We’ve apparently decided that gambling is completely legal in the US again so why not take it a step further and turn all the dying theaters into brothels? They already have lots of individual soundproof rooms and snacks for when you need more energy.
gambling is completely legal in the US again
Yeah that kind of just happened, didn’t it?
gambling
brothels
I don’t know sort of gambling you’re into, but I’m curious to find out.
I’ll start my own movie theater, with blackjack and hookers! In fact, screw the movie theater.
whole system crumbles
Hey, they’re starting to catch on.
The best movie I’ve seen in theaters for the last 5+ years… Was Kill Bill and Kill Bill 2 special event screening last friday.
It’s pretty sad that a 21 year old movie is WAY better than anything else I’ve seen in years.
because movies aren’t made by directors and arts people anymore. they are made by suits.
a movie like kill bill would never get made today because the studio would be so worried about ‘offending’ people with the violence and stereotypes
a lot of people dont’ even watch movies anymore.
i have been told may times from people the past few years a 90m movie is ‘too long’ for their attention span. tiktok brain. at best the can do 20m sitcoms where they don’t really have to pay attention to get the jokes.
Where do you get those 90m movies? Most of the stuff I see is 120+? I yearn for shorter movies (70-80 has always been my favourite sweet spot)
comedy and horror movies are typically shorter.
all the action epic marvel stuff is the 140 minute run times.
It’s crumbling because of shitty superhero movies and reboots, not mergers.
Superhero movies and blockbusters are what’s keeping theaters alive.
2025 saw lowest box office $ in history, excluding COVID lockdowns.
Hollywood is generating a tremendous amount of shit not worth watching off PirateBay.
and compared to previous years, the super hero movies you mentioned were barely present in 2025…
But putting all that aside, it is not that super hero movies are too shitty and mergers are fine… the more mergers we have, the shittier the movies will be
So you are here saying something like “burns are killing kids, not the people selling fireworks”
next you’ll tell me that spending 1-200m a film isnt sustainable or something, smh
Raising a big eyebrow at the prospect of mega-corporate consolidation of movie theater venues collapsing in the face of mega-corporate consolidation of movie production companies.
I think it should say something that you can stream a thousand different movies at home for $20/mo, but you can’t license a movie for public viewing at less than $300/day. The real big blockbusters can demand north of $2000/day, then demand 50% of the ticket price on top of the licensing fee. If you’re wondering why you can’t get into a theater for less than $20/ticket or why the old 3-5 screen cinemas all died out a decade ago, this is why.
It almost makes me wonder at the prospect of fully off-book unlicensed movie houses. How gangster to set up shop in an abandoned mall and host one-night screenings of pirated films on high end portable projectors? Maybe this already exists and I just don’t know about it.
It’s already crumbled.
Good. I took my wife and kid to a movie the other night and spent $150 for stale popcorn, shitty candy and a few sodas plus movie tickets. “nO oNE gOEs tO MOVie tHeATrEs ANyMoRE!!!”
Yeah no shit I wonder why?
Rookie mistake. The movies are still pretty affordable if you plan it right. Go to a matinee or special pricing days. Smuggle in your snacks and drinks. Hell, I’ve walked in with a whole ass fast food meal before.
The rectum can hold a surprising amount of food if buttered.
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I feel like the employees at many theaters these days just don’t care if you bring in your own food.
My wife and I also occasionally see imax movies at a theater that’s part of a furniture store. The store also has an ice cream shop & burger restaurant. That theater is more than happy to let you bring in food from those places.
Boo hoo. Every system is crumbling. Join the club
In my country cinemas are already getting closed, because not enough people go. The only time I’ve seen more than half of the seats filled was the Revenge of the Sith 20th anniversary rerun earlier this year. And even then it wasn’t even close to full. Looks like a finished business.
going to the cinema used to be fun.
now it’s a drag. it’s overpriced, obnoxious ads, and if there are other patrons they are usually being loud and obnoxious ruining the movie.
20 years ago a movie was a cheap quiet thing to do. you could ‘get away’ from everything. there were no ads playing between screenings.
My big issue is that I never see anything showing that I want to see.
I used to just go to a theatre and randomly pick a movie and watch it. There was always some random film playing that I’d never heard of that I could watch.
Now there’s just… nothing
Kind of seems like a death spiral
Isn’t cinema already experiencing agonal breathing?
Now you know how we all feel about the impending AI unemployability apocalypse.
People still go to the movies?
Yeah, there’s a Europa Cinemas network with theaters in bigger cities. They show good movies from all over the worlds. The tickets cost 6€. I visit mine from time to time. I saw really nice Mongolian movie not so long ago.
Yeah! I try to hit at least two a month!
If you can afford it, a lot of the theater chains have “clubs” where for a (imo) reasonable subscription price you get free tickets and discounted concessions. My partner and I spend $20 each on our subscriptions which is why we try to see at least two movies a month, combined with the discount on concessions we break even that way.
Through regal, idk about the other ones, there is also a reward system which I use for free concessions and free “premium” tickets (imax, 4d, etc)
if you’re breaking even on the subscription + discount concessions, wouldn’t it be more cost effective to not subscribe and not feel obligated to go to the movie if you don’t or can’t want to? Also are you limited to 2 free movies a month or could you go more if you wanted to?
I could go as many times as I want, some months I’ll go 5 or 6 times. I few films this year I saw twice because they were that good.
I personally actually like feeling like there is an obligation to break even, as it encourages me to see things I normally wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have gone to see Bugonia if i had to pay for a ticket, but I had a free afternoon and a free ticket so I saw it. I enjoyed myself more than I would have if I’d paid for the ticket.
That’s kind of where I stand with it, if not for the subscription I’d never feel like I could afford to go see some trash I’m pretty sure will be terrible just for the hell of it.
I like movies 😊
To be clear, I am aware it isnt a particularly good deal unless you were already seeing more than 2 movies a month.
That’s awesome, thanks for explaining.
I do, but mainly stick to the 2nd run theaters that play older movies. Last movie I saw in a theater was Carpenter’s The Thing a couple weeks ago.
Rarely, because there are very few movies that are worth going to a theater to see instead of just waiting for it to come to streaming.
