tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post535212162973607675..comments2024-03-29T05:51:00.183-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : Is Hollywood Dead?Comrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-37691582342477231782020-11-30T00:15:52.588-05:002020-11-30T00:15:52.588-05:00With all due respect to the commenters here, I don...With all due respect to the commenters here, I don't think we are the demographic that will determine the future of movie theaters. Theaters are one of the few places that those <21 can go for entertainment especially in the evening.<br />Matinees provide young families relatively affordable entertainment.<br />Dinner and a movie provide parents with young children a break from the kids without keeping a baby-sitter out all night.<br />And as our host mentioned, there's the unique experience. Before the pandemic, my wife and I attended all kinds of movies--she loves theater popcorn, no butter.<br /><br />PetePetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16696315139779755900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-55772518691191928282020-11-29T10:13:10.793-05:002020-11-29T10:13:10.793-05:00Can't say I agree, eb. For me, the only appeal...Can't say I agree, eb. For me, the only appeal of a theater is a big screen, and today's TV's can fill as much of my FOV as that can, and more.<br /><br />My nearby multiscreen cineplex went Tango Uniform and found Jesus long before the pandemic. When I watch a "film" at home:<br /><br />I'm in a soft, comfortable seat.<br />My feet don't stick to the floor.<br />Refreshments come at grocery store prices. And liquor store prices. And cannabis dispensary prices.<br />No loudmouths.<br />If I want to take a whiz, I have a pause button.<br />If I don't like the film, I can turn my chair around, put on headphones, and fool around on this here computer without spoiling my wife's enjoyment.<br /><br />OTOH, I can see the film at a theater a few months earlier…that's about all the counterargument I can think of.<br />Deadstickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484321108126882385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-85597219164905324482020-11-29T02:11:55.449-05:002020-11-29T02:11:55.449-05:00Similar thing happening with live music venues, on... Similar thing happening with live music venues, only more driven by the complete lack of revenue to pay the rent or bank note.<br /> Live music is its own thing even more than a theater movie is its own thing, and although I don't doubt that live music will be back as soon as it is safe to do, the venues may not last that long.<br /><br /> -Doug in Sugar Pinedinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-10807883681099864262020-11-28T20:15:32.470-05:002020-11-28T20:15:32.470-05:00This is just an extension of some long-running tre...This is just an extension of some long-running trends. There's been friction between the theaters and the studios for years, as the business has ever so slowly shifted to on-demand viewing. People in "Hollywood" have seen this coming for a long time, C-19 didn't cause it, maybe it's just moving it along somewhat faster. <br /><br />There will always be a place for the big screen in one form or another, but the business is much larger than theaters at this point, in any case.<br /><br />-->Keep in mind, reading stories from the NY Times about the impending death-spiral of Hollywood has a long lineage. Ever since the biz moved west, there's been whining and pining about it in NYC. And shitting on L.A. is simply a habitual thing for many New Yorkers. Just view any Woody Allen film for reference.bt1138https://www.blogger.com/profile/12843326237379459791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-49028220642749766092020-11-28T18:04:48.821-05:002020-11-28T18:04:48.821-05:00I've not seen a movie in a theater since Chick...I've not seen a movie in a theater since <i>Chicken Run</i>, and not before that since my wife had an uncharacteristic lapse of judgment and coerced me to <i>The English Patient</i>, and not before that since our children had a characteristic lapse of judgment and coerced me to sit through <i>Airheads</i>, the single waste of time in my life that I most vividly resent. <br /><br />It is thus not first about the quality of the experience, but the quality of the product. <br /><br />There is an eightplex in the nearest town, and (I think) a sixplex in the mall in the next nearest. The eightplex never has more than a handful of cars in the parking lot; we have been expecting it to fold for at least ten years. (The businesses suffering from the pandemic were already in long-term distress.) The theater in the mall seems to do a little more traffic, but that may be because it has a bar (I am not old enough to be shocked by that, but only to be extremely perplexed).Frank Wilhoithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800594066476167549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-23885271921962240602020-11-28T16:19:13.855-05:002020-11-28T16:19:13.855-05:00I'm willing to bet that megaplexes go the way ...I'm willing to bet that megaplexes go the way of the mall. The shelf life of many paradigms (e.g. copper landlines, the cable tv set top box model), have diminished with surprising rapidity.Higher bandwidth (for streaming)& better / bigger/cheaper flat screens will combine with pandemic paranoia to make big theaters economically unsustainable.MarkShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075243024270830483noreply@blogger.com