DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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I wonder what the attendance level for teens is now. I know when I was a teen I went to the theatre every Friday. Just to get away from home, go out with some friends.
I also lived in a rural area though. The alternative was sitting in a bush drinking.
Which was Sat night.
I also lived in a rural area though. The alternative was sitting in a bush drinking.
Which was Sat night.
SH gonna SH.
I used to be an opening day weekend type person, but I haven't been back to the theater since Covid. Even my mom and stepfather, who used to be big movie buffs and go every week, have become very selective about which movies they want to attend. Even with the senior discount, it's still expensive for them.
That was no doubt the basis of people's argument decades ago that TV would kill movies. They probably said the same thing when video games came along. But movies endured, because there were aspects of the moviegoing experience that those other media didn't replicate. Part of it was the communal experience, and the feeling of it being a special occasion worth going out for rather than a casual thing to do at home. Part of it was the ways moviemakers deliberately changed the medium to offer things the alternatives didn't, like introducing widescreen movies and stereo sound.
So it's best not to make assumptions about the future. We can imagine possibilities based on current trends, and sometimes those projections may prove accurate, but you never actually know until it happens, or doesn't. As I said, it's never wise to assume a current trend is guaranteed to continue rather than just be a downward phase in a repeating cycle. There's no way to tell the difference without the perspective of history.
That's why, as a science fiction writer, I generally prefer to avoid settings less than 50 years in the future, since those are the predictions that get rendered obsolete the fastest.
Yawn.
Still haven't gotten any help with your narcolepsy? Hopefully that will change in the new year
That reminds me... it seems as if some people go to movies just so they can take a nap in a big dark room.
As long as they don't snore, that's better than talking or playing on their phone.
Narcolepsy? No. Difficulty not yawning at inanity and stupidity. Yes.
I'm sure movies will continue, it's just the theater going experience I wonder about, and it just seems like more and more people aren't going, and even the people who are going aren't going as often, I think for a lot of people, the negatives, like obnoxious assholes in the theater, the price, and some people still being cautious about COVID are outweighing any positives. Hell, if we had a bigger TV and better sound system, even I'd probably stop going.
And I'm not saying it absolutely will happen, I'm just saying that based on the way things are going, it looks like that's the way things might be headed.
I doubt the days of the multiplex cinema is over; I do think that we'll see a lot of closing and consolidation in the coming years.
Personally, I would like to see the single screen theater, like the old Cinerama, make a comeback. There was something about sitting in that large auditorium watching Star Wars on a 70mm screen that newer theaters can't replicate.
Personally, I would like to see the single screen theater, like the old Cinerama, make a comeback. There was something about sitting in that large auditorium watching Star Wars on a 70mm screen that newer theaters can't replicate.
Depends on how you define big budget.
D&D only cost five mill more than Barbie. One made a lot of money and the other didn't.
"The way things are going" is often deceptive. What looks like a straight downward slope in a close-up of the graph may be part of a sine wave once you zoom out. It's always important to zoom out from our own perception of the world, to be aware that one's own life experience is a tiny, tiny sample, too small to be representative of the whole. Which is the value of studying history and opening one's mind to different people's perspectives, in order to enlarge one's sample.
Looks like someone's overdue for a nap! ( probably also a diaper change, yikes
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And just remember big budget movies are what keep cinemas in business. Here's the best reviewed movies of 2023 as per RT. Almost none of which made any money.
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-of-2023/
Only because the industry has transformed itself around big-budget blockbusters to the extent that it can no longer survive without them. "The way things are right now" should never be mistaken for "the only way things can ever possibly be," and they absolutely should never be mistaken for "the correct and righteous way for things to be." For generations, the movie industry survived just fine without gigantic blockbusters. The industry's current overdependence on them is something that needs to change.