MeatHookGekko
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The death of theaters IMHO is coming from a bunch of different directions.
The pandemic is a quiet but critical factor. Lots of people don't want to be around other people like that anymore. They especially don't want their kids around that anymore
A lot of basic social norms are also gone. Who wants to sit in the dark with people talking on their phones or talking at the screen or screaming babies or anything that comes with being around crowds?
The ability to put together a nice home theater has also changed. There is no longer a massive price barrier for someone to get something pretty decent.
No gas costs, no ticket costs, no driving, no parking, no crowds, eat when you want, pause if you want, take a dump if you need to do it, relax on your couch, turn it off if you hate it, so many benefits to seeing a film at home.
Part of the appeal of going to a movie was the shared communal experience. And if more people are unpleasant and rude, it kills that.
I do agree, lowering the price points would help a ton. But the X factor to me was always video games as competition for time and dollars. The modern video game now has, most of the time, high quality writing, top notch production values, a good musical soundtrack/score, and it's interactive. VGs are now like interactive movies on their own.
Essentially making it impossible for small theaters to survive is another problem. There's no incentive for anyone to own one or keep owning them. Movie theaters are like old traditional discussion forums like this. How many 20 year olds want to post here? These kind of forums are dying off. So will, sadly, the traditional movie theater.
then I will pick that over going to the cinema.
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