Goodbye, movie theaters 3 3

[piper]

On 11/18/2020 at 8:18 PM, jsilverjanet said:

I love the theatre experience 

it’s truly one of the most magical moments from my childhood to my adult life

if they go away it will break my heart

+1

[WolverineX]

Welcome back movies!   AMC has been saved by the redditors trying to short squeeze the hedge funds. 

 

600 million in debt wiped away.  

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/movies/2021/1/29/22256360/amc-stock-price-reddit-rally-robinhood-debt-conversion

Hold the line.  Theaters are here to stay after covid.

 

 

 

 

[paperheart]

38 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

Welcome back movies!   AMC has been saved by the redditors trying to short squeeze the hedge funds. 

 

600 million in debt wiped away.  

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/movies/2021/1/29/22256360/amc-stock-price-reddit-rally-robinhood-debt-conversion

Hold the line.  Theaters are here to stay after covid.

 

 

 

 

Silver Lake converts $600MM in debt trading at 70 into $700MM in cash - that's a lot of popcorn

[Coverless 9.8]

Seemed like the time for a topical bump!  While dancing on their grave, a worm ridden corpse grabbed my ankle!    

[paperheart]

On 8/5/2022 at 3:13 AM, Coverless 9.8 said:

Seemed like the time for a topical bump!  While dancing on their grave, a worm ridden corpse grabbed my ankle!    

the 80 year secular decline continues

[MattTheDuck]

Only another 500 years to go.

[shadroch]

Yesterday, I spent about two hours in the only mall in Cochise County, selling my funkopop whatevers to a shop.  Directly opposite the shop was the only modern movie complex in many miles. It was a ghost town.  I saw maybe thirty people at the box office in that time and several seemed to be buying tickets for later shows as they didn't go in.  I used to go to the movies only on rare occasions, but then moviepass came along and sometimes I'd go a couple times a week, especially to movies inside of casinos.  I have not been to one since I left Vegas and have no plans to go soon.  A business in Bisbee has started showing  horror movies on a big projection tv and is going for the 1950s drive in feel. I've been meaning to check it out, as you can sit in your car, or sit on their lawn and watch the movies. So far, they are free but they are looking into annual passes.

[Lpgk]

 

On 8/5/2022 at 10:20 PM, shadroch said:

Yesterday, I spent about two hours in the only mall in Cochise County, selling my funkopop whatevers to a shop.  Directly opposite the shop was the only modern movie complex in many miles. It was a ghost town.  I saw maybe thirty people at the box office in that time and several seemed to be buying tickets for later shows as they didn't go in.  I used to go to the movies only on rare occasions, but then moviepass came along and sometimes I'd go a couple times a week, especially to movies inside of casinos.  I have not been to one since I left Vegas and have no plans to go soon.  A business in Bisbee has started showing  horror movies on a big projection tv and is going for the 1950s drive in feel. I've been meaning to check it out, as you can sit in your car, or sit on their lawn and watch the movies. So far, they are free but they are looking into annual passes.

Well to be fair, this sounds like it was during the day, which draws less crowd than evening showings. Also, I never buy tickets at the box office anymore. I buy it through Fandango or Atom, reserved seating. Then I just stroll at my leisure and get my seats. 

To me, streaming and online will never beat a theater. I don't have the capability to match the experience at the theater. Maybe if I could have a dedicated theater room with reclining seats and the best AV technology, but even then I wouldn't be able to catch first run movies when they hit. 

[mtracy64]

A 42" Sony HD TV and a blu-ray player was sufficient for me to forego the theater experience - I haven't been in a theater since 2005. Upgrading to a 65" Sony 4K Smart TV 6-7 years ago was a huge leap forward, and the thing still blows me away every time I turn it on. I was never one to run right out and see the latest releases on opening weekend, and I have no problem waiting for movies to release on physical media. I got rid of cable in the mid-1990's and didn't have any pay TV until my free trial of D+ expired and I decided it was worth paying for. I do have very fond memories of going to the theater with my mom and sisters as a kid, and even more so with my dad because I was the oldest and he'd take me to movies like Jaws (props to mom for taking us to see Star Wars, though). My only real fond memory of the communal experience noted by some is Star Wars. I prefer the comfort of my own home, being able to decide at the drop of a hat I want to watch something rather than having to plan it, being able to back up if I feel like I missed something, being able to pause, food/drink options, director's cuts, etc.

[shadroch]

When my cousins and I decided we weren't going to pay $280,000 in license fees to keep our Giants season tickets, two of them decided to drop somer seroius money and trsnsform one of their basements into a state of the art home theatre.  He bought a huge tv, six chairs that have built in speakers and an additional sound system. He even put in a strobe sytem he can set off remotely after a big play. It was a great way to watch a game but still couldn't compare to going to an IMAX movie, imo.

[jimbo_7071]

I haven't been to a movie theater in over 10 years. I hadn't enjoyed many of the movies that I had gone to in the five years before that. Other audience members' cell phones were what ruined movies for me. People's phone screens were continually lighting up during movies and distracting me—taking me out of the movie, so to speak. I very much doubt that I will ever go to another movie. Whenever there's a movie that I want to see, I wait until my local library has the DVD in stock. If they don't buy a copy of a particular movie, I can get almost any used DVD on Amazon or eBay for less than the cost of a movie ticket.

[Cat]

On 1/9/2023 at 2:43 AM, jimbo_7071 said:

I haven't been to a movie theater in over 10 years. I hadn't enjoyed many of the movies that I had gone to in the five years before that. Other audience members' cell phones were what ruined movies for me. People's phone screens were continually lighting up during movies and distracting me—taking me out of the movie, so to speak. I very much doubt that I will ever go to another movie. Whenever there's a movie that I want to see, I wait until my local library has the DVD in stock. If they don't buy a copy of a particular movie, I can get almost any used DVD on Amazon or eBay for less than the cost of a movie ticket.

How do you still handle regular old DVD quality in 2023? I need at least bluray to be happy with media, or at least 720p to be reasonable, preferably a minimum 1080p. 

[jimbo_7071]

On 1/8/2023 at 12:22 PM, Cat said:

How do you still handle regular old DVD quality in 2023? I need at least bluray to be happy with media, or at least 720p to be reasonable, preferably a minimum 1080p. 

Those quality differences are really overrated. If the story is good enough to keep my interest, I couldn't care less about the picture quality. It isn't even something I notice. I enjoy listening to radio shows, too, like "The Shadow" and Arch Oboler's "Lights Out," and those don't even have pictures.

[MattTheDuck]

So we have a good-sized sunken living room that gets very little activity.  It's a throw-back to the way people lived/what they expected in a house when this place was built 50 years ago. Here's how it was used a year ago

 

I've been considering converting this room into a home theater.  To the left of that last row of long boxes is a nice fireplace which would be a great place to put a large screen and then I'd like to build levels with nice recliners facing it.  Have to do something about the daylight, depending on the time of year, of course.

I'm going to keep going to the theater as long as they exist because I like the experience as a whole, especially the "large tub" of popcorn.  I do miss the "free refills" on those, however, that Covid brought on.

Edited January 8, 2023 by MattTheDuck