, i remember one time, there was a dad with his kid, and he was deciding which seat he was gonna get and which one the kid was gonna get, you can guess who i got in front of me 🤬 Why!?! Seriously i don’t get it, if i see there’s a kid in the seats behined me, i have the decency to take the seat in front of the kid ’cause my head won’y block their view!
Funnily enough, my best theater experience as a kid was in an old style theater without stadium seats, i guess it had a really good layout so that wherever you sat you didn’t have a head directly infront of you
1) opinion thing. I’ve been enjoying the movies in recent years more than in a quite long time.
2) this sounds like the typical boomer who can’t comprehend times and things change. Reserve your seat online like the others if you don’t wanna move around and get a good seat. Reminds me of the Pharaoh guy on this website calling smarrtphones dumb phones (which is already such a grumpy boomer thing to say) and refusing to have one.
3) maybe it’s because you’re not a kid? Many things which felt exciting and cool as a kid aren’t giving the same feelings when you grow up
Hmmkay…
1) Please list these movies. Considering 9 out of 10 movies in the past years have been absolute dog shit, I gotta know what you have been enjoying.
2) You did not just boomer me. Dude, I’ve seen more stuff change in the past 40 years than you can probably comprehend. I watched computers the size of walls turn into tablets that fit in our hands. I was there when a phone was a damn phone, not the drug everyone is addicted to nowadays. I watched the world cede its ability to do things for itself to so called “smart” tech. Don’t boomer me and say I sound like someone who just doesn’t get it. I’ve adapted my whole life to the world as it changed. What I refuse is to have my rights as an individual and a customer taken away from me.
This is not about “I can’t handle this new fangled gizmo and what with all the kids are doodling with it…” No…this is about having my rights as an individual customer taken away from me in favor of the digital landscape that the digital overlords want us all to be good little monkeys and propagate. The ability to walk into a theater and CHOOSE my seat because I got there early should be my god given customer right, because I took the time to get there ahead of everyone else.
Reserving a seat online takes away not only my free will to walk into someplace and have a choice, but can you seriously tell me you can look at a seat map on a screen and know exactly where the seats line up for your idea of a perfect line of sight on the screen? I don’t know about you, but I like to get as close to center screen as possible a little bit in the back, but not too far. Looking at a stupid seating chart screen doesn’t really tell you that line of sight, and it doesn’t tell you really the depth of how far back the theater goes in the rows, because stadium seating changed everything this past decade.
Feel free to line up and just follow the digital herd, but I choose to have my free will to choose things on site intact.
This line of “progress” only leads to the theaters, if they continue to exist, start to tell you all where who can sit in what rows. Eventually, some god damned SJW will get it in their heads that identity politics has to play a role in where people get to sit, and therefore, you go ahead “choose” your seat online, only to get there an be told you can’t have that seat because you didn’t identify yourself correctly.
They take away the little things first, then take away more, because we let them.
3) I’m rolling my eyes at that one. I’m a freaking nerd who writes fantasy/science fiction, plays videogames, spends too much time on a computer, watches anime, plays all forms of table top gaming, and has shelves of sci-fi fantasy books collected over 30 years. I’m about as kid as you can get on the inside despite my age. Take that nonsense to a different debate and come back with something better I can beat you over the head with.
Alright, well these are my opinions
1) Keep in mind I said I’m not that active when it comes to watching movie theatres, so I do believe if you watch a movie like once a week there’s lots of uninteresting trash. But some good examples from recent years that I like/was interested in watching are MCU movies (minus Captain Marvel of course), Rise of Skywalker, The Joker, Jojo Rabbit, Detective Pikachu, Parasite, Bad Boys for Life, Jumanji, F&F:Hobbs and Shaw…
2) I’m not too invested in your life story, but
The ability to walk into a theater and CHOOSE my seat because I got there early should be my god given customer right, because I took the time to get there ahead of everyone else.
what about people who took time to reserve tickets before you even got there? Who took time to reserve in advance? Checkmate! Not everyone has the time to get there way before the movie starts because people have other things to do. The reason I threw the word boomer in is because you can’t seem to adapt and accept the fact that this is how it works these days, you usually reserve tickets online so you don’t have to get there in advance to get good seats. Pretty handy if you ask me. Get used to it.
If you wanna blame and reee about some secret society/government controlling people by online movie ticket reserving then I guess feel free to do it, I’m not into that kind of stuff.
3) Yes, I read manga and comics, watch anime, play video games too and enjoy it as much as always. But growing up tends to affect more on the feelings and sensations you experience in things, rather than activities. For example, I don’t get the same excitement about going to amusement parks, or the same nervous excitement on Christmas.
These are all suggestions to your problems based on my own opinions and experiences, not a debate so just calm down and breathe.
Some people do, it’s different for everyone. But I bet there’s something which got you excited/happy 5-10 years ago which doesn’t bring as much childlike joy today. Christmas and amusement parks were examples of my experiences. I’m not saying I don’t enjoy them, it’s just that the nervous childish excitement of opening gifts aren’t as strong anymore.
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